On Now: Cartón Animation Festival
This is not pixar. It’s Cartón. Festival Internacional de Cortos de Animación La Tribu, or simply Cartón as it’s been named, opened yesterday and runs until Sunday 6th November. Aimed specifically at...
View ArticleWant to Know More About the 2001-2 Crisis?
It is the 10th anniversary of the 2001 financial crisis in Argentina and we managed to get some of the best books and documentaries gathered in this financial crisis material round up to make you an...
View ArticleEvent Preview: ‘Cultures of Resistance’ Film Screening
Prior to an epiphany in 2003, Korean/Brazilian film director Iara Lee had been immersed in the study of adapting the human limits of experience through technology. ‘Synthetic Pleasures’ (1995) panned...
View ArticleOn Now: Human Rights Film fest
Now in it’s 14th year, Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC’s (IMD) International Human Rights Film Festival has brought films focusing on human rights and environmental issues from all corners of the globe...
View ArticleOut Now: La Educación Prohibida
Film writer Wendy Gosselin attends the premier of a three-year film project that questions the education system worldwide. There were two long lines of people waiting to get into the Buenos Aires...
View ArticleOn Now: Buenos Aires Green Film Festival
With more than a million species facing extinction, people around the world lacking safe drinking water, and glaciers melting at an alarming rate, the environment is nagging the minds of many, but not...
View ArticleProject of the Week: Ciclos de Cine Para Vecinos
IdeaMe: is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. Each week, the Indy features and promotes...
View ArticlePresident Announces New Audiovisual District in Puerto Madero
During a speech at the Bicentennial Museum yesterday, president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the creation of a new audiovisual district on Demarchi Island, in Puerto Madero. She also signed...
View ArticleProject of the Week: Humano
IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project...
View ArticleSummer in the City: Parador Konex 2013
KONEX (Photo: Beatrice Murch) January in Buenos Aires is known as the quietest month of the year, when most locals escape from the heat and humidity to the coastor neighbouring countries. At the same...
View ArticleCinema & Politics: A Conversation with Fernando Sulichin
Argentine film producer Fernando Sulichin’s Hollywood career began by accident; a classroom mix-up in college propelled him headlong into the world of cinema, and he has since worked around the globe...
View ArticleNoemi Weis: A Voice for the Voiceless
Noemi Weis Argentine-Canadian Noemi Weis is a relative newcomer to documentary film making, but has thrown herself into topics that can only be described as harrowing: the damage domestic violence...
View ArticleProject of the Week: La Birrilata, Una Vuelta en Tren
IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project...
View ArticleBAFICI 2013: Ten Films To Look Out For
Feeling a little overwhelmed by the BAFICI catalogue and not sure where to start? Here’s a list of ten films that you may still be in time to get tickets for — but move quickly, as most of the films on...
View ArticleProject of the Week: The Top of The World
IdeaMe is an online platform, which helps creators, be they inventors, artists, or designers, among others, to finance their projects through crowd funding. The Indy features and promotes one project...
View ArticleFilm Shorts: When Less is More
“If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job!” Woody Allen famously once said. But, in general, the only reason to feel miserable after a movie should be an uncomfortable...
View ArticleUncovering the Guatemalan Genocide: An Interview with Pamela Yates
Documentary filmmaker Pamela Yates is in Buenos Aires for the 15th International Human Rights Film Festival. She is presenting her latest film, ‘Granito: How to Nail a Dictator’, in the official...
View ArticleOn Now: Tango 360
Now showing at the Galileo Galilei Planetarium in Buenos Aires is one of the most unique pieces of cinema available to the public in South America. A part of the city government’s summer cultural...
View ArticleThat’s A Wrap: A Grand Finale to the 16th BAFICI
The Buenos Aires International Film Festival had another smashing year, with some 380,000 viewers coming to see one or more of the 504 films included in this year’s program. Besides the usual...
View ArticleErasing Dad, A Review
“Visitation. It’s just a terrible word,” says Gabriel Balanovsky, the producer of the documentary film ‘Borrando a Papá’ [Erasing Dad]. “There are only three moments in life for visitation – when...
View ArticleOut Now: El Vals de los Inútiles
“This is a special moment,” announced Natalia de la Vega, Argentine co-producer of ‘El Vals de los Inútiles‘, to an audience gathered for the premiere of the documentary in Buenos Aires last Thursday....
View ArticleSupport Good Pitch2 Argentina!
Reviving an old alliance with Latin American crowdfunding platform Idea.me, we are supporting a campaign to help fund independent documentary filmmakers from around Latin America get to Buenos Aires to...
View Article‘Voley’, More than just a Game
What’s worse? Cheating on your best friend with his girlfriend or falling in love with someone considered unbearable? No matter what your choice is, “everybody cheats” says the motto of ‘Voley’, Martin...
View ArticleMarch Movies to Catch
Las Enfermeras de Evita (Marcelo Goyeneche) The film ‘Las Enfermeras de Evita’ by director Marcelo Goyeneche follows in the footsteps of Leonardo Favio’s ‘Sinfonía de un sentimiento’, sweeping viewers...
View ArticleTop Argentine Picks from BAFICI 2015
There’s still time to get in on BAFICI before the festival ends on Saturday. And despite the festival’s international nature, there are many local screenings worth catching. Below film writer Wendy...
View ArticleThe Curtain Drops on the 17th Edition of BAFICI
Saturday was the last day of screenings, talks, round tables, outdoor films and concerts of the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival. Approximately 380,000 people attended this year’s...
View ArticleOut Now: El Clan
The most anticipated Argentine film of the year, ‘El Clan’, premiers in cinemas this week. In his first feature based on a true story, renowned filmmaker Pablo Trapero contextualises the horrific...
View ArticleGovernment Launches On-Demand Video Platform
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced yesterday the launch of Odeon, an on-demand digital platform for Argentine audiovisual content. The project is a combined effort by the National...
View ArticleSet for Cinema: Buenos Aires Kicks Off the 18th Edition of BAFICI
Until 24th April the Buenos Aires goes movie mad with 400 films in 27 different locations for this year's BAFICI.
View ArticleBAFICI: Ten Picks from the 18th Edition
A whimsical selection of ten films to catch from the 18th edition of BAFICI by film writer Wendy Gosselin.
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