Hopefully you are up to maximum fall film festival fitness by now, because this week brings two events to compete for your viewing attention: The SF Latino and Green fests. Both offer a range of international shorts, features, narratives and documentaries, many of which are unlikely to surface on any other Bay Area screen.

First up is Cine+Mas’ San Francisco Latino Film Festival (Thu/23-November 4), whose official opening night selection at the Roxie is Travis Gutierrez Senger’s ASCO: Without Permission. It’s a look at the East LA art collective that was fired up by the activist movements of the era to spend approximately 15 years (starting in 1972) promoting Chicano power and visibility via street theater, guerrilla film shoots, mail art, protests against Hollywood ethnic stereotyping, e

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