Photo Courtesy of GUADALAJARA FILM FESTIVAL
Five films, each in the final stages of post-production, have been selected to participate in Guadalajara Goes to Cannes, the works in progress partnership between the Cannes Film Market and Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG)
Photo Courtesy: LUIS GERARDO MÉNDEZ
Six Mexican films featured at November’s Los Cabos in Progress will make the cross-Atlantic trip to participate in this year’s Cannes Film Festival Market pix-in-post initiative, Los Cabos Goes to Cannes.
It’s Prom Night in the South Bronx, and Michael is in for an evening of horror, hilarity, and hope as he decides whether or not to man up and “kick it” to his high school Crush or “punk out” and let him walk into the sunset with “some hairy wilder beast bitch.”
Ryan Coogler and Elvis Mitchell at Cannes.(Photo Courtesy of Anne Thompson)
Filmmaker Raoul Peck and Abel Makonnen Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd) were among a May 11 packed house at Cannes’ Bunuel Theatre, where critic Elvis Mitchell spent 90 minutes digging into 31-year-old Ryan Coogler’s extraordinary trilogy of missing-father-and-son films: “Fruitvale Station,” which played Un Certain Regard after debuting at Sundance, “Rocky” sequel “Creed,” and historic blockbuster “Black Panther,” which Cannes played on the beach the night before .
NALIP Announces the 14th Annual Latino Media Market Fellows
The National Association of Latino Independent Producers is proud to announce the selected group of content creators to participate in the 2018 Latino Media Market (LMM). Meetings will take place during the NALIP Media Summit at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, CA on June 22nd and June 23rd.
2018 Latino Public Broadcasting Funding Cycle – Call for Proposals
Deadline: Monday, June 4, 2018 at 5PM PST
Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) wants to hear your stories! The 2018 LPB Funding Cycle is now accepting applications for two funding initiatives, the Current Issues Fund (CIF) and the Public Media Content Fund (PMCF).
Mishel Prada, Tanya Saracho and Melissa Barrera (Photo Courtesy of Rob Latour/REX/Shutterstock)
Tanya Saracho admits there’s a bit of irony in focusing on the plight of East L.A. gentrification in her new series “Vida” — and then being accused of doing the same thing.
Image Courtesy of Variety
Fernanda Torres (Cannes best actress prize winner for “Love Me Forever or Never”) is attached to star in “The Hanged,” the second Brazilian feature of Fernando Coimbra (“A Wolf at the Door,” “Narcos”), which is set up at Brazilian shingle Gullane.
Photo Courtesy of Rex/Shutterstock
Guillermo del Toro, creator of Netflix’s Emmy-winning DreamWorks Trollhunters, is expanding his collaboration with the Internet TV network to live-action. Netflix has ordered Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight, the streaming service’s first original horror anthology series.
