Sydney Levine

First Participant PanAmerica Film, El Ardor, Begins Production

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • May 22, 2013 3:30 PM
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Launching earlier this year, Participant PanAmerica is an initiative to develop and finance 10-12 films over five years for and from Latin America with Mexico’s Canana (Sin Nombre, Miss Bala), Chile’s Fabula (Young and Wild, Gloria) and Colombia’s Dynamo (Undertow, The Hidden Face). Its first film will El Ardor starring Gael García Bernal and Alice Braga to shoot in Argentina.

ISA of the Day: IM Global

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • May 12, 2013 1:30 PM
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Hot Docs Today, Cannes Tomorrow

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • May 6, 2013 3:30 PM
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LatinoBuzz: How Do We Turn a Latino Film Into a Latino Blockbuster?

  • By Vanessa Erazo
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  • April 24, 2013 1:30 PM
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The internet has been buzzing about Filly Brown. The film starring Gina Rodriguez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos, and Jenni Rivera hit theaters this past Friday and made close to $1.5 million over the weekend. It’s an impressive opening for an independent Latino film.

LatinoBuzz: 'NO' starring Gael García Bernal, 'Bless Me, Ultima' and 'Los Condenados' in Theaters This Week

  • By Vanessa Erazo
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  • March 6, 2013 1:00 PM
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It’s an exciting week for Latino film. There are lots of options at theaters across the country including the Oscar nominated NO (starring Gael García Bernal), the Puerto Rican thriller Los Condenados, and Bless Me, Ultima based on Rudolfo Anaya’s classic Chicano novel.

Sundance Day One: Two Films and Two Parties

  • By Sydney Levine
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  • January 19, 2013 5:55 PM
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Well it is not as cold as we all thought it would be, but there is snow everywhere. Join us on our first day at Sundance.

LatinoBuzz: Chile Goes for the Bronze, A Look Back at the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

  • By Vanessa Erazo
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  • January 2, 2013 9:30 AM
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If NO gets enough votes it will be the first time a Chilean film is nominated in the Foreign Language Film category. What are Chile’s chances? To find out, we take a look back at the Latin American nominees and winners of the Best Foreign Language Film Award.

LatinoBuzz Asks Programmers: What is Your Top 5 Latino Films of 2012?

  • By Vanessa Erazo
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  • December 19, 2012 9:30 AM
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A look back at 2012 reveals an undeniable fact, it has been a great year for Latino film.

WTF is Latino at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival?

  • By Christine Davila
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  • December 5, 2012 3:30 PM
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Glad you asked. Now that the entire programming slate has been announced for the 2013 edition of the Sundance Film Festival, let’s take a look at the representation of Latinos in the broadest, most diverse sense, because that is what that ill-defined lump category encompasses. {Full disclosure: I work as a Programming Associate for the Festival. These are not reviews but an insider breaking-it-down preview}

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