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Venezuela’s Last Independent Broadcaster Sold
The last remaining government opposition-leaning TV channel in Venezuela, Globovision, is being sold to a staunch ally of the country's late president Hugo Chavez and his regime.
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Venezuelan Officials Arrest U.S. Docmaker
Venezuelan authorities have arrested documentary filmmaker and former actor Timothy Tracy in Caracas, accusing him of espionage.
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U.S. Helmer Jailed in Venezuela Moved to Notorious Prison
U.S. documentary filmmaker Tim Tracy, arrested in Venezuela for alleged espionage last April, was transferred May 29 to the notorious El Rodeo II prison outside Caracas. Tracy and 20 others were...
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Venezuela Releases Imprisoned U.S. Filmmaker
Venezuela has expelled U.S. docu filmmaker Tim Tracy, who was arrested nearly two months for alleged espionage. Venezuelan interior minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres tweeted the news this morning:...
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Venezuela bets on ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’
A committee led by Venezuelan film orgs Anac, Caveprol and Avepca has selected Hernan Jabes' "Rock, Paper, Scissors" (Piedra, papel o tijera) to represent Venezuela in the 85th Academy Awards foreign...
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Venezuelans flock to political doc
A local political docu is breaking box office records in Venezuela.
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Venezuela’s Telesur goes live in Cuba
For the first time since the revolution began in 1953, Cuba is transmitting a foreign TV signal in real time with the entry of Venezuela's Telesur, which began broadcasting 13 1/2 hours a day this week.
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Hugo Chavez Dead: Media See No End to Tough Control
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday but with his anointed successors, Vice President Nicolas Maduro or National Assembly prexy Diosdado Cabello, likely to take over, Venezuelan media can...
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‘Bad Hair’ Tops San Sebastian Fest
SAN SEBASTIAN – Venezuelan Mariana Rondon’s “Bad Hair” won San Sebastian’s top Golden Shell on Saturday at a 61st edition galvanized in biz terms by its 2nd Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum....
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San Sebastian Film Review: ‘Bad Hair’
Mariana Rondon's impressively multilayered drama brings a powerful specificity to the story of a boy and his embittered single mother.
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TLA Releasing Sees ‘Blue’ for Key European Territories (EXCLUSIVE)
TLA Releasing has acquired the U.K., Poland and French-speaking European rights to Venezuelan gay family drama “Blue and Not So Pink,” the directorial debut of actor-turned-director Miguel Ferrari....
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CNN en Espanol, Media Under Siege as Unrest in Venezuela Continues
The media remains under siege in Venezuela as anti-government street protests continue to escalate. CNN en Espanol anchor Patricia Janiot, a former beauty queen from Colombia, abruptly left the country...
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Venezuela Politics Take on Oscars
Venezuelan broadcaster Venevision did not air the Oscars for the first time in 39 years Sunday despite announcing its ad rates for the show during its upfront presentation. The network owned by media...
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CANNES: Film Movement Acquires ‘God’s Slave’ (EXCLUSIVE)
MADRID – Ramping up its slate of films from young, cutting-edge Latin American directors, North American distributor Film Movement has acquired Venezuelan Joel Novoa’s “God’s Slave,” a standout Latin...
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Venezuela Feeds Audience’s Needs With Aggressive Film Funding
Despite the political and financial turmoil in Venezuela, local filmmakers are still churning out films — and audiences are finding a way to see them. Private financing has accounted for some of the...
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Venezuela’s Filmmakers Feel the Pinch of Country’s Economic Woes
Despite the economic and political turmoil in Venezuela, the country’s filmmakers continue to make movies. But getting people to see those films on the big screen has become a growing challenge. Since...
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Venezuela’s Ignacio Castillo Cottin Bids to Re-Screen Biopic ‘El Inca’...
Venezuelan director Ignacio Castillo Cottin and his producing partner Nathalie Sar-Shalom have filed an appeal to re-screen “El Inca,” Castillo’s biopic about boxer Edwin Valero, in Venezuela. Drama...
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Trump Raises Military Option in Response to Venezuela Crisis
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that the United States may turn to a “military option if necessary” against Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro is in the midst of a political and...
View ArticleVeloz Aiming to Win Back International Partners for Venezuelan Productions as...
Caracas-based Veloz Distribución may be the only Venezuelan company attending Cannes’s Marché du Film this year, but the five-year-old shingle has some impressive film and TV projects in development,...
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