For Rolling Stone’S Third annual Icons & Influences feature, we asked eight of our favorite artists and entertainers to pay tribute to the women who have inspired them, in life as well as in their careers. Silvana Estrada, the breakout singer-songwriter who won Best New Artist at last year’s Latin Grammys, talks about the deep influence Argentine activist and folk legend had on her music.
My parents listened to Mercedes Sosa, and we’d play her in the car — it was actually the music my dad would have on...
My parents listened to Mercedes Sosa, and we’d play her in the car — it was actually the music my dad would have on...
- 2/26/2023
- by Julyssa Lopez
- Rollingstone.com
Uruguay’s Coral Cine is closing Spanish distribution rights with Barcelona-based A Contracorriente Films for its documentary “Benedetti, 60 Años con Luz,” which chronicles the 60-year love story of renowned Uruguayan author-poet Mario Benedetti and his wife Luz López Alegre, helmed by Coral Cine’s Andres Varela and shot by Oscar-nominated DoP Cesar Charlone (“City of God”).
Charlone is the sole juror of the ongoing 2nd Arca International Festival of Films on Art (Jan. 2-7).
Mexico’s Vendo Cine is snagging Mexican rights while Buenos Aires and L.A.-based international sales company Punctum, which focuses exclusively on Latin American documentaries, has grabbed worldwide sales rights.
A Contracorriente first eyed the doc at the Iberseries & Platino Iberoamerican film-tv event last September in Madrid. Doc has since opened in Uruguay where it played for an unprecedented 12 weeks, said Varela.
In other exclusive news, Fernando Meirelles’ O2 Filmes has boarded Coral Cine...
Charlone is the sole juror of the ongoing 2nd Arca International Festival of Films on Art (Jan. 2-7).
Mexico’s Vendo Cine is snagging Mexican rights while Buenos Aires and L.A.-based international sales company Punctum, which focuses exclusively on Latin American documentaries, has grabbed worldwide sales rights.
A Contracorriente first eyed the doc at the Iberseries & Platino Iberoamerican film-tv event last September in Madrid. Doc has since opened in Uruguay where it played for an unprecedented 12 weeks, said Varela.
In other exclusive news, Fernando Meirelles’ O2 Filmes has boarded Coral Cine...
- 1/6/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Uruguay’s Coral Cine is ramping up its 2022 slate with a slew of projects that include online dating dramedy series “Is it Love” (“Es Amor?”) with “City of God” and “The Two Popes” Dp Cesar Charlone attached to shoot the series.
Charlone will also co-direct Coral Cine documentary “Brazil, What the Hell Happened?” and WWII series “Graf Spee.” The most recent documentary he directed, “Gardeners” (“Jardineras”), which centers on two female gardeners working in Brazil’s presidential Alvorada palace while then president Dilma Rouseff awaited the senate’s decision to oust her, is now in post.
Producer Patricia Olveira (“Mirador”) and director Felipe Bellocq will also be working on Coral Cine’s docu series, “The History of Uruguayan Cinema,” which, in season one, will trace the growth of the country’s cinematic history up to the ‘80s.
These are just a few of some dozen projects that Coral Cine’s...
Charlone will also co-direct Coral Cine documentary “Brazil, What the Hell Happened?” and WWII series “Graf Spee.” The most recent documentary he directed, “Gardeners” (“Jardineras”), which centers on two female gardeners working in Brazil’s presidential Alvorada palace while then president Dilma Rouseff awaited the senate’s decision to oust her, is now in post.
Producer Patricia Olveira (“Mirador”) and director Felipe Bellocq will also be working on Coral Cine’s docu series, “The History of Uruguayan Cinema,” which, in season one, will trace the growth of the country’s cinematic history up to the ‘80s.
These are just a few of some dozen projects that Coral Cine’s...
- 1/13/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
When Miguel Belmonte first happened upon the notice for the Off-Off-Broadway production "Memory Is a Culinary Affair," in the pages of Back Stage, it was no simple case of history repeating itself. Rather, it was a rare opportunity for the actor to revisit the repercussions of one of the darkest hours in Latin American history. "Unfortunately, I was aware of that history," Belmonte reveals, describing the plight of "the disappeared," the thousands upon thousands of Argentines forcibly abducted by that country's military regime during the 1970s and '80s. "Spain also had a dictatorship, and I was born during the transition years to democracy. In a sense, that's a thing you always know," says the Barcelona native. A role in 2006's "Silencio Es Salud (Silence Is Health)," another play about los desaparecidos, provided a sound research foundation for his dual roles in "Memory," in which he played Pablo, a lawyer...
- 1/10/2011
- backstage.com
There are many good examples of poetry in movies (On film, Film & Music, 29 January). One that springs to mind is Argentinian director Eliseo Subiela's 1992 film El Lado Oscuro del Corazón (The Dark Side of the Heart), where the main character, Oliverio, is a young poet living in Buenos Aires and making ends meet by selling his ideas to advertising companies. In the movie Oliverio is constantly reciting poems by Juan Gelman, Mario Benedetti and his namesake Oliverio Girondo. Needless to say, the film was a success in Iberoamerica, where it introduced these important Latin American poets to a younger generation.
Mario Lopez-Goicoechea
London
• A native, I've just returned to London after 26 years in New York City. While still in wonderment at how much richer London is now, I am also very aware of the economic turmoil in which it finds itself, along with much of the world. The...
Mario Lopez-Goicoechea
London
• A native, I've just returned to London after 26 years in New York City. While still in wonderment at how much richer London is now, I am also very aware of the economic turmoil in which it finds itself, along with much of the world. The...
- 1/30/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Novelist Mario Benedetti has passed away at the age of 88 at his home in Montevideo, Uruguay on Sunday. He had suffered from respiratory and intestinal problems for more than a year.
Benedetti was considered one of Latin America's most important 20th century writers.
He published his first book at the age of 30.
His novel "La Tregua" ("The Truce") was published in 1960 and was reissued 150 times in 20 languages. He wrote more than 80 novels, poems, essays, plays, and short stories in his career, which spanned more than six decades.
Benedetti was considered one of Latin America's most important 20th century writers.
He published his first book at the age of 30.
His novel "La Tregua" ("The Truce") was published in 1960 and was reissued 150 times in 20 languages. He wrote more than 80 novels, poems, essays, plays, and short stories in his career, which spanned more than six decades.
- 5/18/2009
- icelebz.com
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