When a deference is so unexpected, it strikes you much. An it happens when in Quito, the small capital of Ecuador, the Italian cinematographic culture takes root and cuts a slice in the Latin elitarian society. It’s the OCHOYMEDIO, a pretty independent cinema, that brings the name of the famous movie of Federico Fellini “8 e mezzo”, as a banner of quality. Mariana Andrade, the manageress, is the true soul of this place, that she has built with all her willpower, without any help or state aid. It’s like her house, where she welcomes friends, colleagues and customers in the same way. Since ten years OCHOYMEDIO shines at its run, that doesn’t reflect the usual business logic, but it proposes a classic, provocative and independent cinema. It has conquered a faithful niche public, increasing and pampering its spectators with a pretty and warm cafè, where the people use to take an American coffee, a snack or to surf in Internet through the free wifi. All around there are posters that remember everlasting stars as Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn and Anita Ekberg, recalling again the Italian director Fellini. Mariana takes also care of the publication of a monthly magazine about her cinema. It has just four pages, but you can find the schedule of the two movie theaters and a lot of critical articles about the running movies. In the programming there are old Italian films of Totò with Spanish subtitles and Ecuadorian avant-garde documentaries, that very difficulty you might find somewhere else in Quito. In the cinema OCHOYMEDIO there are also some special playbills that remember the last journey of Mariana in Italy. She were in Bologna where she watched at the restored copy of Visconti’s Gattopardo in the magic location of Piazza Grande. “Italy comes out in the world with all its magic, and its cinematographic culture produces in me a deep admiration” says Mariana.