LatinaLista — Even though President Obama authorized the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program to grant deferred action from deportations for certain undocumented young people, there are still many undocumented youth who either don’t qualify or have aged out of the requirements. For that reason, another film about the DREAMer experience serves to not [...]
Video: Dance competitors make a ‘sport’ out of the samba
LatinaLista — There’s samba and then there’s SAMBA! According to Wikipedia: Samba is a Brazilian dance and musical genre originating in Bahia, Brazil, and with its roots in Rio de Janeiro and Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions. It is recognized around the world as a symbol of Brazil and [...]
Intrn’l Video: Following the search for ‘family, identity and justice’ in El Salvador
LatinaLista — Like many Central and South American countries, El Salvador endured a civil war. The 12-year war, a fight between “the US-backed military-led government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or ‘umbrella organization’ of five left-wing guerrilla groups,” claimed not only a part of El Salvador’s history but 75,000 of [...]
Video: What will the world look like in 2030?
LatinaLista — What will the world look like in 17 years? The year will be 2030 and according to a projection by the Euromonitor International’s Countries and Consumers team more than half the world will live in one region on the planet, the growth of senior citizens will be significant and the average age of [...]
Video: Speaking out for greater diversity in teen theater productions
LatinaLista — For too long, Hollywood and the greater film/theater industry have been besieged with complaints over their reluctance to feature diversity that is representative of today’s national reality. While some progress has been made, it’s still not enough. It might be because film and theater executives think diversity only means that more characters written [...]
Viernes Video: Playwright Josefina Lopez tackles human rights and immigration in new big screen production
LatinaLista — Putting a human face to immigration has not been easy for advocates trying to convince conservatives that the issue is more than border security and deportations. It’s an argument that playwright Josefina Lopez hopes to make in her upcoming film Detained in the Desert. Based on her play of the same name, Lopez, [...]
