Friday, August 1, 2025

Coronavirus represents one more test for Los Cabos film festival

Most film festivals in this year of the pandemic — from Cannes to the Morelia Film Festival — have had to adapt and adopt a new hybrid format, partly online and partly in person.

But the Los Cabos Film Festival is distinguishing itself by committing to a fully digital format and by offering its content to all at no charge.

Festival directors Maru Garzón and Alejandra Paulín recently told El Universal newspaper that taking the event fully online will be quite a feat, but it is not the first daunting challenge the festival has successfully weathered in its previous seven years: it’s dealt with budget cuts, changes in administration and even hurricanes.

The pair say they consider this year to be nothing more than another challenge that will teach them to adapt and evolve.

“Making a digital festival certainly implies challenges,” Paulin said. “We had to assess ourselves, learn about digital platforms. It has been about learning new things [this year] to make this a different festival. The cost is different from an in-person version. We’re also working with a very reduced budget this year.”

Despite this, Garzón chooses to see the advantages of the online format. The events and the films they’ll be presenting can have a bigger impact, she said.

“To do it this way gives us the opportunity to democratize the festival, because it’s free and because of the reach that the digital format will give us to everyone who wants to experience it.”

The festival begins November 11.

Source: El Universal (sp), Sensacine (sp)

Have something to say? Paid Subscribers get all access to make & read comments.
A woman takes a product off a grocery store shelf

Post-AMLO, Mexican household income is up and inequality is slightly down

0
The survey, which covered the end of Peña Nieto's term plus all of AMLO's, attributed the income gains to minimum wage increases, social programs and the growth of formal employment.
A red, white and green train speeds through a field.

What’s next for Mexico’s growing rail system? Officials share advances in Nuevo León, Guadalajara, SLP, Sinaloa and more

1
Construction is expected to begin this month on lines connecting Saltillo and Monterrey to the U.S. border.
Adan Augusto Lopez, former Tabasco governor and ex-federal interior minister

Opposition formally accuses AMLO’s ex-interior minister of ties to Tabasco crime gang

1
One of ex-President López Obrador's closest allies is tangled up in a corruption scandal with roots in the pair's home state of Tabasco.
BETA Version - Powered by Perplexity