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Intrn’l Video: Inspirational documentary about blind Brazilian ballerinas illustrates “beauty of perseverance”

Apr 9, 2014, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Featured before on this site, the Brazilian documentary “Looking at the Stars” deserves another look-see — ironic choice of words since the main characters themselves are blind. Looking at the Stars or Olhando pras Estrelas is about…

Social Justice, Videos, zNew Headline

Intrn’l Video: Documentary premieres online & in theaters challenging to take a stand ending child slavery

Jan 29, 2014, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — It is no coincidence that the new documentary #standwithme makes its global debut on February 1, National Freedom Day. The film is about a 9-year-old girl named Vivienne Harr, who was so disturbed seeing a picture of…

Social Justice, Videos, zNew Headline

Video: 2010 documentary tracing Hollywood’s treatment of Native Americans available online

Nov 19, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Hollywood movies are known for romanticizing, distorting, embellishing, and even inventing, when it comes to portraying communities of color. There’s no greater example than how Hollywood has portrayed the Native American. From the admirable to the pathetic…

Education, Videos, zNew Headline

Video: New documentary highlighting good in public schools screens during American Education Week

Nov 18, 2013, 2:47 PM 0

LatinaLista — Public schools and public school educators have been under attack a lot in the last few years. Politicians, “education reformists” and even some parents and media have indulged in playing the blame game — blaming public schools…

Education, Videos, zNew Headline

Video: Faced with high odds against academic success, six Latino teens seize control of their lives — and do it!

Nov 11, 2013, 3:01 PM 0

LatinaLista — For a lot of Latino teens, going to school can be just as much of a challenge as succeeding. For those who are low-income, first or second-generation, undocumented, live in neighborhoods where gang violence and recruitment are…

Local News, National, zNew Headline

Interview with Ray Suarez PBS Newshour correspondent and author of Latino Americans

Oct 1, 2013, 9:45 AM 0

By Juniper Rose Hispanic Link Following is an interview with Ray Suarez, broadcast journalist, PBS Newshour senior correspondent and author of “Latino Americans” by Hispanic Link reporter, Juniper Rose. “Latino Americans” is the first major documentary series to highlight…

Global Views, zNew Headline

Four college students live among Guatemala’s Mayans to experience living on one dollar a day

Aug 8, 2013, 11:10 AM 0

By Anna-Claire Bevan LatinaLista Guatemala City – Economics students are no strangers to numbers. Chris Temple and Zack Ingrasci were familiar with the overwhelming statistic that 1.1 billion people live on a dollar day, but they still couldn’t understand…

Environment, Videos, zNew Headline

Intrn’l Video: Award-winning film showcases depth of human spirit among Brazilian trash sifters

Aug 7, 2013, 11:24 AM 0

LatinaLista — Since 2010, the year the film WASTE LAND was released, it’s been piling up awards faster than the garbage that used to pile up at the world’s largest garbage dump outside Rio de Janiero — the focus…

Environment, Videos, zNew Headline

Intrn’l Video: Mexican conservationists work with shark fishermen to make Mexico a shark sanctuary

Jul 31, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — According to Wikipedia: The marine pelagic environment is the largest aquatic habitat on earth, occupying 1,370 million cubic kilometres (330 million cubic miles), and is the habitat for 11 percent of known fish species. Marine pelagic fish…

Health, Videos, zNew Headline

Video: Filmmaker shares the simple secret to happiness that can create profound change

Jul 16, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

Social Justice, Videos, zNew Headline

Video: Series takes viewers down the ‘Caminos’ Mexican immigrants travel in search for jobs on US side of the border

Jul 1, 2013, 4:08 PM 0

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…

Environment, Life Issues, Videos, zNew Headline

Intrn’l Video: Remote Mexican jungle brings out extreme cinematography in shooting extreme sport

Jun 26, 2013, 11:57 AM 0

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…

Videos, Women, zNew Headline

Video: New PBS/Univision documentary reveals the sexual abuse of nation’s female migrant farmworkers

Jun 24, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

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…

Videos, zNew Headline

Viernes Video: Pulitzer prize-winning journalist takes his story of being an undocumented American to the big screen

Jun 21, 2013, 2:26 PM 0

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…

Videos, zNew Headline

Viernes Video: Filmmaker goes beyond the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border to reveal a ‘purgatory’ where souls wait…

Jun 14, 2013, 4:50 PM 0

LatinaLista — Listening to Congress debate how to reform immigration, it doesn’t take long to figure out that those who are opposed to any kind of reform or legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants are individuals who have…

Local News, South, zNew Headline

Rio Grande Valley’s public broadcasting station to screen The Undocumented online on Wednesday

May 21, 2013, 11:47 AM 0

By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian HARLINGEN, TX — KMBH, the Rio Grande Valley’s public broadcasting station, is inviting viewers from around the world to watch the acclaimed new documentary, The Undocumented, online on Wednesday while at…

Videos

Video: Former promo newscast producer quits job to create documentary about Illinois’ undocumented

Apr 29, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — When future generations look back at how the immigrant rights movement flourished during this time in our history, they won’t have to resort to print to read about it. They’ll be able to witness it for themselves…

General, Videos

Viernes Video: The extraordinary tale of one ‘Rebel’ Cubana whose Civil War exploits defy history

Mar 29, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Loreta Velazquez was a brave woman. She had to be. Her bravery was the only thing that stood between her and execution for being a spy. Loreta Janteta Velazquez was a Cuban immigrant raised in New Orleans….

General, Videos

Video: Documentary shows that the hungry in the nation don’t always have ‘A Place at the Table’

Mar 18, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — The politically correct term is “food insecurity” but most people know it as “going hungry.” Over 50 million people in the United States are reported to not know where their next meal is coming from. As a…

General, Videos

Video: Tracing the evolution of break dancing to bboying

Mar 14, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — It used to be called break dancing but nowadays it’s known as Bboying, and if two aspiring filmmakers, James Oereste and Jimmy Bottom, get their way, the world will see this raw energy dance style recognized as…

General, Videos

Intrn’l Video: (Re)-Uniting Cuban music from around the world

Feb 27, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — For being such a small country, and an island at that, Cuba has produced more than its fair share of popular musical artists and remains a strong influence on Latin music. Thanks to the political turmoil on…

Videos

Intern’l Video: Argentina to China — two countries connected by their oppositeness

Dec 26, 2012, 2:28 PM 0

LatinaLista — The term ‘antipodes’ refers to two geographical locations that are diametrically opposite from each other. In other words, these two places could be connected by a straight line running through the center of the Earth. The documentary…

General, Videos

Video: Latina filmmaker focuses lens on evolution of superheroines

Nov 13, 2012, 12:00 AM 0

LatinaLista — Today, according to the U.S. Cenus, women outnumber men by five million. As such, it’s no big deal for young girls to see women in jobs and careers that have traditionally been male dominated but it was…

Culture, Film, General

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