The Maid (La Nana)

11/22/09 Jurors at the event, which ran from 13 to 21 November, decided the duo should both collect the honour after putting in two moving performances in Get Low , about a man who throws his own funeral party before his death.  |  The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

11/22/09 "La bocca del lupo" (The Wolf's Mouth), a daring docudrama depicting a tender love affair between two male ex-cons in Genoa, was the 27th Turin Film Festival's big winner, marking the first time Italy scored top honors at the prominent Italo indie event dedicated to young directors.  |  Variety

10/28/09 Four first films and five second ones feature in the 12-title competish lineup of the 35th Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival.  |  Variety

10/20/09 After a one-week break for bad behavior, Indie Roundup returns, refreshed and ready to sum up what's new and what's been happening in the independent film community.  |  Cinematical.com

10/20/09 When film director Sebastián Silva approached veteran Chilean actress Catalina Saavedra to play the lead role in his critically acclaimed new film, "The Maid," she thought it was a bad joke.  |  New York Daily News - New York NY

10/19/09 Kathryn Bigelow 's hard-hitting war drama The Hurt Locker has emerged as an early Oscars favourite after picking up a string of nominations for the upcoming Gotham Independent Film Awards, one of the season's first big prizegivings.  |  The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

10/19/09 Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" and Robert Siegel's "Big Fan" led the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Award nominations, each taking three nominations, and with "Lockers Bigelow additionally receiving a Gothams' tribute award. "Locker" and "Fan" join Joel and Ethan Coen's "A Serious Man," Sebastian Silva's "The Maid," and Cherien Dabis's "Amreeka" in the competition for the year's best feature, The complete list of nominees is below. The awards will take place Monday, November 30th at Cipriani Wall Street, and are considered the first major ceremony of the awards season.  |  indieWIRE

10/15/09 After 23 years working as housemaid in an upper class Santiago, Chile household, Raquel (Catalina Saavedra) is as much a part of the Valdez family as the wife, husband, and kids she lives with and looks after.  |  Rotten Tomatoes

10/15/09 Sebastián Silva's melodrama The Maid stars Catalina Saavedra as a domestic servant who's been working for one family so long that they throw surprise birthday parties for her, and even help her with her chores when she needs it.  |  The A.V. Club

10/14/09 Silva said that the plot between Racquel and Lucy actually happened, and that Lucy even helped him develop the story.  |  indieWIRE