Hemisphere

Bolivia has not produced many films over the decades, but several of those it has released rank as gems of Latin American cinema. Currently, despite years of economic recession, both national and regional efforts to support film production have resulted...

Film scholars only recently have begun to explore the connections between the Brazilian chanchada genre of the 1950s and the dark comedies that characterized the output of the post-Cinema Novo movement which came to be known as cinema marginal. This...

This issue of Hemisphere coincides with the 20th anniversary of the Miami International Film Festival, presented by Florida International University. This year's festival features a special focus on Ibero-American cinema, including a new program, Encuentros...

CHILE Ignacio Aliaga Director, Cinema and Audiovisual Arts Area, Cultural Division, Ministry of Education Film production in Chile is essentially private, with state support through government policies and funding. In the last three years, Chile has...

Some of the biggest box office hits in Mexican cinema in the past two decades offer a denunciation of corruption in the highest spheres of power. Typically, they tell the tale of characters who initially resist temptation, but later learn to use and...

The Cuban passion for film traces back to the nineteenth century, specifically, Havana in 1897. That year brought the visit of Gabriel Veyre, a representative of the French studio Lumiere, who traveled to Cuba from Mexico to demonstrate the invention...