José Luis García Muñoz, known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish film director, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for Begin the Beguine (1982). Four of his films, including also Sesión continua (1984), Asignatura aprobada (1987) and El abuelo (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots.
Municipalities of Venezuela are subdivisions of the States of Venezuela. There are 335 municipalities dividing the 23 states and the Capital District.
El Pez que Fuma is a 1977 Venezuelan film directed by Román Chalbaud. The film takes place in La Guaira, in the titular brothel. It is considered by many to represent a high point in Venezuelan cinema, and was made during the Golden Age of Venezuelan cinema.
Ernesto Federico Alterio Bacaicoa is an Argentine-Spanish film, theatre, and television actor.
The cinema of Venezuela is the production and industry of filmmaking in Venezuela. Venezuelan cinema has been characterised from its outset as propaganda, partially state-controlled and state-funded, commercial cinema. The nation has seen a variety of successful films, which have reaped several international awards. Still, in terms of quality, it is said that though "we can point to specific people who have made great films in Venezuela [and] a couple of great moments in the history of Venezuelan cinema, [...] those have been exceptions". In the 21st century, Venezuelan cinema has seen more independence from the government, but has still been described as recently as 2017 to be at least "influenced" by the state.
Cruz María Salmerón Acosta was a Venezuelan poet. His sonnets were influenced by the movement of modernismo.
The Gospel of the Flesh is a 2013 Peruvian crime drama thriller film directed by Eduardo Mendoza de Echave. It was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. It premiered on 17 October 2013 in Lima and several other provinces.
Matías Bize is a Chilean film director, producer and screenwriter. He has won important independent film awards including the Espigo de Oro for In Bed at the 2005 Valladolid International Film Festival in Spain, and a Goya Award in 2011 for The Life of Fish.
Jacobo Penzo, is a Venezuelan filmmaker, best known for his drama piece The House of Water, shown in the Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. The film also represented Venezuela in the Best Foreign Language Film competition at the 57th Academy Awards. Penzo is also a painter and a writer.
From Afar is a 2015 Venezuelan drama film directed by Lorenzo Vigas and written by Vigas and Guillermo Arriaga. It won the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. It was selected as the Venezuelan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
Juana Acosta Restrepo is a Colombian-Spanish actress. She has appeared in more than 40 films.
Champions is a 2018 Spanish sports comedy-drama film directed by Javier Fesser and written by Fesser and David Marqués. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Un célebre especialista sacando muelas en el gran Hotel Europa was the first Venezuelan film. It was screened at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, Zulia on 28 January 1897 as the second in a film block of four; the block also featured another film from Maracaibo. Little is known about the film's production, and scholars are uncertain of the identity of its director.
Casiri, also known as Paucarani, is an about 5,650 metres (18,537 ft) high complex volcano in the Barroso mountain range of the Andes, in the Tacna Region of Peru. It consists of four individual volcanic edifices with lava domes; the southeasternmost edifice has been active during the Holocene, producing thick lava flows that have overrun moraines of Pleistocene age. The youngest lava flow has been dated to 2,600 ± 400 years ago. Although no historical eruptions are known, the volcano is considered to be potentially active and is monitored.
Muchachos bañándose en la laguna de Maracaibo is the second Venezuelan film produced, after Un célebre especialista sacando muelas en el gran Hotel Europa. It was screened at the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on 28 January 1897.
Venezuela was introduced to cinema as a for-profit industry in the 1890s, when the medium became international. There were at least eight national films made in the decade, by three groups of filmmakers — one of the groups was based in Maracaibo and one was based in Caracas. The first film screening in the nation may have taken place as early as 1894, but is generally reported as 1896, with this later date being the first scheduled public screening.
The Daughter is a 2021 Spanish thriller drama film directed by Manuel Martín Cuenca, which stars Javier Gutiérrez, Patricia López Arnaiz and Irene Virgüez.
Simón is a 2023 film directed by Venezuelan filmmaker Diego Vicentini. The film is about a young Venezuelan protester, Simón, who after being arrested and tortured during protests in Venezuela flees the country and seeks asylum in Miami, where he must decide whether to stay in the city or return to Venezuela. The feature film has received multiple awards, including Best International Narrative Feature at the Dallas International Film Festival and Best Feature Film at the Venezuelan Film Festival.
