The 28th Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival (CLFF) announced the winners of the Audience Choice Awards. Even though the CLFF is a non-competitive festival, since 1993 the public has had the opportunity to vote for their favorite film in several categories and award them with the Audience Choice Award. The winners are:

• Best Feature: The Other Family (Mexico): Director Gustavo Loza takes on the issue of LGBTQ parenthood in Mexico and the prejudices surrounding it in this story about a well-to-do gay couple ¬–Jean Paul and his partner Chema– who reluctantly agree to take care of seven-year-old Hendrix, neglected and abandoned by his drug-addicted mother. They plan to adopt him but forces beyond their control get in the way.
• Best Documentary: Captive Beauty (Colombia): Director Jared Goodman takes us into the Buen Pastor women’s prison in Medellin, Colombia, where a beauty pageant is held every year among its inmates. Goodman profiles four female inmates who describe their former lives while preparing for the pageant, in a grim reminder of the dark paths that led them here.
• Best Short: Bangladesh (Venezuela): In this concise eight-minute short, director Hector Orbegoso tells the story of a couple who cannot find a way to break some difficult news to their seven-year-old daughter.