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Joven Y Alocada
''Young & Wild'' () is a 2012 Chilean coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Marialy Rivas and co-written by Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutiérrez, María José Viera-Gallo and Pedro Peirano. Starring Alicia Rodríguez and Maria Gracia Omegna, the film tells the story of Daniela, a 17-year-old bisexual girl who writes a blog about the conflicts she experiences between her evangelical Protestant, conservative family and her sexuality. The film premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it was awarded the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. Plot Daniela is a 17-year-old girl who resides in Santiago, Chile. Despite her family's devout Protestant beliefs, she eagerly explores her sexuality through both casual sex and a blog titled "Young and Wild". The blog serves as a platform where she questions her church's teachings and documents her sexual adventures, including her first experiences with masturbation, oral sex, and anal sex. As her blog gains popularity, it attracts com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marialy Rivas
Marialy Rivas is a Chilean screenwriter and film director, best known for her 2012 film ''Young and Wild'', which won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival. She was raised in Chile during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Rivas is openly lesbian and has discussed the challenges of being open about her sexuality in Chile, where she noted that it is often considered impolite to publicly acknowledge being gay, even when it is widely known. Career She studied in the School of Cinema of Chile, but withdrew in the third year. In 1996 she directed the short film ''Desde siempre'', winner of the Santiago Short Film Festival, and was reviewed by the magazine '' Cahiers du cinéma''. Rivas says that she knew she wanted to be a director since she was seven. During her childhood, Rivas was not allowed to watch television so she went to the cinema three times a week and cites this as an influence in her decision to become a director. In 2000, she di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, which has a population of seven million, representing 40% of Chile's total population. Most of the city is situated between above sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has served as the capital city of Chile since colonial times. The city features a downtown core characterized by 19th-century neoclassical architecture and winding side streets with a mix of Art Deco, Gothic Revival, and other styles. Santiago's cityscape is defined by several standalone hills and the fast-flowing Mapocho River, which is lined by parks such as Parque Bicentenario, Parque Forestal, and Parque de la Familia. The Andes Mountains are visible from most parts of the city and contribute to a smog problem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted as a showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. The festival consists of competitive sections for American and international dramatic and documentary films, both feature films and short films, and a group of out-of-competition sections, including NEXT, New Frontier, Spotlight, Midnight, Sundance Kids, From the Collection, Premieres, and Documentary Premieres. The festival was established in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1978 as the Utah/US Film Festival. The festival moved to nearby Park City, Utah, in 1981 and was renamed the US Film and Video Festival. It was renamed the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. From its inception through 2025, the festival took place every January in Utah. In March 2025, it was ann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Sebastián International Film Festival
The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; , ) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spain, Spanish city of Donostia, Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country. Since its creation in 1953, it has established itself as one of the 14 "A" category competitive festivals accredited by the FIAPF, of which it has one of the lowest budgets. It has hosted several important events of the history of cinema, such as the international premieres of ''Vertigo (film), Vertigo'', by Alfred Hitchcock (who attended the Festival) and the European premiere of ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars''. It was the first festival attended by Roman Polanski and has helped advance the professional careers of filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Bong Joon-ho and Pedro Almodóvar. José Luis Rebordinos has served as the director of the festival since 2011. History The festival was founded on September 21, 1953. Non-Spanish la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastiane Award
Sebastiane Award is a prize delivered in September, since 2000, to a film or documentary screened during the San Sebastián International Film Festival that best reflects the values and reality of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people. The selection of the winner film is carried out between all sections that make up the Festival: Official Section, Zabaltegi, Horizontes Latinos, Made Spain, etc. History In 2000, the idea was raised of creating a gay and lesbian film award in the frame of San Sebastián Film Festival. This idea came up among ''Gehitu'' members, a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender association from the Basque Country. The goal intended, as it was already happening from 1987 on with the Teddy Award in the Berlinale, was that the prize would help gay-theme movies have more relevance in movies theatres as well as in mass media. ''Krámpack'' (''Nico and Dani'' in English), from the film director Cesc Gay, was the first film awarded with Sebastiane Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival De Cine Iberoamericano De Huelva
The Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival () is the oldest film festival in Europe dedicated to the Ibero-American cinema. It has been held since 1975 in Huelva, Spain. During the first editions, it was known as (). The festival was originally organised by a private entity, the Cine-Club Huelva. Upon the creation of the governing , and the ensuing constitution of the board of trustees, the festival is primarily funded by the , the Provincial Deputation of Huelva, the Junta of Andalusia and the Spanish Ministry of Culture, as well as a number of private donors. The festival is chiefly publicly funded. The grand prize is the "Golden Columbus" () for best feature. Other awards include best director, best male lead, best female lead, best script, best photography and best short film. Winners of the Golden Columbus . ''Variety Variety may refer to: Arts and entertainment Entertainment formats * Variety (radio) * Variety show, in theater and television Films * ''Variety'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. The magazine also sponsors and hosts major industry events. History Foundation and early years ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy (born February 16, 1950) is an American film critic and author. He wrote for '' Variety'' for 31 years as its chief film critic until 2010. In October of that year, he joined ''The Hollywood Reporter'', where he subsequently served as chief film critic until 2020. McCarthy subsequently began writing regularly for ''Deadline Hollywood'' in 2020. Early life Todd McCarthy was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Daniel and Barbara McCarthy. His mother was a cellist and served as the president of the Evanston Symphony Orchestra. His father was a rancher and real-estate developer. McCarthy graduated from Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in 1968 and Stanford University in 1972. While at ETHS, he made a silent, plotless movie on Super 8 film titled ''Mimi'' after the nickname of his featured classmate who later became known as Claudia Jennings. In college, McCarthy was hired as a critic at the newspaper office on campus. His first review was a positive one for the Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalina Saavedra
Catalina Saavedra Pérez (born 8 January 1968) is a Chilean film, stage and television actress. She is known to international audiences for playing the title character in the 2009 film '' The Maid'', for which she received several awards and nominations. Career Saavedra's father is the writer Omar Saavedra Santis. She started acting lessons at the age of ten, prompted by her mother's hiring of a private theater arts teacher in Valparaíso. Years later, her love for acting led her to deepen her studies at the "Escuela de Teatro Imagen" in Santiago and later in Barcelona, when she began to study experimental theatre. Saavedra's first professional theatre performances were in roles in plays such as ''El Despertar'' (1991–1997), ''Pervertimientos y Otros Gestos Para Nada'' (1993) and ''La noche de la Iguana'' ('' The Night of the Iguana'') (1994), and in a café-chantant called ''TV cable 90'' (1992). On film, Saavedra's first appearances were in short films, such as ''El Bid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Gnecco
Luis Enrique Gnecco Dessy (born 12 December 1962) is a Chilean actor. Besides his work in Chilean telenovelas and films ('' Johnny 100 Pesos'', the Academy Award nominated '' No'', ''El bosque de Karadima'', ''A Fantastic Woman'' and '' Neruda''), he is internationally known for his performances in HBO's '' Prófugos'' and Netflix series ''Narcos''. Biography While studying biology under, among others, Humberto Maturana, Gnecco developed into an actor and a comedian.El MercurioEl informe Gnecco/ref> Afterwards he studied in the Theatre academy of Fernando González. In 1985 he began to work in telenovelas, such as '' Amores de mercado'', '' Brujas'', and ''Soltera otra vez''. Two years later he started appearing in comedy shows such as '' De chincol a jote'', ''El desjueves'' (1990–1995), and ''Na' que ver con Chile''. In 2008 he played the lead role in the Chilean version of ''The Office'', ''The ofis''. In 2016, the jury at the 17th Havana Film Festival New York The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Krögh
Pablo Willy Krögh Baraona (21 February 1963 – 2 September 2013) was a Chilean film, theater, television and voice actor. His credits included the Chilean films ''Machuca'' in 2004 and the 2009 dramatic film, ''Dawson Isla 10'', in which he portrayed the late politician, José Tohá. His television roles included the Chilevision telenovela series, ''La Doña (2011 telenovela), La Doña''. He was starring in the Televisión Nacional de Chile, TVN television series, ''Bim bam bum'', at the time of his death in 2013. Krögh died from tongue cancer in Santiago, Chile, at approximately 5:00 a.m. on 2 September 2013, at the age of 50. He had been diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2012. Numerous Chilean actors and directors posted tributes to Krögh on social media, including Ana Maria Gazmuri, Paula Sharim, Begoña Basauri, Lorena Capetillo, Herval Abreu and Daniel Alcaíno. Filmography Films References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krogh, Pablo 1963 births 2013 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
