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Hermanas
''Hermanas'' () is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Julia Solomonoff, her first feature motion picture. The picture has a number of producers, including: Mariela Besuievski, Pablo Bossi, Florencia Enghel, Gerardo Herrero, Vanessa Ragone, Walter Salles, and Ariel Saúl. The film features Valeria Bertuccelli, Ingrid Rubio, among others. Plot In 1976, during the political turmoil in Argentina, two sisters flee their country right after Natalia's politically active boyfriend Martin disappears; one goes to Spain, and the other to Texas, United States. After eight years in Spain, Natalia (Ingrid Rubio) travels to Texas to visit her sister Elena (Valeria Bertuccelli), who's now a suburban wife and mother. She brings with her their father's manuscript of his last novel. The unpublished novel reveals the story of their family during the Argentine dictatorship. Using extensive flashbacks of the sisters early years in Argentina during the ''junta'' dictatorship, the director rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Solomonoff
Julia Solomonoff (born March 4, 1968, in Entre Ríos) is an Argentine film actress, producer, film and television director, and screenplay writer. She lives in Buenos Aires and works in the cinema of Argentina and is a professor as well as the current Chair of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program in New York City. Filmography Directing & Writer * '' Octavo 51'' (1992) * '' Un Día con Angela'' (1993) * ''Siesta'' (1998) * ''Scratch'' (2003) * ''Hermanas'' (2005) * ''The Last Summer of La Boyita'' (2009) * ''Nobody's Watching'' (2017) * ''Thirst'' (TBA) Producer only * ''Cocalero'' (2006) Acting * ''Historias Mínimas'' (2002) aka ''Minimal Stories'' Television * ''The Suitor ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...'' (2001) (TV) * '' Mujeres en roj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeria Bertuccelli
Valeria Bertuccelli (born 1969, 30 November) is an Argentine film and television actress. Born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina she began her career in experimental theatre, and later worked in the San Martín and Cervantes theatres. She was first cast in the cinema of Argentina by director Mariano Galperin, and received a Silver Condor Award for her role in Daniel Barone's ''Alma mía'' (2000). She won another Silver Condor for her leading role in Diego Lerman's ''Mientras tanto'', in 2007. Her husband, Vicentico, is co-founder and lead vocalist of the Argentine rock group Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. They have two sons together, Florián and Vicente. Filmography * ''1000 Boomerangs'' (1995) * ''Alma mía'' (1999) * ''Silvia Prieto'' (1999) a.k.a. ''Silvia Prieto'' * ''Los Guantes mágicos'' (2003) a.k.a. ''The Magic Gloves'' * ''Extraño'' (2003) a.k.a. ''Strange'' * ''Boca de fresa'' (2003) * ''Próxima salida'' (2004) * ''Luna de Avellaneda'' (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Rubio
Ingrid Rubio Ruiz (born 2 August 1975 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish actress. She won the Special Mention Award at the 1996 San Sebastián International Film Festival for her performance in the film ''Taxi (1996 film), Taxi''. Career She has appeared in over 20 films since 1995 and was named in 1998 as one of European films 'Shooting Stars' by European Film. She has appeared in a number of successful award-winning Spanish-Argentine co-produced films in the last ten years such as ''The Lighthouse (1998 film), El Faro'' (1998), ''The Impatient Alchemist'' (2002) and ''Hermanas'' (2005). She regularly portrays the role of a sister in her pictures. She has also worked on TV, for example the mini-series ''El corazón del océano''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Navarro
Adrián Navarro (born 24 October 1969 in Laferrere, Buenos Aires province) is an Argentine film and television actor. at the . Filmography * '''' (2004) * '''' (2005) * '''' (2006) a.k.a. ''City in Heat'' * '' |
Lucio Godoy
Lucio Godoy (born 1958) is a Spanish-Argentine film composer and music producer. He lived in Madrid from 1992 to 2013, working as a film ad TV composer, scoring and doing the music production for more than 50 feature films. In 2013, he became the director of the Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games master's degree program at Berklee College of Music's campus in Valencia, Spain. His feature film credits include: ''Fin'' (Jorge Torregrosa), ''Blackthorn'' (Mateo Gil), '' Un cuento chino'', ''Amador'', ''Los Lunes al sol'' (Fernando León de Aranoa), ''Triage'' (Danis Tanović), '' Los girasoles ciegos'', ''La educación de las hadas'' (José Luis Cuerda), ''Mataharis'' (Icíar Bollaín), ''El penalti más largo del mundo'', ''El club de los suicidas'' (Roberto Santiago), ''Nacidas para sufrir'', ''Cachorro'' (Miguel Albaladejo), ''El corredor nocturno'', ''Las razones de mis amigos'', ''Silencio en la Nieve'', (Gerardo Herrero), '' Intacto'' (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo), '' Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramiro Civita
Ramiro Civita (born in Buenos Aires, 16 December 1966) is an Argentine cinematographer (sometimes credited as Ramiro Aisenson) who has been active since 1994 and primarily made documentaries and feature films in Argentina, Spain, and Italy, working with directors such as Fernando León de Aranoa, Daniel Burman, and Silvio Soldini. For his camera work on the Italian mystery thriller ''The Girl by the Lake'', directed by Andrea Molaioli, Civita was nominated for several film awards and won the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography. Filmography * '' Buenos Aires Vice Versa'' (1996) * '' Bajo un mismo techo'' (1996) * ''El Juguete rabioso'' (1998) * '' Fin de siglo'' (1998) * ''Siesta'' (1998) * ''Garage Olimpo'' (1999) * '' Waiting for the Messiah'' (2000) * '' Tornando a casa'' (2001) * '' Saluzzi - Ensayo para bandoneon y tres hermanos'' (2001) * '' ¿Sabés nadar?'' (2002) * ''Todas las azafatas van al cielo'' (2002) * '' La Quimera de los héroes'' (2003) * '' Ciudad de Dio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Tropical
Cinema Tropical is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the distribution, programming and promotion of Latin American cinema in the United States. The non-profit company was co-founded by Carlos A. Gutiérrez and Monika Wagenberg in 2001. The company serves as a distributor and acquires Latin American films and helps its directors and producers gain national exposure in theaters, institutions, and film festivals. It also curates special series and retrospectives for theaters, institutions, and film festivals. The Cinema Tropical Film Series The Cinema Tropical Film Series features one recent Latin American film every month at venues throughout the United States. As of February 2007 the series travels to 12 highly prominent theatres and cultural institutions. The series is currently divided among the following three regions: The Cinema Tropical Series New York: *Cinema Village (Manhattan) *American Museum of Moving Image (Queens) *Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Salles
Walter Moreira Salles Júnior (; born 12 April 1956) is a Brazilian filmmaker. Early life Salles was born on 12 April 1956 in Rio de Janeiro and attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. He is the son of Brazilian banker, politician and philanthropist Walter Moreira Salles. Film career Salles's first notable film was ''Terra Estrangeira'' (''Foreign Land''), released in Brazil in 1995. Locally, it was widely acclaimed by film critics and a minor box-office hit, and it was selected by over 40 film festivals worldwide. In 1998 he released '' Central do Brasil'' (''Central Station'') to widespread international acclaim and two Academy Awards nominations, for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Foreign Language Film. Salles won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Brazilian to win a Golden Globe. In 2001, '' Abril Despedaçado'' (''Behind the Sun''), based on a novel by Albanian author Ismail Kadare and sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Pascal
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (born 2 April 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. He began his career guest-starring on various television shows before rising to prominence for portraying Oberyn Martell on the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'' (2014) and Javier Peña on the Netflix biographic crime series '' Narcos'' (2015–2017). He has played the title character on the Disney+ ''Star Wars'' series ''The Mandalorian'' since 2019, reprising his role in the spin-off series ''The Book of Boba Fett''. He is also set to play the lead role of Joel in ''The Last of Us''. Outside of television, he has appeared in the films ''The Adjustment Bureau'' (2011), ''Bloodsucking Bastards'' (2015), '' The Great Wall'' (2016), '' Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' (2017), ''The Equalizer 2'' (2018), ''Triple Frontier'' (2019), ''Wonder Woman 1984'' (2020) and '' The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'' (2022). Early life and education José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was b ... [...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] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo International Film Festival
The São Paulo International Film Festival ( pt, Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo), also known internationally as Mostra, is an annual film festival held in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. A non-profit event, the festival is organized by ABMIC (Associação Brasileira Mostra Internacional de Cinema). The state and city of São Paulo have established October as the festival's official month. The 46th edition of the festival was held from 20 October to 2 November 2022. 223 films from 60 different countries, categorized in three segments: International Perspective, New Directors Competition, and Mostra Brasil will be presented in the festival. '' Aftersun'' by Charlotte Wells won the Jury Prize for best film in the festival. History The festival was created in 1977 when film critic Leon Cakoff decided to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP). The head of the museum's film department, Cakoff had already organized successful screenings of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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