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LatinoBuzz: How Do We Turn a Latino Film Into a Latino Blockbuster?

The internet has been buzzing about Filly Brown. The film starring Gina Rodriguez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos, and Jenni Rivera hit theaters this past Friday and made close to $1.5 million over the weekend. It’s an impressive opening for an independent Latino film.

LatinoBuzz: Curacao IFFR: 'No quiero dormir sola' takes Yellow Robin Award

Curacao, the former Dutch Caribbean colony now boasts a film festival held in partnership with the Rotterdam Film Festival signalling the growing importance of the Caribbean territory in a film business whose intercultural aspects are totally integrated into the normal lives of those who live in th...

LatinoBuzz: Edward James Olmos on ‘Stand and Deliver’s 25th Anniversary and the Release of ‘Filly Brown’

LatinoBuzz got a chance to chat with Edward James Olmos about the 25th anniversary of the film, the state of Latino filmmaking, and the upcoming release of Filly Brown, a film his son directed and stars himself along with the late Jenny Rivera in her first (and sadly last) movie role.

LatinoBuzz: All Eyes on Hispanicize – Film Lineup Announced

Next week in Miami, hundreds of bloggers, marketers, corporate brand reps, music and film artists will be checking in at the Eden Roc Hotel to attend Hispanicize, a social media platform for today’s Latino innovators.

LatinoBuzz: Lourdes Portillo - Film Exhibition

The exhibition, titled Lourdes Portillo: La Cineasta Inquisitiva, was very well received. In 2013 and 2014, the program is moving outside of NYC to venues throughout the country so that others have the opportunity to celebrate her work!

LatinoBuzz: Interview With 'Violeta Fue A Los Cielos' Filmmakers Andres Wood

There's a lot to be said about the new wave of Chilean filmmakers these days that are drawing much deserved attention to that region of South America.

Cannes Cinefondation and World Cinema

Jane Campion, President of the Jury for Shorts and also the Cinefondation's 15 shorts by students which come from Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, India, Greece, Italy and France. The ninth edition of the Atelier de la Cinéfondation Cannes Festival will run parallel to the Compe...

LatinoBuzz: Interview With Inocente Izucar

LatinoBuzz: WTF is Latino at Tribeca

If you've read my last two WTF is Latino posts on Sundance and SXSW, you know I do my best to embody a manic optimist and find a silver lining when it comes to magnifying the limited representation of Latino stories and writer/directors at mainstream film festivals.