Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.
Direction
Twelve distinct voices, miraculously cohesive vision
Editing
Seamless threading of century-spanning fragments
Production
Massive archival excavation across twelve countries
Director
Federico García Hurtado
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gabriel García Márquez appears not as magical realist novelist but as film critic and screenwriter, reminding us he co-founded Cuba's film school.
Fernando Birri, who co-directed segment 11, literally invented Latin American film theory with his 1962 manifesto 'Cinema and Underdevelopment.'
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