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TOP STORIES

IFF Panama: Spotlighting Central American, Caribbean Films

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

Central American and Caribbean filmmakers are coming into their own, despite the myriad obstacles they face. Scant resources, infrastructure, and training are just some of the challenges in the region. However, film production has rise


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Mexico's Nicolas Celis Prepares First TV series, 'Monstruos Perfectos' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Martin Dale

PANAMA CITY — Pimienta Films, one of Mexico's leading production outfits, is completing production on Alfonso Cuaron's "Roma," his first picture lensed in Mexico since "Y Tu Mama Tambien," and "Birds of Passage," from Colombia's


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Venezuela's Ignacio Castillo Cottin Bids to Re-screen Biopic 'El Inca' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

Venezuelan director Ignacio Castillo Cottin and his producing partner Nathalie Sar-Shalom have filed an appeal to re-screen "El Inca," Castillo's biopic about boxer Edwin Valero, in Venezuela. Drama was pulled out from Venezuelan theat


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IFF Panama: Tribeca Film Institute Seeks to Expand Partnerships in Central America

By Martin Dale

José F. Rodriguez, director of Documentary Programs at the Tribeca Film Institute, attended a panel at the 6th IFF Panama dedicated to support schemes for documentary filmmakers, which also featured Yissel Ibarra, at Mexico's Im


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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Support Scheme Opens Call for Submissions

By Martin Dale

The second call for submissions for the Gabriel Garcia Marquez documentary support scheme – an initiative involving the Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE), the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and IFF Panama– was announced during the 6


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Mexico's Maria Novaro on 'Tesoros,' Mexicans' Joie de Vivre

By John Hopewell

"Tesoros" kicks off with a view of scrub tropical forest and a deep marine blue tropical sky, captured from a van, painted light blue, taking six-year-old Dylan and his family to live in Barra del Potosi,  a blowsy, stunningly qua


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REVIEWS

Film Review: 'Jesús'

By Pamela Pianezza

A dysfunctional father-son relationship unexpectedly improves after the teenager commits an atrocious crime and turns to dad for help in Fernando Guzzoni's striking second feature, "Jesús." The intense drama-thriller explor


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Film Review: 'Rara'

By Dennis Harvey

Loose lips sink ships, as the pubescent heroine’s casual fibbing to divorced parents ends up endangering the very existence of her “two mommies” home.


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Film Review: 'Elle'

By Guy Lodge

You've never seen a rape-revenge fantasy quite like "Elle," not least because the rape, revenge and fantasy components of that subgenre have never been quite so fascinatingly disarranged.


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Dominican Republic Production on the Rise

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

Releasing an unprecedented average of 20 homegrown films a year since 2014, the Dominican Republic held its first cinema confab, the Congreso Nacional de Cine, over March 24 - 25, where authorities and the audiovisual sector convened t


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IFF Panama: Ariel Escalante Talks About 'The Sound of Things'

By John Hopewell

Always a frontrunner for the IFF Panama's inaugural Primera Mirada prize, where it has just won a cash second prize of $5,000, Ariel Escalante's "The Sound of Things," though still just in post-production, announces above all a filmmak


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Cannes Facetime: Kleber Mendonca Filho

By Peter Debruge

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a film critic, attending Cannes for the first time in 1999. He hasn't missed a year since, debuting his short "Green Vinyl" at Directors' Fortnight in 2004. His first


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