10 Reasons to Celebrate the Rise of Ecuadorian Cinema

READ MORE: 5 Must-See Latin American Films When Ecuadorian filmmaker Diego Araujo was growing up in the eighties and nineties, his country would produce around one good movie a year. More recently, however, that figure has risen to at least a dozen. This week's inaugural edition of the Ecuadorian Film Festival in New York (EFFNY) provides a window into that emerging renaissance. 

Ecuadorian cinema has been on the rise in the last decade and a half. This surge can perhaps be traced to the breakout hit, "Ratas, ratones, rateros," the 1999 directorial debut of Sebastián Cordero — the country's most famous filmmaker — and  EDOC, the all-documentary film festival...

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