Hispanic Films Have Yet to Catch the Same Wave as Hispanic TV - New York Times

“The sizzle from a showing at last month’s Miami International Film Festival had not yet cooled, but Francisca Schweitzer, a first-time filmmaker from Santiago, Chile, was already coming to terms with the probable fate of her movie, “Paréntesis” (”Time Off”): like most films of Latin provenance, it remained unlikely to find a distributor in the United States, no matter what the festival audience might think. “It is a small movie from a small country,” said Ms. Schweitzer, 31, as she sat on a beach chair behind the National Hotel here. Nevertheless, “Paréntesis” is a slickly made tale of a Santiago relationship in crisis.”

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