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How Don Adalberto Got his Groove Back
Posted Aug 1st 2010 at 06:24 PM by Nuria Net
Hold on to principles or give in to the times? Keep your mustache neatly trimmed or have some sense of humor? In 'Matter of Principles' ('Cuestión de Principios'), which showed at the New York International Latino Film Festival, director Rodrigo Grande brings us the tale of Adalberto Castilla (Federico Luppi, the regal gentleman of Argentine cinema), an elderly man who has worked in ...
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Snatched Dreams, Undeterred Hopes
Posted Aug 1st 2010 at 10:07 AM by Nuria Net
Their fridges and stomachs might be empty, but they have babies and dreams to feed. It's a world where teachers don't show up, mother figures don't exist, and prostitution is a way of getting by. But at 17 years old, at least for tonight, all they're thinking is going out dancing – for fun, but also for cash. 'Sonhos Roubados' ('Stolen Dreams') is not a tragic tale of survival in the ...
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Sueños robados, pero no su coraza
Posted Aug 1st 2010 at 10:02 AM by Nuria Net
Sus neveras y estómagos están vacíos, pero tienen bebés y sueños que alimentar. Es un mundo donde los maestros no se presentan al colegio, figuras maternas no existen y la prostitución es una manera de salir adelante. Pero si tienes 17 años, esta noche sólo te importa salir a bailar – para divertirte, y para cobrar. 'Sonhos Roubados' ...
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50 Cent takes his 'Gun' to the NYILFF
Posted Jul 31st 2010 at 11:12 PM by Equipo Celestrellas
Rapper 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, premiered on Friday his new movie, 'Gun', which he also wrote, at the New York International Latino Film Festival. This fast-action thriller has 50 playing a charismatic runner reconnecting with his old friend, ex-con Angel, played by Val Kilmer, and their intent on making one final, big score and then, leave the business. But it's easier said than ...
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Jaime Camil premieres 'Regresa' at the New York International Latino Film Festival
Posted Jul 31st 2010 at 11:04 PM by Equipo Celestrellas
'Regresa' is a film directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Padilla, starring Jaime Camil and Blanca Soto. It premiered during the Winter in Mexico and is now arriving in the U.S., by being featured at the New York International Latino Film Festival. It tells the story of a conflicted marriage because the husband won't decide to have a baby, against his wife's will. She thinks he's having an affair, so ...
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Jaime Camil estrena 'Regresa' en el NYILFF
Posted Jul 31st 2010 at 10:51 PM by Equipo Celestrellas
'Regresa' es una película dirigida por Alejandro González Padilla protagonizada por Jaime Camil y Blanca Soto, que se estrenó durante el invierno en México y ahora llega a Estados Unidos, presentándose en el New York International Latino Film Festival. Cuenta la historia de un matrimonio en problemas porque el marido no se decide a tener un bebé. Ella ...
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Michelle Rodriguez gave the NYILFF a Dominican night
Posted Jul 30th 2010 at 06:20 PM by Equipo Celestrellas
Last night at the New York International Latino Film Festival, the premiere for 'Tropico de Sangre' was held at the Columbia Presbyterian Auditorium in Washington Heights, a typically Dominican region in New York. And for the first time, in over the ten years the NYILFF has been celebrated, a "Dominican Night" showed a Dominican film. "Trópico de Sangre" narrates the story of the Mirabal ...
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El New York International Latino Film Festival tuvo su noche dominicana
Posted Jul 30th 2010 at 05:15 PM by Andrea Penagos
Ayer jueves fue la "Noche Dominicana" del New York International Latino Film Festival, cuya primera edición se llevó a cabo en 1999. Como su nombre lo indica, el evento hizo homenaje a la cultura dominicana en varios sentidos. Por un lado, tomó lugar en el Columbia Presbyterian Auditorium en Washington Heights, un sector típicamente dominicano en NY, y por primera vez ...
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'Backyard' : Shaking the Wasp's Nest of Juarez
Posted Jul 30th 2010 at 03:45 PM by Nuria Net
A few weeks ago, the makeup company MAC announced its fall-winter 2010 campaign in collaboration with fashion house Rodarte. It was supposed to be inspired by the Mexico-US border, but with waif models made up in ghostly pale shades and product names such as "Factory," "Juárez," "Ghost Town" "Sleepwalker," and "Softly Drifting" it's clear the inspiration were the femicides that have been ...
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'El Traspatio' : Meneando el avispero de Ciudad Juárez
Posted Jul 30th 2010 at 03:30 PM by Nuria Net
Hace poco la marca de cosméticos MAC (en colaboración con la firma de moda Rodarte) anunció su nueva colección otoño-invierno 2010, oficialmente inspirada en la frontera, pero realmente inspirada en los femicidios de Ciudad Juárez, mostrando fotos de modelos delgadísimas con maquillaje fantasmagórico y nombres de productos tales como ...
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"I Don't Want to be Hollywood's Employee," Says Celines Toribio
Posted Jul 29th 2010 at 08:17 PM by Remezcla
TV host and model Celines Toribio has now debuted as a film actress in the movie Tropico de Sangre (Tropic of Blood), based on the true story of the Mirabal sisters, who were murdered in 1960 for opposing Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. ...
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The Attack of the Cholita Wrestlers
Posted Jul 29th 2010 at 06:15 PM by Nuria Net
They wear bowler hats and braids that go down to their waist. During the week, they tend to their family and their businesses, selling electric cables and plugs on the streets of La Paz, Bolivia. But on Sundays, they become the Goddesses of the Ring, defending their place in lucha libre, or wrestling, and their right to wear polleras, or traditional skirts. They are the cholita wrestlers of ...
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El Ataque de Las Cholitas Luchadoras
Posted Jul 29th 2010 at 05:30 PM by Nuria Net
Usan sombreros y trenzas que les llegan hasta la cintura. Durante la semana se dedican a su familia y a sus puestos de ventas en las calles de La Paz, Bolivia. Pero los domingos, se convierten en las Diosas del Ring, defendiendo su lugar en la lucha libre y su derecho a ponerse polleras, o faldas típicas. Son las cholitas luchadoras de La Paz: Carmen Rosa la Campeona, Julia la ...
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Celinés Toribio: "No quiero ser empleada de Hollywood"
Posted Jul 29th 2010 at 02:20 PM by Nuria Net
La modelo y presentadora de televisión Celinés Toribio ahora incursiona como actriz en la película 'Trópico de Sangre', basada en la verdadera historia de las hermanas Minerva, Patria y María Teresa Mirabal, quienes fueron asesinadas en 1960 por desafíar la dictadura de Rafael Leonidas Trujillo en la República Dominicana. Aunque esta no es la ...
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America Ferrera and Wilmer Valderrama premiere 'The Dry Land' at the NYILFF
Posted Jul 28th 2010 at 11:45 AM by Equipo Celestrellas
The New York International Latino Film Festival opened last night with 'The Dry Land', a drama about the difficult return and readjustment to "normal life" of soldiers coming back home from the war, starring Wilmer Valderrama and America Ferrera. (Click here to read our interview with Wilmer on the film). Naturally, the red carpet was filled with special guests and the leading couple ...
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