Los Olvidados (The Forgotten Ones) (7/8)Uploaded by Wurdulak. – Classic TV and last night's shows, online. SYNOPSIS: The winner of two Cannes Film Festival awards, Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados (aka The Forgotten Ones and The Young and the Damned) was the director’s first international box-office success. Yet Buñuel showed no signs of curbing the outrageous… Continue Reading
CINE ALTERNATIVO Film Festival by OCCCA starts January 3rd
CINE ALTERNATIVO is a film festival produced by OCCCA, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art: “Cine Alternativo is a film festival from Mexico, Central America, South America, North America, the Iberian Peninsula, Chicanadas and others Latinos theme. This offers a different perspective and a new look at the popular culture in the USA. We… Continue Reading
the Finnish Film Foundation’s inspiring lead
As reported today by VARIETY’S Nick Holdsworth, the Finnish Film Foundation has just granted approximately 2.5 million dollars in support to select professional Finnish films. Based in Helsinki, this independent organization is supervised by the Ministry of Education and Culture, and under the agreement of the “Act on the Promotion of Film Art” can receive… Continue Reading
Antonin Artaud, A Love Triangle & Chilean Cinema in “DRAMA”
Congratulations to Chile’s Matias Lira, who will be screening his directorial debut feature film “DRAMA” (Produced by Lira/ Written by Eliseo Altunaga, Sebastián Arrauin and Lira) in Park City at Slamdance 2011. Indiewire’s Sydney Levine of “SydneysBuzz” helps cover the story HERE, but the LFF hopes to gather more information on this film and filmmaker… Continue Reading
ASALTO AL CINE/THE CINEMA HOLD-UP playing at Sundance 2011
Stay tuned for the first feature film by Mexican director Iria Gomez Concheiro, premiering at Sundance Film Festival 2011. The film continues to explore themes of rebellious youth and the “gritty boundary between adolescence and adulthood” that Gomez Concheiro touched on in her successful short film DIME LO QUE SIENTES/TELL ME WHAT YOU FEEL, an… Continue Reading
How can we expand the US market for Latino films?
“The U.S. market for Latin American cinema remains small and distributing films from that region is a challenge despite the country’s large Hispanic population, several U.S. producers taking part in the Havana Film Festival said Friday.” “Referring to the distribution of Latin American films in the United States, it is “very strange” that more films… Continue Reading
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