• Pablo Escoto
    Since RUINAS TU REINO premiered in 2017 at FICUNAM, in Mexico, where it won the main prize for Mexican cinema, I have exchanged a number of emails with Pablo Escoto. We began by quoting and discussing the conversation that Pablo...
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  • Redefining Women: The Films of Laura Huertas Millán
    In Colombian filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán’s short, La Libertad (2017), the image of colorful yarns repeatedly crosses the screen. The yarns are part of a pre-Hispanic weaving technique, introduced by indigenous peoples, and still practiced by Mexican women. The yarns...
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  • Affonso Uchoa
    “Beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella.” – Comte de Lautréamont, via Affonso Uchoa Interview with Affonso Uchoa, director of The Hidden Tiger, and Arábia (voted one of the best films of 2017, Sight &...
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