Mo Scarpelli’s documentary El Father Plays Himself (2020) is a compelling look at the making of a film set in Venezuela in which the director Jorge Thielen Armand has cast his non-actor father to play the lead role.... Read Article
Mother Earth has reached her breaking point: the current pandemic is just another sign that humanity, as it exists today, is no longer sustainable. Sadly, this is all to evident in the once bustling Venezuelan village, Congo Mirador,... Read Article
La Familia (The Family, 2018 / Dir: Gustavo Rondón Córdova) starts with a scene among feisty young rebels, the reality of Venezuelan youth at the edge of the slums of Caracas. There is a mix of boyish playfulness, mutual care,... Read Article
He never went to film school but Andrés Duque has established a reputation for very personal experimental films. His work, as well as his life in general, have been guided by intuition and disorder, as well as his... Read Article
A group of middle-aged bolivarianas are cackling away behind me. Along with the capital’s Venezuelan community, I’ve come to London’s Bolívar Hall to see the smash film Blue and Not So Pink (Azul y No Tan Rosa), which... Read Article
Bolívar Hall in central London will this coming Friday play host to a free screening of the Venezuelan film Blue and Not So Pink (Azul y No Tan Rosa), with a post-screening discussion with its director Miguel Ferrari. One... Read Article
Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) is a critically-acclaimed new Venezuelan film from writer/director Mariana Rondón, which will be showing in UK cinemas from Friday 30th January. The film tells the story of Junior, a 9-year-old growing up in a... Read Article
Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) is a new Venezuelan film from writer/director Mariana Rondón that won the prestigious Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival last year. The film will be screened at Manchester’s ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin... Read Article
Zero Hour is a Venezuelan thriller with the usual mix of gun-blazing between slum-hardened gangsters and over-zealous police, except with the interesting twist that it’s set during a 24 hour medical strike based on real events in Caracas... Read Article
Against a culture of drugs, crime, delinquency, violence, poverty and random acts of meanness, what hope is there? We follow the eponymous hermanos, Daniel and Julio, in a lottery where the chances are slim.
