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In this episode, writing and directing are discussed as deeply intimate and emotionally demanding professions.Ana Cristina Barragán is a young and prolific Ecuadorian director internationally recognized for her debut feature Alba, a film that won the Lions Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Fipresci Critics' Prize in Toulouse. Over the past ten years, she has directed several short films and two feature films that have been presented in venues such as Locarno, San Sebastian, Toronto, and Thessaloniki. In her works, she has portrayed,  in a haunting and sometimes gloomy way, intimate experiences of girls and teenagers facing death for the first time. Alba and La piel pulpo, her second feature film, were nominated for the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film.On the other hand, Sofía Quirós Ubeda is a director and screenwriter from Costa Rica based in Argentina. Her short film Selva and her debut feature...

The twelfth entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Mubi will be showing João Pedro Rodrigues's To Die Like a Man (2009) March 4 - April 2 and Two Drifters (2005) March 5 - April 3, 2016 in the United States.The concept that unifies the work of Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues (signed alone or in collaboration with João Rui Guerra da Mata) is that of shifting: a shifting of gender (in any direction from male to female, via all hybrid possibilities in-between), and of genre (romantic melodrama crossed with the fantastique, or documentary sliding over into fiction as in The Last Time I Saw Macao, 2012), even of species (confusion of human and animal realms in O Fantasma, 2000). Most gripping and beguiling of all is the director’s fondness for unexpectedly supernatural themes—all the better to blur the distinction between mortality and immortality, a key theme...

So the news for UK Twilight fans this week hasn’t been great. Monday brought the announcement that the London premiere of New Moon has been canceled. Summit will be holding the World Premiere in Los Angeles on November 16. While this is incredibly disappointing, it also brings up a question… what to do to get ready for New Moon? While it’s not a premiere, I do have an answer on how to get into the spirit. I know many fans plan to read the book again before the movie comes out, getting back to the reason we all fell in love with the saga in the first place. The Danger Magnet is hosting a New Moon discussion with a reading schedule that will run right up to November 19. If you are not familiar with The Danger Magnet’s book discussions, you are in for a real treat. Ana Cristina,...