Latineos - Latin America, Caribbean, arts, culture

This year the London Latin American Film Festival celebrates twenty-five years of Havana’s International TV and Film School, presenting the highlights from the past quarter century of one of the most influential of Cuban cultural institutions, alongside the best of this year's films, which reflect the changing priorities of Cuba's young filmmakers.

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, born March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate

Santiago Roncagliolo was born in Lima, and his family temporarily left Peru for political reasons in 1977. His novel Purdor (2005) was made into a film and his political thriller Abril rojo received the Alfaguara Prize in 2006 and is published in English as Red April in 2010.

Chicha is a drink made from fermented corn. Its consumption can lead to you becoming very drunk. It is said that Chicha music is capable of doing the very same.

Chicha is Peru's equivalent of Tropicalía in Brazil or Afrobeat in Nigeria, a mix of traditional and Western styles. Chicha, which was generally referred to as Peruvian Cumbia until the 80s, is played in the 'rock band' format of guitar, bass and drums, though often with a multitude of Latin percussion instruments on hand, as well as keyboards (a practice which has grown due to their low costs and ability to create numerous sounds.)

On Thursday, October 7, 2010, the Swedish Academy awarded the 103rd Nobel Prize in Literature to the Peruvian novelist, essayist and intellectual Mario Vargas Llosa. It was the first time in twenty years that the prize was awarded to a writer who conducts his/her trade in Spanish language. In the world of Hispanic literature, few names could be paired with Vargas Llosa’s in terms of stature and accomplishment.