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Director Cristina Gallego On Making a ‘Godfather’-Style Crime Story That Honors the Wayúu

Steve Macfarlane — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:15:31 +0000

At the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, Colombian filmmaker Cristina Gallego sounded fed up. On the heels of Narcos, Escobar: Paradise Lost and now Loving Pablo, Gallego’s new Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage) (co-directed with longtime partner Ciro Guerra, following their 2016 Oscar nominee Embrace of the Serpent) seeks to correct the narrative, focusing

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While Making ‘Pizza, Birra, Faso,’ Bruno Stagnaro Had No Idea He Would Change Argentine Cinema Forever

Steve Macfarlane — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:58:21 +0000

The first time I saw Pizza, Birra, Faso (literally Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes – although an Argentine friend has suggested that faso also refers to weed), it was a revelation. The film picks up a trajectory running from Buñuel’s Los Olvidados through Roland Klick’s Supermarkt and Víctor Gaviria’s Rodrigo D. No Futuro, an invaluable addition

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Meet Violeta Ayala, the Indigenous Director Who Gave Cameras to Bolivian Inmates for ‘Cocaine Prison’

Steve Macfarlane — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:11:58 +0000

Amid the celebrity profile documentaries and high-profile biopics that dotted the landscape of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Violeta Ayala’s Cocaine Prison was an extraordinary hunk of primary-source reportage: a documentary shot by the inhabitants of Bolivia’s San Sebastian Prison, five years in the making. Ayala – who hails from Cochabamba, up the street

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Marialy Rivas On How Her Sex Cult Drama ‘Princesita’ Is an Indictment of Toxic Masculinity

Steve Macfarlane — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:33:53 +0000

Despite constant grumblings about budget cuts and diminished programs, the various sections of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year were great for new works by young female directors. I was anxious to see Marialy Rivas’ Princesita, a woozy deep dive into the mindset of a teenage girl named Clara (Sara Caballero) who slowly comes

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Glitch Art, Amateur Porn & the Apocalypse: Peruvian Director Juan Daniel F. Molero on ‘Videofilia’

Steve Macfarlane — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 18:03:19 +0000

The official Peruvian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Juan Daniel F. Molero’s Videofilia (And Other Viral Syndromes), is not for all tastes. The film is a mashup of Meso-American apocalypse prophecies, online sex, and glitch-art, concerning a “virus” that takes over the story and the screen at the same time. Molero’s vision

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Olatz López Garmendia on How to Secretly Film a Documentary in Cuba and Not Get Caught

Steve Macfarlane — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 19:34:42 +0000

Spanish actress-turned-director Olatz López Garmendia filmed 'Patria o Muerte' in Cuba. We talked to her after the New York Film Festival premiere.

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Natalia Almada Used Her MacArthur Genius Grant to Make a Film No One Else Would Finance

Steve Macfarlane — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:51:55 +0000

Natalia Almada’s Todo lo demás (Everything Else) made its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, as part of Lincoln Center’s commendable new “Explorations” series. Gloriously textured, Almada’s new film draws on the autobiographies of both the filmmaker and her leading lady, Adriana Barraza, who stars as Doña Flor, a bureaucrat who speaks

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Eduardo Williams on Making a Film About What Argentines, Mozambicans & Filipinos Have in Common

Steve Macfarlane — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:47:19 +0000

In their own gilded, decadent way, film festivals can be rough; I probably spent more time rearranging my Toronto International Film Festival schedule than sitting in an actual movie theater. If a colleague hadn’t advised to me that “Teddy Williams is the future,” I might never have hot-footed it over to the final public screening

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