Latin American Documentaries
REVIEW Juntos Y Revueltos
Directed by Nicolás Muñoz, Juntos y Revueltos offers an insight into El Mejunje de Silverio, a cultural centre located in Santa Clara, Cuba.... Read Article
REVIEW The Pearl Button
“The Indians of Patagonia believed that souls didn’t die and that they could live again as stars.” Five years after... Read Article
Icarus Films To Release 8-DVD Box Set of Patricio Guzmán’s Documentaries
Icarus Films have announced that they will be releasing a special eight-disc box set collection called Five Films by Patricio... Read Article
Marc Karlin’s Nicaragua Series To Screen at UCL
The late Marc Karlin’s remarkable series of films documenting Nicaragua’s revolution will be screened at UCL, London over three days... Read Article
Movimientos and Alborada Present Day of Latin American Docs and Debate in London
Two of our favourite London-based promoters (aka “informal cultural institutions”) Movimientos and Alborada have programmed one amazing day of Latin... Read Article
REVIEW Don Ca
The documentary Don Ca, from Colombian director Patricia Ayala Ruiz, is ostensibly the story of one man, sixty-year old Camilo... Read Article
Life as we now know it: Santiago’s International Documentary Festival (FIDOCS) 2013
The 2013 Santiago Festival of International Documentary (FIDOCS) once again saw a whole range of films coming to the Chilean... Read Article
REVIEW Alamar (To The Sea)
Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio’s 2009 documentary Alamar (To The Sea) is a film about life. You could say of course that all... Read Article
‘The White Treasure and The Salt Workers of Caquena’ screening in London
When vast wealths of natural resources are discovered in undeveloped regions of the world, the multinationals inevitably move in. The... Read Article
To Make A Documentary Is An Adventure: An Interview with Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán is one of Latin America’s most extraordinary filmmakers. The director of more than a dozen documentaries, his films... Read Article