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Film News: Favorable exchange rate encourages foreign shoots — Buenos Aires is often called the Paris of South America for its old-world architecture and vibrant café life.

Film News: Gonzalez-Rubio’s father-son tale wins for film — Mexico’s “Alamar” (To the Sea) won the award for film in the international competition in the 12th Buenos Aires Intl. Festival of Independent Film (Bafici), Argentina’s biggest fest that closed Sunday.

Film News: Harmony Korine, Angela Bassett will be attending — The 12th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Film unspools April 7-18.

Film News: Company links with Spain’s Tendal Montivideo — Guido Rud’s Buenos Aires-based The Trailer Co. is teaming with Miguel Angel San Antonio’s Tendal Montivideo in Madrid to offer marketing tools — principally trailers, posters and artwork — on a worldwide basis.

Film News: Film is also country’s foreign language Oscar entry — Juan Jose Campanella’s “El secreto de sus ojos” (The Secret in Their Eyes) swept Argentina’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2009 Premios Sur awards, which unspooled late Tuesday in Buenos Aires.