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Director Hernán Jiménez on His Sweet & Sour RomCom and the Rise of Costa Rican Filmmaking

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:54:41 +0000

Hernán Jiménez’s Entonces nosotros (About Us) is what you could describe as an inverted romantic comedy. While it features a bickering couple at its center, the plot doesn’t move toward a happily ever after, but toward a seemingly unavoidable breakup. From the film’s first scene, it’s clear that Diego (played by Costa Rican writer/director Jiménez) and Sofia (Argentine actress

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Julio Hernández Cordón Is a Rebel With a Camera Making Low-Budget, Award-Winning Central American Films

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 21:19:58 +0000

By his own admission the work of Guatemalan-Mexican writer-director Julio Hernández Cordón is hard to pin down. His eclectic filmography bears that out. He’s brought folkloric music and heavy metal together in Marimbas from Hell, crafted a meta-documentary on Guatemala’s history of violence in Polvo, took us on a high-octane midnight spree in Gasolina, and

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10 Central American Movie Producers You Should Know

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 03:24:52 +0000

Central American cinema is slowly coming into its own. After decades of being dwarfed by its neighboring film industry in Mexico, and paling in comparison with the budding cinema scene in countries such as Colombia, Chile, and Venezuela (let alone industry giants of the region like Brazil and Argentina), there have been signs that the Caribbean and Pacific-lined

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Cast of Trans Drama ‘Abrázame Como Antes’ On Why Their Community Desperately Needed This Film

Manuel Betancourt — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:54:35 +0000

Here are highlights from the Q&A of 'Abrazame como antes' with the director and cast at the Costa Rica Film Festival.

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TRAILER: In ‘El Futuro Perfecto,’ a Young Chinese Woman Learns Spanish & Finds Love in Buenos Aires

Andrew S. Vargas — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:36:37 +0000

Using non-professional actors, 'El Futuro Perfecto' blurs the line between fiction and documentary.

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10 Movies That Prove Central American Cinema Is Stepping Into the Spotlight

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 20:20:50 +0000

These are the Central American movies playing at the Costa Rica Film Festival.

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