Three Chilean films have been selected for the 2013 lineup of Directors' Fortnight, the independent section of the Cannes Film Festival, including the world premiere of Alejandro Jodorowsky's much-anticipated La danza de la realidad / The Dance of Reality and the international premiere of Sebastián Silva's Magic Magic. The third Chilean production confirmed in the lineup is Marcela Said's mordant family dramedy El verano de los peces voladores / The Summer of the Flying Fish (pictured right below).
Jodorowsky will also be featured in the official selection with Franck Pavich's documentary film Jodorowsky’s Dune, which chronicles the failed attempt by the Chilean director to shoot Frank Herbert's Dune.
Additionally, Directors' Fortnight will be screening the American remake of the Mexican horror hit We Are What We Are directed by Jorge Michel Grau. The American remake is produced by Bolivian director Rodrigo Bellott and directed by Jim Mickle.
Latin American will be represented in the Short Films selection of the section with the films Solecito by Colombian director Oscar Ruiz Navia, Pouco mais de um mês by Brazlian director André Novais Oliveira, and Que je tombe tout le temps by Argentinean director Eduardo Williams.
After a 23 year hiatus, Jodorowsky returns to filmmaking with La danza de la realidad in which the 84-year-old director revisits the memories of his childhood growing up in Chile: firemen parading in the streets of Tocopilla, the old Masonic Library where he learned to read and met Tarot; the beach where he used to play, and an old circus.
Starring American actor Michael Cera, Sebastián Silva's Magic Magic tells the story of a young woman vacationing in remote Chile, who begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.
Three films from Latin America, co-productions with Mexico, Brazil, and Haiti, won prizes at the 9th annual edition of the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA Awards) that took place last night in Nigeria. 
The Haitian-American co-production Stones in the Sun (pictured right) by Patricia Benoit was the winner of the prize for Best Diaspora Feature. In the midst of increasing political violence, the film tells the story of a young couple, two sisters, and a father and son who are driven from Haiti to New York, where they must confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) announced yesterday the award winners for the TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund, Heineken VOCES and TFI/WorldView Partnership grants at a celebration for Latin American filmmakers. The funds, totaling $130,000, support innovative Latin American film and video artists to help them explore stories reflecting diverse cultures and gain exposure in the American film industry. 
The winners of the 2013 Bloomberg grants are:
The four winners of this year's TFI Latin America Media Arts Fund:
- Solitude Square / Plaza de la Soledad (Mexico, pictured right), Directed by Maya Goded; Produced by Martha Sosa Elizondo; Co-Produced by Iris Lammertsma. Two aged prostitutes see themselves forced to contemplate their lives and confront their issues so they can live out the remainder of their days with dignity and hope.
The winners of the TFI/WorldView Partnership grants are:
The film Filly Brown (pictured) by Youssef Delara and Michael D. Olmos and starring the Gina Rodriguez and the late Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera, opened in American theaters last Friday to a solid box office performance grossing $1.3 million in 188 screens across the country for a $7,250 average per theater.
