Olivia Cosentino is a MA/PhD Student in Latin American Literatures and Cultures in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at the Ohio State University, where she…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGcDq5LoXDg This week at Mediático Dr Niamh Thornton (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool) reflects on Irish comedians, Dara O’Briain and Ed…
This week, Mediático presents an obituary to María Elena Velasco, one of the Mexican film industry’s leading figures, written by Seraina Rohrer director of the Solothurn Film Festival in Switzerland whose…
This week Mediático presents excerpts from the diary of José Arroyo, Principal Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Warwick, recently returned from…
Today, Mediático presents Stefanie Allum‘s report of the latest awards ceremony for the Catalan Film Academy—the Premis Gaudí. Allum’s report on the Gaudís compares them with…
Following this weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony, Mediático co-editor Dolores Tierney assesses one of the biggest winners: Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) which won four awards…
Today, Mediático presents a tribute to Ninón Sevilla, the Cuban-born actor who died on January 1 2015 at the age of 85. The tribute has been…
This week, Mediatico surveys the latest Cinema Journal 54.1 InFocus dossier on “Latin American Film Research in the 21st Century” edited by Ana M. Lopez and Dolores Tierney…
This week Mediático is delighted to present a post by Juan Llamas Rodriguez, Graduate Student at the University of California Santa Barbara on the FIC…
Mediatico presents an entry by Dolores Tierney, one of the founding editors of this blog, on the connection between Latin America’s art house boom and…