The tenth edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival kicked off this November 10 in a hybrid and remote way but with great emotion and many surprises.

Starting with the Outstanding Work In Cinema - Production Award recognition to the outstanding producer Nicolás Celis, recognized for his two of his most recent works, Noche de fuego, selected by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC) to compete for the Oscar, and Drunken Birds, chosen by Canada to represent them at the next Academy Awards, receiving recognition from Ale Paulín, Los Cabos 10 executive director, Maru Garzón, Los Cabos 10 artistic director and Alejandra López Arabella director; In addition to having the presence of the actress Yalitza Aparicio, star of one of the most acclaimed Celis productions: "Roma".

It was during a live broadcast through Facebook and YouTube that this edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival began, which shows the same dynamics as last year, with a varied billboard that opened with "Drunken Birds" by Iván Grbovic available on the online platform:

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The Los Cabos International Film Festival celebrates its first decade of life with a program that includes the screening of some of the most important films of the year, recognition of the careers of two great representatives of North American cinematography, and a series of focused conversations in rethinking our participation in the future of cinema.

From November 10 to 18, audiences across the country will be able to enjoy more than twenty films that ignite our senses and lead us to look at the world with different eyes.

Among them are Murina, the winner of the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival, part of our Divergent Panorama section; Luchadoras, the long-awaited documentary by filmmakers Paola Calvo and Patrick Jasim, featured in the Los Cabos Competition; River, the unmissable film essay that we present in the Green Strand section, curated in collaboration with the Climate Crisis Film Festival (CCFF) in the United Kingdom; and Belfast, a film by Kenneth Branagh that is heading towards the Oscar after winning the Audience Award at the last Toronto Film Festival and that the Mexican audience will be able to see in the special Golden Screen section that it will take for the first time and in a special way. the cinemas of Los Cabos, Mexico City and Mérida simultaneously.

Our activities will begin with a unique conversation where director Alejandra Márquez Abella will join us to recognize the career of producer Nicolás Celis, who honors us by receiving this year's Outstanding Work in Cinema Award - Production. Two of his most recent works, Noche de fuego, selected by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AMACC) to compete for the Oscar, and Drunken Birds, chosen by Canada to represent them in the next Academy Awards, will be available for be seen - for the first time - online. The latter will accompany the celebration to the producer during our opening night.

The actress Ann Dowd, winner of the Emmy and possible contender in the next awards season thanks to her brutal performance in the film Mass (scheduled in the Golden Screen section), will be honored with the Outstanding Work in Cinema Award-Acting. We can visit her career in the conversation she will have with the journalist Arturo Aguilar.

The wonderful stages of Baja California Sur will also be distinguished by the Festival with La Baja Inspira, a new competitive section made up of three productions that took inspiration from the deserts and seas that has been the home of this film gathering for the last ten years.

As part of our partnership with the Climate Crisis Film Festival, the Festival will host the Ingnite Sessions series of conversations: 7 Perspectives for a Greener Film and Festival Industry, promoting green thinking to transform practices that govern the film industry and improve our relationship with the environment.

In addition, we will present three interesting panels –Is the future online ?, Without fame or friendships and Utopias– that revolve around the future of cinema, based on various discussions about new forms of representation in art and its production.

The Gabriel Figueroa Film Fund, one of the pillars of our Industry section, will continue its tireless work promoting the talent of directors, producers and writers from all over the continent through its Cinema in Development, Work in Progress and Series in Development sections. .

Within this space, thanks to a joint effort between the Festival and TELEFILM Canada, we will open the Work in Progress First Nations section, with the intention of expanding the audience and potential markets for filmmakers from indigenous peoples. The film Stellar, by Darlene Naponse, will participate in our market and will be screened before guests and Industry delegates during this edition. At the same time, we will host the launch of TINTA, an association of audiovisual and cinematographic writers in Mexico, created in order to consolidate a community that represents those who dedicate themselves to this profession. TINTA will be presented by Lucía Carreras and Carlos Cuarón in an online event open to the public.

This year, the scope of the Los Cabos International Film Festival is extended with two more activities: an exhibition, presented in partnership with Casa Ballena, which celebrates and recognizes the work of the plastic artist El Nacho, creator of the sculpture La Ballena, who we have been delivering since 2018 as an official award; and a special collaboration with the Claro Video streaming platform, where we will present 12 unmissable titles that have been screened in previous editions of the Festival.

Our tenth edition will end on November 18, with a short closing event where we will meet the winners of the various awards that we grant in collaboration with our partners and sponsors.

Until then, there is an invitation to thousands of moviegoers in the country to look out, enjoy and celebrate the first 10 years of the Los Cabos International Film Festival.

Look out, enjoy, celebrate # LosCabos10!

These are the films that will be presented at the tenth edition of the Los Cabos International Film Festival:

Los Cabos Competition (online)

• Le bruit des moteursPhilippe Grégoire | Canada, 2021
• WrestlersPaola Calvo, Patrick Jasim | Germany-Mexico, 2021
• Night RaidersDanis Goulet | Canada-New Zealand, 2021
• They made us nightAntonio Hernández | Mexico, 2021
• Strawberry MansionKentucker Audley, Albert Birney | United States, 2021
• UsersNatalia Almada | Mexico-United States, 2021
• VioletJustine Bateman | United States, 2021

Green Strand (online)

• Above WaterAïssa Maïga | France-Belgium, 2020
• Poupelle of Chimney TownYusuke Hirota | Japan, 2020
• RiverJennifer Peedom, Joseph Nizeti | Australia, 2021

La Baja Inspira (in Los Cabos venues and online)

• The team Trudi Angell, Darío Higuera Meza | Mexico-United States, 2021
• The GigantesBeatriz Sanchis | Mexico-United States, 2020
• TransitionAlejandro Torres Kennedy | Mexico, 2021

Panorama Divergente (online)

• Beyond the Infinite Two MinutesJunta Yamaguchi | Japan, 2021
• The dog that won't shut upAna Katz | Argentina, 2020
• MurinaAntoneta Alamat Kusijanovic | Brazil-Croatia-United States-Slovenia, 2021
• The Pink CloudIuli Gerbase | Brazil, 2021
• The RescueJimmy Chin, E. Chai Vasarhelyi | United States-United Kingdom, 2021

Gold Screen (in theaters)

• Belfast (Los Cabos and Mexico City) Kenneth Branagh | Dir. United Kingdom, 2021
• Red Rocket (Los Cabos and Mérida) Sean Baker | Dir. United States, 2021
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Los Cabos and Mexico City) Michael Showalter | Dir. United States, 2021

Outstanding Work in Cinema (Acting): Ann Dowd

• Mass (Los Cabos and Mexico City) Fran Kranz | United States, 2021

Outstanding Work in Cinema (Production): Nicolás Celis

• Drunken Birds (online) Ivan Grbovic | Canada, 2021

• Night of fire (online) Tatiana Huezo | Mexico-Germany-Brazil-Qatar, 2021

The 15th edition of Los Cabos VIP Summit began this Wednesday in a hybrid format that connects more than one hundred professionals from the tourism industry. From airlines, travel agencies, tour operators, hotel OTAS and tourism companies, they have gathered in the tourist destination of Los Cabos from November 3 to 5.

Rodrigo Esponda, director of FITURCA: “we're very proud of having all the partners coming down or participating in a hybrid version digitally. We're gonna have 55 partners from eight countries That would be participating with 55 partners in the destination, We're expecting to have more than 1000 meetings in total. Uh that would really paved the way for a very successful 2022 where we're going to have the comeback from different markets such as Australia, Brazil or Europe ”.

Partners from the most important industries in the world met in person or digitally at this VIP Summit 2021, which implemented, in addition to all the health protocols to be carried out safely.

Christine Alestra, director of Signature Travel Network: "signature Travel Network is a consortium of 7000 travel advisors in the United States, we also have global partnerships um with a total of 11,000 advisors, but the primary focus is north american advisers to promote Los Cabos"

… ”We focus primarily on the luxury leisure traveler and for us, I work with all the destinations globally and Los Cabos has always stood above all the others, but now with the pandemic, we are outpacing our production even for 2019. So this destination is not only safe, people love it, it's just it meets all the goals and it's outdoors. So it's been just a perfect destination in light of the pandemic. Um and so we're really excited to see as we get out of the pandemic, how it continues to grow ”

Rodrigo Esponda, director of FITURCA: “we have all the protocols in place, everyone had to go through a test before coming in uh an antigen test. And with that we're just trying to provide a safer way for the meetings to be able to happen "

Los Cabos VIP Summit is the most relevant business summit in Los Cabos that this year facilitates the meeting between members of the local tourism industry with companies that buy primary markets such as Mexico, the United States, Canada and Brazil, in addition to luxury tourism:

Xabier Eguren, Virtuoso director: "Virtuoso is a network of agencies and high-end service providers, known as luxury tourism, so we have an end customer who is a distinguished traveler looking for unique experiences and then obviously Los Cabos offers all that"

… ”In the first three quarters of 2021, the total of 2019 was exceeded by 7%, which 2019 was the flagship year, the best year in record, then the 9 months of 2021 surpassed the 12 months of 2019, hopefully this quarter that the last quarter is always a strong time for the destination, so we believe that Los Cabos in particular is going to benefit greatly "

 The VIP Summit is an event that has been promoting the tourist activity of Los Cabos for 15 years, positioning its attractions and experiences before commercial partners in primary markets. What has made it a connection space, the ideal setting to reinvent the format of meeting events, this time with a hybrid format that demonstrates Los Cabos' ability to adapt to current trends and needs.

After a long wait to take place, this November 1 and 2 came the first nautical parade alluding to the Day of the Dead in Los Cabos. A festival full of color, flavor and great textures that painted the port area of ​​Cabo San Lucas with an atmosphere of party, joy and a lot of tradition

Guillermo Rivelino, Director Desfiles Nauticos MX: “This festival was born with the aim of projecting our cultural heritage and traditions, especially of this very important, heartfelt and significant festival for our people and that in one way or another has been understood, assimilated and above all admired above all the visitors, by the foreigners. It was born as an activity that will greatly promote the projection of our customs of our ethnic peoples and of Cabo San Lucas as a tourist destination always around our great nautical tradition ”

And it is that this festival brings together the best of the typical Mexican traditions from the oldest

Eduardo Ramírez - Parade Organizing Partner Nautical Day of the Dead: "For us it is a treat to have traditions from Oaxaca, traditions from Guerrero, from Chiapas, Zacatecas, from different places because we nurture it culturally, we are going to appreciate different states, the representation of altars from different states ..."

With a long demonstration of around 35 altars mounted on the Cabo San Lucas Marina, this two-day demonstration of Mexican traditions began, organized by members of the indigenous community to highlight what gives us identity as Mexicans, in addition to showing the world the typical offerings that characterize the Day of the Dead

Eufrosina López- Baja California Sur Deputy: “ We make an offering for them to come, the coexistence that existed at a time between us and them when they were alive here on this earth is renewed again and offer them what they liked the most, what they liked the most as it is right now of the dead, the bread, chocolate that is put as an offering, the mole, the beans, the flowers and the candles that is for the light in its walk on its way back and we also have what is the marigold flower that it makes the place aromatize that makes our altar colorful and above all, that it is something very important because we have had cempasúchitl since ancient times… ”

In addition, the Los Cabos Hotel Association participated, who set up their altars in honor of those who are no longer with us

Diana Olmos, Casa Dorada: “We were a team of ten people plus the entire hotel behind that supported us with supplies, with construction materials. It took us about two days to build the altar and well, we tried to incorporate all the elements that a traditional altar should arrive ”

A crowded and colorful event, which managed to exceed the expectations of its organizers, positioning itself as a unique holiday in Mexico, since only Los Cabos has made a demonstration of offerings at sea.

Eufrosina López- Deputy Baja California Sur: “The comments of the Americans, of the visitors are positive and that makes us proud because that is Mexico, this is our Mexico, we are part of Mexico and here we are, showing our culture, showing our practices and above all what our ancestors they did ”

Rob Flannagan American Tourist: “This is incredible, it is a respite… I am glad I came, to see all these people on the beach, it is incredible, it is spectacular, we have come out five times, we come every year, a party place, to get away, to relax… there are many things to do, it is crazy ”

Jeremy Miles, Dakota: “It has been beautiful, I can't believe how beautiful it is and everything they have done is very beautiful, we don't do this where I come from, so very good”

Implementing the Clean Port protocol, this event was carried out with all the health security protocols, without any setback. Which shows that Los Cabos continues to innovate as a tourist destination, taking care of its own and those who visit it to continue offering that unique experience