TOP STORIES: SANFIC: Venezuelan Drama 'La Familia' Snags Top Honors at This Year's Festival; Matt …
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SANFIC: Venezuelan Drama 'La Familia' Snags Top Honors at This Year's Festival

By Anna Marie de la Fuente and Jamie Lang

SANTIAGO DE CHILE -- Venezuelan drama "La Familia," which had its world premiere at Cannes Critics Week, took home top international honors at the 13th edition of the SANFIC Santiago International Film Festival. The film's father-son l


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Matt Dillon Talks Creative Process, Upcoming Lars von Trier Thriller 'The House That Jack Built'

By Jamie Lang

SANTIAGO DE CHILE -- In town for a series of events at the SANFIC Santiago Intl. Film Festival, Matt Dillon addressed the assembled press at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Santiago. Dressed in all black, Dillon entered the press-room to a


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SANFIC: Storyboard Media, Canada's GH Ready 'Jailbreak Pact' Shoot (EXCLUSIVE)

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

SANTIAGO DE CHILE -- Chile's Storyboard Media has partnered with Canada's GH Films and David Albala's Calibre 71 to co-produce one of the costlier local films to come out of Chile in recent times, "Jailbreak Pact" ("Pacto de Fuga"


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Peru's Magaly Solier to Star in Chile-Peru-Argentina Co-Production 'They All Come Back' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

SANTIAGO DE CHILE --  Chile's Giancarlo Nasi of Quijote-Rampante Films and docu director-producer Maite Alberdi ("The Grown-ups") have teamed up to co-produce "They All Come Back" ("Todos Vuelven"), the directorial fiction debut o


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SANFIC: Wide Boards Chilean Drama 'Kingdoms' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Jamie Lang

SANTIAGO DE CHILE – Loic Magneron's Paris-based Wide has boarded "Kingdoms," taking world sales rights to Chilean Pelayo Lira's coming of age drama as, after bows at BAFICI and Karlovy Vary, it has finally come home to Chile, scr


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Outsider Pictures Prepares U.S. Release for Dominican Republic Oscar Entry 'Woodpeckers' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Jamie Lang

Paul Hudson's Outsider Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to José María Cabral's "Woodpeckers," which was chosen this week as the Dominican Republic's candidate for the foreign-language category at the 90th Academy Awards.


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SANFIC: Chilean Animators Zumbastico Announce Season 2 of 'Paper Port'

By Jamie Lang

SANTIAGO DE CHILE -- 2017 marks the 15th anniversary of Chile's Zumbastico Studios and to celebrate, the animation company is announcing that Season 2 of its most recent hit, "Paper Port," an official selection at 2016's Annecy Festiva


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Priest Scandal Telenovela Drives Chile's Mega TV to Ratings High

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

SANTIAGO DE CHILE – Thanks to six hours a day of telenovelas, stripped Mondays to Fridays, Chilean broadcaster Mega TV has dominated the country's television landscape over the past three years. But one particular telenovela has


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REVIEWS

Film Review: 'The Olive Tree'

By Guy Lodge

It turns out there are many more ways than one to uproot a tree in "The Olive Tree," an earthy, quietly stirring Spanish fable that finds familial, regional and environmental grievances inseparably tangled in its branches.


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Film Review: 'I Am Not Your Negro'

By Owen Gleiberman

Raoul Peck's "I Am Not Your Negro" is the rare movie that might be called a spiritual documentary. It's a meditation on the prophetic brilliance and the very being of James Baldwin, the African-American writer who was more than a


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10 Chilean Directors Well Worth Tracking

By Jamie Lang, John Hopewell and Anna Marie de la Fuente

Over the last decade, few countries in international have yielded so many top festival winners as Chile. Some - think Pablo Larraín, Sebastián Lelio - are now crossing over into English-language filmmaking. But Chile's gr


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YLE Drama, Chile's Parox Develop Political Thriller 'Invisible Heroes' (EXCLUSIVE)

By Emiliano De Pablos

YLE Drama, the production arm of Finnish pubcaster YLE, is teaming with Santiago de Chile's Parox to develop TV series "Invisible Heroes," a political drama-thriller set during Chile's 1973 military coup. Designed as a six-hour mini-se


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Argentine Director Martin Desalvo Talks Putting His Country's Hidden History on Screen in 'Unit 15, Jailbreak'

By Jamie Lang

SANTIAGO DE CHILE -- Crime and punishment have been well represented at this year's SANFIC Santiago Intl. Film Festival, which runs through Aug. 26. Many of the films screened, and others still in production, tell histories or fictions


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SANFIC: Neto Villalobos' 'Untamed Helmets' Casts a Light on Male Friendship

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

SANTIAGO DE CHILE  -- A deadpan comedic ode to male friendship and budding adulthood on the streets of San José, Costa Rica, Neto Villalobos' "Untamed Helmets" ("Los Cascos Indomables") is among the eight rough cuts partici


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