Category: Media
New online Latino short-doc series features “New American Visionaries”
New American Visionaries (NAV) is an online short-documentary series and digital web platform pilot project featuring notable Hispanic innovators, entrepreneurs and visionaries living and working in the United States. First pilot webisode for features 28-year-old Chilean industrial designer and artist Sebastian Errazuriz, a native of Santiago, Chile now based in New York. He became the [...]
The issues of importance to Latino voters in 2012
Hispanic market expert, Lili Gill, says it’s evident that President Obama’s reelection campaign is attempting to leverage his GOP opponents’ positions on Social Security and immigration. However, the Republican advantage could be rooted in the Latino voters’ top areas of concern which are education, jobs and healthcare; not immigration.
Viernes Video: Filly Brown
Filly Brown is about a young Latina musician on the verge of shooting to hip-hop stardom who finds herself having to choose between the people she loves and her dreams. The film debuts today (Jan. 20, 2012) in Park City, Utah, as part of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Edward James Olmos and familia produce, [...]
New web site strives to make political influence equitable and accessible to all voters
LatinaLista — The field of social media just got more crowded with the debut of a new site that’s all about politics. Votizen is a site that brings civic engagement to a whole new level by making grassroots campaigning for an issue or politician as easy as “connecting” with friends and followers via Facebook and [...]
Meet a Latino artist: Gronk
Gronk is the artistic name of Chicano painter, printmaker, and performance artist Glugio Nicandro. He is best known for his murals, including those at Estrada Courts in East Los Angeles. Gronk’s murals, paintings on canvas, and widely-collected screen prints, is influenced by the works of German Expressionist Max Beckmann and the cartoon-like paintings of American [...]
Bolivia’s cholitas smack down the traditional image of helpless women
Bolivia’s indigenous women who dress in the iconic style of the bowler hat and colorful multi-layered skirts called polleras are known as “cholitas.” Traditionally, cholitas have occupied the lowest rungs of Bolivian society. Yet, a small group of cholitas are out to change their image and they’re doing it from inside a wrestling ring.
Dr. King’s “I have a dream” lives on in infamy and on YouTube
An observance of Martin Luther King Day isn’t complete without showcasing perhaps the single most iconic act performed by Dr. King — the deliverance of his “I have a dream” speech on the Washington Mall on August 28, 1963.
Venezuela: Latina Venezuelan presidential candidate challenges Hugo Chavez during 8-hour speech
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — The day has arrived when I couldn’t be any more proud to be a woman in Venezuela. It’s all because of Venezuelan Presidential Candidate, Maria Corina Machado. Machado challenged President Hugo Chavez in such a way that so far no man has ever dared to do before. It was [...]
Viernes Video: Sin Ayuda
Winner of the 2010 Corpus Christi 7 day film project. Also winner of the Best Actor Award (Tie) and Best Supporting Actor Award (Tie) Sin Aydua (Without Help) is about Sam, a lone immigrant crossing the US-Mexico border to unite with his family. He comes across a wounded mirror of himself and he promises to [...]
Graffiti brings an abandoned part of Miami back to life
Graffiti is the oldest and most basic of all art forms. Every city combats graffiti — some embrace it. Miami, Florida, in Dec. 2011, hosted the 10th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, the most prestigious art show in the Americas. A section of Miami, known as the Wynnwood Arts district, where abandoned warehouses and [...]
