LatinaLista — It’s rare that I will post a crowdfunding campaign for a Viernes Video that, at the least, doesn’t have a trailer. But looking at Houston filmmaker Carlos Tovar’s web series project, More Than Human, something tells me…
LatinaLista — Author Roma Calatayud-Stocks loves history, music and writing. It’s a combination that yielded an award-winning, and unusual, debut novel in 2012 for the Minneapolis native — a historical story with its own musical score, composed by Calatayud-Stocks….
LatinaLista — It is estimated that by 2050 there will be 9.6 billion people on the planet. A recent study found that at this rate of global growth it will take only 40 years for some species of mammals…
LatinaLista — Roko Belic is an actor, film producer, director and documentarian. It was through one of his last films Belic discovered something that changed his life — for the better. While filming the documentary HAPPY, and traveling the…
LatinaLista — The foster care system is supposed to save children from abusive or neglectful parents. The children are separated from their parents for their own well-being but too many children suffer from being in the foster care system….
LatinaLista — The film Lessons in Life #3 runs only six minutes but in that short space of time the director is able to convey both a simple and deep message about what it takes in life to get…
LatinaLista — Jose Manuel Merello is a self-taught contemporary artist based in Madrid. He has an eye for order in a scene that appears chaotic. “Spanish painting has, throughout the centuries, maintained a serene and melancholic regard: tragic but…
LatinaLista — This morning, former President George W. Bush presided over a naturalization ceremony held at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas on the campus of Southern Methodist University. It was expected that he would deliver…
LatinaLista — The sea has a long history with Hollywood. Sometimes used as merely a backdrop, other times as the nemesis or a confidante, the sea is a character unto itself that can mirror the highs and lows of…
LatinaLista — While pundits are tolling the death knell for immigration reform as it faces debate in the House of Representatives, it is an issue that many people feel is not only alive but has a future. At the…
LatinaLista — The debate over whether to try children as adults is intensifying as more children are committing deadly and heinous crimes. In the United States today, more than 2,500 individuals are serving life-without-parole sentences for crimes they committed…
LatinaLista — The 4th of July is a special celebration for Americans. It’s the one day in the year when Americans celebrate being Americans — our freedom, our history, our patriotism, our foods and the past battles that shaped…
LatinaLista — Several words can be used to describe Spanish filmmaker Victor Carrey — prolific, imaginative, innovative and award-winning. A diverse filmmaker whose portfolio includes music videos, commercials and films, Carrey has attracted a lot of attention and awards…
LatinaLista — Revolutions, large and small, peaceful and violent, offline and online, are underway in every part of the world today. The people organizing, executing and demanding to be heard by their governments are young people — millennials. At…
LatinaLista — Juan Carlos Zaldivar has dived camera-first into the immigration debate producing a series of videos with a three-fold mission — put a human face to the issue, highlight the role of hunger in pushing immigrants to make…
LatinaLista — Tacos have evolved: from street food — sold from little neighborhood pushcarts — to fast food — just how many eateries sport “taco” in their name — to so-called gourmet tacos — another name for ‘hijacked’ tacos…
By Fátima Martinez / Leslie J. López LatinaLista SPAIN — In a nation suffering its worst economic crisis in recent history, Spain’s youth is leaving a trail from the Iberian Peninsula to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and…
LatinaLista — For Cuban exile Elizabeth Huergo, and other political refugees from the Communist island, Fidel Castro is a person who single-handedly changed their lives and their destinies. So, those of them who daydream of what happens to their…
LatinaLista — Rowing over a side of a raging waterfall is an extreme sport by itself that commands attention but mix in a little cinematic artistry, local culture and a narrative delivered in a haunting voice and what results…
LatinaLista — Farmwork is hard enough. Being a migrant farmworker — subjected to the whims of a “profit-first, workers-last” employer mentality can be life-threatening, but being a female migrant farmworker, well, there are no words to describe the horror…
LatinaLista — Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter born in the Philippines, stunned his journalism colleagues when he announced in 2011 via the New York Times that he was undocumented. Since that life-changing moment, when the world, his…
LatinaLista — Alfredo Corchado knows Mexico well. He was not only born there, in Durango, Mexico, but he has lived his life as a citizen of both the United States and Mexico. For over a decade, Corchado has also…
LatinaLista — Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid. It’s the capital of the region known as Catelonia and is home to many artistic and architectural wonders such as La Sagrada Familia Cathedral and Casa Batlló….
LatinaLista — They were officially known as the 65th Infantry Regiment. Yet to their families and friends they were the Borinqueneers — “the only Hispanic/Latino-segregated Active-Duty military unit in US history that played a prominent role in the American…
LatinaLista — The disturbing childhood obesity rates and skyrocketing cases of Type 2 diabetes in Latino communities reinforce the fact of just how imperative it is for Latinos to start eating healthy. In a lot of neighborhoods, that’s a…
