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LATIN HOTLIST #10 - Autumn 2018
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LATIN HOTLIST #4 - WINTER
Think Latin, Feel Latin, Buy Latin...here's our choice of great Latin products on the market this February
In Search of Memory
‘My photographs are about our journey through life’ Corina Poore interviews the remarkable Chilean photographer Maurizio Valenzuela
Witch Girl Summer
Playwright Margarita Valderrama’s horror comedy, Witch Girl Summer, explores the evils of insecurity - quite literally - as an influencer’s plummeting self-esteem drives her toward the demonic in a desperate quest to achieve her…
Things That Matter to…Edson Damazzo
Known as Bibiu, or as the "Choreographer to the Stars," he is one of Brazil’s best known dancers and choreographers and is a favourite among the country's top artists. Having travelled the world, primarily for…
NARCISO (2026) by Paraguayan writer/director Marcelo Martinessi
Following on from his successful opera prima “The Heiresses” in 2018, Marcelo Martinessi’s second feature “NARCISO”. a drama based during the Military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in Asunción, is being screened in the…
Paradise City by Joe Thomas (Arcadia Books)
American style 'noir' set in South America's biggest megatropolis - a lonely cop's battle with corruption, despair, and his own demons makes for an enthralling Sao Paulo thriller.
Treating Trauma with Art
Amy Draper is a bold, young theatre director whose innovative production 'These Trees are made of Blood' – a musical cabaret about the estimated 30,000 people murdered by Argentina’s dictatorship (1976-1983) who then…
Ten Events to Love in São Paulo
This is the city of graffiti, rap battles, poetry slams in the favelas and samba. It is also home to the bailes de favela and the famous fluxosMy, spontaneous street parties where booming speakers and motorbike stunts take over…
'ROMA' by Alfonso Cuarón sweeps the boards at the BAFTAs.
ROMA (2018) by Alfonso Cuarón, a masterpiece of cinema, has been crowned the outstanding film of 2018 at the BAFTAs. Semi-autobiographical, it was created with deep affection in homage to a person who was and remains of huge…
LATIN HOTLIST #7 - AUTUMN 2017
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LATIN HOTLIST #15 - Christmas 2019
Looking for Christmas Stocking fillers? Here our selection of essential goodies to do the good old English sock by the fire with a twist, from children's books in spanish to aged Mexican rum for Papa Noel himself
Flamenco's Poetry in Motion?
Inspired by the purist Flamenco that he learnt from his teachers, Rafael Amargo, Spain’s most eclectic dancer and choreographer, was influenced by US contemporary dance schools such as the Martha Graham, while living in New York…
Venezuela: Trochas de la Información
Produced by Circuito Gran Cine, a collective of film makers based in Venezuela, this film is one of a series about the difficulties Venezuelans have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, ranging from water shortages to the lack of…
Papaya (2024) Dir. Brazilian Priscilla Kellen
Proud to be a part of the global success of Brazilian cinema, and rubbing shoulders with Walter Salles, Kleber Mendonça Filho, and Gabriel Mascaro to mention a few, carioca Priscilla Kellen shone at the Berlinale 2026 as she…
Stockholm (dir. Omar Al Abdul Razzak 2012)
A superbly crafted film exploring the politics of desire and attraction
Evita at The Dominion Theatre
After its successful UK tour, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's weirdly popular journey into the heart of Argentine history returns to the West End. With 55 new performances, the epic bio-musical that dissects the character…
LATIN HOTLIST #13
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WRITING BEYOND MACONDO
Do modern Colombian authors still lurk in the shadow of Gabriel García Márquez? Candela explores Colombian literature in light of the 2010 celebrations of all things Latin American: a new list published by Granta magazine of the…
The Photos of Debbie Bragg and the Rise of a New UK Club Culture
By chronicling the new generation of Latino-Brits in their party element, this oustanding photographer became THE documentarist of the urban latin movement in the UK and helped put urban latin culture on the map. Exclusively on…
‘Los Conductos’ (2020) Directed by Camilo Restrepo
Colombian experimental filmmaker, writer and director Camilo Restrepo, known for 5 award-winning short films, including ‘La Bouche 2015’, has won the Berlinale’s GWFF Best First Feature Award with his ópera prima ‘Los Conductos…
Embracing Another World
It’s been a long day of interviews for Ciro Guerra. As director of Embrace of the Serpent, the first Colombian film to be nominated for an Oscar, the film man of the moment is in demand in London, where the film launches this…
LATIN HOTLIST #5 - SPRING 2017
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On the Edge of the Embrace: A Contemporary Tango Drama by David Chartoriski
In David Chartoriski's latest creation for the stage, "On the Edge of the Embrace", three souls perform a story of love, betrayal and freedom through sizzling dance movements, in an electrifying night of tango…
THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Chilean writer/ director Diego Céspedes
A challenging new voice has emerged from Chile onto the international film circuit, and he is making his mark. Chilean writer/ director Diego Céspedes explores the lives of more marginalized souls with sympathy and depth.
LOCKDOWN HOTLIST - May 2020
Even in Lockdown you can still Think Latin, Eat Latin, Feel Latin...here's our choice of Latin must-haves and must-eats
Un-Dazzling the Gold
As The British Museum awaits over 200 hundred spectacular pre-Columbian gold objects from Bogotá’s Museo de Oro to exhibit in its ‘Beyond El Dorado’ exhibition, Colombians in London might be thinking of protesting rather than…
Venezuela Rising
As international artists hail Venezuela as ‘the future of music’ Candela explores why recognition has taken so long to come.
Macho, sexist, leery - lovely...
Flirting with strangers in the street is a way of life in Buenos Aires. One gringa tries very hard to disapprove.
Latin Hotlist #1 - October 2016
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Juana in a Million
A mesmerising one-woman Latina show at The Southwark Playhouse until 15th June
Belén (2025) Dir. Dolores Fonzi
The Oscar shortlist film tells the true story of a woman who in 2014, after suffering a miscarriage, was unjustly imprisoned for two years and falsely accused of abortion. Given the namesake ‘Belén’ to protect her anonymity, her…
MINEFIELD @ The Jerwood Theatre
This challenging work by Argentine playwright Lola Arias, based on six Falklands/ Malvinas war veterans, and developed entirely by working with the men, their diaries and experiences, had resounding success with its debut last…
TIQUISMIQUIS is an enchanting new volume of short stories in Spanish by MARIO FLECHA.
Corina J Poore from Latino Life Magazine caught up with the Argentine Author, art critic and promoter of contemporary arts, to chat about his work as she tries to discover where his impish tales come from -
The Fire Within
One of the most successful comedy actors of recent years, Nick Frost plays a depressed office worker in his latest film, who is forced to discover and unleash his ‘Cuban fury’ in order to overcome a bullying boss and …yes,…
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