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LatinoBuzz: Gael Garcia Bernal and Lots of Latino Films at the New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival is celebrating its 50th birthday this year while at the same time saying goodbye to Richard Peña, who served as Program Director for the last 25 years. This year’s festival is packed with films from all over the world, bringing the best of the best from C...
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LatinoBuzz: An Interview with Lemon Andersen
Sit down, Lemon Andersen ‘got a story to tell. He grew up in Brooklyn by the ten crack commandments. After both parents succumbing to Aids through their addictions, he took the improbable journey from Rikers to reading his first poem at El Puente Community Center to Broadway earning himself a Tony A...
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Inaugural First Time Fest Seeking Submissions, Announces John Huston Lifetime Achievement Prize
A new film festival is seeking submissions for its inaugural event. First Time Fest will celebrate first time filmmakers and offer a Grand Prize of theatrical distribution. The festival will take place at New York City's Gramercy Park Players Club and the Loews Village VII theater from Mar...
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LatinoBuzz: Interview with Actor Jorge Diaz
He was recently in New York to attend the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival for the world premiere of 'Love, Concord' directed by Gustavo Guardado, in which he plays the lead role of Gerry, a class clown who meets Melinda (played charmingly by Angelina Leon), a pretty Latina bookworm a...
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LatinoBuzz: South America Takes Over U.S. Theaters, Hermano and Neighboring Sounds Now Playing
It’s rare for a film in Spanish or Portuguese to make it to a U.S. theater. But this week is a big one for Latin American cinema. Two award-winning films opened theatrically this past Friday, Venezuelan soccer drama Hermano and Neighboring Sounds, a meditation on the divide between Brazil’s social c...
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LatinoBuzz: The New York International Latino Film Festival Honors Its Own At Awards Ceremony
The New York International Latino Film Festival ended its festivities by honoring various films at an Awards Ceremony last week. Prizes were handed out for Best Domestic Feature, Best International Feature, Best Director, Best Documentary, and Best Short.
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LatinoBuzz: The Chilean Building, a Personal Doc on Chile's Untold History, Screens in NY
It’s a story never before documented: While their parents battled the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, a group of children were raised, first in Europe and then in Cuba, safely and communally. The 20 adults who supervised “Project Home” saw over sixty children through to adulthood, children whose mot...
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LatinoBuzz: Interview with Aurora Guerrero
Mosquita Y Mari by Aurora Guerrero, a San Fran raised xicana, is an absolutely lovely film about discoveries of oneself and each other. Aurora paints her community – immigrant, youth and queer - with such affectionate and passion that you feel that someone like Aurora will herald a new era in Latino...
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First Look: DocuWeek's Untold 9/11 Story of Cantor Fitzgerald, 'Out of the Clear Blue Sky'
From August 10-16, Danielle Gardner's 9/11 documentary “Out of the Clear Blue Sky,” a behind-the-scenes, intimate story of the devastation of 9/11, will screen at DocuWeeks 2012. The film delves into the untold story of Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial firm that occupied the top five floors of the W...
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LatinoBuzz: The New York International Latino Film Festival Announces Opening and Closing Night Films
The New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF), the premier Latino film festival in the country is presented by HBO® and opens its 13th edition with FILLY BROWN, starring breakout actress Gina Rodriguez and closes with LEMON, the raw story of three-time felon and one-time Tony Award winner...
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