Top 5 Alternative Cinema Venues
The revelry of the Buenos Aires independent film festival may now have drawn to a close but those film junkies already worried about their prospects in the 50 weeks until the festival returns need not...
View ArticleFilmmaking in Argentina: Gaucho Nobility
The first Argentine blockbuster in 1915 - Nobleza Gaucha Dedicated to Octavio Getino, author of ‘Cine Argentino’, ex-director of the National Institute for Cinema, for his continuing labour of love in...
View ArticleTop 5 Argentine Films
While Hollywood is known for action and special effects, France scores with intellectual depths, the British go for realism and Italian movies show us what la dolce vita looks like – what comes to our...
View ArticleOn 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...
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