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Betzabé García On Her New Documentary About Queer YouTube star Mickey Cundapí

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 19 May 2017 16:34:17 +0000

There’s a boldness to titling a documentary #Mickey, but Betzabé García, who directed the powerful Sinaloa-set doc Kings of Nowhere, has an ambitious idea in mind for her sophomore feature. She’s offering up a profile of Mickey Cundapí, a Mexican YouTube star who won the Miss Sinaloa Gay pageant at 18. Born in the same region García mined in her dreamy first

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20 Latina Directors You Should Know

Manuel Betancourt — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:32:36 +0000

Back in October 2015, Women in Film launched the #52FilmsByWomen campaign. The brief was simple: pledge and commit to watching (at least) one film directed by a female filmmaker a week. It sounds easy enough. That it would be a challenge at all spoke more to the systemic sexism that plagues filmmaking. In Hollywood alone, the

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From East LA to São Paulo: New Film Series Brings Movies From the Latinx Diaspora to Milwaukee

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:55:38 +0000

If you’ve been starving out in the Midwest for some quality cinema about the Latinx experience, Milwaukee Film has you covered. As part of this year’s Milwaukee Film Festival, they are introducing a new program, Cine Sin Fronteras, which aims to showcase the rich and vibrant Latinx diaspora around the world: including Latinx, Chicanx, Latin American, indigenous and

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You Should Stream: ‘Unsilenced’ Doc Is the Tragic Story of a Mexican Activist Killed Live on the Radio

Andrew S. Vargas — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:55:44 +0000

Unsilenced is Betzabe Garcia's contribution to New York Times Op-Doc initiative exploring Mexico’s social reality through the eyes of Mexican filmmakers.

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Betzabe Garcia on Filming Her First Doc in an Idyllic Sinaloa Town In the Middle of the Drug War

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:22:53 +0000

We talked to Betzabé García about the long journey of getting her documentary 'Kings of Nowhere' made and finding the beauty in a mostly deserted town.

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What It’s Like to Film in San Marcos, a Deserted Mexican Town That Is Completely Underwater

Monica Castillo — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 20:26:37 +0000

The doc 'Los reyes del pueblo que no existe' captures an enchanting tiny tragedy, the quiet desolation of a forgotten town that nature has come to reclaim.

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