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Buenos Aires — The last few years have caught Ventana Sur – Cannes Festival and Market’s biggest initiative outside France – taking place as the industry debated radical change. This year saw the Latin American industries in a state of transformation themselves, wracked by headwinds – Jair Bolsonaro’s government in Brazil – or looking to take advantage of negative scenarios, such as the Argentine peso plunge against the dollar.

But Ventana Sur is weathering these storms. Expanding from its film base into growth areas for the film industry – genre, animation, and now drama series and social media via a bolstered conference focus under co-director Ralph Haiek – Ventana Sur has evolved into an invaluable fixture in a round-the-year sales and co-production movie business, accelerating trading and expanding companies’ contact bases. Here are 12 Takeaways from a robust 2019 edition:

1.The Double Model

The rise of global platforms played out throughout Ventana Sur, in sales and announced strategic moves,...

When Princess Charlene of Monaco meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday, Catholic royal-watchers will be keeping a close eye on her clothes. What color Charlene chooses to wear during her state visit alongside Prince Albert II next week has major significance as she is one of seven women in the world that has been given "the privilege of the white" - or the ability to wear white when meeting with the pope. Called le privilége du blanc in French or il privilegio del biacno in Italian, the special tradition is extended solely to designated Catholic queens and...

When Princess Charlene of Monaco meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday, Catholic royal-watchers will be keeping a close eye on her clothes. What color Charlene chooses to wear during her state visit alongside Prince Albert II next week has major significance as she is one of seven women in the world that has been given "the privilege of the white" - or the ability to wear white when meeting with the pope. Called le privilége du blanc in French or il privilegio del biacno in Italian, the special tradition is extended solely to designated Catholic queens and...

Former Patagonik TV producer Alejandro Cacetta has been appointed head of Argentina’s national film body after the resignation of Lucrecia Cardoso.

The latter stepped down this week following the recent election of the centre-right Let’s Change party led by Mauricio Macri.

Cardoso had served less than one year at the helm of Incaa and in a statement paid tribute to the former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner and her predecessor and late husband, Néstor Kirchner.

Cacetta becomes the fifth Incaa head since 2003.

According to the Buenos Aires Herald, Argentina’s culture minister Pablo Avelluto said Cacetta’s five main goals would be to: broaden theatre audiences through innovative productions; develop multi-platform content; expedite private investment; ‘federalise’ and promote regional productions through Incaa subsidies; and take local productions to regional and global levels.

His credits as film producer include Pablo Trapero’s Carancho, White Elephant and Lion’s Den.

Former Patagonik TV producer Alejandro Cacetta has been appointed head of Argentina’s national film body after the resignation of Lucrecia Cardoso.

The latter stepped down this week following the recent election of the centre-right Let’s Change party led by Mauricio Macri.

Cardoso had served less than one year at the helm of Incaa and in a statement paid tribute to the former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner and her predecessor and late husband, Néstor Kirchner.

Cacetta becomes the fifth Incaa head since 2003.

According to the Buenos Aires Herald, Argentina’s culture minister Pablo Avelluto said Cacetta’s five main goals would be to: broaden theatre audiences through innovative productions; develop multi-platform content; expedite private investment; ‘federalise’ and promote regional productions through Incaa subsidies; and take local productions to regional and global levels.

His credits as film producer include Pablo Trapero’s Carancho, White Elephant and Lion’s Den.

Former Patagonik TV producer Alejandro Cacetta has been appointed head of Argentina’s national film body after the resignation of Lucrecia Cardoso.

The latter stepped down this week following the recent election of the centre-right Let’s Change party led by Mauricio Mauri.

Cardoso had served less than one year at the helm of Incaa and in a statement paid tribute to the former Argentine president Cristina Kirchner and her predecessor and late husband, Néstor Kirchner.

Cacetta becomes the fifth Incaa head since 2003.

According to the Buenos Aires Herald, Argentina’s culture minister Pablo Avelluto said Cacetta’s five main goals would be to: broaden theatre audiences through innovative productions; develop multi-platform content; expedite private investment; ‘federalise’ and promote regional productions through Incaa subsidies; and take local productions to regional and global levels.

His credits as film producer include Pablo Trapero’s Carancho, White Elephant and Lion’s Den.

A senior figure at Argentina’s film body has told Screendaily he does not believe the incoming centre-right government will slash arts funding.

Bernardo Bergeret, head of international affairs at Incaa (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) and co-director of the Ventana Sur market that wrapped last week in Buenos Aires, was speaking on the eve of the start of Mauricio Macri’s new term.

Victory in the national polls for the pro-business mayor of Buenos Aires on November 22 ended the 12-year rule of the left-wing, Peronist Front for Victory (FpV).

It also sparked fears among the local film industry that state funding of film and other sectors would decline.

“We will still have funding of cinema,” said Bergeret. “I don’t think there will be any big changes.”

Yet others at Ventana Sur were not so confident. Cambiemos (Let’s Change) party leader Macri ran on a platform of slashing public spending, lifting currency...

The trouser-dropping 80s stage farce finally hits the big screen with Danny Dyer, to kill off any remaining British self-respect

There's a moment in an old Goon Show where Peter Sellers sonorously says in his officer-class voice: "Old England isn't finished yet. It's finished …" [FX: dinner gong] "… now!" That gong, signalling the end of British self-respect, sounded deafeningly as the houselights dimmed for this film. Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will wish to block-book it for every cinema in Buenos Aires. It's a big-screen version of the trouser-dropping stage farce Run for Your Wife, which ran in London's West End from 1983 to 1991, adapted and directed by its author, Ray Cooney, and starring Danny Dyer as the bigamous taxi driver coping with two missuses (Denise van Outen and Sarah Harding) and a next-door neighbour (Neil Morrissey) who is cheeky, perky and, like everyone else, stunningly unfunny. The humour makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary,...

The trouser-dropping 80s stage farce finally hits the big screen with Danny Dyer, to kill off any remaining British self-respect

There's a moment in an old Goon Show where Peter Sellers sonorously says in his officer-class voice: "Old England isn't finished yet. It's finished …" [FX: dinner gong] "… now!" That gong, signalling the end of British self-respect, sounded deafeningly as the houselights dimmed for this film. Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will wish to block-book it for every cinema in Buenos Aires. It's a big-screen version of the trouser-dropping stage farce Run for Your Wife, which ran in London's West End from 1983 to 1991, adapted and directed by its author, Ray Cooney, and starring Danny Dyer as the bigamous taxi driver coping with two missuses (Denise van Outen and Sarah Harding) and a next-door neighbour (Neil Morrissey) who is cheeky, perky and, like everyone else, stunningly unfunny. The humour makes The Dick Emery Show look edgy and contemporary,...

With his latest film Savages, the acclaimed Us director turns his vision to the murderous narcotics-fuelled conflict in Mexico

A man steps across the floor of what seems to be a basement or dungeon, on a film shot by a wobbly, handheld camera. Blood, sticky underfoot, runs beneath his boots – and the camera catches what seems to be a severed head. The scene is being played on a computer screen, watched by an intense young man, transfixed. A beautiful girl looks also, over his shoulder. "Is that Iraq?", she asks, squirming at the degenerate and apparently gratuitous cruelty. "Mexico," replies the man with a grunt, clearly terrified himself. Welcome to the latest film by Hollywood's – even America's – heretic-in-chief, Oliver Stone. Unsurprisingly, this brief exchange is charged with greater meaning than it appears at first sight, and the film's director has come to elaborate.

The physical presence of Oliver Stone is...

“When history is what it should be, it is an elaboration of cinema.” —Ortega y Gasset

“The key for me is finding some rhythm of the film, not so much in the plot from a traditional sense but, rather, from its internal rhythm.” —Matías Piñeiro

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There are works of art that affect in bulk, all at once; these are the aesthetic experiences that unify, that impose boundaries on the license of eye and ear. Other works of art achieve a dissociated and dissociating stylistic program; these are the works that cannot be experienced or understood as feats of synthesis, or as products of a single point of view.

While much of the art of the past century might be described as an effort toward a radical disaffiliation of elements—word and image, depth and surface, form and content—awareness of a quarrelsome relationship between two presumably incompatible ways of making...

Piers Morgan may be a huge enough fan of America to move here and dedicate the last segment of his program every night to something great about it, but when the sovereignty of the United Kingdom is insulted, he takes up the line of attack. Tonight, Sean Penn, who has newly rechristened himself as some sort of Latin American populist advocate, learned this first-hand as he defended comments against Prince William for visiting the Falkland Islands on a military mission after Argentine president Cristina Kirchner threatened to take action to take the islands back.

HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Week” is Sean Penn.

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Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain and Brad Pitt - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "The Tree of Live" Premiere - Arrivals - Palais des Festivals - Cannes, France

This year, the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates at their World Summit will recognize a high-profile personality making an outstanding contribution to international social justice and peace. Sean Penn is that person. Sean is an actor, founder and CEO of J/P Haitian Relief Organization, and will be presented with the 2012 Peace Summit Award during the summit for his work to rebuild and aid the victims of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, as well as his ongoing advocacy for peace and human rights protection worldwide.

Penn has been...

Of course celebrities can be ill-informed or stupid. But we should laugh at what they're saying, not that they're saying it at all

Sean Penn has been sounding off again. "Last year I went to Iraq," he told an interviewer. "It was a happy place. They had flowery meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children danced and laughed and played with gumdrop smiles."

Oh no, silly me, that wasn't the real Sean Penn, that was his puppet from Team America: World Police. In truth, the Hollywood star met Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in Buenos Aires and said: "It's necessary that these diplomatic talks happen between the United Kingdom and Argentina. I think that the world today is not going to tolerate any kind of ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology."

Cue the inevitable outburst of anger, outrage and mockery from patriotic Brits,...

UK insensitive to deploy prince in disputed south Atlantic territory, says Penn in follow-up to criticism of British presence

Hollywood actor Sean Penn, fresh from branding Britain's presence in the Falklands "colonialist, ludicrous and archaic", has criticised Prince William's deployment to the islands.

Less than 24 hours after he criticised Britain over the Falklands during a visit to Buenos Aires to see the Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Penn accused the UK of "insensitivity" for posting the heir to the throne to the disputed south Atlantic territory.

Penn accused the UK government of geopolitical grandstanding after a meeting with Uruguayan president Jose Mujica in Montevideo, a visit undertaken as part of Penn's role as ambassador at large for Haiti. The presence of Prince William in the Falklands was an act of provocation, he suggested.

"It's unthinkable that the United Kingdom can make a conscious decision to deploy a prince...

The actor has said the Falklands belong to Argentina

Age: 51

Appearance: car salesman after a lost weekend in Vegas.

Occupation: actor, screenwriter, director...

Oh, yeah. I know who you mean … journalist, activist, humanitarian …

He gets around, doesn't he?... Haitian ambassador-at-large, scourge of the colonialist British ...

I don't recall hearing about those last two. It was in his role as the former – the Haitian president appointed him a few weeks ago – that Penn met Argentinian president Cristina Kirchner, and afterwards made a statement about the "Malvinas Islands of Argentina".

The where now? He means the Falklands.

Uh-oh. What did he say? He urged Britain to join Un talks on the future of the islands, saying the world "is not going to tolerate any kind of ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology".

Who's colonising? Weren't the Falklands originally empty? Yes, but ownership has been disputed, with varying levels of enthusiasm, for centuries.

Actor meets Argentinian president and says world cannot tolerate 'archaic commitment to colonialist ideology'

The actor Sean Penn has weighed into the Falklands dispute, urging Britain to join Un-sponsored talks over what he called "the Malvinas Islands of Argentina".

Penn met Argentina's president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in Buenos Aires and said: "It's necessary that these diplomatic talks happen between the United Kingdom and Argentina. I think that the world today is not going to tolerate any kind of ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology."

Last week British officials dismissed claims it was "militarising" the situation in the south Atlantic by deploying nuclear weapons nearby. Argentina said it had intelligence that a Vanguard submarine had been sent to the area, and demanded to know whether it was carrying warheads.

"Thus far the UK refuses to say whether it is true or not," said the foreign minister, Héctor Timerman. "Are...

Sean Penn has waded into the debate over the Falkland Islands by backing Argentina and accusing the British government of "ridiculous colonialism".

The outspoken Oscar-winner met with Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires to offer his support in the sovereignty dispute.

Using the South Atlantic islands' Spanish name, he urged British officials to enter into negotiations with Argentina as the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War approaches.

He says, "I know I came at a very sensitive moment in terms of diplomacy between Argentina and the U.K. over the Malvinas.

"I hope that diplomats can establish true dialogue in order to solve the conflict.

"The world today cannot tolerate ridiculous demonstrations of colonialism. The way of dialogue is the only way to achieve a better solution for both nations...

"It's necessary that these diplomatic talks happen between the United Kingdom and Argentina. I think that the world today is not going to tolerate any kind of ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology."

Both countries' governments claim responsibility for the Falkland Islands.

Outspoken Oscar-winner Sean Penn has accused UK authorities of "ridiculous colonialism" and backed Argentina in the Falklands dispute.

The Hollywood actor blasted the British government as he met with Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner to discuss rising tensions over the South Atlantic islands.

Using the Falkland Islands' Spanish name, he claimed Britain should negotiate a deal and end its "demonstrations of colonialism".

He said: "I know I came at a very sensitive moment in terms of diplomacy between Argentina and the UK over the Malvinas.

"I hope that diplomats can establish true dialogue in order to solve the conflict.

"The world today cannot tolerate ridiculous demonstrations of colonialism. The way of dialogue is the only way to achieve a better solution for both nations."

Prime Minister David Cameron is backing a plan to allow the islanders to decide who they want to be ruled by.

He recently said: "As long as...

Oliver Stone's entertaining study of South America's socialist "revolution" South of the Border shows he's more Alan Partridge than Walter Cronkite. By Steve Rose

Oliver Stone's study of South America's socialist "revolution" is unashamedly partisan and unintentionally hilarious – both of which make it highly watchable. Full credit to the director for correcting the view perpetrated by the Us media: that the continent's new leftist presidents, particularly Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and Bolivia's Evo Morales, are "dictators" bent on America's destruction, rather than democratically elected leaders wresting their countries from the control of the Us and the International Monetary Fund. The case is forcefully presented, with the assistance of co-writer Tariq Ali. But having established the culpability of the media in this skewed perception, Stone goes on to shoot himself in the foot with a series of clumsy, sycophantic interviews. He thinks he's being Walter Cronkite but he's more Alan Partridge.

Director Oliver Stone and writer Tariq Ali talk about their new documentary, South of the Border, and tell us how they got involved with the project and the experience of getting it made. Plus, Stone talks about spending time with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and what taste he has in films.

There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon...

Director Oliver Stone and writer Tariq Ali talk about their new documentary, South of the Border, and tell us how they got involved with the project and the experience of getting it made. Plus, Stone talks about spending time with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and what taste he has in films.

There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon...

HollywoodNews.com: It’s the 3rd round of what could turn out to be a 12 round fight between filmmaker Oliver Stone, and Leopoldo Lopez, Venezuela’s most prominent opposition leader. He is the architect of a powerful new movement that promises to unite Venezuelans behind an alternative vision of democracy, free enterprise, and social change. The 38-year-old Harvard educated leader is the face of a new future for Venezuela: Democratic, inclusive, and solution-oriented.

The Associated Press calls Lopez “the man who is challenging President Hugo Chavez’s grip on power.” According to the “Washington Post,” he “represents a fresh generation” of Venezuelan leaders. “Caracas Chronicles” calls him “an early front-runner for the 2012 opposition Presidential nomination.”

Lopez was mayor of Chacao from 2000 to 2008. He won Transparency International’s Award for the most transparent municipality in Venezuela. In 2009 he founded Voluntad Popular, a social organization with the goal of promoting democracy and human rights.

Hugo Chavez, Oliver Stone, South of the Border The letter below was posted at the Center for Economic Policy and Research‘s website under the heading "Oliver Stone Responds to Attack from the New York Times‘ Larry Rohter." Rohter’s original piece on Stone’s just released (via Cinema Libre) South of the Border, "Oliver Stone’s Latin America," can be found here. South of the Border‘s chief focus is Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, but it also features interviews with several South American presidents, among them Argentina’s Cristina Kirchner, Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo, and Brazil’s Luiz Inacio da Silva, in addition to Cuban leader Raul Castro. Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali are South of the Border‘s screenwriters. More on the Rohter vs. Stone issue here. Oliver Stone, Mark Weisbrot, Tariq Ali Letter to the New York Times, June 27, 2010 Larry Rohter attacks our film, “South of the Border,...

Knight and Day I've reviewed it and I mentioned it again yesterday so I think you know where I stand, but if you don't... go see it, it's fun.

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Grown Ups This week has been a busy one and it got to a point Wednesday night where it was either go see Grown Ups or sit at home and relax for a couple of hours. Considering I don't have a review for this one online I think you know what my decision was.

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Dogtooth I just finished watching this only a few hours ago and will...

Before American audiences can get their greedy eyes on Oliver Stone's long-anticipated sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" this fall, the three-time Oscar winner will release an even more politically minded film, if you don't mind Hugo Chávez standing in for Shia Labeouf. As genial as it is revealing, "South of the Border" sees Stone on a road trip in the titular direction, conducting humanizing interviews with presidents who -- as is the refuting point of Stone's doc -- have been unfairly maligned by the American government and media.

Stone gets up close and personal with the aforementioned Venezuelan leader, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Brazil's Lula da Silva, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Argentina's Cristina Kirchner (and her husband, ex-President Nėstor Kirchner) and, most predictably from the director of "Comandante" and "Looking for Fidel," Cuban top dog Raúl Castro.

Stone mentioned to me that the film was partly shot...

Oliver Stone has demonstrated his South American left-wing sympathies since his 3rd film, 1986’s Salvador – a drama about an American journalist (played by James Woods, who was also nominated for his performance by the Academy) in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war.

So, him making a documentary titled South Of The Border, about South America’s political and social movements, shouldn’t be a surprise.

Shot across five countries, Stone’s reported intent with the film is to challenge North American mainstream media misperceptions of South America, via personal interviews with seven of its elected presidents, including Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba).

Stone gained “unprecedented access” to each president and region, in making the documentary, which is said to shed new light on the “exciting” transformations in South America.

Indie distribution company,...

Cinema Libre Studio acquired the North American rights to South of the Border, the documentary from Oliver Stone, which chronicles his travels to South America in the winter of 2009, and his conversations along the way with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Néstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba). The film premiered at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, then screened at the New York Film Festival.  Cinema Libre will premiere ...

I smell controversy. In his latest project, Oliver Stone travels from the Caribbean down to the Andes while examining the failed effort to push Us free-market policies upon Latin America. In South of the Border Stone specifically focuses on Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez and the opposition he faces worldwide. Chavez isn.t the only Latin American leader in this documentary. Stone chats with a number of others including Evo Morales of Bolivia, Cristina Kirchner of Argentina, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Raul Castro of Cuba, and Lula da Silva of Brazil all who expressed concerns over being considered equals with the Us. The big question surrounding this film is whether or not Stone can convince audiences Chavez really isn.t as bad as he.s made out to be. South of the Border will premiere this week at the Venice Film Festival but has yet to acquire domestic distribution. For now,...