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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…

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 2008 documentary, Watershed, intimately captures the agrarian life in the heart of the Andes Mountains and portrays the struggle of a Chilean farming community to preserve its culture, land, and water rights. With the influx of large-scale mining…

Juan Tejeda, instructor of music & Mexican-American Studies at Palo Alto College, shares how the rich history of Hispanic culture is kept alive in music today in his TEDx San Antonio talk — “Xicanismo and Tejano Music – Local…

Robert Gottlieb is the author of the book Food Justice. In today’s food system, farm workers face hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises, and food products sometimes resemble more of a high calorie…

Author Julia Amante explains to Hispanic Lifestyle interviewers how she evolved from writing under the pseudonym Lara Rios to pen inspirational books for young adult readers to currently writing books for an adult readership that deal more with family…

Ecuadorian videographer, Javier Hernandez Toledo, captures stunning images of wildlife and marine life native to the Amazon Rainforest. Though most of the shots are of animals in a controlled setting, aka cages, the variety of wildlife underscores the fragility…

A Deportation Love Story

Tony & Janina’s American Wedding: A Deportation Love Story premiered in October 2010 and quickly garnered awards. The documentary follows the pain of Tony and Janina and their son Brian as Janina is deported. Mother and son left together…

In Colombia, 84 different indigenous groups coexist with the rest of the country’s population. In most cases, they apply the law they inherited from their ancestors. Lawyer Edith Mosquera understands indigenous justice and explains how Colombia’s indigenous view crime…

With so much speculation centering on the Mayan calendar’s implication for 2012 and what it really means for the future of the planet and humankind, it seems fitting to hear from an actual Mayan elder.

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Feliz Navidad goes iTech

Using ONLY ipads, iphones and ipods a group of creative high-tech “musicians” create a new kind of Christmas cheer with a delivery of a new twist to the popular Feliz Navidad.

Carving Guadalupe

Contemporary Santero artist, Arthur Lopez, hand carves — from a block of wood to the final art piece — of the iconic image of Our Lady of Guadalupe for the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Santa…

Viernes Video: Caribe Road

Caribe Road follows the fictional story of U.S. special forces commander Mark Caribe, who is hell bent in starting a new life away from the military, but not before accepting one last mission to find the terrorist who kidnapped…

The First Amendment

Do you know the words of the First Amendment? In this video, celebrities, news personalities and politicians stress the importance of the first 45 words.