Some incredible Latino filmmakers are making a big splash at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 16-26 in Park City, Utah.

Besides award-winning Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, whose films include La Sagrada Familia, Navidad, El Año del Tigre and Gloria (featuring Chilean actress Paulina García) joining Sundance 2014's World Cinema Dramatic Jury; several strong Latino documentaries are featured this year.

Which films at Sundance 2014 highlight the creative work of Latino filmmakers and embrace the Latino spirit?

Cesar's Last Fast

One of the most notable Latino films at Sundance this year is Cesar's Last Fast, a film by Richard Ray Perez and Lorena Parlee about the late Cesar Chavez, the legendary United Farm Workers' union leader and Latino Civil Rights activist, who spearheaded a movement and fought for better working conditions for farm laborers in California. He died on April 23,1993.

The film reportedly uses never-seen-before footage of Chavez, following him on his last water-only 'Fast for Life' that lasted 36 days in 1988 -- a heroic effort that brought more attention to the effects of pesticides on farm workers and their families and communities.

The documentary is both in English and Spanish (with English subtitles) and also features interviews of people close to Chavez.

Cesar's Last Fast has been acquired by Univision News and the cable network Pivot, which secured the U.S. television rights prior to the world premiere of the documentary at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan 19. The film will be also broadcast simultaneously in both English and Spanish on Pivot and Univision Network, according to Latinos at Sundance.

"The directors have a personal connection to the story: Perez's father was a farm worker who toiled under the conditions Chavez fought to eliminate, while Parlee worked side-by-side with the labor leader as his press secretary and spokesperson," the New York Daily News reports.

"I think his story has been largely overlooked in the larger American narrative," Perez said. 

Fox News Latino points out that Perez also said his bringing Cesar's Last Fast to the festival marks a general shift in American culture towards recognizing Latino history.

"I describe it as sort of a dam," he said. "You can no longer hold back the power of our stories and that our stories are also American stories. I think screening at Sundance and premiering here is an acknowledgment of the universal themes and the universality of Cesar's leadership."

"Making this film is a way to tell [my family's] stories and to bring to light living conditions and working conditions that they experienced and that motivated Cesar Chavez to organize and really lead that movement," he added.

According to the New York Daily News, there are three other Latino films that include:

Marmato

Directed by Mark Grieco, this documentary focuses on a mining village in Colombia where residents fought against a Canadian company for the right to profit from the town's natural gold resources worth $20 billion.

Lock Charmer (El cerrajero)

From Argentine writer-director Natalia Smirnoff comes the tale of a locksmith, Sebastian, who begins having weird visions about his clients after learning his girlfriend is pregnant.

Interested in putting his powers to good use, Sebastian recruits some unlikely assistants.

To Kill a Man

Chilean writer-director Alejandro Fernandez Almendras's drama deals with Jorge, a hardworking family man who gets mugged by a neighborhood thug.

But things go over the edge after Jorge's son steps in to avenge his father and is shot by the thug, who gets off with a light sentence.