Sounds and Colours speaks to the screenwriter behind the Oscar-Winning A Fantastic Woman about his directorial debut Ella Es Cristina. Gonzalo Maza is a Chilean screenwriter, film critic, producer and director. Together with director Sebastián Leilo, he co-wrote... Read Article
Today, there is a good number of Latin American LGBTQ+ movies to peruse, if not yet back in cinemas, then certainly across various streaming platforms. The Brazilian film Bacurau (2019, now on MUBI), by Kleber Mendonça Filho and... Read Article
Geographically diverse, culturally rich, politically-charged and diasporic, Chile is a country of stubborn nationality. Chilean film has been internationally recognised for many years, with documentaries and feature films often covering the brutal years of Pinochet’s dictatorship and the... Read Article
Deciding to review A Fantastic Woman, after finding out it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film already set the precedence that critics love it – and that’s why I decided to approach it without reading... Read Article
After Chile received its first nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2012 for Pablo Larraín’s No, it’s back at it again, with Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman in the shortlist of 5 contenders for this... Read Article
As the author of Pablo Neruda’s biography, Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life and an adviser on Neruda (Pablo Larraín’s recent biographic feature film), we can safely say that Adam Feinstein is an authority on the Chilean poet. However, he’s also a major... Read Article
I write this having just about recovered from Cannes, where Camaleón [of which I am the producer] screened at the Marché du Film ahead of its Chilean première later this year. It’s no secret that Chilean film has been thriving... Read Article
If the last few years have witnessed growing recognition, both critically and commercially, for the Chilean film industry, 2013 has been a year of consolidation for cinema in the narrow country, as Chile provided further justification to those... Read Article
Chilean director Sebastian Lelio’s fourth feature-film Gloria is an at once uplifting and melancholic tale of loneliness, romance and, ultimately, female independence. Focusing squarely on the physical and emotional journey of Gloria, a fifty-something woman living in modern-day... Read Article
Lima’s International Film Festival, which ran in the Peruvian capital from 9th – 17th August, has awarded the top prize to the Mexican film Heli. Directed by Amat Escalante, Heli is a hard-hitting socio-drama that delves into the terrible... Read Article
