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Exclusive: Stars of Money Heist and other cast have boarded Vix+’s Spanish-language series Travesuras de la Niña Mala, which is based on the novel by Nobel prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa and has revealed first look image. Trailer is below.

Fernando Soto, who plays Ángel in Antena/3 Netflix smash Money Heist, and Fernando Cayo, who plays Coronel Tamayo, join previously announced Juan Pablo Di Pace and Macarena Achaga. Others to join include Martijn Kuiper (Los Hombres de Paco), Rowi Prieto (Aj Zombies), Vanessa Saba (Ella y Él), Victor Civeira (La Bella y las Bestias), Nestor Rodulfo (Che: Part: One), Steph Bumelcrownd (Lo Que la Gente Cuenta) and Javier Dulzaldes (Al Fondo hay Sitio).

Money Heist director Alejandro Bazzano is helming the show and has been joined by director Pavel Vázquez, as first look image is revealed.

Filmed in London and Paris, TelevisaUnivision’s flagship series for Vix+ tells...

Stars: Vania Accinelli, Sergio Gjurinovic, Vanessa Saba, Alexa Centurion, Maria Fernanda Valera, Nicolás Galindo, Carla Arriola, Guillermo Castañeda, Javier Valdez, Ismael Contreras | Written by Vanessa Saba | Directed by Frank Perez-Garland

In Face of the Devil, seven friends go on a remote jungle vacation where they are terrorized by a primeval spirit, but as they struggle to survive they come to realize that they brought the demon with them and evil lies within.

Face of the Devil, or La Cara Del Diablo if you want to use its original name, has taught me to add ‘remote jungle hotels run by a single creepy old man’ to my list of places where not to go on holiday. I’ve put it beneath ‘abandoned asylums’ and above ‘orphanages’ just so I don’t forget. It’s a Peruvian film and Spanish is spoken throughout and, unless you’re one of those people who are allergic to subtitles,...

Director Frank Pérez-Garland is known for simple, heartfelt stories about relationships; movies like 2005's Un Día Sin Sexo and the 2009 anthology Cu4tro (alongside fellow filmmakers Bruno Ascenzo, Christian Buckley, and Sergio Barrio) confirmed him as a director specialized in romantic dramas. Pérez-Garland took a detour in 2014 to try his hand at horror with the jungle-set La Cara del Diablo, but now he seems to be right back in his wheelhouse for Ella y El (English title: About Them), a drama charting the highs and inevitable lows of a normal, everyday couple. The film was co-written with his wife, actress Vanessa Saba, who also stars alongside Giovanni Ciccia as the two lovers. Early press for the film has said the trailer has a vibe...

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From the very opening, we are warned that this is a film of doubling and illusion. A car slowly pulls up and to a stop in a nighttime Lima street, but we gradually realise that we are observing the scene through a large window, with the street and headlamps subtly reflecting and shifting in the pulled focus. It turns out that this sequence – man with gun stealthily enters house – forms the final chapter of Edo Celeste’s latest in a long line of successful detective novels, and he is composing it as we watch, before deleting it in disgust at his reliance on cliche – a black cat. It also turns out that later on Edo himself will repeat the exact same actions, via the same shots, trying to find the woman who can help him find the mysterious man who has posed for a photographic project depicting his works’ hero,...

Chicago – The 31st edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival Kicks Off on Thursday, April 9, 2015, with the Venezuelan/Spanish film “The Liberator” (“Libertador”). All films are at the AMC River East 21 in Chicago.

This year’s festival promises another huge array of films originating from Latino countries all over the world, and runs from April 9th through the 23rd. The kick-off film “The Liberator” will be followed by a reception at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Chicago. For details and to purchase tickets click here.

’The Liberator’ is the Opening Night Film at the 31st Chicago Latino Film Festival

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The Opening Night Capsule and the highlights of Week One are as follows…

Opening Night: “The Liberator”

Selected by Venezuela as their official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the recent Academy Awards, “The Liberator” is a biography film of Simon Bolivar, the...

Exclusive: Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León’s whodunit pays homage to Hollywood film noir and the reality-twisting fictions of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. The Vanished Elephant, which has its premiere Saturday at Toronto, stars Salvador del Solar as a crime novelist whose fiancée has been missing for seven years. He is given a clue to the mystery by a woman (Angie Cepeda) whose ex-husband died the same day the writer’s betrothed vanished. Lucho Cáceres, Tatiana Astengo, Vanessa Saba, Andrés Parra also star in the Peru-Colombia-Spain co-production. Mundial is selling international rights at Tiff. Watch the trailer above.

Mercedes (Mayella Lloclla) is an orphan who comes to work as a maid for the lonely, widowed Silvia (Vanessa Saba), who lives all by herself in a huge, rundown house. While there, she catches the eye of Jaime (Manuel Gold, an actor known for comedic roles, here playing it mostly straight), a backpacker earning money as a handyman. Unknown to both of them, however, is that the whole thing is a plan hatched by Silvia to get Mercedes pregnant and claim her baby as her own, at all costs. That's the plot behind El Vientre, the second film from Daniel Rodríguez Risco, after 2008 drama The Watercolorist. It's the first Peruvian release of the year and also this country's first attempt at a psychological thriller. Genre movies...

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