Curta Cinema 2014 concluded its 24th year on November 12 in Rio de Janeiro.

Valeria Puig knew that her passion was to make movies since the age of 15.  Now, already at 26 years old, she has several international experiences to her credit and has come home to reflect on them. 

Filmmaker Pablo Palacios focuses his most recent documentary “Los sonidos del tiempo” (The Sounds of Time) on capturing the loss of musical traditions in Ecuador.

Cinema in Central America is looking for new markets and, after years of reflecting mainly on the drama of war in the region, it is attempting to reach the public through other genres. 

“If you aspire to be a professional artist, you have to leave El Salvador.”  This is the advice that Laura Benítez, a ballet dancer from El Salvador, would give to other aspiring dancers from her home country. 

Researchers have discovered artifacts in the southern Andes that date back to the Ice Age, suggesting that ancient people lived at a very high altitude just 2,000 years after arriving to South America.

Police raided the home of a German man in Santa Ana on Oct. 22, seizing a collection of unregistered pre-Columbian art worth as much as $1 million. 

Six of Argentina’s most internationally famous advertising professionals showed a different side to their creativity by contemplating the fate of Don Draper, the main character of AMC’s Mad Men. 

He watched the buildings and empty streets of São Paulo, bothered by insistent noise from a construction site on Avenida Angélica.  For a whole morning he was thinking about the number of windows that looked into the distance and the stories that lay behind each.

In 1941, Walt Disney and his studio of several artists toured Latin America for two and a half weeks in a trip paid for by the United States Government that inspired them to create classics like “Peter Pan” and “Alice in Wonderland.”