Friday, August 11, 2017

16 Latino Submissions for the Academy Awards® 2017

By José Alberto Hermosillo,
This year, many great films from all over the world submit for consideration in the Best Foreign Language Film category, a record number of 85 films had the requisites to claim one Oscar.

Notably, 2017 is not a good year for the Latino productions. Most of those submissions have no possibilities to compete with the European productions in contention. 
The list of best foreign films includes legendary directors and some favorites to get a nomination. Paul Verhoeven for "Elle" representing France. Oscar winner Iranian director Asghar Farhadi for "The Salesman." Xavier Dolan for "It's Only the End of the World" from Canada, and the German festival sensation "Tony Erdmann," or the Swiss animation "My Life as a Zucchini."
The Latino-American countries have to learn what kind of movies the Academy is looking for, to choose better and more competitive films. 

We need to have those films screening in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, where the members of the Academy are. Also, they need to invite more press to review our films and meet the filmmakers. Still, a lot of work to do to reach Universality for Latino films

What is important is that the Latino Submissions have to be watched by more Academy members and also by the Latino community, just to appreciate the excellent representation of the Latino culture in films. 

The Latino submissions are hard to catch at regular movie theaters, but we have to watch them somehow.  

ARGENTINA
THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN/ 
El ciudadano ilustre
Dir. Gastón Duprat and
Mariano Cohn,
Spanish.














BOLIVIA
SEALED CARGO/
Carga Sellada
Dir. Julia Vargas-Weise,
Spanish.

















BRAZIL
SMALL SECRET/
Pequeno segredo
Dir. David Schurmann,
Portuguese.




















CHILE
Dir. Pablo Larrain,
Spanish.






















COLOMBIA
ALIAS MARIA/
Alias María
Dir. José Luis Rugeles Gracia,
Spanish.




















COSTA RICA
ABOUT US/
Entonces Nosotros
Dir. Hernan Jimenez
Spanish.
























CUBA
THE COMPANION/
El acompañante 
Dir. Pavel Giroud,
Spanish.




















DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
FLOR DE AZÚCAR/
Sugar Flower
Dir. Fernando Baez Mella,
Spanish.





















ECUADOR
SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS
Sin muertos no hay carnaval
Dir. Sebastián Cordero,
Spanish.



MEXICO
DESIERTO
Dir. Jonás Cuarón,
Spanish, English.




















PANAMA
SALSIPUEDES
Dir. Ricardo Aguilar Navarro and
Manuel Rodríquez,
Spanish.
PERU
VIDEOPHILLIA (AND OTHER VIRAL SYNDROMES).
Dir. Juan Daniel Frenández,
Spanish, English.




















PORTUGAL
LETTERS FROM WAR
Dir. Ivo M. Ferreira,
Portuguese.






















SPAIN
JULIETA
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar,
Spanish.
URUGUAY
BREADCRUMBS/
Migas de pan
Dir. Manane Rodriguez,
Spanish.


















VENEZUELA
Dir. Lorenzo Vigas,
Spanish.

 


















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