In any creative writing class it's likely the teacher will encourage the eager and hopeful students to write about what they know because it will generally contain more passion and authenticity.

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SAN SEBASTIAN — Opening San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos Friday, Benjamin Avila‘s “Clandestine Childhood” has achieved one of the biggest goals for any Latin American film: Sales to most of Latin ...

Film Movement has acquired the debut of Argentinean filmmaker Benjamin Ávila, “Clandestine Childhood” (“Infancia Clandestina”), which screened in the Director’s Fortnight sidebar at Cannes in May.

Tyro feature helmer Benjamin Avila revisits his fraught early years during Argentina's military dictatorship in "Clandestine Childhood," a fictionalized account that mixes truth and artistic license ...

The Argentinian film focuses on 12-year-old Juan who returns with his family to Argentina under fake identities after four years of exile. Juan's parents are Montoneros guerrillas who are being ...

Italian writer-turned-director Ludovica Rampoldi’s clandestine romance “A Brief Affair” — which features a stellar local cast including Pilar Fogliati (“Madly”) Adriano Giannini (“Supersex”) and ...

Drawn from the experiences of writer-director Benjamin Ávila’s formative years, the film “Clandestine Childhood” tells the story of a young boy who returns to Argentina in 1979 with his family after ...

“Our nation’s enemies, working in our midst, must use codes.” So says an unidentified American military official, seen through scratchy archival footage as he demonstrates the tools and techniques of ...