The Cartagena Film Festival, or Festival Internacional de Cine y T.V. de Cartagena de Indias. is a Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

n film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 which focuses on the promotion of Colombian television programs, Latin American films, and videos. The Cartagena Film Festival, which is held every March, is the oldest film festival in Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

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The Cartagena Film Festival was founded 1960 in Cartagena, Colombia

Cartagena, Colombia

Cartagena de Indias , is a large Caribbean beach resort city on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region and capital of Bolívar Department...

 by Victor Nieto

Victor Nieto

Víctor Nieto Nuñez was the Colombian founder and director of the Cartagena Film Festival, the oldest film festival in Latin America. Nieto founded the Cartagena Film Festival in 1960 and remained director for the next 48 years. His last film festival was in 2008.Nieto was born in Cartagena,...

. Nieto remained the director of the film festival for 48 years, his last being in 2008. Nieto died at the age of 92 in November 2008. Lina Paola Rodriguez was appointed manager by Nieto in 2007 and 2008, and will remain acting director following Nieto's death.

Partial filmography of winners

• 2000: Garage Olimpo
  Garage Olimpo
  Olympic Garage is an Argentine drama film, directed by Marco Bechis and written by Bechis and Lara Fremder.The film was produced by Daniel Burman and Diego Dubcovsky , Amedeo Pagani , and Eric Heumann ....
  
  (1999) and Orfeu
  Orfeu
  Orfeu is a 1999 Brazilian film by direct by Carlos Diegues based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes. It retells the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The film sets this legend in the modern context of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. This film is also considered to be a much...
  
  (1999)
• 2001: Eu Tu Eles (2000)
• 2002: Lavoura Arcaica (2001)
• 2003: Cidade de Deus (2002)
• 2004: Carandiru
  Carandiru (film)
  Carandiru is a 2003 Brazilian and Argentine film directed by Hector Babenco. It is based on the book Estação Carandiru by Dr. Drauzio Varella, a physician and AIDS specialist, who is portrayed in the film by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos....
  
  (2003)
• 2005: Sumas y Restas (2004)
• 2006: La Última Luna (2005)
• 2007: Apocalipsur
  Apocalipsur
  Apocalipsur is a 2007 Colombian drama film written and directed by Javier Mejía Osorio. It won the National Film Announcement of the Colombian Ministry of Culture in 2002. The film was chosen as the best film at the Colombian Film Festival of Cartagena in 2007.-Plot:El Flaco runs away from his...
  
  (2007)

External links

Cartagena Film Festival official website

• Cartagena Film Festival at Internet Movie Database
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