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Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
The Cine Las Americas International Film Festival is an annual film festival based in Austin, Texas, featuring Latin American and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous films from the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula. In its 14th year in 2011, the Festival grew into a citywide event, with over 100 screenings in a nine-day span. Patrons of the festival are offered a wide variety of films to choose from including narrative and documentary features, short films, animation and youth films. Organization Cine Las Americas, a 501(c)#501.28c.29.283.29, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is a Multiculturalism, multicultural organization that offers cultural experiences and business opportunities for Latinos in film and media arts, and brings media arts education to minority youth in Austin. While the international film festival seeks to become an institution in the international film business and trade, fostering multi-national film production, and accessing emerging markets and d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon the festival's focus, can include international and domestic releases. Some film festivals focus on a specific filmmaker, genre of film (e.g. horror films), or on a subject matter. Several film festivals focus solely on presenting short films of a defined maximum length. Film festivals are typically annual events. Some film historians, including Jerry Beck, do not consider film festivals as official releases of the film. The most prestigious film festivals in the world, known as the "Big Five", are (listed chronologically according to the date of foundation): Venice Film Festival, Venice, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin (the original ''Big Three''), Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juried (competition)
A juried competition is a competition in which participants' work is judged by a person or panel of persons convened specifically to judge the participants' efforts, either by the competition's stated Rubric (academic), rubric or by a subjective set of criteria dependent upon the nature of the competition or the judges themselves. For example, in a juried competition where participants compete against each other for a monetary prize, for inclusion in a show or publication, or for representation by a gallery, the work presented is judged by one or more persons, often experts, for such prize, inclusion, or representation. Usage The phrase 'juried competition' is usually used to describe creative contests: artistic and literary competitions rather than sports tournaments or academic and scholarship competitions, although such competitions have similarities. Generally, juried competitions are contests that individuals actively enter to compete for prizes, rather than events in which th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Sporn
Pam Sporn is a filmmaker and teacher. Her documentaries have won several film festival awards. Career Her work has covered such topics as Cuban cigar rollers, an annual dance, and the story of a family that emigrated from Cuba to the United States, as well as "homelessness, teen pregnancy and police brutality."Jose Martinez "Film opens Saturday in Bronx" ''Daily News'' Sunday, April 22, 2001 http://articles.nydailynews.com/2001-04-22/local/18169485_1_south-bronx-building-carlos-foster-cuban-rootsCassandra Lizaire "Filmmaker Celebrates Cuban Tradition, Receives Arts Award," ''Norwood News'' June 28, 2007 http://www.norwoodnews.org/id=625&story=filmmaker-celebrates-cuban-tradition-receives-arts-award/ Films * "Disobeying Orders: GI Resistance to the Vietnam War" * "Cuban Roots, Bronx Stories" * "Con El Toque de la Chavetta" ("With the Stroke of the Chavetta") * "Recordando El Mamoncillo" ("Remembering the Mamoncillo Tree") * "Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route" Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Americana
''La Americana'' is a feature documentary film directed and produced by Nicholas Bruckman.Biswas, Anindita (February 10, 2009“Beyond Borders” The Hindu. Retrieved on June 8, 2012 The film tells the story of a young undocumented immigrant in New York City who struggles to save the life of her ailing daughter in Bolivia. ''La Americana'' received numerous festival awards worldwide, including best documentary at the New York and Los Angeles Latino film festivals. The film was broadcast on numerous television networks in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and in 2012 aired nationwide in the US on National Geographic Mundo. . Retrieved on June 18, 2012 Refere ...
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Mariana Chenillo
Mariana Chenillo (born 29 April 1977 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter, known for ''Nora's Will'' (2008), ''Paradise (2013 Mexican film), Paradise'' (2013) and ''Revolución (film), Revolución'' (2010). Chenillo is the first female filmmaker to have directed a Best Picture-winning film at Mexico's Ariel awards with ''Nora's Will'', a comedy about the five days following Nora's suicide which she'd planned to bring her family back together. Her film ''Paradise'' showed what happens when an overweight couple moves from the middle-class suburban area of Naucalpan to Mexico City. She directed episodes of ''Soy tu fan'' and Netflix' ''Club de Cuervos'', and co-directed the Netflix limited series ''Somos.''. Selected filmography * ''Nora's Will'' (''Cinco días sin Nora'') (2008) * ''Revolución'' (2010) * ''Paradise'' (''Paraíso'') (2013) * ''All That is Invisible'' (2020) References External links * Living people Mexican film directors 1977 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
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Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spain
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Santiago Zannou
Santiago Ahuanojinou Zannou (born 1977) is a Spanish filmmaker. Biography Zannou was born in 1977 in Madrid, son to a father from Benin and a mother from Aragon. He was raised in Carabanchel, leaving for Mallorca at age 19. He moved to Barcelona to study filmmaking at the (CECC). Zannou's debut film '' The One-Handed Trick'' (2008) earned him the Goya Award for Best New Director (the film also won Best New Actor and Best Original Song). It was followed by two documentary films, namely ' (2009; a documentary about the Spain national football team) and ''La puerta de no retorno'' (2011; tracking the return of his father Alphonse Zannou to Benin with his family 40 years after leaving). His second fiction feature ''Scorpion in Love'' (2013), penned alongside Carlos Bardem, earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Spanish ''Premio Goya al mejor guión adaptado'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celebration Of Mexican Political Anniversaries In 2010
In 2010, Mexico celebrated both the 200th anniversary of its Independence and 100th anniversary of its Revolution. The entire year was proclaimed by President Felipe Calderón as "Año de la Patria", or "Year of the Nation". 16 September 1810 is the day of the "Grito de Dolores" or Miguel Hidalgo's call to take up arms against the Spanish colonial government. The start of the Mexican Revolution is celebrated as being 20 November 1910, when Francisco "Pancho" Villa and Pascual Orozco led the first insurrectionist attack against the regime of Porfirio Díaz. Events and other promotions of these celebrations were designed to link of Mexico's identity and historic continuity. During a speech at the inauguration of the Casa de Allende (Allende House) Historic Museum, President Felipe Calderón called upon Mexico to use the upcoming anniversaries to reflect on where the country has been and to think about what kind of Mexico descendants will inherit in the future. He said the vision o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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