Category: Media
Video: Costa Rican artist takes contemporary art to new heights — literally
Tropical colors, geometric shapes and floor-to-ceiling heights are the three main characteristics that distinguishes Federico Herrero’s thought-provoking artwork. The Costa Rican-born artist is globally famous for his artwork but he only held his first U.S. showing recently, in February 2012, at Philadelphia’s Bridgette Mayer Gallery. As an art critic from the Philadelphia Weekly reported, “He [...]
Intrn’l Video: Tracing the past, present and future of skateboarding in Puerto Rico
EJKEI may look like a strange word but it’s the phonetic pronunciation of the word “skate” used by Puerto Rican skateboarders. It also happens to be the title of the first documentary about the history of skateboarding in Puerto Rico. The film’s producers and directors, Héctor Hugo Hernández and Javier Viqueira Keller, of Revolt films, [...]
Video: Program marks 25 years of giving migrant farm children a new future
In 1987, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) was looking for a program that would help migrant farm children keep up with their school work while they were away helping their parents earn money by picking crops across the nation. The University of Texas at Austin answered the TEA’s challenge and created the Migrant Student Graduation [...]
Video: Latino comedy troupe highlights the absurdities of building a border wall
Based in Austin, Texas, The Latino Comedy Project troupe learned long ago that the nation’s anti-immigrant hysteria was fertile fodder to poke fun at people who discriminated against Latinos and to highlight the absurdity of Washington’s policies in dealing with undocumented immigration. The Latino Comedy Project’s humor can be scathing, offensive and shocking but it [...]
Viernes Video: Award-winning film plots a “miracle” of an ending
Tito Jimenez is a widower, father of two girls, works two jobs and still can’t provide for his family. He’s on the verge of losing his faith but is presented with a second chance at love. It forces Jimenez to make a decision that will take his family on a journey of love, faith and [...]
Video: GOOGLE brings Latin American museums to the world via high-tech camera
GOOGLE is bringing the art museums of Latin America to the world via its GOOGLE Art Project. Journalist Brian Andrews reports how GOOGLE is using its famous 360-degree, high-definition camera to create online tours and spotlight ten museums in such countries as Mexico, Argentina and Brazil.
Intrn’l Video: The sad tale of Panamá’s Coco Solo
At one time, Coco Solo was a busy naval base in Panamá. Its claim to fame is that it was the birthplace of John McCain, who was born there in 1936. However these days, Coco Solo is a far cry from the glory of its naval past. Today, the rundown base, that has no running [...]
Video for Thought: Scholar finds too many kids good at “school” bad at “thinking”
Dr. Derek Cabrera leads the Cabrera Research Lab, is the author of five books, numerous journal articles, and a US patent. Cabrera discovered when teaching Ivy League students at Cornell University that his students were smart in every way but one — they could not think. He noticed when he gave his students unstructured tests [...]
Video: Life doesn’t stop with a diabetes diagnosis
Diabetes, whether Type 1 or Type 2, is a serous health issue, especially for Latinos. Of all Latinos, Mexican Americans suffer the most from the disease that can rob a person of their limbs, their eyesight and eventually their life. On top of the dismal odds of Mexican Americans being diagnosed most often with the [...]
Viernes Video: Indie doc about Puerto Rican revolutionary reveals the hard struggle for independence
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a professional trumpet player in his native Puerto Rico. Yet, he did more than just play music. He lived a clandestine life as a revolutionary and became a strategic leader of groups known for their violent and dramatic acts towards winning independence for Puerto Rico. “Filiberto” is a feature-length documentary that [...]
