South by Southwest Film Festival: a heady blend of action, comedy and discovery
Austin, Texas, is in for a lot of cinematic action this weekend not just from the wave of film fanatics in town for this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, which opens Friday, but also from many of the movies they will see.
The coveted list of nominees for the Oscars were announced Tuesday morning from Hollywood.
The Iberian Peninsula will be privy to the new culinary specials focusing on the Riviera Nayarit and Puerto Vallarta via the Viajes con Sabor programs from Spain’s El Gourmet and Canal Cocina.
One of Mexico’s highest-profile and most resolutely independent young directors, Michel Franco, whose Tim Roth starrer “Chronic” won best screenplay at 2015’s Cannes Festival, has gone into production on its follow-up, “Las hijas de Abril” (“April’s Daughter”), a mother-daughters relationship drama starring Spain’s Emma Suarez, co-star of Pedro Almodovar’s “Julieta.”