When Paz Fábrega was growing up in Costa Rica in the nineties, she loved movies, but the idea of becoming a filmmaker didn’t seem plausible. “It was really like deciding to be an astronaut or something,” she said in a recent interview at the Costa Rica International Film Festival’s fifth edition. “I didn’t know anyone who worked in film or anything like that.”
Fábrega’s experience is a typical one for aspiring directors in Costa Rica and throughout Central America. However, a number of recent developments throughout this emerging film community are starting to change the identity of the country and inspire a new generation of filmmakers to improve its reputation.
In Fábrega’s case, the desire to pursue a filmmaking career in Costa Rica arrived only once she saw a range of possibilities elsewhere. She spent three years in middle school living in New York while...
Fábrega’s experience is a typical one for aspiring directors in Costa Rica and throughout Central America. However, a number of recent developments throughout this emerging film community are starting to change the identity of the country and inspire a new generation of filmmakers to improve its reputation.
In Fábrega’s case, the desire to pursue a filmmaking career in Costa Rica arrived only once she saw a range of possibilities elsewhere. She spent three years in middle school living in New York while...
- 12/13/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Rating: 2.5/5
Writers: Gabriel García Márquez (novel), Hilda Hidalgo (adaptation)
Director: Hilda Hidalgo
Cast: Pablo Derqui, Eliza Triana, Jordi Dauder, Joaquín Climent, Margarita Rosa de Francisco
Young Sierva is already possessed by some sort of magic before she is bitten by a rabid dog in the town market. With her three feet of copper curls and winding necklaces and strange speaking patois and her innocence that runs to the side of stupidity, Sierva is a mark for evil long before the dog latches onto her ankle. As the local bishop strongly believes that disease is the devil made visible, and that her subsequent illness is a mark of possession (not of physical frailty), the marquis’ beautiful daughter is sent to the local convent to be watched, observed, and (if need be) exorcised. But is Sierva really sick? And if she’s not physically ill, is she really possessed by the devil?...
Writers: Gabriel García Márquez (novel), Hilda Hidalgo (adaptation)
Director: Hilda Hidalgo
Cast: Pablo Derqui, Eliza Triana, Jordi Dauder, Joaquín Climent, Margarita Rosa de Francisco
Young Sierva is already possessed by some sort of magic before she is bitten by a rabid dog in the town market. With her three feet of copper curls and winding necklaces and strange speaking patois and her innocence that runs to the side of stupidity, Sierva is a mark for evil long before the dog latches onto her ankle. As the local bishop strongly believes that disease is the devil made visible, and that her subsequent illness is a mark of possession (not of physical frailty), the marquis’ beautiful daughter is sent to the local convent to be watched, observed, and (if need be) exorcised. But is Sierva really sick? And if she’s not physically ill, is she really possessed by the devil?...
- 6/21/2010
- by Kate Erbland
- GordonandtheWhale
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