Guadalajara International Film Festival 2022

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Breaking the Silence: The Awakening of Women Filmmakers Around the World

Guadalajara International Film Festival June 2022 With gender politics raging while women artists and professionals struggle to secure equitable footing in the world, female-driven stories continue to enrich global cinema. Flávia Neves and Marianna Bastos are two new Brazilian filmmakers who dare to challenge a history of oppression and whose films competed in the Ibero-American Features section at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.
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“Utama” Wins the Jorge Cámara Award at Guadalajara Film Festival

The Bolivian film Utama by director Alejandro Loayza Grisi won the award for Best First Work, Best Screenplay, and the Jorge Cámara Hollywood Foreign Press Association Award, which honors the late former president of the HFPA, at the 37th Guadalajara International Film Festival (GIFF), one of the most important festivals in Latin America. Cámara, a three-time president of the HFPA, passionately collaborated with the film festival held annually in Mexico.