Anna Marie

With Mexico's “ On the Road” (“En el camino”) by David Pablos snagging both the Venice Film Festival's Queer Lion and Horizons awards last year, Latin American queer cinema has never shown more promise.

Chile's Film Academy has selected “The Meltdown” (“El deshielo”) by Manuela Martelli , her post-Pinochet mystery drama set in an Andes ski resort

A mix of established and first-time Mexican filmmakers are presenting their upcoming projects at the Morelia Film Festival 's 12th Impulso Morelia , which features works-in-progress in varied stages of post-production.

‘It's uncommon in Spanish-language storytelling, particularly in Mexico, to see popular, culturally significant cases wrapped in a genre-driven story where suspense and thriller elements take center stage,' says showrunner/co-director Humberto Hinojosa

TelevisaUnivision’s annual awards show Premios Juventud has evolved into a week-long fest that will culminate in Marbella, Spain on Sept. 3.

At San Sebastian's Co-Production Forum, 'Looking for Sam' 'wanders between fiction and documentary, where memory and identity blur and transform one another,' says Rondón of her follow-up to her 2013 San Sebastian Golden Shell winner 'Bad Hair'

Chile's Santiago Film Festival (Sanfic), which runs Nov. 2 – 6 this year, is toasting the seventh edition of its genre-focused Sanfic-Morbido Lab

‘He has a deep understanding of the challenges of making films in different parts of the world, particularly for women filmmakers,' says Murga about Scorsese who executive produced her pics, ‘After ‘The Freshly Cut Grass' and ‘The Third Side of the River'

Chile's everyman actor Alfredo Castro (“The Count”) plays against type in “After Elena” (“Después de Elena”) by Shawn Garry, which world premieres at the Toronto Film Festival TIFF ) on Sept.11.

Nothing sharpens the mind like working within constraints. Made on a shoestring production grant of €200,000 ($234,000) and given three weeks to