November through December are the key months for distributors looking to market their films for the upcoming award season. October can be less appetizing than dinner at Taco Bell. But allow the 10th Annual Hispanic Film Festival to put some spice in your life. The University of Puget Sound will bring five cutting-edge Spanish and Latin American films to campus. For the first time, the college has partnered with the Spanish Film Club, an initiative of the Spanish government's PRAGDA film distribution group, which aims to familiarize global audiences with Hispanic and Latino cultures. The critically acclaimed films will be screened at 6:30 p.m. on consecutive Wednesdays in Rausch Auditorium on campus. Con la pata quebrada (Barefoot in the Kitchen) kicks it off. The film - which won best documentary at both the Turia Awards and the Platino Awards for Ibero-American Cinema - meshes fragments from 180 movies, chronicling how Spanish cinema has portrayed women from the 1930s to today.

CON LA PATA QUEBRADA, 6:30 p.m., Rausch Auditorium, Room 003, McIntyre Hall, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N. Warner, Tacoma, free admission, 253.879.3100