By Rudy Girón REVUE: Guatemala’s English-language Magazine GUATEMALA — In Poland they were able to get 209 people inside a bus. That was the Guinness World Record until yesterday (February 12) when in Jocotenango they were able to get 221 people and one chicken inside the chicken bus. This will be the first Guinness World [...]
Art in video: Latino team creates music video with a social message about bullying
Young musical artist Joel Hernandez and music video director Fanny Veliz teamed up together in “Sharp Knives” to show that bullying comes in many forms, but that the words people use to insult, intimidate, demean and humiliate leave lasting wounds and create false assumptions and labels whether they’re delivered by phone, in person or through [...]
International Video: Docu-Comedy about a Cuban artist traveling back to her roots
Making its World Premiere at SXSW 2012, Amor Cronico follows the flamboyant Grammy nominated Cuban-born and New York based singer CuCu Diamantes on her tour around Cuba. The film interweaves footage of live musical performances with a fictional love story narrative. It’s being billed as a “Cuban Musical Romantic Docu-Comedy.” It is a unique road [...]
Video for Thought: Connecting with opportunities grows Latino voices
Flavio Morales, senior vice president of programming and production at mun2, shares his reasons with TEDx Washington Heights audience members why more Latino voices are needed to be heard in society. He urges Latinos to help one another to connect with opportunities and, in the process, gain a wider reflection of who Latinos are in [...]
Sharing digital hearts in free online game brings “light” to impoverished Guatemalan villages
LatinaLista — Valentine’s Day is all about giving your heart to friends, family, classmates or co-workers to show them how much you care. But what if you could show how much you care to some impoverished children in two remote Guatemalan villages who desperately need electricity for their schools — and you don’t have to [...]
Video: Documentary looks at youth violence & encourages passage of Youth PROMISE Act
Across the country, young people are dying every day from senseless street violence. Many of their stories go untold, as do the solutions that could have saved their lives. The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago who try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed. [...]