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Brazil’s history of colonialism and slavery has a racist legacy that still hangs heavily over the country, despite the fact that Brazil is often portrayed via a myth of racial harmony. Described by the publisher And Other Stories... Read Article
In Nothing By Accident: Brazil on the Edge, Damian Platt tells the story of Rio de Janeiro, providing a detailed overview of the operation of violence and corruption in the city and how this impacts on favelas, home... Read Article
For me, 2020 was a big year of reading in translation. In a year where COVID-19 made us all stay at home, reading provided me with one way of avoiding my world being reduced to my flat. 2020... Read Article
CiNEOLA is a new platform created in 2020 to showcase documentaries from across Latin America. A new documentary is released on the platform each month, accompanied by podcasts and other events. We took a look at two films... Read Article
Los Lobos (The Wolves, 2020, directed by Samuel Kishi) is the story of an undocumented Mexican family who’ve recently arrived in New Mexico, USA: Lucía (Martha Reyes Arias) and her two boys Max and Leo, played by real-life... Read Article
AMPLIFY! is an online film festival co-curated by four UK film festivals: Cambridge Film Festival, FilmBath, CINECITY (Brighton) and Cornwall Film Festival. There are over 60 films available to stream online during November, with the aim of “blasting brilliant... Read Article
If you’re based in the US and are interested in Latin American cinema, you’ll be spoiled for choice at this year’s online DOC NYC, the largest documentary festival in the USA, with over 200 films available to stream... Read Article
ZZK Films is raising funds to create a documentary about Luzmila Carpio, a world-renowned Bolivian and Indigenous musician. Luzmila and the Birds will “explore the origins of one of the most important women in Latin America and the... Read Article
Pop-Up Magazine celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month 2020 (September 15 – October 15) with a collection of short films showcasing Latinx voices: featuring journalists, filmmakers, writers, designers, musicians, and illustrators. The full collection of films can be found here,... Read Article
Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in a Brazilian-British household in London, where she is still based. She is the author of Stubborn Archivist, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and... Read Article
Towards the beginning of The Garden Left Behind (2019, dir. Flavio Alves), Tina, a young Mexican trans woman in New York City, is undertaking a pre-transition assessment. Her doctor asks, “Are there issues in your life that might... Read Article
Petra Costa’s dreamlike, semi-autobiographical films The Edge of Democracy, Elena and Undertow Eyes contain a mixture of highly personal themes and highly-charged politics. Maria Augusta Ramos’ The Trial takes an even deeper dive into the Kafkaesque drama of... Read Article
