Walter Salles, one of Latin America’s most renowned film-makers and producers, visited the UK last week to receive an Honorary Degree from the University of Reading and attend a two-day symposium on his work. During the event, the... Read Article
Rio de Janeiro is notorious for having one of the highest levels of social inequality on earth. A city of dramatic contradictions – it’s glamorous but ugly, passionate but angry, tranquil but dangerous. While beauty radiates from its... Read Article
Pablo Larraín’s much-anticipated feature Neruda will have its world première next month in Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors’ Fortnight. The film unravels in Chile in the late 1940s, depicting the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s political struggle... Read Article
Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira), directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, is a story of fate, one of the foreign lands of the title. It’s a compelling tale accompanied by some great cinematography by Walter Carvalho and a... Read Article
In recent years there has been an explosion from the South American film industry. Headed up by the internationally acclaimed City of God, the continents film makers have been making noises the rest of the world can’t fail... Read Article
During the month of August BFI are holding a South American film festival featuring many of the classics of the genre. It seems a bit of a shame that they have decided to feature some of these classics... Read Article
