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“Grief is Grey”: An interview Merced Elizondo, Oscar-qualified director of ‘THE MOURNING OF’ (2025)
With gentle black humour, superb craftmanship and performances, ‘THE MOURNING OF’, a moving short film by Merced Elizondo leaves the viewer wanting more. It's no surprise that the film, “The Mourning of”, which explores…
ABDUCTED FILES (2025) by Brazilian writer/director Filippo Capuzzi Lapietra
Celebrating its premiere at the 33rd Raindance Film Festival, this highly entertaining mockumentary, set in 2024, explores the legacy of a film shot earlier, in 2016, that had set out to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the “…
GABY ACOSTA, EMMY-nominated Mexican costume designer makes an impression in Hollywood.
Talented first-generation Mexican costume designer GABY ACOSTA, has been rewarded with an EMMY nomination for ‘Outstanding Period Costume Design’ for her work on Taylor Sheridan’s acclaimed Western TV series ‘1923’.
‘She’s Not There, You see Another Person’
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The Understatement of Talent
In a world of media hype, it is rare to be shocked and awed by talent. Perhaps that's why one has to travel to Cuba, hwich is where Sara Livero found Salvador Galindo Ruiz working silently in his workshop as she walked along…
LATIN HOTLIST #15 - Christmas 2019
Looking for Christmas Stocking fillers? Here our selection of essential goodies to do the good old English sock by the fire with a twist, from children's books in spanish to aged Mexican rum for Papa Noel himself
The Blue Trail (O Último Azul- 2025) by Brazilain director Gabriel Mascaro
“Since when was getting older an honour?” Set in an uncomfortably near future, this dystopian tale creates a universe where the elderly are sent away to a colony from which none are known to ever have returned, all in the name…
United Migrations?
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Mexican Fernando Eimbke’s gentle family drama ‘OLMO’ is at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.
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Minimalist vampire movie with a twist: ‘MY HEART CAN ONLY BEAT WHEN YOU TELL IT TO” .
Colombian-American Jonathan Cuartas has hit the ground running with his debut feature, ‘MY HEART CAN ONLY BEAT WHEN YOU TELL IT TO’, a moving tale of two dysfunctional siblings trying to protect their frail little brother against…
The multi-award-winning theatre collective, EPHEMERAL ENSEMBLE are presenting ‘UPROOTED,’ their latest new show, at the New Diorama Theatre in London.
‘UPROOTED’, is a multidisciplinary show, politically challenging and visually exciting. It combines, sound, dance, visual effects, music and lights to immerse the audience in what is a moving experience. Corina J Poore talks to…
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‘My photographs are about our journey through life’ Corina Poore interviews the remarkable Chilean photographer Maurizio Valenzuela
Interview with Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzman’s film-making is full of paradoxes; subtle yet scathing, hard-hitting yet humane, highlighting the worst and the best of the human condition with an aesthetic brilliance that moves the viewer. Latinolife talks to…
The Photos of Debbie Bragg and the Rise of a New UK Club Culture
By chronicling the new generation of Latino-Brits in their party element, this oustanding photographer became THE documentarist of the urban latin movement in the UK and helped put urban latin culture on the map. Exclusively on…
THINESTRA (2025) by Nathan Hertz
A comedy / horror that is highly entertaining! Director Nathan Hertz explores where the world of weight-loss tablets might lead us.
Flamenco's Poetry in Motion?
Inspired by the purist Flamenco that he learnt from his teachers, Rafael Amargo, Spain’s most eclectic dancer and choreographer, was influenced by US contemporary dance schools such as the Martha Graham, while living in New York…
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The Immigrant's View
Ana Asensio’s award-winning debut film 'Most Beautiful Island' is an unnerving psychological thriller set in the Big Apple that has been receiving rave reviews. I The film is based on Ana's own experiences living…
Revolutionising the Black Economy
Adriana Barbosa is the entrepreneur and visionary behind Feira Preta - the festival celebrating the Black diaspora all over the world, which is today recognised as the largest Black culture and entrepreneurship festival in Latin…
'ROMA' by Alfonso Cuarón sweeps the boards at the BAFTAs.
ROMA (2018) by Alfonso Cuarón, a masterpiece of cinema, has been crowned the outstanding film of 2018 at the BAFTAs. Semi-autobiographical, it was created with deep affection in homage to a person who was and remains of huge…
MINEFIELD @ The Jerwood Theatre
This challenging work by Argentine playwright Lola Arias, based on six Falklands/ Malvinas war veterans, and developed entirely by working with the men, their diaries and experiences, had resounding success with its debut last…
Treating Trauma with Art
Amy Draper is a bold, young theatre director whose innovative production 'These Trees are made of Blood' – a musical cabaret about the estimated 30,000 people murdered by Argentina’s dictatorship (1976-1983) who then…
Macho, sexist, leery - lovely...
Flirting with strangers in the street is a way of life in Buenos Aires. One gringa tries very hard to disapprove.
Paradise City by Joe Thomas (Arcadia Books)
American style 'noir' set in South America's biggest megatropolis - a lonely cop's battle with corruption, despair, and his own demons makes for an enthralling Sao Paulo thriller.
Stockholm (dir. Omar Al Abdul Razzak 2012)
A superbly crafted film exploring the politics of desire and attraction
Embracing Another World
It’s been a long day of interviews for Ciro Guerra. As director of Embrace of the Serpent, the first Colombian film to be nominated for an Oscar, the film man of the moment is in demand in London, where the film launches this…
Evita at The Dominion Theatre
After its successful UK tour, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's weirdly popular journey into the heart of Argentine history returns to the West End. With 55 new performances, the epic bio-musical that dissects the character…
Venezuela: Trochas de la Información
Produced by Circuito Gran Cine, a collective of film makers based in Venezuela, this film is one of a series about the difficulties Venezuelans have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, ranging from water shortages to the lack of…
I am a feminist, non-feminist writer…(or whatever it takes to stop them talking).
Can you be a socially conscious, female writer in Spain, or anywhere, and not be labelled a feminist? Few hispanic authors have had to battle the gender trap and its scrutiny more than Rosa Montero, one of Spain’s most popular…
LATIN HOTLIST #10 - Autumn 2018
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Juana in a Million
A mesmerising one-woman Latina show at The Southwark Playhouse until 15th June
Gente de Bien (2013) Dir. Franco Lolli
The feature debut from the Colombian director Franco Lolli, Gente de Bien is a sensitive, unsettling and realistic piece of social reflexion. It narrates a parent-child relationship against the backdrop of Colombia’s wealth gap,…
‘Los Conductos’ (2020) Directed by Camilo Restrepo
Colombian experimental filmmaker, writer and director Camilo Restrepo, known for 5 award-winning short films, including ‘La Bouche 2015’, has won the Berlinale’s GWFF Best First Feature Award with his ópera prima ‘Los Conductos…
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