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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez is a monumental work in the literary realm. Its pages are alive with the magic of memory, the weight of history, and the delicate dance of fate—a tapestry woven with threads of love, loss, and a real longing.

As I settled in to watch Netflix’s adaptation, I felt a familiar flutter of anxiety: how do you transform the ineffable beauty of Márquez’s words into a visual medium? The novel’s popularity is almost heavenly, revered not only for its narrative complexity but also for its significant impact on the landscape of magical realism. It’s a towering achievement that makes many adaptations feel like pale shadows of the original—a formidable challenge that this series must carefully navigate.

Márquez famously opposed film adaptations of his writings, claiming that no film could capture the depth of his vision. And yet,...

Three years ago, Max released a limited series adaptation of a well-regarded novel that blended magic realism and an all-too-real snapshot of a global pandemic. Dreamy and uncomfortably familiar, bleak and yet bursting with hope, Patrick Somerville’s translation of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven has settled into a reputation as a modern classic — THR placed it at No. 42 on our list of the 50 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century So Far — but owing to the timing of its premiere, the show was initially a little lost. It missed deadlines for many critics’ Top 10 lists and didn’t attract the awards attention you might expect based on its subsequent acclaim. It had to take a long path to adoration.

We’ll have to see if a similar fate awaits Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, a novel with one of...

You won’t have to wait 100 more years for Netflix’s adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” — the two-part series premieres on December 11. Each part is eight episodes.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (the book) was published in 1967; Márquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages.

“One Hundred Years of Solitude (the series) was entirely filmed in Colombia with the support of the Márquez family. Like the book, it follows cousins José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán who are married against their parents’ wishes.

“Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they baptize Macondo,” the Netflix synopsis reads. “Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town,...

Netflix has unveiled the official trailer and key art for One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is based on the masterpiece by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and directed by Laura Mora and Alex García López. The series, consisting of two parts of eight episodes each, will debut its first installment on December 11, 2024.

In the new trailer, some of the iconic moments that have captivated readers of the novel for over 50 years come to life on screen: the founding of Macondo and the arrival of Melquíades, the tensions of family life, the passions of the town’s inhabitants, the emergence of political conflicts and the ensuing war, and the chestnut tree where José Arcadio Buendía fulfills the prophecy of his solitude, unleashing a rain of yellow flowers.

One Hundred Years of Solitude represents one of the most ambitious audiovisual projects in Latin American history. The series was filmed entirely in Colombia,...

Season One of Netflix’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez adaptation One Hundred years Of Solitude will debut on the service on December 11.

The adaptation of the Colombian literary giant’s magical realist masterpiece centres on the lives of several generations of the Buendia family in the fictitious town of Macondo.

The show is one of Netflix’s biggest ever productions in Latin America and shot from May to December 2023 across 15 towns. The production employed a cast of mostly emerging actors, a crew of hundreds, and more than 20,000 extras.

Netflix accessed Colombia’s production incentives and partnered with frequent collaborator Dynamo Producciones (Narcos).

Laura Mora,...

Netflix has set a premiere date for One Hundred Years of Solitude, the series adaptation of the Gabriel García Marquez novel that follows the Buendía family and the founding of the mythical town of Macondo.

Season 1 of the series will kick off December 11; the plan is for two seasons of eight episodes. Alex García López and Laura Mora co-direct the project, which is produced by Colombian production company Dynamo. Writers are José Rivera, Natalia Santa, Camila Brugés, María Camila Arias and Albatrós González.

The series was filmed entirely in Colombia, with the support of Marquez’s family. The cast includes Claudio Cataño (Colonel Aureliano Buendía), Jerónimo Barón (young Aureliano Buendía), Marco González (Jose Arcadio Buendía), Leonardo Soto (José Arcadio’s son), Susana Morales (Úrsula Iguarán), Ella Becerra (Petronila), Carlos Suaréz (Aureliano Iguarán), Moreno Borja (Melquiades) and Santiago Vásquez (teenage Aureliano Buendía).

It was revealed in 2019 that Netflix had landed rights to adapt the book.

Netflix has revealed the premiere date for One Hundred Years of Solitude, based on the masterpiece by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez and directed by Laura Mora and Alex García López. The series, consisting of two parts of eight episodes each, will debut its first installment on December 11, 2024.

One Hundred Years of Solitude represents one of the most ambitious audiovisual projects in Latin American history. The series was filmed entirely in Colombia, with the support of Gabriel García Márquez’s family.

“As a filmmaker and as a Colombian, it has been an honor and a huge challenge to work on a project as complex and that carries as much responsibility as One Hundred Years of Solitude, always striving to understand the difference between the literary and audiovisual languages and to be able to construct images that contain the beauty, poetry, and depth of a work that has impacted the entire world,...

Netflix has revealed a first look at One Hundred Years of Solitude, the series based on Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece novel.

In this sneak peek, we hear Aureliano Babilonia as he reads from the mythical diary of Melquiades and is transported to Macondo to witness Colonel Aureliano Buendía standing before a firing squad while he remembers that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

What follows are breathtaking scenes of José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán’s journey in search of happiness, fleeing the curse placed upon their lineage.

Directed by Laura Mora and Alex García López, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most ambitious film projects in Latin America to date, brought to life by talented artists from Colombia and Latam. It was filmed entirely in Spanish and shot in Colombia with the support of Gabriel García Márquez’s family.

Married against their parent’s wishes,...

Gabriel García Márquez’s famed novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is finally landing an adaptation courtesy of Netflix.

A sprawling 16-episode series is set to debut later this year, bringing Márquez’s beloved 1967 bestseller to the screen. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the most ambitious film projects in Latin America to date, brought to life by the most talented artists from Colombia and Latam, filmed entirely in Spanish and shot in Colombia with the support of author Márquez’s family.

The series is produced by independent Colombian entertainment company Dynamo, which has been behind more than 47 feature films and 25 television series. Previous Dynamo releases include fellow Netflix series “Wild District,” “Crime Diaries,” and “Green Frontier,” as well as providing location services to “Narcos,” “El Chapo,” and “Gemini Man.”

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” was filmed in the regions of La Guajira, Magdalena, Cesar, Cundinamarca, and Tolima in Colombia.

A sneak peek of Netflix’s 100 Years Of Solitude has been released. The hugely anticipated series adaptation of the Gabriel García Marquez novel bows on the streamer later this year.

The multi-generational tale follows the Buendía family and tells the story of the founding of the mythical town of Macondo.

The Spanish-language series was filmed in Colombia with support from the family of Marquez whose widely acclaimed novel has sold over 50 million copies and been translated into 40 languages. Netflix released a brief teaser in 2022 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Marquez winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, but the new teaser reveals much more.

The new video shows Aureliano Babilonia as he reads from the mythical diary of Melquiades before transporting viewers to Macondo to witness Colonel Aureliano Buendía standing before a firing squad while he remembers the afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

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By Abe Friedtanzer

The grass is always greener on the other side, and it’s easy to imagine that things might be better if only something was different. Natalia Santa’s sophomore feature Malta, which makes its world premiere at SXSW, follows a woman named Mariana (Estefanía Piñeres) who is looking to get away from her life in Bogotá, Colombia and has become fixated on the island of Malta as somewhere she could be free from it all. Unfortunately for her, she’s not headed anywhere with any particular urgency…...

"My friends are betting on how many times I invite you out before giving up..." An early festival promo trailer has debuted online for an indie film from Colombia titled Malta, premiering at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival this month. This trailer is out just before its release to build up some SXSW buzz, and it's expected to show up at more festivals later this year. Keep an eye out for it! The second feature by director Natalia Santa (also of The Dragon Defense from Cannes 2017's Directors' Fortnight) follows a young Colombian woman who dreams of escaping her suffocating urban reality and traveling the world, including to the island of Malta, yet an unexpected relationship with an unlikely man will make her confront her true motives for leaving. Featuring stellar performances from a wonderful ensemble cast, including: Estefanía Piñeres as Mariana, Patricia Tamayo, Emmanuel Restrepo, and Diego Cremonesi. It's described...

After premiering her debut The Dragon Defense at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight back in 2017, Colombian writer-director Natalia Santa is back with her second feature, Malta. Set for a world premiere in the Global section at the 2024 edition of the SXSW Film Festival this weekend, the film follows a young Colombian woman who dreams of escaping her suffocating urban reality and traveling the world, yet an unexpected relationship with an unlikely man will make her confront her true motives for leaving. Ahead of the premiere, we’re pleased to exclusively debut the first trailer.

“Malta delves into themes of femininity, motherhood, and sexuality through the lens of Mariana, a young woman yearning to escape her home and its burdensome familial legacy. She seeks a place where she can carve out her identity without shouldering the weight of her mother’s failures and a history she’s determined not to repeat,” notes the director.

March fest announces multiple competition sections.

SXSW announced on Wednesday that Netflix series 3 Body Problem from Game Of Thrones co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss is the festival’s opening night TV premiere, while Universal’s action comedy The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt is the centrepiece screening.

Top brass at the Austin, Texas, festival (March 8-16) also unveiled feature and short competitions and Midnighters and Global sections, as well as select titles from other categories and Xr Experience for the 31st edition.

Headliners selections include world premieres of Pamela Adlon’s Babes starring Ilana Glazer,...

ƒmovieMexico’s Alfonso Herrera, best known for his role as the impetuous nephew looking to usurp his drug lord uncle in “Ozark” and as a former member of the wildly popular band Rbd and its TV series “Rebelde,” has joined the cast of “Tesis sobre una domesticación,” a movie adaptation of the multi-awarded novel of trans actress-scribe Camila Sosa Villada.

Now shooting in Argentina, “Tesis…” is a co-production between Argentina’s Laura Huberman, Ramiro Pavón and Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna’s Mexico City-based La Corriente del Golfo.

“Tesis sobre una domesticación” (“Thesis on a Domestication”) relates the story of a successful trans actress (played by Sosa Villalda) and her gay lawyer husband who adopt a child, defying Argentina’s conservative society to form their own family unit. Their attempt at domestic bliss is disrupted when they visit the actress’s home town where her family resides.

Herrera expressed...

Spanish Screenings on Tour, video games section among anticipated highlights.

Ventana Sur organisers anticipate a record number of participants to descend on Buenos Aires for the in-person return of Latin America’s leading audiovisual market running November 28–December 2.

This year’s edition is loaded with animation and genre, a profusion of works in progress as well as video game projects and the arrival of Spanish Screenings On Tour.

Ventana Sur is heading towards a record attendance this year as organisers said more than 2,500 participants including 400 from Europe, 100 from North America and 400 from Latin America (excluding Argentina) have registered so far.

Mexico’s “All the Fires” and “We Shall Not Be Moved” and Chile’s “Sariri” look like buzz titles at this year’s Ventana Sur Primer Corte and Copia Final, the biggest single industry draws at Ventana Sur, which is both Latin America’s most important movie market and a springboard for selection at at Sundance, Berlin and Cannes.

Backed by the Cannes Film Market and Festival and Argentina’s Incaa film agency, Primer Corte and Copia Final unspool over Nov. 28-Dec. 2 in Buenos Aires.

Of best known titles, Copia Final features “Malta,” a troubled young woman’s drama and second feature from Colombia’s Natalia Santa whose debut, “The Dragon Defence,” played Cannes 2017 Directors’ Fortnight.

Argentine Juan Sebastian Torales’ “Almamula” was a 2019 San Sebastian Forum winner.

The main takeaway from this year’s double section pix-in-post lineup, however, is that Latin America’s spectacular surge in new directorial talent shows no signs of abating.

Twelve projects have been selected for the two work-in-progress sections.

Organised by Argentina’s national film body Incaa and the Cannes Marché du Film, Latin America’s premiere film market Ventana Sur has announced 12 works-in-progress for this year’s edition (November 28-December 2).

The market’s post-production competition Primer Corte contains three Mexican titles: Goodbye Love from director Indra Villaseñor, about a deported immigrant torn between a drug lord and a peaceful life; Manuela Irene’s summer-set coming-of-age tale Xibalba Monster; and Mexico-Peru co-production The Innocents, a story of sex, rock music and the end of innocence from Germán Tejada, a...

Before a crowd of filmmakers and journalists, Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival reached an industry crescendo on Tuesday with the presentation of prizes for its Co-Production Meetings which brought producers and directors face to face with potential partners as well as giving opportunities to filmmakers to pitch their projects to industry service companies sponsoring in-kind awards.

It was difficult to discern any strong trends among favored projects as prize winners ranged from documentaries to features, though fatherless or deteriorating families seemed to be at the core of many of the titles. Recipients hailed from across Central and South America and were about equally divided between men and woman, with some prizes going to teams comprising just female filmmakers a sign perhaps that the legendary machismo of Latin America may be subsiding, at least, in the film industry.

Top winner was the documentary project “Jirafas,” an Ecuador/Chile co-production in early development,...

Each year the Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg) invites a crop of the most exciting projects from around Latin America to participate in its Co-Production Meetings. This year, organizers are excited to welcome back in-person visitors for its rescheduled 17th edition of the event, where teams representing 24 feature film projects will meet with potential partners, financing organizations, sales agents and more.

Below, a look at this year’s participating projects.

“Animals,”

From Waissbluth, whose enterprising 2016 “A Horse Called Elephant” marked a rare Southern American movie play for family ads. Billed as a near-future dark dramedy, his latest pictures a world where animal rights begin to be widespread and upheld by law.

“The Bad Mother,”

Victoria, a successful journalist, decides to have a baby, regrets it later, which plunges her into depression.She writes a book, “The Bad Mother,” which creates a movement. A horror drama marking the director’s first feature.

Prime Video Direct (Pvd), Amazon’s self-service program for studios, distributors, and content creators, has unveiled more than two dozen titles picked up from the 2018 Guadalajara Int’l Film Festival (Ficg) where it launched its Film Festival Stars program (Ffs) in the Latino market for the first time.

Introduced at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, the Ffs program offers cash bonuses and royalties to festival films seeking to self-distribute on Amazon Prime.

Prime Video Direct’s Film Festival Stars program addresses the fact that few festival films ever manage to secure full service distribution deals. The program gives them an opportunity to reach a broader premium audience.

Starting Monday Oct. 15, these 27 titles will be available on Prime Video in Mexico, including Ficg Jury Prize winner for Ibero-American Narrative Feature, Spanish dramedy “Vivir y Otras Ficciones” (“Living and other Fictions”) and Ficg Jury Prize Ibero-American doc winner, “El Espanto” (“The Dread”) from Argentina.

More than 30 film projects in development set to be presented at the Bogota Audiovisual Market (Bam).Scroll down for full list of projects

Peter Webber’s $2m docu-drama One River (El Rio) and Miguel Urrutia’s English-language thriller Madness are among 33 film projects in development being presented this week at Bam (July 13-17).

Colombia’s biggest film market also features 18 screenings of films in an advanced state of development, alongside the regular Bam Projects category.

Webber (The Girl With The Pearl Earring) attended Bam last year to promote his pickpocket drama Fresh and returns this year with One River.

The project is based on an international best-selling book by Canadian Wade Davis, charting Professor Richard Schultes’ journey through the Amazon in the 1940s and the author’s own travels into the same jungle 30 years later, living among the Indian tribes and searching for the origins of coca, the notorious source of cocaine.

Currently in development...

The Girl With A Pearl Earring director’s $2m docu-drama One River (El Rio) and Miguel Urrutia’s English-language thriller Madness are among 32 projects in development being presented at the Bogota Audiovisual market (Bam).

Colombia’s biggest film market takes place all this week (July 13 -17), and also features 18 screenings of films in an advanced state of development, alongside the regular Bam Projects category.

Webber attended Bam last year to promote his pickpocket drama Fresh and returns this year with One River.

The project is based on an international best-selling book by Canadian Wade Davis, charting Professor Richard Schultes’ journey through the Amazon in the 1940s and the author’s own travels into the same jungle 30 years later, living among the Indian tribes and searching for the origins of coca, the notorious source of cocaine.

Currently in development, the project is being produced by Colombian outfit 4 Direcciones in partnership with Canada’s Pimiento Films. They have secured...