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Embrace of the Serpent director Ciro Guerra is vehemently denying the sexual harassment and assault allegations made against him this week. Seven women are claiming the Oscar-nominated filmmaker harassed them and an eighth is asserting that Guerra attacked her, according to an article published on June 24 in the…

Antonio Bolívar, who played the shaman Karamakate in Ciro Guerra's Oscar-nominated feature Embrace of the Serpent, has died at the age of 72 after being hospitalized with coronavirus. Bolívar was a member of the Huitoto indigenous people and was one of the last of his tribe. Reps for Guerra, who directed the film…

EXCLUSIVE: The new trailer for Birds of Passage, Colombia’s official entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar race, shows off the visual epicness of the drama directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra. The Orchard film is slated for release February 13 in New York and Los Angeles, with a national rollout to…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Natalia Reyes, the Colombian actress poised to make her breakout in the U.S. starring in the upcoming Tim Miller-directed and James Cameron-produced Terminator for Skydance and Paramount. Reyes also stars in the Christina Gallego- and Ciro Guerra-directed Birds Of Passage, which premiered at…

UPDATE: Outgoing Directors’ Fortnight chief Edouard Waintrop revealed a 20-strong 50th anniversary lineup today that includes a return engagement for some, and a surprise inclusion for one of the most controversial filmmakers ever to hit the Croisette. Gaspar Noé will world premiere his Climax, appearing for the first…

Netflix is teaming with Narcos producer Dynamo on its first Colombian original series, set to debut worldwide on the internet entertainment service in 2019. Oscar-nominated Ciro Guerra (Embrace of the Serpent, Birds of Passage) will executive produce. Production is slated to begin summer 2018. Written by Carlos…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Rylance, Ciro Guerra and producer Michael Fitzgerald have joined to bring J.M. Coetzee’s award-winning book Waiting For The Barbarians to the big screen. Coetzee, a Nobel Prize winner for literature, adapted the novel which the Nobel Prize committee called “a political thriller in the tradition of…

Shakira, Sofia Vergara, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ugly Betty and even the well-mined exploits of Pablo Escobar are among the most famous cultural exports Colombia has given the world in the past few decades. Now, 101 years since it first produced a feature, the Latin American country is poised to add greatly to that…

EXCLUSIVE: Ciro Guerra, whose Colombian film Embrace Of The Serpent is up for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, has signed to make his English-language directing debut on the dystopian adventure The Detainee, for Thunder Road Pictures and Film House Germany. The film is an adaptation of a trilogy by author-playwright Peter…

If the Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film was decided on the strength of opening weekend box office receipts, Oscilloscope's fresh opener from Colombia, Embrace Of The Serpent, would have it in the bag. With a U.S. debut weekend of $62,164 for a $16,985 per-screen average, Ciro Guerra's film has taken more at…

The five nominees for the Foreign Language Oscar this year include three first-time directors as well as two features from countries that have never before reached this stage. Somewhat unusually, when the Academy whittled down its choices to this last grouping, there were none of the major shocks that there have been…

EXCLUSIVE: After his film Embrace Of The Serpent won top honors at Cannes Directors Fortnight, director Ciro Guerra was pursued by all the agencies, and he has just signed with Paradigm. Guerra previously directed The Wind Journeys, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard, and he’s developed into a premiere film…