We are pleased to announce that Chavela won the Golden Athena award for best music documentary in the 23rd Athens International Film Festival held from September 20th to October 1st. The American, Mexican, and Spanish co-production was co-directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi and portray the life of the famous Mexican singer. Congratulations! Click…
The drama series SOUTH has been selected to present its pitch in this year “COPRO SERIES”. This debut of Portuguese director Ivo M. Ferreira will also have the opportunity to meet with interested partners to talk in concrete terms about a possible collaboration. In this project , a rather socially inept detective in a heat and crisis…
KILLING JESUS, winner of four prizes in the 65th San Sebastian Film Festival: – Special Mention of the Jury – New Directors – EROSKI Youth Audience Award – SIGNIS Special Prize of the Jury – FEDEORA Award The film had its first screening on Thursday with a magnificent acclaim from the audience and a successful Q&A with the director…
Killing Jesus, directed by Laura Mora, WINNER of the Cine Latino Award for Best Ibero-American Film in the 29th annual Palm Spring Film Festival. The film will be shown today on the Best of the Fest screenings, which shows 180 films from 77 countries. The Colombia-Argentina co-production follows Paula, who witnesses her social activist father’s assassination, the inept, uncaring…
The jury of the Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival decided to award THE LAST SUIT with the prize for Best Feature in the International Competition. Congratulations to all the cast and crew for making a picture full of humanity and emotion. «For its cinematic achievement, inspirational message and the outstanding performance of the main actor» (Miguel Ángel Solá). Exploring themes…
As every year, VARIETY has made its predictions of which might be the nominees for the 90th Academy Awards. In this occasion a mention is made for “Birdboy: The Forgotten Children” to be consider in the Animated Feature Film category. The Spanish film co-directed by Alberto Vazquez and Pedro Rivero took the award for Best Animated Feature in…
Three films from the Latido family are nominated in the 32nd edition of the Goya Awards to be held on February 3rd 2018. We congratulate the cast and crew of each film for their outstanding work worthy of many more recognitions. Here we listed our nominees: DANCING BEETHOVEN (more info) Best Documentary RESCUE UNDER FIRE (more…
After winning the Audience Awards in Seattle and Washington DC, AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL continues to demostrate that it’s an attractive film winning the AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD in the CINE LATINO MINNEAPOLIS SAINT PAUL FILM FESTIVAL 2017. «From his wheel chair, Joaquin discovers that his neighbors are digging a tunnel to rob the bank next to his apartment….
Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora won The Silver Pyramid, the Special Award for the Best Director for her film KILLING JESUS in the 39th edition of the CAIRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. The film also won the FIPRESCI jury prize, awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics. This young director is making a notable tour of festivals with this film that…
“Rajko Grlić’s latest film THE CONSTITUTION is excellent, profound and moving. Set in a building where the political tensions of former Yugoslavia are played out with a mixture of hatred, good grace, solidarity and bigotry. An intelligent movie that must be seen.” The film written by Rajko Grlic and his friend Ante Tomić tells a story where…
After Chavela’s death in 2012, Catherine Gund discovered she had a unique footage material of insightful interviews with the singer when she met her in 1992. This shapes the documentary where the woman and legend talks about her career and her philosophy of life. “A justifiably laudatory love letter to a woman whose voice drew forth…
KILLING JESUS has won the Roger Ebert Award in the Chicago International Film Festival. The film will be presented again as a part of Best of the Fest on Wednesday October 25. Laura Mora’s film has been selected as the richest example of a quality Roger Ebert treasured in cinema. The story follows Paula who…
We are very proud to announce that THE GREAT MYSTICAL CIRCUS by Carlos Diegues is the Brazilian Candidate for the Academy Awards 2019. Produced by LUZ MÁGICA (Brazil), FADO FILMES (Portugal) and MILONGA PRODUCTIONS (France), directed by the three times selected in Cannes Official Selection creator Cacá Diegues, the film is a celebration of magic, entertainment and cinema. THE GREAT MYSTICAL CIRCUS is inspired…
We are pleased to announce the CARTOON MOVIE decision to nominate LATIDO FILMS for the 2018 CARTOON MOVIE TRIBUTES in the category “European Distributor/Sales of the Year”. Cartoon Movie Tributes rewards the outstanding achievements that have had a positive and dynamic influence and contribution to the development of European animation over the last year. All professionals attending the Cartoon Movie will vote…
Latido is bringing onto the Toronto market “The Weasels,” the first live-action film from Argentina’s Juan José Campanella since he won a foreign-language Oscar for “The Secret in Their Eyes” in 2010. Campanella had said of “The Weasels” that it continually counterpoints and flows between suspense, drama, comedy and romance. “The Secret in their Eyes”…
«SOUTH», Latido’s latest TV Series adquisition is making its appearance today, February. 21 at the CoPro Series, part of the 2018 Berlinale Co-Production Market. The thriller is directed by IVO M. FERREIRA (“Letters From War”: Portugal’s entry in the race for the 2017 Academy Awards) and produced by Edgar Medina’s Arquipélago Filmes. “We have placed a crime noir fiction in the most exciting…
CHAMPIONS, the Spanish Box Office of the year, has been selected to compete for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 Oscars! The news came up this morning, the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences chose CHAMPIONS to represent Spain for this great Ceremony. What an honour, congratulations to all of them! The film…
During Berlinale, Marysia Nikitiuk and Igor Savychenko had the opportunity to talk with Variety about «WHEN THE TREES FALL» which participates this year in the Panorama Programme «Marysia Nikitiuk has delivered a genre-blender, a coming-of-age tale laced with a local mob sub-plot, vignettes of misery, in country and city alike and a magic realism» Nikitiuk talk about her experience…
It’s a combo, CARMEN Y LOLA, MIRIAM LIES and THE REALM are all selected in three different categories of the BFI Film Festival: respectively the Love Section, the Journey Section and the Thrill Section. Good luck to all of them! Here is a short reminder to what these features are about: CARMEN Y LOLA Carmen…
The last documentary by José Luis López-Linares has been selected in this year’s Culinary section of San Sebastian Film Festival, which is dedicated to reveal films that associate cinema and food. A beautiful occasion for the director to show his passion for gastronomy. This time, José Luis López-Linares leads us to the world of the…
