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Zapotec Scholar Felipe H. Lopez Reflects On How ‘City of Ghosts’ Portrays LA’s Indigenous Communities

Carlos Aguilar — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:02:16 +0000

Created by Elizabeth Ito, the animated series City of Ghosts explores the history of different neighborhoods in Los Angeles through friendly ghosts that make the past of this metropolis real. Our guides into these adventures, created in documentary style, are a diverse group of children, the Ghost Club, who navigate each encounter with curiosity and

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From Colman Domingo to Rita Moreno, Here’s How the 2021 Oscars Went For Latinos

Carlos Aguilar — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:05:04 +0000

Some years, the Oscars give the impression that Latinos are finally breaking through in the entertainment industry with winners such as Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, Pixar’s Coco, and Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water. Of course, those deserving works only represent a very narrow view that rarely includes U.S.-born Latinos, Afro Latinos, or Indigenous people.

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How Oscar-Shortlisted Documentary ‘The Mole Agent’ Ignites Necessary Conversation About Old Age

Carlos Aguilar — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:06:43 +0000

When Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi set out to make an observational documentary, her impetus wasn’t to focus on society’s relationship with old age or the loneliness that can come with it. She wanted to inquire about the job of private investigators and how their business had increased exponentially since the advent of social media in

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Review: Cerebral Drama ‘Black Bear’ Makes Way for Aubrey Plaza’s Career Best

Carlos Aguilar — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:08:30 +0000

Perturbed (or perhaps in knowing anticipation), Allison (Aubrey Plaza) stares out into the uncanny void of a foggy lake in the opening shots of writer-director Lawrence Michael Levine’s cerebral, multi-angle drama, Black Bear. She could, however, just as likely be pointing her piercing gaze directly at us, burning through the protection of the screen to

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‘Nahuel and the Magic Book’ Feels Like a Studio Ghibli Film Based on Mapuche Mythology

Carlos Aguilar — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:00:41 +0000

Indigenous folklore comes to vibrant life in German Acuña’s directorial debut Nahuel y el libro mágico (Nahuel and the Magic Book). The 2D animated feature is based on Mapuche mythology and set in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. Co-produced by Chilean companies Carburadores and Punkrobot (Oscar-winner Bear Story), and Brazilian outfit Levante Films, the

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Meet the Chilean Cinematographer Behind Amazon’s Drive-In Hit ‘The Vast of Night’

Carlos Aguilar — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:19:35 +0000

Poetry guides every artistic decision Chilean cinematographer Miguel Ioann Littín-Menz makes. Though he enjoys the magic of the visual artifice constructed behind the scenes, his motivation is what the images he crafts communicate. “I love technique, and I need it, but my main motor is always the narrative, because from the emotions and the sensations

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Puerto Rican Actress Sol Miranda on the Line That Got Her Cast in ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’

Carlos Aguilar — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 16:04:38 +0000

Mainstream recognition has come at a slow pace for Puerto Rican actress Sol Miranda, whose work ethic follows her father’s unwavering stick-to-it attitude. Longtime commitment to the craft, especially in theater, eventually landed her a path-altering role as the astute Donna Maria in the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. From her days in Catholic

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Director Eduardo Rivero On Fighting Stigma Around Cognitive Disabilities With New Animated Film

Carlos Aguilar — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:22:23 +0000

Mexican production company Fotosíntesis Media makes animated movies with social impact on subjects that are often seen as difficult to talk about. Their 2015 release La increíble historia del Niño de Piedra (The Incredible Story of the Stone Boy) aimed to encourage openness about negative emotions, while their follow up, 2017’s El angel en el

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‘Radio Silence’ Profiles Carmen Aristegui, Mexico’s Most Fearless Journalist

Carlos Aguilar — Wed, 06 May 2020 18:49:26 +0000

Murdered with impunity for doing their job, Mexican journalists are among the thousands of innocent victims claimed by the country’s rampant organized crime, often aided by the very institutions tasked with persecuting it. Few seemingly democratic countries are as brutally dangerous as Mexico for those who practice the profession. Under such violent climate, Silencio radio

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SXSW Revenge Thriller ‘Gunpowder Heart’ Follows a Queer Couple Unraveling After a Sexual Assault

Carlos Aguilar — Fri, 01 May 2020 15:59:16 +0000

In Pólvora en el corazón (Gunpowder Heart) impotence plagues the minds of two queer Guatemalan girls fed up with the unbearable state of helplessness of an economically impaired and morally decaying society. Misguidedly, a firearm infects the duo with a dangerous confidence to amend, by force, an unspeakable offense. Derived from the writer-director’s personal accounts,

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