As reported by CONACULTA (Mexico’s National Council for Culture and the Arts), Mexican filmmaker Mariana Chenillo received the Best Director Award for her film “Five days without Nora” at Moscow’s International Film Festival.
Moscow’s International Film Festival has been held every year since 1935, is the second oldest film festival in the world after the Venice Film Festival, and is considered one of the most prestigious in the world.
“Receiving this award has been one of the most significant events of my life,” Chenillo said on having won the award in Russia …

For a very long time the only measure used to compare one country with the next was their GDP (Gross Domestic Product). But we all know how inaccurate and incomplete this figure can be when it comes to showing the reality of our times.
An independent think-and-do tank called nef (new economics foundation) came up with exactly what society needs: a new way to measure what truly matters to humanity and to the planet. This new compass is the Happy Planet Index (HPI), and its latest rankings were released …

On my last post I wrote about the over one million Americans who love living in Mexico, and quoted Caren Cross as one of the many who have found ‘their place’ south of the border.
After 30 years of pursuing the American dream, Caren left it all behind to start a new life in Mexico. She soon realized that thousands of Americans have made the same choice, so she decided to produce “Lost and Found in Mexico”, a documentary about their story.
In her own words: “Lost and Found in Mexico …

InsideMexico ran an article by Margot Lee Shetterly a few years ago on the many Americans who live in Mexico.
The article might not be recent, but the issues covered continue to be relevant. She writes on how studies show that there are more than a million American citizens living in Mexico, and as many as half-million Canadians, plus thousands of Brits, Irish, Australians and English-speakers from various other countries.
And contrary to common wisdom, these Americans moved to Mexico not only because of the cost of living advantages. No, they …