@MoMAFilm celebrates 25 years of PBS’ award-winning documentary series @POVdocs with a special program Feb. 27-March 4 (LatAm Docs + Full Programme)

‘MoMA Selects: POV’ Features 22 Films, Including First POV Broadcast, ‘American Tongues,’ and World Premiere of ‘Homegoings,’ Plus Filmmaker Conversations and a Musical Performance
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will celebrate 25 years of PBS’ award-winning documentary series POV (Point of View) with a special program, MoMA Selects: POV from Wednesday, Feb. 27 – Monday, March 4, 2013, as part of the museum’s Documentary Fortnight 2013 showcase. The six-day event will feature 22 POV

Guadalajara International Film Fest @FICGoficial OFFICIAL COMPETITION announced (Features+Documentary+Shorts)

Ibero American Feature Film
Las mariposas de Sadourní
Darío Nardi
Argentina

Documentary Filmmakers Laura Poitras and Natalia Almada Named MacArthur Fellows

Laura Poitras

Laura Poitras and Natalia Almada have been named MacArthur Fellows for 2012, which brings a $500,000 grant to each over the next five years. The documentary filmmakers are among 23 fellows chosen by the MacArthur Foundation, which made the announcement Monday.

Poitras is a 48-year-old New Yorker and founder of Praxis Films. For the last ten years, she has been working on a trilogy of films about the world since 9/11 and the war on terror, including “My Country, My Country” (2006), “The Oath” (2010) and a forthcoming untitled doc that looks at the effect of prolonged international conflict in the U.S. After an early start in experimental film, Poitras studied

DAY 2 @LondonMexFest: Programme Highlights (Films, Talks, Music…)

FILM:
Abel
2010 / Mexico / 35mm / Color / 82 min
Directed by Diego Luna
Sundance Film Festival (USA, 2010)
Mute Abel is no ordinary nine-year-old. He is coming home after spending time in a psychiatric facility, having reacted badly to his father’s disappearance two years earlier. Then suddenly Abel decides to speak again and alarmingly reinvents himself as the patriarch of the house. When his father suddenly reappears, however, the  a

Call for Submissions: The Sundance Documentary Fund

The Sundance Documentary Fund‘s upcoming submission deadline is July 10, 2012.
In a world where truth is stranger than fiction,  we can help you tell the stories that must be told. The Sundance Documentary Film Program (DFP) is dedicated to supporting those film artists and issue-based stakeholders who are harnessing the power of cinematic documentary storytelling in the service of human rights, equity, sustainability, social justice, and other contemporary social issues.
About The Sundance Documentary Fund
The Sundance Documentary Fund is very competitive, generally receiving between 1500 and 2000 applications per year and making some 40-60 awards annually. A panel of film professionals and

Documentaries EL HUASO (Chile) and LAURA (Brazil) 2 of the 10 Hottest Docs to Watch @hotdocs via @indieWIRE

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival began in Toronto last night with the Canadian premiere of Sundance hit “Al Weiwei: Never Sorry.” The screening, at the festival’s newly renovated hub The Bloor Cinema, kicks off 10 days and nights of North America’s largest documentary festival.
While plenty of breakout films from Sundance and other major festivals will certainly be a big part of the festival, Hot Docs also

Latin American Cinema takes NY this February

Two events will take place this February in New York with the latest short film productions and Documentary films from Latin America new yorkers will welcome: MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and NewLatino Filmmakers Screening Series.
From february 16th MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight will Open with Tatiana Huezo Sanchez‘s “The Tiniest Place,” who will both be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A sessions.

AFI Latin American Film Festival Selects “The Mexican Suitcase” For Opener

An image from Trisha Ziff's "The Mexican Suitcase."

AFI has selected “The Mexican Suitcase” (La Maleta Mexicana) as its opening night feature for the 2011 AFI Latin American Film Festival in Silver Spring, MD.
“The Mexican Suitcase” is the latest from documentary filmmaker Trisha Ziff, whose 2008 film, “Chevolution,” explored the iconography behind the well-known photo of guerilla revolutionary Che Guevara.
“Suitcase” follows the discovery and preservation of thousands of photo negatives, thought to be lost, but found in Mexico City in 2007.
Ziff will be in attendance to present the film, which was an official selection of the Los Angeles

Alysa Nahmias feature documentary Unfinished Spaces premiering at LAFF

Alysa Nahmias co-directed and produced the documentary Unfinished Spaces, which will have its World Premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival in the Feature Documentary Competition. The Premiere screening is on June 19 at 4:20pm at the downtown LA Regal Cinemas, and additional screenings will be held the following weekend. View the trailer here.

Unfinished Spaces tells the story of three architects who, following their emotional exile from Cuba in 1965, return forty years later to finish what was considered the world’s most spectacular and futuristic art school, but was left to ruin by the country’s Revolution.

Ireland XII Film Festival. Latin America Week 2011 (Programme)

The 12th Irish Latin American Film Festival, once again aligned with Latin America Week 2011 takes place in Dublin on the 5/6/7/8th April with selected screenings at other locations [see details at www.lasc.ie].  Admission to all screenings is free at this small screening space, and attendees are requested to be seated on time for each screening.
This bi-lingual Film Festival is organised in our indigenous language, Irish with English as back-up, and as in all previous Festivals, features short films and documentaries.  In 2011, three indigenous languages of The Americas – Guaraní (Karoi Norte), Quechua (Ukuku) and Mapuche (La Voz Mapuche) feature.  Films are infrequently available on Central America, but this year’s Festival programmes an excellent