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
Five Latin American Books to Read for Women in Translation Month
The month of August is Women in Translation Month: an initiative created in 2014 by book blogger Meytal Radzinski to... Read Article
Another Possible Conclusion: An Interview with Mexican Writer Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera is an acclaimed Mexican author, best-known for the novel Signs Preceding the End of the World which was... Read Article