Film fest honors Latino and Nordic cinema
The director of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) presented Spanish Director Pablo Berger with the Cine Latino Award for his film “Blancanieves” at the 24th Palm Springs International Film Festival in California last week.
Beset by uncertainty about whether its leadership will keep their jobs under the new state government taking the reins March 1, the general manager of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO), Arturo Gomez Poulat, said that he and Artistic Director Alondra de la Parra are nevertheless designing the orchestra's new season and hoping to propose artistic and business projects to cultural authorities in February.
Lucia Maya’s artwork is not shocking in its subject matter, nor does it contain the distasteful imagery that characterize the work of so many contemporary artists.
Unscheduled delays aside, Guadalajara will unveil an aesthetic, state-of-the-art performance and cultural space in June 2013.