Fundación CA and Studio C are hosting a unique workshop in La Antigua. Those who’ve ever wondered how movies like Toy Story, 300 and The Chronicles of Narnia were created can attend the Seminar in Animation Techniques. Cost: Q500 Dates: Thursday, January 28th through Saturday, January 30th. Click here to sign up. ...
Now this is art with a bold and valiant objective. ArtThreat.net reports that Cinema Politica is taking on Goliath. The release and scheduled international tour of a documentary that sheds light on grave injustices committed by the soft-drink giant in developing nations (Guatemala one of them) , has led to Coca-Cola lawyers breathing down ...
The stars from a new Guatemalan film from Codice Cinema have one thing in common: they’re all young. The entire crew, actors and production, of Codice Cinema’s feature film Sol is reportedly the youngest in Guatemalan film history. “Codice Cinema has completed this feature film with production crew that is indisputably the youngest in the country ...
The Latin American film industry is seeing renewed interest and talent. Best Picture System – a new film production company with members from around the region, including La Antigua Guatemala – will soon be releasing it’s first feature film: Puro Mula. Global Voices correspondent Renata Avila reports that Puro Mula has already received international recognition: A ...
El Sitio is presenting The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona 2007) Thursday night. The terror film from Spain will be shown at 6pm in Spanish with English subtitles: The former orphan Laura raises her adopted son Simón with her husband Carlos in an old house and former orphanage where she was raised. Simón is HIV positive ...
The Bagel Barn will be offering a free showing of a Guatemalan film today at 7:00pm. When the Mountains Tremble (Newton Thomas Sigel, Pamela Yates 1983) is “a documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with firsthand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.” During the showing, viewers can munch ...
Learn what it’s like to report as a journalist in the midst of a guerilla war at El Sitio Proyecto Cultural tonight. The weekly showing at one of LAG’s most involved cultural centers is Oliver Stone’s Salvador (1986), A journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of ...
The cultural activities of Fiestas de Octubre continue. This afternoon, Cielos Lounge is hosting Short films Ícaro 2009 (Parte II). The films begin at 4:00 pm. Later in the evening, move to the reggae beat during a live concert performed by Riddim 501. The concert begins at 10:00 pm. ...
Year 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the local NGO Camino Seguro. The organization is celebrating 10 years of helping children living in the city dump in Guatemala City with a presentation of its Imagine the Future documentary. The Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española is hosting the presentation in La Antigua Guatemala. Safe Passage ...
Colegio Mayor de Santo Tomás will be showing a free film this morning. Corresponsal de Guerra honors Manuel José Arce and recounts his exile in France. The film was directed by Armand Gatti and is presented by Rudy Cotton. The movie begins at 11 am. ...
Fiestas de Octubre is celebrating Guatemalan cinema with an exhibition of 90 short films this afternoon. The “cortometrajes Guatemaltecos” will be showing from 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm at Cielos Lounge Bar. ...
This week’s feature film at El Sitio Proyecto Cultural is the 1965 classic Doctor Zhivago (David Lean): Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother’s lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can’t compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who also ...
Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga 2009) deals with the reality of arms and violence in Central America as residents searching for a different life migrate to the USA. Honduran teenager Sayra reunites with her father, an opportunity for her to potentially realize her dream of a life in the U.S. Moving to Mexico is the first step ...
Tonight’s free film showing at the Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española in La Antigua Guatemala is a Spanish film from the early 90s: La Ardilla Roja (Julio Medem 1993). Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the ...
This week’s free film showing at the Centro de Formación de la Cooperación de Española is a Spanish work from Ventura Pons. Amor Idiota will begin at 6:00 pm: Revolves around a young man named Pere-Lluc, how is determined not to take himself too seriously. Pere-Lluc is prone to commenting on his life in a skeptical, ...