By Marisa Treviño ncluido There’s no question that women are on TV. From primetime shows to daytime soaps and cable programs to streaming series, women can be seen. But for those who know better, like the researchers at the…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista Many a desktop across the country, and the world, start their days staring at the Google homepage. It’s not just for its popular search engine that ‘draws’ (pun intended) people to its site but the anticipation…
LatinaLista — When Argentinian business partners and friends Ricardo Petroni, Pablo Martinez and Sergio Neuspiller got together to form the production company Full Dimensional, they had high hopes of creating a horror blockbuster. They were going to craft a…
LatinaLista — Netflix may be striving for world domination but when it comes to Latin America they are now facing some formidable competition. Launched on March 4, 2016, Retina Latina is a new platform that streams high-quality Latin American…
LatinaLista — Julian Leyzaola Perez takes the law in Mexico seriously. This former police chief of two of the most law-breaking Mexican border towns — Tijuana and Juarez, felt it was his public and moral duty to confront the…
By Laura Wenus MissionLocal The Brava Theater was adorned Sunday afternoon with a banner declaring “Amor for Alex” during the screening of a new film examining the fatal police shooting of 28-year-old Alex Nieto in 2014. Supporters of…
This season, a wide diversity of fashion films provided evidence that the genre has matured. LONDON, United Kingdom This season, we saw a wide diversity of fashion films — from a gorgeously animated “Sky Watcher” from Trussardi to the quirky charm of i-D’s…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The New Cuba Libre! On September 19, 2015, Pope Francis lands at the José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba. He says: “In the words of José Martí, the process of normalizing…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Salud Sin Papeles : Health Undocumented It all starts with Jason Odhner. Jason, a nurse and an activist, is a pioneer for his cause. He tears down walls that deny many in the undocumented community…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Nuestra Cuba Nuestra Cuba tells the inspiring stories of Cuba's first women and Afrocuban film directors. In the years following the Cuban Revolution, the island would become a leader in the Latin American film movements to…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Vietnam, Puerto Rico Vietnam, PR—a community or barrio located on the coast of Guaynabo and Cataño, is undergoing an illegal expropriation at the hands of Guaynabo City’s Mayor Hector O’Neill. Vietnam’s demise is a casualty…
By Karen Savage JJIE NEW YORK — She was 11 and in the sixth grade when she went to jail, eventually landing in solitary confinement. Nicole never imagined a petty fight at her Louisiana middle school would lead…
LatinaLista — Campaign: The Maya Angelou Documentary The Maya Angelou Documentary is the first documentary about Dr. Maya Angelou. As friends from Dr. Angelou's inner circle, the filmmakers have been granted remarkable and unmatched access to Dr. Angelou’s…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Nuyorican Básquet: Documentary Film When the Puerto Rican basketball team played at the 1979 Pan American Games, an oddity was evident: the majority of its players did not speak Spanish, but rather Spanglish. The team…
By Hillary Ojeda Living in Peru Last week, a group of natives in Boca Manu in the Peruvian Amazon took hostage about 40 tourists. They were demanding that the construction of a local road be finished. After two…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Charged – The Eduardo Garcia Documentary Charged is a feature-length documentary film in the making. In 2011, Chef Eduardo Garcia was shocked with 2400 volts of electricity in a freak incident deep in Montana’s backcountry. Near…
LatinaLista — The one stereotype about Latinos that is true to the core is how family members care for one another. There’s no greater example of that truth than in the film Strike One. According to the film’s website,…
LatinaLista — The emotional distress of a child having a parent incarcerated has been documented enough in film and books to understand that there is trauma felt by members of the family, but what about when a sibling or…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Teach Film To Kids In Africa, Asia & Latin America Think of it as PeaceCorps for filmmakers. The nonprofit Filmmakers Without Borders (FWB) sends filmmakers and media educators overseas to teach filmmaking and media literacy to…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Juarez 2045 Juarez 2045 is a sci-fi film that takes place in Juarez, Mexico where a group of marines must combat a robotic drug cartel lead by Danny Trejo. Juarez 2045 is an action science fiction…
LatinaLista — Campaign: Jose Growing up as a young chicano in “the hood” has its hardships, and also its good times. Most people say just stay positive and stay in school, which is the best thing the young person…
LatinaLista — Any real movie buff who considers herself an expert in film knows the cinematic masterpiece GIANT. Filmed in 1955, 60 miles from the Mexican border in a small West Texas town called Marfa, GIANT starred some of…
LatinaLista — Earlier this year, Latina Lista highlighted the trailer of a short film titled “La Loteria” by filmmaker Shahir Daud. The Spanish-language short film, La Loteria, epitomizes life’s unpredictability both in front of and behind the camera. Written…
LatinaLista — It’s rare that a film can hold a mirror to society and expose how many is his own worst enemy in only six minutes, but the Spanish film Cólera accomplishes that and more. The basic premise of…
By Nikoleta Morales Extra! It has been 21 years since the passing of one of the most historic and iconic Latino-American heroes—César Chávez. Considered by many to be the Latino-American Martin Luther King, Chávez inspired and fought for farm…
