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Adrian García Bogliano’s Mórbido production “Talking to a Stranger,” starring Gigi Saul Guerrero, and the awaited “The Muglur,” set up at Paulina Villavicencio’s “Huesera” production house Disruptiva Films and Sound, feature among seven titles packing out the Cannes Film Festival’s Blood Window showcase, unspooling at its Marché du Film May 15.

Also making the cut are “Love Kills,” the latest from Brazil’s Luiza Shelling, a producer on Netflix hit “Yakuza Princess,” who won La Mayor Cine award at December’s Blood Window Screenings Awards where “Telkenchu” scooped Lahaye Media and Chemistry prizes.

Blood Window marks a new generation of Latin American and Spanish genre filmmakers. Four titles are first features, Shelling’s “Love Kills” just her second, “Black Water” director Santiago Ventura’s third.

As Argentina battles with inflation and pared-back governmental incentives, the selection underscores México’s suzerainty in Latin American horror producing four of the seven Blood Window’s movies.

A Tragedy Foretold: Flight 3054 is a 2025 documentary series from Brazil that is streaming on Netflix, with perhaps the biggest aviation tragedy in Latin America at its center. A tragic plane crash that killed 199 people on the 17th of July 2007, initially seemed to have been caused by unexpected and treacherous weather conditions at the Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. However, with every passing day, it seemed like there were more factors buried beneath the surface that must have led to the accident and plenty of people to be held responsible for their negligence. A Tragedy Foretold explores these reasons and the investigation that followed over its 3 episodes and does a decent job at telling the whole story.

What happened to the Tam Airlines Flight 3054?

The accident at the center of Netflix’s A Tragedy Foretold took place at the Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo on the rainy evening of July 17th,...

Simone Biles had the classiest response to the fact that she might have been robbed of another gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The 27-year-old Olympian won four medals at the Summer Games – three golds and one silver. Her silver medal was in the floor routine, where the gold went to Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade.

New evidence shows that an inquiry that was submitted to the judges might have adjusted Simone‘s score enough to have pushed her to the pinnacle position on the podium.

When she became aware of the evidence, she took to social media to respond.

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According to reporting by People, Simone‘s Netflix docuseries Simone Biles: Rising shows that an inquiry was submitted over a a split leap that she performed during her routine. If her score had been adjusted, it would have pushed her to a 14.233, and Rebeca‘s...

Outlaw or Bandida: A Número Um, the Brazilian Netflix Original, is all about Rebeca and her life of crime in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Based on the book ‘A Número Um’ by Raquel de Oliveira, the movie chronicles the life of Rebeca and the other characters that either hate her to the point of wanting her dead or become a big part of her life that contributes to making her become a strong person.

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Rebeca

Maria Bomani, as Rebeca, has only seen the worst side of the people close to her. Her grandmother sold her off to the person she owed money to without thinking twice, and ever since, Rebeca has been working like a slave for Amoroso, the local gangster in Rocinha favela. Life is not easy for her, but she uses everything in her capacity to remain alive and not let anyone else control her life.

Outlaw is the English title for the Brazilian Netflix film Bandida: A Número Um. This is one of the many crime dramas about Brazil and the drug dealing underworld that thrives in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Dom on Amazon Prime Video and City of God are some of the prominent stories about the crime rings that festered in the slums, aka favelas, of Rio, and how they began to affect the people. Directed by João Wainer, the movie is based on a book written by Raquel de Oliveira, titled A Número Um. Outlaw was released on Netflix on September 11, 2024.

The movie is set in the year 1992 in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where a young girl named Rebeca was living with her hardworking mother. The movie began with the scene of police attacking her den. As a result, she was making cassettes and recording her life story before she was rescued or,...

Sometimes, you watch a film and just tell yourself that they should have made a documentary instead. João Wainer’s 2024 film Outlaw (originally titled Bandida: A Número Um) is no different. The director has tried to shoot the film in a documentary format to make it look as realistic as he can, but a disjointed narrative ruins it all. You can clearly see that there is no story at all. The screenplay conveniently jumps across time periods to show different stages in the protagonist’s life and after a point, it becomes quite evident that nothing much happened in between. At the end of the day, Outlaw looks more like a home video edited on a Windows Movie Maker using all the filters available in the software. I haven’t read the non-fiction book by Raquel de Oliveira, on which the film is based, but as much as I grasped from the movie,...

Netflix's Simone Biles Rising offers an emotional journey through the gymnast's struggles and triumphs, challenging typical sports narratives. Biles' impressive feats at the 2024 Olympics cemented her legacy, sparking curiosity about her future in the sport. While rumors swirl about Biles' retirement post-2024 Olympics, she remains open to the idea but hints at a possible return in 2028.

Netflix's documentary series Simone Biles Rising walks through the elite gymnast's uplifting journey but also raises several questions surrounding her future as an athlete after the 2024 Olympics. While featuring Biles' impressive athletic feats in slow motion, Netflix's Simone Biles Rising offers a highly emotional and immersive human perspective on her struggles and triumphs both inside and outside the training floor. In many ways, it even goes against most typical sports narratives in documentaries by honoring her legacy but also reminding viewers that she is human.

The two-part documentary series also gives a glimpse...

Anitta is celebrating Rebeca Andrade’s historic gold medal — and her music’s role in it! On Monday, the Brazilian singer congratulated Andrade on social media after the gymnast became the country’s most-decorated Olympian thanks to her floor routine win.

Andrade’s performance, which earned her a gold medal over Team USA’s Simon Biles‘ silver and Jordan Chiles’ bronze, remixed a live version of Anitta’s 2014 song “Movimento da Sanfoninha” into her routine.

“Queen of Brazil. 3 big winners,” she wrote, referencing Chiles and Biles. “This queen used my...

Laurie Hernandez is proving she’s as much of a natural at commentating the Olympics as she was when competing in them.

The 24-year-old media personality has been earning scores of praise this summer for her enthusiastic, insightful and down-to-earth broadcast work as a color commentator for NBC’s coverage of women’s artistic gymnastics events at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Hernandez has plenty of experience handling Olympic pressure, having won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team known as the “Final Five” at the 2016 Rio Olympics — alongside teammate Simone Biles — in addition to an individual silver medal for the balance beam that year.

She is also no stranger to the media spotlight, having won the Dancing With the Stars season 23 title in 2016 following the Olympics, in addition to co-hosting American Ninja Warrior Junior and voicing roles on such animated series as The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.

Set and shot north of Barcelona in Manresa, “You Would Do It Too,” from David Victori, is a lightning-fast eight-part half-hour thriller following a bus heist gone awry. Written and directed by Victori, it is also the first Spanish production resulting from an alliance struck between Legendary Television and Spain’s Espotlight Media.

Victori will travel to Miami and speak at the New Talent Modela panel at Content Americas on Jan. 25 as Legendary Television, who hold worldwide rights, aim to close a deal for Latin America off the Miami conference.

Also created by Victori, the series will debut exclusively on Disney+ in Spain. Anne Thomopoulos (Legendary) and Anxo Rodríguez (Espotlight) co-produce the series, which is a natural next step for a director who has been building a canon of thrillers through the years.

Victori moved waves winning the 2012 YouTube Your Film Festival with short film “The Guilt,” beating out 15,000 submissions...

Writer-director-subject Rebeca Huntt worries aloud whether her family will ever speak to her again after watching her feature debut Beba. It’s a real concern: not only because of how intimate and uncensored this introspective look at her life and ancestry proves, but because they have a history of verbally and emotionally shutting themselves off from each other. Her brother and father haven’t spoken in over a decade. Her brother isn’t seen or heard from during the film, beyond still photographs. The depiction of her parents makes it seem they aren’t on great terms, either, despite continuing to live together in their rent-controlled Central Park West one-bedroom apartment. None of these truths or assumptions are judgments, though. They’re merely facts Huntt has been forced to confront.

I use the word “confront” because this is an active part of her life. She hasn’t endured these details or overcome them.