By Benjamín Harguindey The president of the Argentinian INCAA Film Institute, Lucrecia Cardoso, has recently created a specific kind of funding for horror movie production in Argentina. A call for applications will launch shortly, after which two projects will be selected by the state for financing. Recent genre pieces include vampire movie Darkness by Day (2013), … Continue reading
By Benjamín Harguindey The Ardor (El Ardor) spawns from Argentina’s National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and Brazil’s National Cinema Agency (ANCINE) renewed Film/Audiovisual Co-production Agreement, which produces two movies a year since 2011. The director is Argentinian Pablo Fendrik, whose Blood Appears (La sangre brota) won at the 61° Cannes Film Festival … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey The 2014 Cannes Film Festival (May 14 – May 25) offered a handsome spotlight to the 4 Argentinian movies selected for the official competition: Palm d’Or nominee Wild Tales (directed by Damián Szifron), Pablo Fendrik’s period Western The Ardor, FIPRESCI Prize winner Jauja (directed by Lisandro Alonso and starring Viggo … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey The 16th Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) was given official closure this Saturday 12th in the Centro Cultural Recoleta at midday, and as always Ministry of Culture Hernán Lombardi reflected on the past twelve days of “the great celebration of Latin American cinema” alongside festival director Marcelo Panozzo. … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey This Thursday the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) program was revealed at a press conference in Centro Cultural Recoleta. The 16th BAFICI boasts over 400 films from all over the world and will take place from April 2nd to 13th, with movies competing in the International (18 films), … Continue reading
By contibuting blogger Benjamín Harguindey SXSW Music, Film and Interactive 2014 will kick off in Austin, Texas on March 7th, and Argentina will be present as part of the SXSW® Film Conference & Festival section since day one. On March 7th SXSW Film will screen the indie Argentine movie The Desert, “a doomed story of … Continue reading
by contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey The new edition of Latin American film market Ventana Sur (“Southern Window”) was inaugurated Tuesday 3rd at the Universidad Católica Argentina in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires. This is the 5th edition of the film market created by INCAA (National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts) and the Marché du Film/Festival … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey The 28th Mar del Plata International Film Festival was given closure this Saturday during a ceremony held at the Auditorium Theater where the winners for both the official and unofficial awards were announced. The Festival this year held a record of 100,000 moviegoers from all over the world, with over … Continue reading
By contributing blogger Benjamín Harguindey There is exactly one grade-A international film festival in all of Latin America, and that is the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. The festival goes as far back as 1954 and is a regular source of pride to Argentinians as the most ancient and prestigious of its kind. The … Continue reading
Adolfo Aristarain, the highlighted director of the 2013 BAFICI, sits down with blogger Benjamin Harguindey and explains that Argentina now gives more money to a movie than Spain, and why he never watches his own movies. Continue reading
Filming in Argentina: The blog of San Telmo Productions 