Sex in all its permutations dominates this year’s crop of Latin American submissions, whether it be intersex issues in Venezuela’s “Being Impossible,” Bolivia’s homophobia in “Tu Me Manques,” or a transgender’s person’s plight in Panama’s “Everybody Changes.”
“Retablo,” set in a mountaintop hamlet in Peru, is Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio’s nuanced portrait of a young indigenous teen as he struggles with a revelation about his devoted father, exacerbated by the ultra-conservative, religious community they live in.
The Dominican Republic’s Jose Maria Cabral, representing his county for the third time with “The Projectionist,” also dwells on unsettling revelations about parents in the context of a road movie.
Colombian Alejandro Landes’ “Monos” is a breed apart although one of its child soldiers is androgynous in this haunting tropical mash-up of “Apocalypse Now” and “Lord of the Flies.”
Out of the 15 entries this year, four are by women,...
“Retablo,” set in a mountaintop hamlet in Peru, is Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio’s nuanced portrait of a young indigenous teen as he struggles with a revelation about his devoted father, exacerbated by the ultra-conservative, religious community they live in.
The Dominican Republic’s Jose Maria Cabral, representing his county for the third time with “The Projectionist,” also dwells on unsettling revelations about parents in the context of a road movie.
Colombian Alejandro Landes’ “Monos” is a breed apart although one of its child soldiers is androgynous in this haunting tropical mash-up of “Apocalypse Now” and “Lord of the Flies.”
Out of the 15 entries this year, four are by women,...
- 12/5/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Actor Francis Leik‘s title character in the new sci-fi short, ‘The Projectionist,’ is longing to experience the real magic of movies firsthand. In honor of the thriller screening tonight during the first block of the newly launched New York Long Island Film Festival (Nyliff) at the Seaford Cinemas 8, the performer is sharing an acting […]
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- 11/7/2019
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
The Dominican Republic's film commission, Dgcine, has selected Jose Maria Cabral's The Projectionist as the country's submission in the international feature film Oscar category.
The drama, which premiered at the Miami Film Festival, is "an homage to the power of pre-digital cinema as seen through the lens of an old-style traveling cinema owner," according to Jonathan Holland's review.
"I'm happy to learn about this news and honored to be able to represent the country once again in the bid for an Oscar nomination," said Cabral, whose previous films Jaque mate (2012) and Woodpeckers (2018) ...
The drama, which premiered at the Miami Film Festival, is "an homage to the power of pre-digital cinema as seen through the lens of an old-style traveling cinema owner," according to Jonathan Holland's review.
"I'm happy to learn about this news and honored to be able to represent the country once again in the bid for an Oscar nomination," said Cabral, whose previous films Jaque mate (2012) and Woodpeckers (2018) ...
- 8/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Dominican Republic's film commission, Dgcine, has selected Jose Maria Cabral's The Projectionist as the country's submission in the international feature film Oscar category.
The drama, which premiered at the Miami Film Festival, is "an homage to the power of pre-digital cinema as seen through the lens of an old-style traveling cinema owner," according to Jonathan Holland's review.
"I'm happy to learn about this news and honored to be able to represent the country once again in the bid for an Oscar nomination," said Cabral, whose previous films Jaque mate (2012) and Woodpeckers (2018) ...
The drama, which premiered at the Miami Film Festival, is "an homage to the power of pre-digital cinema as seen through the lens of an old-style traveling cinema owner," according to Jonathan Holland's review.
"I'm happy to learn about this news and honored to be able to represent the country once again in the bid for an Oscar nomination," said Cabral, whose previous films Jaque mate (2012) and Woodpeckers (2018) ...
- 8/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
‘Sarah’s Channel’ is among the projects shortlisted for the Aacta Award for Best Online Series.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) will screen a selection of the projects shortlisted for the Aacta Awards for best short film, best short animation, best short documentary and best online series as part of Shorts+Web Fest, a free event to be held in Sydney late August.
The two-day festival, to be hosted by Jan Fran (The Feed), will feature screenings, masterclasses, Q&a interviews, stand-up comedy, as well as food trucks, pop-up bars and a live DJ. The event will culminate in special guests Danielle Cormack and Jake Ryan announcing the nominees for each category.
Among the projects shortlisted for best short film are Gracie Otto’s Desert Dash; Jane Cho’s The Egg; Marcus McKenzie’s The Projectionist, which won five prizes at the South Australian Screen Awards; Madeleine Gottlieb’s Snare,...
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) will screen a selection of the projects shortlisted for the Aacta Awards for best short film, best short animation, best short documentary and best online series as part of Shorts+Web Fest, a free event to be held in Sydney late August.
The two-day festival, to be hosted by Jan Fran (The Feed), will feature screenings, masterclasses, Q&a interviews, stand-up comedy, as well as food trucks, pop-up bars and a live DJ. The event will culminate in special guests Danielle Cormack and Jake Ryan announcing the nominees for each category.
Among the projects shortlisted for best short film are Gracie Otto’s Desert Dash; Jane Cho’s The Egg; Marcus McKenzie’s The Projectionist, which won five prizes at the South Australian Screen Awards; Madeleine Gottlieb’s Snare,...
- 7/29/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
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