Eternity (Wiñaypacha)(2017)

  • Cinema Tropical to Release Óscar Catacora’s WIÑAYPACHA, First Peruvian Film in the Aymara Language

    Óscar Catacora’s WIÑAYPACHA
    Óscar Catacora’s WIÑAYPACHA

    Óscar Catacora’s acclaimed debut feature, Wiñaypacha (Eternity), -winner of the Best First Film and Best Cinematography awards at the Guadalajara Film Festival and the first Peruvian film shot entirely in the indigenous Aymara language, premieres on Tropical on Demand on Thursday, October 29, 2020.

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  • 4th Neighboring Scenes, Festival of Contemporary Latin American Cinema Returns to Film Society of Lincoln Center, Announces Lineup

    Belmonte, directed by Federico Veiroj
    Belmonte, directed by Federico Veiroj

    Neighboring Scenes, the annual festival of contemporary Latin American cinema organized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical, returns for the 4th edition in New York City with 13 features and 10 shorts with seven filmmakers in person, from February 22 to 26.

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  • THE LORD EAGLE , MARKS OF MANA, ETERNITY Win at 2018 imagineNATIVE Film Festival

    [caption id="attachment_32308" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]Toyon Kyyl (The Lord Eagle) Toyon Kyyl (The Lord Eagle)[/caption] At the 19th Annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival’s Awards Presentation, the esteemed Sun Jury and Moon Jury selected the winners, awarding the top prizes – Best Dramatic Feature to Toyon Kyyl (The Lord Eagle) by Eduard Novikov,  and Best Indigenous Language Production to Wiñaypacha (Eternity) by Oscar Catacora.  The Alanis Obomsawin Award for Best Documentary Work Long Format went to Marks of Mana by Lisa Taouma. Throughout the Festival, imagineNATIVE also presented awards at the Industry Award Reception and the Bullseye Music Contest.

    2018 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Award Winners

    Best Dramatic Feature Toyon Kyyl (The Lord Eagle) by Eduard Novikov $2000 cash award sponsored by Bellmedia Best Indigenous Language Production Wiñaypacha (Eternity) by Oscar Catacora $1000 cash award sponsored by Indigenous Media Initiatives The Kent Monkman Award for Best Experimental Work Eatnanvuloš Lottit (Birds in the Earth) by Marja Helander $500 cash award sponsored by imagineNATIVE Best Audio Work Trans Mountain Pipeline, B.C. Wolf Cull and Dog Sled Massacre by Crystal Favel $500 cash award sponsored by imagineNATIVE Best Digital Media Work Aeasi by Amie Batalibasi $500 cash award sponsored by Unifor Best Interactive Work Biidaaban: First Dawn by Lisa Jackson $500 cash award sponsored by imagineNATIVE The Jane Glassco Award for Emerging Talent ANORI (Wind) by Pipaluk Kreutzmann Jorgensen $2000 cash award sponsored by The CJ Foundation The Ellen Monaque Award for Best Youth Work A World of Our Own by Morningstar Derosier $500 cash award sponsored by RBC & Humber College Aboriginal Resource Centre The Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Best Short Work Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) by Amanda Strong $1000 cash award sponsored by VTape Best Documentary Work Short Format FAST HORSE by Alexandra Lazarowich $1000 cash award sponsored by TVO The Alanis Obomsawin Award for Best Documentary Work Long Format Marks of Mana by Lisa Taouma $2000 cash award sponsored by CBC Docs The August Schellenberg Award of Excellence Michael Greyeyes $1500 cash award sponsored in part by ACTRA National, and generous individual donations. Sun Jury Prize Sgaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife) by Gwaai Edenshaw and Helen Haig-Brown Moon Jury Prize My Friend Michael Jones by Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo APTN/imagineNATIVE Web Series Pitch Ryan Cooper and Adeline Bird $30,000 in cash and $20,000 of in-kind prizing and mentorship presented by APTN and supported by Technicolor, Innovate by Day, William F White International, TIFF, WIFT-T, T.O. Webfest and new supporters Bedtracks and Bizable Media NFB/imagineNATIVE Digital and Interactive Prize Gail Maurice The Rising Director Mentorship Award Alexandra Lazarowich Created in partnership with Laura J. Milliken of Big Soul Productions and with the support of the CMPA The Rising Producer Mentorship Award Darcy Waite Created with the support of the DGC Bullseye Music Prize Indigo $10,000 cash award sponsored by imagineNATIVE and Slaight Music

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  • 87 Countries Submit Films in 2018 Oscar Foreign Language Competition

    [caption id="attachment_31248" align="aligncenter" width="1200"]El Angel directed by Luis Ortega El Angel directed by Luis Ortega[/caption] Eighty-seven countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 91st Academy Awards. Malawi and Niger are first-time entrants. Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The 91st Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide. The 2018 submissions are: Afghanistan, “Rona Azim’s Mother,” Jamshid Mahmoudi, director; Algeria, “Until the End of Time,” Yasmine Chouikh, director; Argentina, “El Ángel,” Luis Ortega, director; Armenia, “Spitak,” Alexander Kott, director; Australia, “Jirga,” Benjamin Gilmour, director; Austria, “The Waldheim Waltz,” Ruth Beckermann, director; Bangladesh, “No Bed of Roses,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, director; Belarus, “Crystal Swan,” Darya Zhuk, director; Belgium, “Girl,” Lukas Dhont, director; Bolivia, “The Goalkeeper,” Rodrigo “Gory” Patiño, director; Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Never Leave Me,” Aida Begić, director; Brazil, “The Great Mystical Circus,” Carlos Diegues, director; Bulgaria, “Omnipresent,” Ilian Djevelekov, director; Cambodia, “Graves without a Name,” Rithy Panh, director; Canada, “Family Ties,” Sophie Dupuis, director; Chile, “…And Suddenly the Dawn,” Silvio Caiozzi, director; China, “Hidden Man,” Jiang Wen, director; Colombia, “Birds of Passage,” Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra, directors; Costa Rica, “Medea,” Alexandra Latishev, director; Croatia, “The Eighth Commissioner,” Ivan Salaj, director; Czech Republic, “Winter Flies,” Olmo Omerzu, director; Denmark, “The Guilty,” Gustav Möller, director; Dominican Republic, “Cocote,” Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, director; Ecuador, “A Son of Man,” Jamaicanoproblem, director; Egypt, “Yomeddine,” A.B. Shawky, director; Estonia, “Take It or Leave It,” Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo, director; Finland, “Euthanizer,” Teemu Nikki, director; France, “Memoir of War,” Emmanuel Finkiel, director; Georgia, “Namme,” Zaza Khalvashi, director; Germany, “Never Look Away,” Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director; Greece, “Polyxeni,” Dora Masklavanou, director; Hong Kong, “Operation Red Sea,” Dante Lam, director; Hungary, “Sunset,” László Nemes, director; Iceland, “Woman at War,” Benedikt Erlingsson, director; India, “Village Rockstars,” Rima Das, director; Indonesia, “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts,” Mouly Surya, director; Iran, “No Date, No Signature,” Vahid Jalilvand, director; Iraq, “The Journey,” Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji, director; Israel, “The Cakemaker,” Ofir Raul Graizer, director; Italy, “Dogman,” Matteo Garrone, director; Japan, “Shoplifters,” Hirokazu Kore-eda, director; Kazakhstan, “Ayka,” Sergey Dvortsevoy, director; Kenya, “Supa Modo,” Likarion Wainaina, director; Kosovo, “The Marriage,” Blerta Zeqiri, director; Latvia, “To Be Continued,” Ivars Seleckis, director; Lebanon, “Capernaum,” Nadine Labaki, director; Lithuania, “Wonderful Losers: A Different World,” Arunas Matelis, director; Luxembourg, “Gutland,” Govinda Van Maele, director; Macedonia, “Secret Ingredient,” Gjorce Stavreski, director; Malawi, “The Road to Sunrise,” Shemu Joyah, director; Mexico, “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón, director; Montenegro, “Iskra,” Gojko Berkuljan, director; Morocco, “Burnout,” Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, director; Nepal, “Panchayat,” Shivam Adhikari, director; Netherlands, “The Resistance Banker,” Joram Lürsen, director; New Zealand, “Yellow Is Forbidden,” Pietra Brettkelly, director; Niger, “The Wedding Ring,” Rahmatou Keïta, director; Norway, “What Will People Say,” Iram Haq, director; Pakistan, “Cake,” Asim Abbasi, director; Palestine, “Ghost Hunting,” Raed Andoni, director; Panama, “Ruben Blades Is Not My Name,” Abner Benaim, director; Paraguay, “The Heiresses,” Marcelo Martinessi, director; Peru, “Eternity,” Oscar Catacora, director; Philippines, “Signal Rock,” Chito S. Roño, director; Poland, “Cold War,” Pawel Pawlikowski, director; Portugal, “Pilgrimage,” João Botelho, director; Romania, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” Radu Jude, director; Russia, “Sobibor,” Konstantin Khabensky, director; Serbia, “Offenders,” Dejan Zecevic, director; Singapore, “Buffalo Boys,” Mike Wiluan, director; Slovakia, “The Interpreter,” Martin Šulík, director; Slovenia, “Ivan,” Janez Burger, director; South Africa, “Sew the Winter to My Skin,” Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, director; South Korea, “Burning,” Lee Chang-dong, director; Spain, “Champions,” Javier Fesser, director; Sweden, “Border,” Ali Abbasi, director; Switzerland, “Eldorado,” Markus Imhoof, director; Taiwan, “The Great Buddha+,” Hsin-Yao Huang, director; Thailand, “Malila The Farewell Flower,” Anucha Boonyawatana, director; Tunisia, “Beauty and the Dogs,” Kaouther Ben Hania, director; Turkey, “The Wild Pear Tree,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director; Ukraine, “Donbass,” Sergei Loznitsa, director; United Kingdom, “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni, director; Uruguay, “Twelve-Year Night,” Álvaro Brechner, director; Venezuela, “The Family,” Gustavo Rondón Córdova, director; Vietnam, “The Tailor,” Buu Loc Tran, Kay Nguyen, directors; Yemen, “10 Days before the Wedding,” Amr Gamal, director.

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