The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today the list of 398 artists and executives invited the the organization is inviting as new members, which includes several U.S. Latinx and Latin American film professionals.
In the directing category, the Academy has invited Panamanian filmmaker Abner Benaim (Plaza Catedral), Argentine filmmakers Ana Katz (The Dog Who Wouldn’t be Quiet) and Santiago Mitre (Argentina, 1985), Brazilian filmmaker Anita Rocha da Silveira (Medusa), veteran Peruvian filmmaker Francisco Lombardi (The City and the Dogs), and U.S. Latinx directors Antonio Campos (The Devil All the Time), Rashaad Ernesto Green (Premature), and Carlos López Estrada (Raya and the Last Dragon).
In the screenplay category, the Academy has invited writer-directors Alejandro Fernández Almendras (To Kill a Man) from Chile, and Mariano Llinás (La Flor) from Argentina, while the documentary branch extended an invitation to Argentine director Andrés di Tella (Private Fiction).
Three Latinx actors were listed in the acting category: Raúl Castillo (Cha Cha Real Smooth), A Martinez (Ambulance), and Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), while Uruguayan director of photography María Secco (Sorcery) is the only Latin American invitee in the cinematography branch this year. Three Latin American producers were invited to join the Academy: Daniel Birman Ripstein (Daniel & Ana), Giancarlo Nasi (Blanquita), and Axel Vladimir Kuschevatzky (Argentina, 1985). Other Latin American film professionals invited by the Academy are Mexican makeup artist Alfredo Mora (Dance of the 41), Cuba-born sound designer Lena Esquenazi (Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), Mexican sound designer Javier Umpierrrez (Memoria) and Mexican director Jesús Pimentel Melo (Miramelinda),
