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SXSW Revenge Thriller ‘Gunpowder Heart’ Follows a Queer Couple Unraveling After a Sexual Assault

Carlos Aguilar — Fri, 01 May 2020 15:59:16 +0000

In Pólvora en el corazón (Gunpowder Heart) impotence plagues the minds of two queer Guatemalan girls fed up with the unbearable state of helplessness of an economically impaired and morally decaying society. Misguidedly, a firearm infects the duo with a dangerous confidence to amend, by force, an unspeakable offense. Derived from the writer-director’s personal accounts,

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‘Parasite’s Bong Joon Ho’s List of Directors Who Will Define the 2020s Includes Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:49:32 +0000

When Parasite won Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the first ever non-English language film to ever do so, you could tell that Korean director Bong Joon Ho had many fans in Hollywood. During his speeches he made clear he was just as big a fan of directors like Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese. But

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12 Must-See Latino Movies at NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ Film Festival

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:04:07 +0000

This year’s NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ film festival, is setting its sights on Brazil. That is, on top of offering an exhaustive roster of movies from around the globe that celebrate the LGBTQ community which includes projects from Colombia, Guatemala and Argentina, the programming team have set aside an entire block of shorts focused on Brazilian

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From Gay Conversion Therapy to Leather Competitions: 11 Must-See Latino Movies Playing Outfest

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:42:56 +0000

Pride month may be over, but Outfest Los Angeles is very much ready to keep its spirit alive this month of July. The annual LGBTQ film festival has, as always, curated a program that showcases the wild variety of the queer experience. Indeed, for the second year in a row, more than two-thirds of Outfest

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The International Film Festival Panamá Showcases Central America’s Blossoming Cinema

Manuel Betancourt — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 18:14:55 +0000

With more than 70 feature films, this year’s International Film Festival Panamá (IFF Panamá) is yet again proof that Central America is making great strides when it comes to nurturing its film industries. While local audiences will be able to get a chance to see festival favorites by the likes of Hirokazu Kore-eda, Barry Jenkins, Pawel Pawlikowski, and Sebastian

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REVIEW: In ‘Temblores,’ a Gay Guatemalan Man is Pressured to Undergo Conversion Therapy

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:28:05 +0000

Introducing his film Temblores (Tremors) at the Miami Film Festival, Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante (Ixcanul) noted that its story may seem dated to an audience unfamiliar with queer issues in Guatemala. But, as he recently had to reaffirm, the kind of the gay conversion narrative he’s telling is taking place today. And, more troublingly, it’ll still

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