Director Miguel Angel Ferrer (deMonica) explores the psychologically damaging aspects of guilt in his new film Culpa (Guilt) premiering on HBO MAX on October 1st. Ferrer who immigrated to the United States in 1996, is one of the most sought after Latinx directors in Hollywood today. Full Text -> EINPressWire

El director Miguel Angel Ferrer (deMonica) explora los aspectos psicológicamente dañinos de la culpa en su nueva película Culpa (Guilt) que se estrenará en HBO MAX el 1 de octubre. Ferrer, quien emigró a los Estados Unidos en 1996, es uno de los directores latinos más buscados en Hollywood en la actualidad.

When it comes to the media, people in Venezuela don’t really have to get Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max,  or even go to movie theaters anymore. You can just turn on your TV, find a public TV station and who knows, you may watch the recently premiered (and copyrighted) Pixar movie Soul, as it just happened on March, 19th. By Victor Cuotto. Full Text -> CaracasChronicles

One documentary garnering a lot of attention is “A La Calle,” directed by Venezuelan-American Nelson G. Navarrete and Colombian-American Maxx Caicedo. Emotional and timely, the film is about the current political and economic tailspin that Venezuela has experienced since Hugo Chávez took power in 1999, followed by Nicolás Maduro in 2013. As described by WLRN, “‘A La Calle’ examines in compelling detail Venezuelans’ struggle against their dictatorial socialist regime and brutal economic collapse. It opens with a harrowing scene of Venezuelan security forces firing on unarmed protesters in Caracas – but it closes with more optimistic images of opposition leader Juan Guaidó confronting the regime.” By Rachel Levy. Full Text ->BocaRatonObserver

Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez just can’t say no to Jennifer Garner so he’s ventured into his first-ever comedy role in Yes Day, which premieres on Netflix this March 12 The 43-year-old actor has only done serious roles before. He’s best-known for playing controversial, tragic, larger-than-life characters — from the late designer Gianni Versace in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, terrorist Carlos the Jackal in Oliver Assayas’ Carlos, to legendary boxer Roberto Duran in Hands of Stone. Movie fans have seen him as a CIA operative (Zero Dark Thirty), CIA assassin (The Bourne Ultimatum) and most recently, a relentless detective in the Nicole Kidman whodunit series The Undoing. By Nathalie Tomada. Full Text -> The Philippine Star

In Congo Mirador, the houses are leaving. They move away, carried by the water, with their furniture, their utensils and their occupants, and with them their stories. It sounds like a story, but it is a true story. And it is concerned with « Once upon a time in Venezuela, Congo Mirador », an emotional documentary that narrates the daily life of the inhabitants of this « town of water » that is disappearing. Full Text -> Explica

A sleeper hit at Sundance, the sublimely disturbing Once Upon A Time In Venezuela has been taken under wing by the Topic streaming service and forwarded as the troubled nation’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature. Although it speaks very directly to the moment, Anbabel Rodriguez Rios’ documentary simultaneously gives off unmistakable airs of the eternal in the way it pointedly yet serenely presents the slow-motion crisis of a poor, aquatic-based community on the brink of extinction. The things of life — family, nature, the environment, education, politics — all figure prominently in the mix to create an indelible picture of a literal backwater facing devastation. It’s both a striking and deeply sorrowful work. By Todd McCarthy. Full Text -> Deadline

The film, which explores the decline of the Venezuelan fishing village of Congo Mirador and, more broadly, the country’s complicated current political and social climate, made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. It is Venezuela’s 2021 Academy Award submission for best international feature film, and was shortlisted for the 2020 IDA Documentary Awards. Topic plans an aggressive Oscar push for both documentary and foreign categories. By Leo Barracloug. Full Text ->Variety

Journalism + Media alumna Milagros Rosales ’09, better known as “Mili,” tells the story of Vanessa Rubio, a ballet dancer and creator of one of the last standing ballet schools in Venezuela in the all-Spanish documentary The Ballerina. Inspired by Rubio and her journey, Rosales and her husband, Alejandro Gonzalez, set out to tell the tale of just how Rubio became a ballerina and managed to open her own school, despite the many ups and downs she’s faced throughout her life and an overall lack of appreciation and support for the arts and ballet in Venezuela. By Tatianna Basanta. Full Text and Video -> FIUNews

The Jonathan Jakubowicz-directed World War II film, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau, who was a member of the French Resistance, will mark the first time a film that explores the Holocaust will screen in the Kingdom. Full text -> Arab News

Anabel Rodríguez Ríos’s documentary about tension in the small village of Congo Mirador is both singular and specific. By Matt Cipolla. Full text -> The Spool