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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.

Guadalajara's Maguey Award

Maguey, pronounced Ma Gay -- the plant from which Tequila is distilled here in the State of Jalisco and the City of Guadalajara -- is the perfect name for the Gay Prize of the Festival International de Cine de Guadalajara (FICG).

LatinoBuzz: Viggo Mortensen On Playing Twins, His Love of Argentina, and Soccer

Viggo Mortensen, best known for his roles in Eastern Promises and The Lord of the Rings, is a huge soccer fan. He almost got thrown out of an airport once after loudly celebrating a goal by his favorite Argentinian club team, San Lorenzo. Coincidentally, it’s his love of soccer that brought him to h...

LatinoBuzz: Written For Latinos By Latinos, ‘East WillyB’ is Back With a New Season

Last summer, Julia Ahumada Grob and Yamin Segal, creators of the popular East WillyB web series took to kickstarter, hoping to raise 50K in 50 days to fund a new season. The media savvy producers took social media by storm, their funding campaign quickly became the buzz of the internet.

It's Cuba!

Better late than never...Finally I am publishing December's Havana Film Festival blog. Where else would The Havana International Film Festival’s Opening and Closing Night take place except ...

LatinoBuzz: SXSW Interview With Mike Mendez – Big Ass Spider

Latinobuzz Interviews filmmaker Mike Mendez

LatinoBuzz: San Diego Latino Film Festival

Interviews from filmmakers at the recent San Diego Latino Film Festival