Kristal Sotomayor

24 Sep The Top Six Films From TIFF

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BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is the largest publicly attended film festival in the world, and one of the most internationally recognized festivals. With the spread of the pandemic, film festivals globally have shifted to virtual screenings and socially-distanced, in-person screenings. The...

03 Sep The Empire of Images: How ‘Epicentro’ Fails to View Cuba

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BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR “Utopia means both good place and no place,” meditates Academy Award nominated filmmaker Hubert Sauper in his latest feature documentary Epicentro. The film was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Throughout Epicentro, the Austrian director...