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http://www.santiagotimes.cl/culture/films/23713-chilean-film-industrys-first-western-to-open-in-may WRITTEN BY STRUAN CAMPBELL GRAY Director Diego Rougier’s ‘Sal’ takes a parodic plunge into the shoot-em-up genre. Despite the “Gaucho” cowboy culture of Chile’s central grasslands, swinging saloon doors, cactuses, and gun belts remain relatively uncommon iconography in Chilean cinema. That absence will soon change. “Sal,” a 2011 film directed by Diego Rougier and [...]

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/world/chile-abroad/23537 After its unprecedented success at Sundance, the Chilean film industry received more international praise last Friday with a shower of accolades in Guadalajara and Miami. 4 Chilean films return victorious from the most important event in Latin American cinema. After its unprecedented success at Sundance, the Chilean film industry received more international praise last Friday with [...]

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/culture/22185-colombias-film-industry-becomes-force-to-be-reckoned-with.html ADRIAAN ALSEMA Colombia‘s film production hits a record high as the country’s film industry is named as the forth biggest Spanish-language film industry in the world after Spain, Mexico and Brazil. Speaking from this year’s Berlinale, Claudia Triana de Vargas — director of ProImangenes Colombia, the main funding body for Colombian-made films — said [...]

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/colombia/111123/bogota-latin-american-film-private-equity A dynamic investment house finds a way to bankroll up-and-coming talent. Taylor Barnes BOGOTA, Colombia — In high school, Rodrigo Guerrero managed to persuade his teacher to let him make videos instead of turning in written papers. “It was more entertaining,” he said. Now, the 36-year-old convinces investors to fund his cinematic ventures. Guerrero, [...]

http://www.endeavor.org/blog/entrepreneur-film-colombia JUSTINE HART The Globe and Mail recently profiled Endeavor Entrepreneur Rodrigo Guerrero Rojas, one of the founders of Dynamo Capital. In the interview, Rodrigo recalls the moment he was inspired to start his venture, visiting the Cinecitta film studio in Rome as a high school student: “It was there that it hit me,” he remembers. “I thought, [...]

http://blogs.indiewire.com/anthony/archives/2011/09/02/growing_buenos_aires_film_industry_delivers_fuck_you_to_hollywood/ On the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, which is hosting a special sidebar devoted to Buenos Aires-made cinema, the Argentine capital’s burgeoning film industry is trying to make it harder for Hollywood films to take over their local screens. Home to some of my favorite filmmakers—namely, Lucrecia Martel and Pablo Trapero (pictured)—the [...]