Anna Marie De La Fuente

3 days ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Mexico’s most prominent film festival, the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) lived up to its renown, scoring massive attendance for its milestone 40th edition, which wrapped June 14. Led by festival director Estrella Araiza, the annual film event in Mexico’s second largest city reported 29,599 screening admissions, 7,209 participants in masterclasses and panels, and 1,473 accredited guests and industry professionals.

5 days ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Chile’s Néstor Cantillana has been a triple threat at the Guadalajara Film Fest (FICG), starring in two pics as well as “Hidden Island,” a series penned by international sci fi phenomenon Julio Rojas. Cantillana is also developing his second directorial outing with the short, ‘Humedal.” “This has been my first time at a festival with two films and a series, all so different—from characters to visual style to the unique voices of young Chilean directors.

1 week ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Chilean actress Antonia Zegers, whose notable credits include several of Pablo Larrain’s films, including “Tony Manero,” “The Club,” “No,” and his Pinochet-as-Dracula pic, “The Count,” has boarded the upcoming drama “The Comeback” (“El Regreso”) by Peru’s Joanna Lombardi. Zegers, who also toplined Lucia Puenzo’s lauded series “The Pack” (“La Jauria”) serves as a juror at the Ibero-American Fiction section of the ongoing 40th Guadalajara Film Festival (FICG), wrapping on June 14.

1 week ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Depending on who you ask, the state of Mexico’s film industry is either waxing or waning. The twin labor strikes of 2023 saw fewer U.S. film and TV productions that year and the following year. However, the first trimester of 2025 has reported a 16% spike in overall audiovisual activity, said Guillermo Saldaña, Mexico City’s Film Commissioner. “I’d like to think that we have a symbiotic relationship with the U.S. and Colombia because we share talent, industry and information.

1 week ago | variety.com | Anna Marie De La Fuente

Celebrating its 21st edition, the Co-Production Meetings hosted by the Guadalajara Film Festival’s (FICG) industry program, aims to foster collaboration among producers from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Unfolding over the three days of industry activities June 9 -11, the selected projects vie for cash awards, one of which covers nearly the entire production of a film—from development through post-production—all in a single award, according to Industry head, Ximena Urrutia.