This year at the open of the 2nd annual Aruba Film Festival (AIFF), one of the films to kick off the festival was the acclaimed Goya award winning film THE LIFE OF FISH (Chile, 2011) by the brilliant director Matias Bize. This was Chile’s 2011 Oscar Entry film and since its world premier in at Venice Film Festival I have seen the film several times now and it remains my favorite indie film of the year. Matias Bize's 'LA VIDA DE LOS PECES' (The Life of Fish) is so minimalist and yet such a hear...

This year at the open of Palm Springs Film Festival, 2011, I started my first film screening day with the Latin American Oscar Buzz Award film for Chile: Matias Bize's 'La Vida de los Peces' (The Life of Fish) This film was so perfect and heart rendering that I spent the rest of the festival having seen one of the best of the fest on the first day... What can I say? 'The Life of Fish' is about a young man, Andres (played by Santiago Cabrera), who returns home to Santiago, Chi...