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Producing the Image of Spain
Executive producer Gervasio Iglesias, Director of Zanfoña Producciones, one of Spain’s most exciting film production outfits, talks to Latinolife about making films in the current crisis and their latest release Unit 7.
Interview with Patricio Guzmán
Award-winning filmmaker Patricio Guzmán, one of Latin America’s most important directors of the 20th and 21st centuries, talks to Latino Life about his new film, Nostalgia for the Light, and about his approach to and opinions of…
Presumed Guilty: Victim of Mexico's legal system gets rare break to tell story
Over the net the controversial film about a street vendor stitched up by the Mexican legal system is spreading like wildfire and in England it is about to go on general release. Back in Mexico, judges are seeking to ban…
Salon de Belleza (Beauty Salon) 2026 by Mexican director Nathalia Acevedo
Selected for the ‘Giornate degli Autori’ at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, Nathalia Acevedo’s unusual debut feature was adapted from the strange and meditative novella of the same name by Mario Bellatin, about death and dying on…
Travelling the Veins of Caracas
Tanya Yusti interviews Chris Anderson, the acclaimed photo-journalist whose latest book of photographs Capitolio, takes us on a disturbing and exuberant journey through Caracas.
Split Identity
Viggo Mortenson’s Argentine background (hence his perfect porteño accent) is unknown to most film fans. In this film, the actor famous for his role as Aragorn in Lord of The Rings, The Road and Eastern Promises embraces his ‘…
CUBAN FURY (2013) dir. James Griffiths
Starring British comedy actor Nick Frost, a warm-hearted if not warm-blooded salsa comedy; representing more the awkward British take on salsa than its true corazon.
Day of the Flowers (2013) Dir. John Roberts Starring Carlos Acosta
Our very own Cuba aficionado Kerry Ribchester, went to the Day of the Flowers premier to see if all the fuss about the new Latin-infused chic flick, starring Cuba's very own global ballet icon Carlos Acosta, was all it…
origo: an earth giant at the Barbican
An earth giant now stands in the Sculpture Court. Origo, conceived by Colombian artist Delcy Morelos, is an oval structure that extends 24 metres following the crescent shape of the building that surrounds it. The installation…
The Club Dir. Pablo Larrain (2016)
In The Club everything is distressing. In the home for ‘repentance’ we find a chaplain who collaborated with the dictatorship, a priest accused of child abuse, another involved in illegal adoptions and a senile one who cannot…
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Tyrant Banderas by Ramon del Valle-Inician
A new English translation by Peter Bush. New York Review of Books Classics series 2012.
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Latin Londoner #71: Monica Lopera - Actress and Producer.
Originally from Medellin, Colombia, Monica is an award-winning actress who has worked across film, television and theatre in both Spanish and English, taking leading roles in The Hijacking of Flight 601 (Netflix), Killing Eve (…
Travelling Heart
The new film Viramundo follows legendary Brazilian singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil on a musical journey from Bahia, Brazil to Australia, South Africa, and back to the Brazilian Amazon. It had its UK premier at Barbican in late…
Bad Education
Eduardo Chapero-Jackson has been dubbed by critics as the latest ‘one to watch’ in new Spanish cinema. Here at London'sThe Spanish Film Festival, supported by the Cervantes Institute, the writer and director talks to…
Butterfly Catching
In Madame Butterfly, the One Man Opera, the butterfly takes flight one more time as the abandoned son goes looking for his father in the US. Mexican born Ignacio Jarquin, who himself metamorphosised from Opera conductor to singer…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 6th March 1927 - 17th April 2014
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Spain's Sweet Revenge
Four hundred years after Henry VIII divorced and disgraced Spain's beloved Katherine of Aragon, Spain has the chance to seek sweet revenge on the old rascal by bringing its interpretation of Shakespeare's Henry VIII to…
“Beyond the Legend…Lies a More Fascinating Truth”
It was a gloomy Sunday. The grey sky and all-consuming rain made my bed feel like a toasty heaven, which I was reluctant to leave. However, the anticipation and desire to see first-hand the beautiful gold art work of my…
In the Beginning, the Sea…in the End, a Global Literary Journey
Colombian author Tomás González began writing the story of his brother. Thirty years later it is a tale that has travelled the world captivating readers, and now landed in the English speaking world. Latinolife interviews…
LATIN HOTLIST #14 - Autumn 2019
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PESCADOR (2024) by Harry Domenico Rossi
The lives of an American marine biologist, her missing shipwrecked brother and a Costa Rican fishermen interlink in this debut feature touching themes of life and death, mythical creatures and impossible dreams.
Filming Cuba
Next week sees the release of 'Day of the Flowers' - a comedy drama about two Scottish sisters travelling with their late father’s ashes to Cuba, and starring Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta. In this interview, BAFTA…
‘The Paranoids’ Dir. Gabriel Medina (DVD release)
With humour, pain and irony, Gabriel Medina's ‘The Paranoids’ takes us into the internal world of oddball Luciano as he comes to terms with his life
Forever your Maternal Animal (2026) by Valentina Maurel
Maurel’s film, which explores a dysfunctional family in San José of Costa Rica, had its world premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in the 'Un Certain Regard' section.
‘Queremos tanto a Jane’ by Juana Libedinsky.
250 years on from her birth, Jane Austen’s books still fly off the shelves today as they did during the regency period. She not only invented the narrative format, the idea of a third voice, a narrator, but she ended up inventing…
THE PORTUGUESE HOUSE (2025) by Spanish director Avelina Prat
This charming and tender film is Avelina Prat’s second feature. It premiered at the 28th Málaga Film Festival in 2025, and has won over 10 awards and had 17 nominations, including a Gaudí Award for Best New Director and a Goya…
Latin Londoner #70: Guido Garcia Lueches - Actor, Poet, Theatre maker
Guido Garcia Lueches is a Uruguayan actor, poet, theatre maker and co-founder of interactive theatre company Say It Again, Sorry? Guido's first solo show Playing Latinx played the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 at Summerhall, and…
Latin Londoner #72: Sergio Maggiolo - writer, performer, and director
Sergio Maggiolo is a London-based writer, performer, and director born in Peru and trained in the U.S. Known for making theatre that is political, irreverent, and charged with emotional truth, Sergio’s work blends personal…
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