Insights by Jasmina Nevada

We always tend to in communication, add a quote or a saying, followed by food for thought.  But on considering such as I continue composing and writing my next endeavour... What is essential to us as writers? Literally good food for thought!  But where do we get the time from? We must take a break from the computer or pen, to nourish the brain with good fuel and with a good healthy set of vitamins and minerals we feel energised and inspired.... So for me I intend to share a little of what I prepare to eat, not really a recipe but just ideas of how I eat, as I prefer to create in the kitchen as opposed to follow any recipe. According to the food offers of the week combined with my feeling of the moment whilst in the kitchen. My main meal today, made good use of my slow cooker in which I placed some olive oil, garlic, some rinsed chicken thighs skin side down, adding to half some boiling water, oregano, black pepper and half a chile pepper. Leaving the...

2019 AFI LATIN AMERICAN Film Premiere of Ricardo Darín's AN UNEXPECTED LOVE and World Premiere of DAYS OF LIGHT Bookend the Festival's 30th Anniversary Lineup  Festival Runs September 12–October 2 with 53 Films From 23 Countries, Including 12 U.S., North American and World Premieres  The American Film Institute (AFI) announced today the full slate of films for the 2019 AFI Latin American Film Festival, which will take place September 12–October 2 at the historic AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, MD. Celebrating its 30th edition this year, the festival is one of the largest and long-running showcases of Latin America cinema in the United States. The festival presents Latin America's prolific and versatile talent and, with the inclusion of films from Spain and Portugal, honors Ibero-American cultural connections during National Hispanic Heritage Month. This year's wide-ranging selection of 53 films spans international festival fav...

A blog post would not be complete without a little about the blogger, past endeavours which led me to the path of my present ones. I freelanced as film media in Hollywood and beyond. Interviewed film talent at prestigious film festivals on red carpets in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Dublin, London, Cannes & Latin America including events at the Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood amongst other locations. Film festivals such as Sundance, Hollywood, AFI, Cannes, Dublin, Screamfest, MIPTV, MIPCOM, as well as the Independent Spirit Awards and Indie Film festivals and many others. Talent interviewed including Richard Gere, James D'Arcy, Rob Lowe, Tim Roth and many more. Trained in Hollywood as an actress, filmmaker and voice over, with small parts in music videos, reality TV shows, & films.  Known as 'the Venezuelan-English girl' courtesy of an Intro spot on the Late, Late show with Craig Ferguson in LA. Studied acting, improvisation, film making and voice over with...

Academy Award® nominated actor Edward James Olmos today announced the program that will be featured at the 2019 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) which runs Wednesday, July 31 through Sunday, August 4 at the TCL Chinese Theatres.  As the largest Latinx film festival to be hosted in Los Angeles, this year the festival will shine a spotlight on US-born Latinx filmmakers. This year’s program includes 15 features, 17 shorts, five episodics, two special events and two Latinx podcasts live from the festival. This year’s program will open with Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera’s The Infiltrators, which won the Audience Award: NEXT and The NEXT Innovator Prize at Sundance earlier this year.  The film, a mixture of documentary and narrative, focuses on a real-life rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – that get deliberately detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center. The film is a suspenseful telling of...