GUADALAJARA - Guadalajara-born film director Patricia Riggen has won the rights to bring to the screen her vision of Isabel Allende’s novel “Daughter of Fortune,” after a chat with the author in San Francisco.

GUADALAJARA - There will be some Mexican flavors spicing up the 2009 edition of the Sundance Film Festival.

GUADALAJARA - Some world-class photographers tear out their hair in frustration trying to persuade museum and art gallery curators to host exhibitions of their work. 

GUADALAJARA - What do you get when you combine a venerated author, a renowned book fair and a popular form of entertainment – opera – treating a theme steeped in Mexican pride and heartbreak?