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LatinoBuzz: Chile Goes for the Bronze, A Look Back at the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
If NO gets enough votes it will be the first time a Chilean film is nominated in the Foreign Language Film category. What are Chile’s chances? To find out, we take a look back at the Latin American nominees and winners of the Best Foreign Language Film Award.
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LatinoBuzz: interview with Rosario Garcia-Montero
Rosario, in her own words, considers herself the “slowest blossoming new face of independent film”but with a debut as memorable enough for me to think it was truly one of the best films of 2012, she's right on time.
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LatinoBuzz Asks Programmers: What is Your Top 5 Latino Films of 2012?
A look back at 2012 reveals an undeniable fact, it has been a great year for Latino film.
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LatinoBuzz: Lauren Velez "They Call Me La Lupe"
"They Call Me La Lupe," originally a play, with the help of acclaimed Puerto Rican actress, Lauren Velez, has generated enough money on Kickstarter.com to begin film production.
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WTF is Latino at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival?
Glad you asked. Now that the entire programming slate has been announced for the 2013 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, let’s take a look at the representation of Latinos in the broadest, most diverse sense, because that is what that ill-defined lump category encompasses. {Full disclosure: I...
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LatinoBuzz: Ten Years After Sharing Her Story of Surviving Torture, Maria Guardado Continues to Fight For a Better World
Ten years ago Randy Vasquez made a documentary about Maria Guardado, a Salvadoran immigrant and activist who had fled her country after being targeted by the army. Maria’s heart wrenching story of surviving torture and sexual abuse, as told in Testimony: The Maria Guardado Story, won awards at both ...
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LatinoBuzz: Cinema Under Construction 23 Toulouse- Call for Entry is Open
DEADLINE FOR RECEIVING MATERIALS : JANUARY THE 21st 2013. This double annual event jointly organized by two European festivals (Toulouse and San Sebastian) aims to contribute to the completion, distribution and promotion of Latin American films who encounter difficulties at the stage of post-produc...
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LatinoBuzz: 20 Years After Leaving, Two Sisters Return to the Hippie Commune Where They Were Born in 'American Commune' Documentary
The Mundo sisters, having spent their childhood never watching television, found themselves working for Viacom, one of the biggest media conglomerates there is, as directors for MTV. It was this paradox that sparked the idea to make a documentary.
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LatinoBuzz: El Regreso de Lencho, on Guatemalan Street Art and Activism, Opens November 9 in New York
It is not easy to make a film in Guatemala. There is no national film commission, leaving filmmakers few opportunities for government funding. They must rely on the private sector to raise money but attracting investors is no easy feat. Audiences within the country mostly prefer to watch Hollywood b...
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Latinobuzz: Famous Latin American Filmmakers Document Stories of Real Life Heroes Who Are Making the World a Better Place
National Geographic Channel, together with Coca-Cola Latin America, has announced the launch of documentary series “Viviendo Positivamente” (Living Positively). The series premiered in 19 countries across Latin America on Nov. 6, 2012.
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