An Interview with Damian Platt, author of ‘Nothing By Accident: Brazil on the Edge’
In Nothing By Accident: Brazil on the Edge, Damian Platt tells the story of Rio de Janeiro, providing a detailed... Read Article
Latin American Books: 2020 Highlights
For me, 2020 was a big year of reading in translation. In a year where COVID-19 made us all stay... Read Article
CiNEOLA: a platform showcasing documentaries from across Latin America
CiNEOLA is a new platform created in 2020 to showcase documentaries from across Latin America. A new documentary is released... Read Article
REVIEW ‘Los Lobos’: Brothers Fend For Themselves in a Mexican Equivalent to ‘The Florida Project’
Los Lobos (The Wolves, 2020, directed by Samuel Kishi) is the story of an undocumented Mexican family who’ve recently arrived... Read Article
AMPLIFY! Festival: Chilean and Mexican Films to Stream this November
AMPLIFY! is an online film festival co-curated by four UK film festivals: Cambridge Film Festival, FilmBath, CINECITY (Brighton) and Cornwall Film... Read Article
Five Latin American Documentaries to Watch at DOC NYC 2020
If you’re based in the US and are interested in Latin American cinema, you’ll be spoiled for choice at this... Read Article
ZZK Crowdfunding Campaign: ‘Luzmila and the Birds’
ZZK Films is raising funds to create a documentary about Luzmila Carpio, a world-renowned Bolivian and Indigenous musician. Luzmila and... Read Article
Must-Watch Short Films for Hispanic Heritage Month from Pop-Up Magazine
Pop-Up Magazine celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month 2020 (September 15 – October 15) with a collection of short films showcasing Latinx... Read Article
Double Lives, Healing and Alegria: Yara Rodrigues Fowler on ‘Stubborn Archivist’
Yara Rodrigues Fowler grew up in a Brazilian-British household in London, where she is still based. She is the author... Read Article
REVIEW The Garden Left Behind: a Moving Representation of the Life of a Trans Latina Woman in New York City
Towards the beginning of The Garden Left Behind (2019, dir. Flavio Alves), Tina, a young Mexican trans woman in New... Read Article
REVIEW The Personal and the Political: Essential Brazilian Documentaries by Petra Costa and Maria Augusta Ramos
Petra Costa’s dreamlike, semi-autobiographical films The Edge of Democracy, Elena and Undertow Eyes contain a mixture of highly personal themes... Read Article
Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet
This article is republished with permission from Amnesty International UK’s website. Berta Cáceres, tenacious environmental and human rights activist, was... Read Article