For nearly 25 years, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival has been a showcase of Latino-focused cinema, and this summer, it will be a place where such films can find a distribution home as well.
The Laliff Film Market will make its debut with the festival’s 2024 edition, which will take place May 29 to June 2. On offer to sales agents and buyers in attendance will be a catalog of U.S. Latino films in post-production available for acquisition and distribution.
The new market is in line with the mission of the Latino Film Institute (the Edward James Olmos-founded nonprofit behind the festival) to create ever-greater impact for Latinos in the entertainment industry and is part of a suite of new initiatives under CEO Axel Caballero, who joined from Warner Bros. Discovery’s OneFifty in October. The Lfi leadership team also includes vice president of programs and innovation Erika Sabel Flores...
The Laliff Film Market will make its debut with the festival’s 2024 edition, which will take place May 29 to June 2. On offer to sales agents and buyers in attendance will be a catalog of U.S. Latino films in post-production available for acquisition and distribution.
The new market is in line with the mission of the Latino Film Institute (the Edward James Olmos-founded nonprofit behind the festival) to create ever-greater impact for Latinos in the entertainment industry and is part of a suite of new initiatives under CEO Axel Caballero, who joined from Warner Bros. Discovery’s OneFifty in October. The Lfi leadership team also includes vice president of programs and innovation Erika Sabel Flores...
- 2/20/2024
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Industry veteran Axel Caballero has been tapped as CEO of the Latino Film Institute, the organization founded by actor and advocate Edward James Olmos.
The Latino Film Institute runs a number of prominent events and artistic development programs, including the annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, the Youth Cinema Project and LatinX in Animation.
Caballero brings a long resume in TV and film to the role. He was previously the head of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. He has served as an executive at Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO, and he also ran the OneFifty Content unit within WB Discovery.
“As our industry is rapidly changing with technology motoring, Lfi is quickly adapting to new challenges and opportunities, Axel is uniquely poised with his background as a disruptor and innovator to bring Lfi and our Latino community to the next level at this pivotal moment,” Olmos said.
The Latino Film Institute runs a number of prominent events and artistic development programs, including the annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, the Youth Cinema Project and LatinX in Animation.
Caballero brings a long resume in TV and film to the role. He was previously the head of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. He has served as an executive at Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO, and he also ran the OneFifty Content unit within WB Discovery.
“As our industry is rapidly changing with technology motoring, Lfi is quickly adapting to new challenges and opportunities, Axel is uniquely poised with his background as a disruptor and innovator to bring Lfi and our Latino community to the next level at this pivotal moment,” Olmos said.
- 10/5/2023
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Bardo, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, documents one man’s cultural rediscovery as he leaves Los Angeles and returns to Mexico. After receiving a prestigious award for his work in journalism and documentary filmmaking, Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) suddenly is compelled to re-examine his Mexican roots. Upon arrival, he contends with embarrassing memories from the past and an existential crisis.
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González Iñárritu started to really consider the nature of immigration and belonging when he created Carne y Arena, a virtual-reality installation that gave him the opportunity to speak to more than 500 immigrants crossing the border. “There was a very, very deep call of the nature of being an immigrant,” he said Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event. “What we share in common was that nostalgia, melancholia — all the things that you lose when you leave your country.
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González Iñárritu started to really consider the nature of immigration and belonging when he created Carne y Arena, a virtual-reality installation that gave him the opportunity to speak to more than 500 immigrants crossing the border. “There was a very, very deep call of the nature of being an immigrant,” he said Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event. “What we share in common was that nostalgia, melancholia — all the things that you lose when you leave your country.
- 11/19/2022
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
Few films released in 2022 make a bolder visual statement than “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s sprawling film about an acclaimed documentarian returning to his hometown in Mexico to receive an award has captivated audiences with its unapologetically surreal images since premiering at the Venice International Film Festival in September.
It begins with a newborn baby asking to be inserted back into his mother’s womb, and only gets crazier from there, as Iñárritu attempts to make sense of life and art while looking for meaning in a world that can seem devoid of it.
To discuss bringing such a singular artistic vision to life, the film’s stars Daniel Giménez Cacho and Ximena Lamadrid, production designer Eugenio Caballero, and supervising sound editor and sound designer Martín Hernandez joined IndieWire’s Eric Kohn for a panel at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch.
It begins with a newborn baby asking to be inserted back into his mother’s womb, and only gets crazier from there, as Iñárritu attempts to make sense of life and art while looking for meaning in a world that can seem devoid of it.
To discuss bringing such a singular artistic vision to life, the film’s stars Daniel Giménez Cacho and Ximena Lamadrid, production designer Eugenio Caballero, and supervising sound editor and sound designer Martín Hernandez joined IndieWire’s Eric Kohn for a panel at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch.
- 11/18/2022
- by Christian Zilko and Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
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