Tag: Ilse Salas

Netflix Mexico: New Films by Maite Alberdi, Alonso Ruizpalacios & Gabriel Ripstein in the Works

Netflix is banking on auteur filmmakers for a slew Mexico-based and financed projects. Among the notable filmmakers we find Chilean filmmaker (The Mole Agent...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #100. Abner Benaim’s Plaza Catedral

Plaza Catedral Panama’s Abner Benaim’s sophomore narrative feature Plaza Catedral is a dramatic thriller featuring actress Ilse Salas (Gueros; Cantinflas) and Manolo Cardona (“Narcos”). Newcomer...

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Abner Benaim’s Plaza Catedral

Attempting to guess the less than a dozen titles in Sundance's World Dramatic comp section is a true crapshoot but seeing that Panamanian filmmaker...

Video Interview: Alejandra Márquez Abella – The Good Girls

Following her debut film Semana Santa (also a TIFF selection in 2015), which deals with the absence of a boy's father, Alejandra Márquez Abella...

Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Good Girls

Her feature debut Semana Santa was selected for the 2015 edition of TIFF, and so it was a special homecoming of sorts for her...

Güeros | Review

Like it’s 1999: Ruizpalacios’ Sprightly Directorial Debut There’s something in the air of Alonso Ruizpalacios’ directorial debut, Güeros, a beautifully shot period piece examining a...

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