The Latino Film Festival in Taiwan 2011, under the slogan "the other side" was opened today in Taipei with a ceremony attended by the famous Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsian, senior officials and diplomats island or commercial Latin America and Spain.
The festival will show the two main cities in Taiwan, Taipei in the north and Kaohsiung in the south, twenty-six American films from seventeen countries, from December 16, 2011 to January 6, 2012.
"This festival not only opens a window for Taiwan to Latin American cinema, it also opens it to the producers and directors to the broader American industry and the public interested in Taiwanese cinema," said Jorge Pinto, the curator of the festival along with Christine Tsui -Hua Huang, who has been responsible for major film festivals of the island.
For Taiwanese, the Latin American world is known through her art, her novels and also translated some of his movies, "but this festival, with its large sample and variety, offers an opportunity not to be missed," said Efe director Hou Hsiao-hsien, currently honorary president of the Association of Culture and Film in Taiwan.
For Hou, "Latin America is full of passion and blending myth and reality, creates a great beauty and fantasy" and provides an artistic and creative.
The famous Taiwanese filmmaker, 64, expressed interest in the organization, in the future, film festivals dedicated to each case of Latin American countries.
Hou, one of the protagonists of the "New Wave" of Taiwanese cinema, has been awarded at film festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and Nantes, and was nominated six times for the Palme d'Or for best film at the Festival Film Festival.
The film which opened the festival was "Field Days" (2003), the Chilean director Raul Ruiz, and the following Argentine films will be screened sessions, Belize, Bolivia, Brazilians, Chileans, Colombians, Costa Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Mexicans, Panamanians, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The promoter of this event is Jorge Pinto, editor and promoter of cultural events, which was Mexico's consul general in New York, Head of Chancery in Washington, Deputy Foreign Minister for Latin America and Mexico's ambassador to Sweden, among other charges.
