AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AMC AS NEW SPONSOR FOR THE 2013 ONE HOUR PILOT AWARD Austin, TX – May 20, 2013 – Austin Film Festival (AFF) is proud to announce that AMC is the official sponsor and judge for the One-Hour Pilot Award of the 2013 Teleplay Competition. The AMC One-Hour Pilot Award [...]
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Cine Las Americas 16 Review: BLANCANIEVES
Posted by Mark Saldana on April 19th, 2013
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) It is a fairy tale that has been told and retold countless times, but never like this. Opening the 16th Annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, writer/director Pablo Berger’s version of the Brothers Grimm tale, has a darker, more realistic take than other incarnations and [...]
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Tags: Bullfighting, Pablo Berger, Silent Film, Snow White 
No Comments »Movie News/Local Events: VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS
Posted by Mark Saldana on May 1st, 2013
”Vivan Las Antipodas” Screens Again Saturday 5/4 & Sunday 5/5 Victor Kossakovsky’s movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet. ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! – Long Live The Antipodes! Every screening begins with a 3-minute short film from GE FOCUS FORWARD and is followed by a pre-taped Q&A with Mr. [...]
Cine Las Americas 16 Review: 7 CAJAS/7 BOXES
Posted by Mark Saldana on April 29th, 2013
By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) For the piece de resistance, Jean Laurer and her programmers picked an awesome gem of a film to close out the festival. This import from Paraguay had me thoroughly engaged and invested in its story and characters from start to finish. Of all the films I [...]
Cine Las Americas 16 Reviews: Narrative/Panorama Shorts
Posted by Mark Saldana on April 29th, 2013
By Mark Saldana One the things I really like about Cine Las Americas is the fact that before most feature films, they present one of the shorts submitted to the festival. Because my coverage involves mostly feature length films at festivals, I rarely get the opportunity to view shorts showcases. This year I was able [...]
Cine Las Americas 16 Filmmaker Spotlight: Valente Rodriguez
Posted by Mark Saldana on April 29th, 2013
By Mark Saldana CLAIFF Programmer Jean Lauer, Composer Michael Ramos, Valente Rodriguez
Cine Las Americas 16 Review: Panorama Double Feature
Posted by Mark Saldana on April 25th, 2013
By Mark Saldana As part of their Panorama Short Films line up, this year’s Cine Las Americas festival had a double feature of two, hour long, short films on Saturday night (April 20th). The Panorama section celebrates Narrative and Documentary films which “represent innovative and independent filmmakers in complement to the rest of the program; [...]
Cine Las Americas 16: NOS VEMOS, PAPA/SEE YOU, DAD
Posted by Mark Saldana on April 25th, 2013
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) From Mexico, writer/director Lucia Carreras tells an affecting and even disturbing tale of a young woman’s painful struggles in coping with the loss of her father. Pilar (Cecilia Suarez) has remained very close to her father and has taken care of him up until his death. [...]
Cine Las Americas 16 Review: HASTA NUNCA/SEE YOU NEVER
Posted by Mark Saldana on April 25th, 2013
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Exactly twenty four hours after watching The Last Time I Saw Macao, I watched another ambitious film which has a similar approach to storytelling. Only this time, the experimental technique pays off. Director Mark Street tells the story of Uruguayan talk radio host Mario Ligetti (Rufo [...]
Posted in Home, Local Events, Reviews Tags: Cine Las Americas 16, Mark Street, Uruguay No Comments »Cine Las Americas 16 Review: THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO
Posted by Mark Saldana on April 25th, 2013
By Mark Saldana Rating: 2.5 (Out of Four Stars) This experimental film by Joao Pedro Rodriguez and Joao Rui Guerra de Mata ambitiously attempts to combine seemingly random film footage of the city of Macao with a highly imaginative narrative, but doesn’t quite succeed in its execution. The narrative involves the return of an unnamed, [...]
