The International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, concluded this night as the winners for the different sections of the Official Selection were announced during the Closing Ceremony.

The International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, today held the presentation of Diego Muñoz Vega, director of “Bala Mordida”.

The 6th International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture of the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, gave two awards to two outstanding women of Mexican cinema: the Cabrito de Cristal to actress Arcelia Ramírez and the Cabrito de Plata to director Maryse Sistach.

The International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, announced today that Film Industry Day will take place on Friday August 27, in Room 2 of Cineteca Nuevo León.

The International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, presented yesterday Jaime Ruiz Ibáñez, director of “La Mitad del Mundo”.

The International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, honored leading actress Ofelia Medina with the Cabrito de Cristal award.

The International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, made the presentation of Maryse Sistach in the Festival.

The International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and with the support of CONACULTA, made the presentation today of Adal Ramones and Juan Campos Carraso, actor and director of “Martín al Amanecer”.

“The scriptwriter is the first one that takes an idea, an emotion, a story told through images, and places it on a white sheet”, said scriptwriter Marina Stavenhagen today during her conference “Writing for films”, which inaugurated the Mexican Cinema Scriptwriters Conference.

The International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and with the support of CONACULTA, presented yesterday the short films competing in the category of “The Republic of the Lions: Nuevo León Films”.

Filmmaker Gerardo Tort and actors Teresa Ruiz and Felipe de Lara presented today the film “Viaje Redondo” in the 6th International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA.

During the 6th International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, Samuel Larson Guerra presented yesterday his book “Pensar el sonido: una introducción a la teoría y la práctica del lenguaje sonoro cinematográfico” [Thinking sound: an introduction to the theory and practice of the cinematographic sound language].

Cheerful, sincere, open, relaxed and versatile. This is Mexican actor Pedro Armendáriz Jr., who was honored yesterday in the Theater of the Center of the Arts for his outstanding artistic career, including more than 140 national and foreign films and a large number of participations in theater and television.

Within the activities of the 6th International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo Leon and the support of CONACULTA, leading actor Pedro Armendáriz Jr. regretted that Mexicans do not watch Mexican films.

The 6th International Monterrey Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, presented the German director Jens Junker.

With the presence of legendary stars of Mexico’s cinema Silvia Pinal and Pedro Armendáriz, and the world premiere of the Mexican film “It’s not you, it’s me”, the 6th International Monterrey Film Festival 2010 had its opening ceremony on Friday night in the Theater of the Center for the Arts, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA.

With the national premiere of the Mexican film “It’s not you, it’s me”, with Eugenio Derbez, Alejandra Barros, Martina García and Mauricio Herrera in the leading roles, and the direction of Alejandro Springall, the 6th Monterrey International Film Festival started Friday night.

The Monterrey International Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, will deservingly honor Maryse Sistach.

The Monterrey International Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, will be the site for another premiere of an important Mexican film.

The Monterrey International Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, begins its activities with the world premiere of the film “It’s Not You, It’s Me”.

Through the Goethe – Institut Mexiko and the Monterrey German Culture Center, and in collaboration with the Cineteca de Nuevo León, the Monterrey International Film Festival greets the 9th German Film Week.

The Monterrey International Film Festival, organized in collaboration with the Council for the Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León and the support of CONACULTA, announced its Mexican Cinema Scriptwriters Conference, which will be held from August 23 to 26. The inauguration will be on August 23 at 10:30 am at the Cineteca de Nuevo León.

The Monterrey International Film Festival 2010 announces its Official Selection in competition that will constitute its sixth edition, which will be carried out from August the 20th to the 29th.
There will be 67 short films and 24 feature films in competition within three different sections that will be shown at five different venues.

The 6th Monterrey International Film Festival, which will take from  august 20 to the 29th, will pay tribute to actor Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

It’s over now. The first stage of the Monterrey International Film Festival has concluded with a huge pile of packets that have arrived from the five continents. From all the courier service companies. All of them. Nepal, Colima, Argentina, Mexico, Indonesia, Portugal, Saltillo, Ethiopia, South Corea, San Nicolás de los Garza… you name it!

Javier Garza Yañez’s and Ivan García Hernandez’s documentary film “Flores para el soldado” tells the story of Edmond William Quear, an american soldier for whom Doña Bertha used to place a flower over his tombstone every time she visited the family grave in Monterrey’s ‘Panteón del Roble’.

Janus Films and the Criterion Collection will distribute “Revanche”, winner of best screenplay and audience award in the 2008 edition of the Monterrey International Film Festival.

Michael Jones, who writes "The Circuit", Variety´s specialized film festival blog, has reported that Janus Films will buy the U.S. rights to Revanche, directed by Götz Spielman.