MUMBAI: To promote cross-cultural awareness, the University of Texas-Pan American will be the first university in the UT System to show the Global Lens Film Series. With films from all over the world, the series offers a window into different traditions and rich cultural lessons.

Starting 9 September with Becloud (Vaho), a Mexican film directed by Alejandro Gerber Bicecci, the series films will be screened admission-free at the Student Union Theatre, and will be open to the public and UTPA community.

"This would be the best venue to see something on the big screen that I know of in the whole Valley, for a constant menu of foreign films, and well done films too," said media and marketing librarian Virginia Gause. "Just because people come here from many countries doesn‘t mean the general public understands all these various cultures,"

Based in San Francisco, the Global Film Initiative is a non-profit film distributor created in 2002 by Susan Weeks Coulter, a former Peace Corps volunteer who decided to start the organization after the events on 9/11.