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Made-in-Chile horror, animation, and suspense arrive at Ventana Sur 2020
With the support of the Ministry of Culture, Art and Heritage (MINCAP) and CinemaChile, subsidiary brand of ProChile, national cinema professionals participate through this Friday at the most important audiovisual market in Latin America with their best projects. Ventana Sur, created by Cannes’ Marché du Film along with the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts of Argentina (INCAA, in Spanish), and with support from Creative Europe, gave the go-ahead to another edition — online ...
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Films by Claudia Huaiquimilla and Diego Ruiz in this edition of Thursdays of Chilean Cinema
Today we invite you to watch two award-winning Chilean films of the early 2010’s. IGLÚ (2014), Diego Ruiz’s debut feature, explores a young man’s complex relationships with sexuality, intimacy and addiction, and is brimming with poignant performances. San Juan the longest night (2012) is the short film that introduced the world to the bold and focused author-driven gaze of Claudia Huaiquimilla, one of the most prominent emerging directors coming out of Chile. We invite you ...
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(Español) Largometrajes y cortos hechos participan en el Festival de Cine de Guadalajara
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Festival de Turín celebra la cinematografía de jóvenes talentos chilenos
Hasta el 28 de noviembre tendrá lugar el Torino Film Festival o Festival de Turín, uno de los certámenes fílmicos más relevantes de la escena italiana. Allí ya tuvo su estreno el cortometraje La virgen, la vieja, el viaje, de Natalia Luque, mientras que el proyecto en desarrollo La misteriosa mirada del flamenco, de Diego Céspedes tuvo una destacada participación en el apartado de industria. En La virgen, la vieja, el viaje, -que es parte ...
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“Mamones”, the gay comedy that will fill with laughter this Tuesdays of Chilean Series
Today -and to close the penultimate month of the year- we present the web series Mamones, a fiction directed, starring and written by the influencer Francesc Morales, which will be available until next Tuesday, December 1. In 2016 it premiered the first season with great success, achieving more than a million views between Facebook and YouTube, in addition to being featured in “I am Homosensual”, the most read gay site in Latin America. Each episode ...
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Interview / “The sky is red” by Francina Carbonell premieres this Monday in IDFA 2020
Francina Carbonell On November 23rd Francina Carbonell’s long-awaited debut, The Sky is Red will have its premiere and begin its journey through the international circuit in one of the most important nonfiction festivals in the world, the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival ( IDFA). Described in Carbonell’s own words as “a very carefully curated festival, where films are not presented as consumer products but as ways to make our perceptions and emotions more complex”, IDFA ...
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Interview / “Matar a Pinochet” hits the big screens in Spain with its premiere at the Huelva Film Festival
Moving from series to films, Juan ignacio Sabatini returns to the big screen with Matar a Pinochet , which during these days had its premiere at the Huelva Festival. The film is a journey through the gray areas of the human being, building complex characters and extreme situations, a political thriller inspired by real events. Sabatini uses to his advantage all his knowledge of the television suspense achieved in directing such successful series as Zamudio and El Reemplazante , as well as in what ...
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“LA NAVE DEL OLVIDO” BY NICOL RUIZ WINS PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTION AT HUELVA FILM FESTIVAL
This afternoon the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival gave a voice to the directors of the winning films of the 46th edition with the celebration of a virtual press conference in which Nicol Ruiz, winner of the Silver Colón for Best Direction for The ship of oblivion ‘(Chile); Ezequiel Radusky, director of Planta Permanente (Argentina-Uruguay), the film that won the Golden Colón for Best Feature Film and the Silver Colón for Best Actress (Liliana Juárez); and Hernán Zin, director of the film 2020 (Spain), deserving ...
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CHILEAN FILM ACADEMY CHOOSES “EL AGENTE TOPO” TO REPRESENT CHILE IN THE OSCARS
It is the first time that the Chilean candidate for the Oscars has been chosen by the recently created Chilean Film Academy. The moving and applauded film by Maite Alberdi, which will also represent us at the Goya Awards, opens today in virtual theaters of the Cinemarkand Cinépolis cinemas. Chile already has a representative for the Oscar. It is “The Mole Agent”, the acclaimed and award-winning film by Maite Alberdi that had its international premiere at the Sundance ...
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Karin Cuyul and Vinko Tomicic: emerging Chilean directors are behind the films of this Thursdays of Chilean Cinema
Today in a new edition of our weekly program we are taking a look at films made by two emerging directors. They are both Latin American co-productions that take us on vastly different paths, putting an emphasis on the transformative power of each journey. As they invite audiences to unknown places, surprising and daring answers are found, portals from which to pose new questions. Story of My Name by Karin Cuyul and Aicha by Vinko ...
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