Mexico’s Monterrey Film Festival Unveils Lineup, New International Ambitions (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente Mexico’s Monterrey Film Festival (ficmonterrey) is chasing new ambitions in a bid to raise its international profile.
Buttressed by generous state, local and private backing as well as some federal funding, the festival, running Sept. 28 – Oct.
4, aims to become Mexico’s most prominent international film festival and a key creative hub in Mexico. This year’s 19th edition boasts a new director, Janeth Aguirre, also its first female director, and new hires: Diana Cadavid, a programmer for Toronto (TIFF), LA Latino Int’l Film Fest (LALIFF) and Colombia’s Cali, who has taken charge of the festival’s burgeoning industry section, and LA-based PR agent Alvar Carretero of Joshua Jason Public Relations.
In recognition of its country guest of honor, South Korea, the fest will open with “Little Forest” by Yim Soonrye, one of the few prominent women film auteurs in South Korean New Wave cinema.
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