Each year the OAS Secretary General publishes a proposed Program-Budget for the coming calendar year. The OAS General Assembly meets in a Special Session to approve the Program-Budget. Find these documents from 1998-2013 here.
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The OAS has discussed for several years the real estate issue, the funding required for maintenance and repairs, as well as the deferred maintenance of its historic buildings. The General Secretariat has provided a series of options for funding it. The most recent document, reflecting the current status of the Strategy, is CP/CAAP-3211/13 rev. 4.
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Every year the GS/OAS publishes the annual operating plans for all areas of the Organization, used to aid in the formulation of the annual budget and as a way to provide follow-up on institutional mandates.
Here you will find information related to the OAS Strategic Plan 2016-2020, including its design, preparation and approval.
Brazil’s entry, MAN OF THE YEAR [O homen do ano], was judged Best Feature Film and also won Best Actor for Murilo Benício. Nicaragua’s METAL AND GLASS [Metal y vidrio] won best Short Film; Chile’s Boris Quercia won Best Director for SEX WITH LOVE [Sexo con amor]; and Chile’s Manuela Martelli won Best Actress for her performance in B-HAPPY.
The Festival’s Best Feature, Brazil’s MAN OF THE YEAR, will be shown again at a special screening on Sunday, October 3rd at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center at 8:45 p.m.
Chile’s SEX WITH LOVE, the Best Director selection, will screen again at the AFI National Film Theatre at the Kennedy Center, at 8:45 p.m.
The judges for the Festival’s first-ever awards were Raul Galvez, Director of the Toronto International Latin American Film Festival; Jeffrey Middens, Professor of Literature at The American University; and María Isabel Rivero, a journalist with the German news agency DPA.
Running through October 3, the 7th Latin American Film Festival features the best new internationally-recognized films from across Latin America. The films are showing at two locations—the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the AFI National Film Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
More than 50 new films were screened during the 2004 Festival, many of them to sold-out audiences. The films represent 15 Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Niccaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.