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VL At The Cine: The Fourth Kind

12:20 pm By BiancaLaureano · Movies · No Comments

6 Nov 2009

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I like to think that being raised by an artist helped me learn to appreciate the craft of many other artists. Perhaps this has allowed me to suspend logic in some ways; enter my adoration of magical realism. In short: I like to be entertained and The Fourth Kind was entertaining and troubling.

Horror, mystery, sci-fi, these are all the categories where the film The Fourth Kind is included. I’d like to add this film to the very small category of “Directors & Screenwriters of Color who found and earned major distribution for their films in 2009.” Olatunde Osunsanmi is a Nigerian director and screenwriter and The Fourth Kind is his first film distributed by a major corporate company.

VL At The Cine: The Ministers

1:59 pm By BiancaLaureano · Arts · 4 Comments

19 Oct 2009

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***SPOILERS AHEAD***

Have you heard of the film The Ministers? I didn’t either until last Tuesday when John Leguizamo sent a tweet about the film. I immediately went to search for more information on the film and watch the trailer.

Once I realized that it was a new Franc. Reyes film, had an all-star cast of people of Color, and centered the stories of people living in NYC I knew I wanted to see the film. I very quickly began to realize that I had never heard of the film because I had not heard anyone talk about it nor had I seen any trailers. Marketing for the film was/is less than exceptional. All the more reason to have my time and money counted for on opening day.

As the week progressed and Friday got closer, lots of media was created online about how the film was not receiving any marketing as other films coming out the same day. One of the main contributors to the online community voices was Casper Martinez with Latino Film Chatter. Commentary went from anger to the lack of marketing for the film, to encouraging communities to see the film, to boycotting AMC theaters (specifically 42nd Street which is one of two theaters showing the film in NYC). The boycott did occur later in the evening on Friday, but I was not there to participate. You may view a video created by and with folks at Being Latino here.
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Peruana Wins Top Honor at Berlin Film Festival

26 Feb 2009

Young Peruvian director Claudia Llosa is getting a great start on a promising career. Her film The Milk of Sorrow (which has a more interesting title in Spanish — La Teta Asustada) was honored earlier this month at one of the world’s most important film festivals, the Berlinale in Berlin, with the top honor: the Golden Bear for best film:

In the politically tinged drama, which also has elements of magic realism, a disease is being passed from mother to daughter through breast milk. It turns out, the mothers were all victims of the decades-long battle between the Peruvian government and Shining Path terrorists.

Check out the trailer for La Teta after the jump. Read more…

Argentine director dies suddenly

1:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina| Celebrities| Movies · Comments Off

30 Jun 2006

Acclaimed Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky, 47, died in his sleep on Wednesday in Sao Paulo of what appears to have been a heart attack.

Bielinsky was, after directing only two feature length films, one of Argentina’s most acclaimed directors, most notable for his film Nueve Reinas:

…winner of 21 international awards, and later for the police story El Aura (2005), for which he had just won six awards at the Cóndor de Plata awards ceremony.

Chile’s film industry revitalized

2:47 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Arts| Chile| Culture| Movies · Comments Off

30 May 2006

The Hollywood Reporter reports on new hope for the Chilean film industry via a cash injection from the Chilean goverment, and as evidenced by Chile’s increased presence in this year’s edition of the Cannes film festival:

After years of single-digit production volume, Chile now puts out at least a dozen features a year. The state-run Arts and Audiovisual Industry Council, which oversees financing, development and production for local film projects, estimates the nation will release 14 pictures this year.

The recent upswing largely is because of more available state funding. Last year, various government funds provided a total of $5.2 million in financing to the film industry, a significant amount considering budgets range between $300,000-$1 million. Of the 14 feature films released last year, five received full state financing and five others had at least partial support.

Gael García Bernal: El Director

6:35 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Movies| mexico · 1 Comment

27 Feb 2006

Mexican actor Gael García Bernal is branching out. In December, Mala reported that in addition to his acting, Gael was a spokesperson for the international humanitarian organization Oxfam. Now it seems that the muli-faceted Gael will show yet another of his faces — that of director:

Mexican actor García Bernal will begin shooting this week on his first film as a director, in which he will also act as protagonist.

The project was born a few months back as a made for TV movie , but with time Gael managed to get financing to turn it into a feature film.

…The film is about a group of young people, children of rich parents, who think they know everything and have everything, but who after a journey discover they have nothing.

Sounds intriguing, and a break from typical Mexican film plots of late. Best of luck, Gael!

Via / LaBotana.com

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