Juan Luis Guerra Seijas is a Dominican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. He has sold 70 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards including 21 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards. Guerra won 3 Latin Grammy Awards in 2010, including Album of the Year. In 2012, he won the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year.
Mexican cinema dates to the late nineteenth century during the rule of President Porfirio Díaz. Seeing a demonstration of short films in 1896, Díaz immediately saw the importance of documenting his presidency in order to present an ideal image of it. With the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Mexican and foreign makers of silent films seized the opportunity to document its leaders and events. From 1915 onward, Mexican cinema focused on narrative film.
Fernando Villalona, the first artist named "El Mayimbe", is a Dominican merengue singer who began singing in the early 1970s, his popularity started to grow by the late 1970s and has not declined ever since.
Verónica Forqué Vázquez-Vigo was a Spanish stage, film and television actress. She was a four-time Goya Award winner, the most award-winning actress alongside Carmen Maura. She had a knack for characters "between ridiculous and tender, stunned and vehement".
Luis López Tosar is a Spanish actor and musician from Galicia. He is one of the most recognizable and versatile actors in Spain, best known for performances in films such as Cell 211, Take My Eyes, Sleep Tight, Even the Rain, and Mondays in the Sun. He has a music group called "Di Elas".
Nuevo Cine Mexicano, also referred to as New Mexican Cinema is a Mexican film movement started in the early 1990s. Filmmakers, critics, and scholars consider Nuevo Cine Mexicano a "rebirth" of Mexican cinema because of the production of higher-quality films. This rebirth led to high international praise as well as box-office success, unseen since the golden age of Mexican cinema of the 1930s to 1960s. The quality of Mexican films suffered in the decades following the golden age due in part to Mexican audiences watching more overseas films, especially Hollywood productions. This resulted in the rise of infamous Mexican genres such as Luchador films, sexicomedias and ultimately the low-budget direct-to-video Mexploitation film.
Pavel Giroud is a Cuban film director based in Madrid, Spain.
The Soberano Awards are the Dominican music awards, which are awarded annually by the Asociación de Cronistas de Arte of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo. Often referenced in music line-ups to delineate a musician's popularity in Hispanic countries. Notable winners include Mozart La Para, Prince Royce, and Don Omar. It airs annually in the spring on Telemicro in the Dominican Republic.
Daniel Santacruz is an American-born Dominican musician, singer, and record producer. Born in New Jersey and raised in the Dominican Republic to a Cuban father and a Dominican mother, Santacruz is a Latin Grammy Award winner.
Picky Talarico is a film director and photographer who has directed music videos for artists like Juanes, Julieta Venegas, Paulina Rubio, Diego Torres, Julio Iglesias, Gustavo Cerati, Kevin Johansen, and Bajofondo.
Chilean cinema refers to all films produced in Chile or made by Chileans. It had its origins at the start of the 20th century with the first Chilean film screening in 1902 and the first Chilean feature film appearing in 1910. The oldest surviving feature is El Húsar de la Muerte (1925), and the last silent film was Patrullas de Avanzada (1931). The Chilean film industry struggled in the late 1940s and in the 1950s, despite some box-office successes such as El Diamante de Maharajá. The 1960s saw the development of the "New Chilean Cinema", with films like Three Sad Tigers (1968), Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969) and Valparaíso mi amor (1969). After the 1973 military coup, film production was low, with many filmmakers working in exile. It increased after the end of the Pinochet regime in 1989, with occasional critical and/or popular successes such as Johnny cien pesos (1993), Historias de Fútbol (1997) and Gringuito (1998).
Isabelle Valdéz Santana, better known as Isabelle, is a Dominican singer of Christian music. She is the Christian music singer with the highest number of nominations for the Soberano Awards : 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, being the winner in the 2021 edition as "Singer of Christian music".
La Silla Awards are the awards granted by the Asociación Dominicana de Profesionales de la Industria del Cine (ADOCINE).
The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano, are Ibero-America's annual film awards.
Chameleon is a 2016 Chilean produced psychological thriller film written and directed by Jorge Riquelme Serrano. It had its world premiere at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival where it was selected to compete for the Sutherland Award.
Germana Quintana is a Venezuelan-born theatrical and television director and producer, a pioneer of independent and musical theater in the Dominican Republic, where she is known as la señora teatro. She is the founder of several theater groups in Spain and Latin America.
The Forqué Awards or José María Forqué Awards are film and television awards presented by the association of audiovisual producers EGEDA, honoring the best of Spanish cinema and television.
Manuel Varet Marte known professionally as Vakero, is a Dominican rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is one of the most important act of the Dominican urban music movement and one of the first to gain international exporsure. He is known for blends elements of punta, cumbia and merengue, with Dominican Urban and Dembow music. He is heavily influenced by Reggae and Afropop and his characteristic style influenced by Rastafari Movement.
