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We serve as a distributor, acquiring the top Latin American films and assuring the directors and producers a wide national exposure in theaters, institutions and film festivals. We carefully select the best available films and curate special series and retrospectives to match the needs of a diverse array of theaters, institutions and film festivals. We attract a dedicated audience and tailor our marketing efforts to effectively target new audiences, maximize attendance to screenings and increase awareness of Latin American cinema. Since its inception in 2001, Cinema Tropical has distributed Latin American films through its Cinema Tropical Film Series
Cinema Tropical has participated in the promotion of the release of such films as:
We have participated in the programming of leading film festivals:
Cinema Tropical has co-presented special screenings of Latin American cinema with some of New York¹s finest cultural institutions:
The Cinema Tropical Film
Series The Cinema Tropical Series New York:
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Cinema Tropical
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Carlos A. Gutiérrez is a film/video programmer, cultural promoter and arts consultant based in New York City. As a guest curator, he has presented several film/video series at different cultural institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, BAMcinématek, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA) and Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City). Along with Mahen Bonetti, he curated the 53rd edition of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. He is a contributing editor to BOMB magazine and has served as a member of the jury and the selection committees for various film festivals including the Morelia Film Festival, SANFIC - Santiago Film Festival, The Hamptons International Film Festival, The Asian American International Film Festival and New Fest: The New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, among others. He has served as both expert nominator and panelist for the Rockefeller Fellowship Program for Mexican Film & Media Arts and as a screening panelist for the Oscars' Academy Awards for film students. He holds MA in cinema studies from New York University and a BA in communications from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City).
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Monika Wagenberg co-founded Cinema Tropical in 2001. She has been Director of Programming and Acquisitions since the organization's inception. Since then, the organization has consolidated a library of over 30 Latin American films for theatrical and non-theatrical distribution. Monika received her BA in Comparative Literature and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and her Cinema Studies Masters Degree from New York University. She worked as a Distribution Associate at New Yorker Films, was the International Curator for the first and third New York International Latino Film Festivals, and for five years was the Director's Liaison for the Film Society of Lincoln Center's New York Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Festival. Currently, Monika is also the Festival Director of Latin Wave, the annual Latin American Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Senior Programmer of the Ibero-American Section of the Miami International Film Festival.
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Mary Jane Marcasiano is the president of her eponymous design company in New York City and actively involved in the arts and non-profit community. She is a graduate of Parsons School of Design/The New School and the recipient of the Cartier, DuPont, Cutty Sark and Wool Knit Awards. Marcasiano has designed costumes for DanceBrazil, the New York City Ballet, RythMEK at Jacob’s Pillow and Cleo Parker Robinson as well as a short film in Brazil. For three years she served as the President of the Board of Directors of DanceBrazil, a non-profit foundation dedicated to cultural exchange between Brazil and the United States. In 2004 she produceed a documentary film about Capoeira with director Gustavo Moraes. Drawing on her background in non-profit, Marcasiano recently launched "Made With Love in Brazil" in conjunction with "Fashion With a Heart," a groundbreaking program dedicated to producing and selling socially-responsible fashion that benefits NGO's in Brazil and the US. |
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Diana Vargas works in publicity and promotion of cultural events in New York City, specializing in film and music festivals. She joined the Cinema Tropical team in 2006, and is also a staff member of LART (Latino Artists Round Table). An integral member of the selection and programming committees for the Havana Film Festival in New York and CortoCircuito/ShortCuts Latin American Short Film Festival, she is also a producer and media liaison with the CUNY-TV series "Nueva York.” She received several international awards for Series Producing the documentary series "Rostros y Rastros". As a journalist she writes for publications including Hoy (New York City) and La Opinión (Los Angeles).
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Laura Martinez is a bilingual journalist and editor. In her most recent position, she was the founder and Editor in Chief of Marketing y Medios, an English-language trade publication devoted to explaining the Hispanic market to a non-Spanish speaking audience of executives and marketers. Prior to that, Ms. Martinez was responsible for creating and launching the Spanish-language weekly edition of The Wall Street Journal, as well as coordinating and editing their Spanish language Web edition. She holds a BA in Journalism from the Escuela de Periodismo Carlos Septien Garcia. She has worked in magazines and newspapers in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Los Angeles and New York City, where she currently resides.
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Mara Behrens was born and raised in Venezuela. In 1991, she moved to Mexico City where she completed a BA in Design at Universidad Iberoamericana. She lived in Paris, where she took Fine Art courses at George Pompidou Center. Between 1996 and 1999, she worked as Art Director in Editorial Televisa in Mexico City, where she was in charge of the design supervision of Harper's Bazaar. In 1999 she moved to New York City where she worked as Senior Art Director at the advertising agency Reynardus & Moya and as Creative Director at Venaca.com, a digital design firm.
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Peter Svensson is a business reporter for The Associated Press in New York. He was born in Sweden and raised there and in Venezuela and India. After a stint of service for the United Nations in Croatia, he studied journalism at Stockholm University. He moved to New York in 1996 to study photography at New York University.
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