Nearly at the ten-year mark of his professional artistic career, film director Alejandro Fernández Almendras seems ripe for a mini-retrospective look at his films—or at least his three best-known ones. Still, a relatively young director by most movie-making... 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
“When you reach the point of taking someone’s life, you’re going against something… biological.” Alejandro Fernández Almendras, director of the critically acclaimed Matar A Un Hombre (English title: To Kill a Man) makes an astute observation here: to... Read Article
With several films making their UK premiere and as a platform for several of the region’s most intriguing recent films, the Discovering Latin America Film Festival arrives in London this week, running from 27 November until 4 December... Read Article
The Sundance Film Festival has announced some of the films which will feature at the 2014 event, with the following Latin American films featured (two are actually North American productions whose content is focused towards the south). There... Read Article
One of Europe’s oldest film festivals gets under way this week, with a special section devoted to contemporary Chilean cinema. The Locarno Festival in Switzerland, first staged in 1946, is focusing on Chile in its Carte Blanche Initiative... Read Article
