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In This Hilarious Mockumentary, a Cuban Guy in Flip-Flops Kills It at a Pickup Basketball Game

Monica Castillo — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:57:11 +0000

Some of the best short films are more than just about one subject. There’s a depth to their stories that could put some studio-made, feature-length projects to shame. In the case of Eddie Mujica‘s hilarious mockumentary, Cuban Missile Crisis (from the web series Uno Por Uno), the filmmaker not only spoofs the “talking head” visual style of TV

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‘East Los High’s Vannessa Vasquez On Branching Out to Write Short Film ‘La Sangre Llama’

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:25:40 +0000

To many East Los High fans, Vannessa Vasquez may forever be Camila Barrios. But the Texan native has always dreamed of working behind the camera, turning stories into big screen projects that could shine a light on people who grew up in circumstances like her own. As with the groundbreaking Hulu series, she was able to see firsthand

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5 Questions With Christopher Guerrero, the Director Behind Biting Satire ’White Guys Solve Sexism’

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:52:33 +0000

To hear Christopher Guerrero talk about his career is to get a crash course in the unpredictability of making film in the twenty-first century. The Mexican-American producer and director, originally from Selma, California, studied at UC Santa Cruz. His majors? Film, astrophysics and theater; he only finished the film one, which ironically, had the most

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Meet Rafael Espinal, the NYC Council Member Fighting for His East New York Community

Andrew S. Vargas — Mon, 14 May 2018 20:32:59 +0000

If you’ve been paying attention to the ins and outs of New York City politics over the last few years, you’ve caught wind of Councilman Rafael Espinal. With a handful of high-profile legislative victories to his name – including, most recently, a law rescinding the city’s laughably antiquated and oft-abused “Cabaret Law” (which banned venues from

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Alpha 606’s Irresistible Dance Tracks Merge Miami Bass and Afro-Cuban Percussion

Cheky — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:58:54 +0000

By now, Armando Martinez’s Alpha 606 is a well-known name in the Miami electronic music scene, even though he has only had a few releases since he started the project back in 1998 with former member Ray Rubio. The producer, born in Hialeah to Cuban immigrant parents, creates irresistible dance tracks inspired by Miami bass

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WIRD Festival Is Putting San Luis Potosí on Mexico’s Musical Map and Supporting Earthquake Relief

Marcos Hassan — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 22:15:00 +0000

A new kind of festival is coming to an unexpected Mexican town for a third year

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5 Questions With Alejandra Villalba García, the Mexican Director Taking Her Short Film to Cannes

Manuel Betancourt — Mon, 15 May 2017 21:17:01 +0000

At first look, this is a happy, normal family. They go to church. They’re dressed impeccably amid their starkly furnished home. They eat meals together and say grace. But if you look closer, as director Alejandra Villalba García encourages you to do in her short film Microcastillo, you begin to see that something’s amiss. For starters,

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How Growing Up Blaxican in Los Angeles Prepared Miguel for His Acting Debut

Isabelia Herrera — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:28:32 +0000

Miguel’s Wildheart is a soaring opus about the search for an authentic sense of self, one where the Blaxican R&B singer confronted his Latinidad for the first time. Since that album dropped in 2015, we’ve seen the star continue to explore his Latinx identity, teasing a Spanish-language cover of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” and releasing a collaboration

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Miami Director Jorge “Jokes” Yanes On the Similarities Between Filmmaking and Graffiti

Manuel Betancourt — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:43:03 +0000

The work of Jokes (aka Jorge Yanes) feels fueled with an irrepressible 90s energy. There’s the pulsating rhythms of hip hop and the colorful power of graffiti. There’s a sleek grittiness that runs through it that makes it feel like a throwback, a nostalgia that’s as fascinated with the glittering Miami nightlife as with the darker

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This Quechua Professor Wants to Dispel the Myth That Indigenous Languages Are a Thing of the Past

Yara Simón — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:54:30 +0000

After years of studying Quechua, Américo Mendoza Mori moved to Cusco to fully immerse himself in the language. And while he enrolled in a course and worked with a tutor, he couldn’t find anyone willing to speak the language with him outside of the classroom. “By then, I already knew a lot of grammar but

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