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14 Latinx Films & Digital Projects Receive Funding from Latino Public Broadcasting

Kiko Martinez — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 17:40:28 +0000

Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) recently announced the 14 Latinx films and digital media projects that it will fund this year. LPB executive director Sandie Viquez Pedlow says what unites all the works is the concept of “home.” “Whether it’s the immigrant’s complex connection to their native land or the struggle of a community fighting to

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From Jarocho to LA Riots: PBS Documentaries You Should Stream for Hispanic Heritage Month

Manuel Betancourt — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:02:15 +0000

Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) is coming up. And to celebrate, public television’s WORLD Channel will premiere six new films from Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB). Tackling everything from an United States filmmaker’s complex Bolivian heritage, Mexico’s ‘son jarocho’ musical tradition, the death of a journalist in Oaxaca, the 1992 L.A. riots, and immigrant carnival workers,

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You Should Stream: ‘Bragging Rights’ Doc Chronicles How Stickball Healed NYC’s Racial Tensions

Andrew S. Vargas — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 23:16:25 +0000

New York often feels like a city where nothing is permanent – where every few years the cultural landscape devours itself and paves the way for something entirely different. But it is also a place of proud traditions passed on through neighborhoods from generation to generation; picking up new interpretations with each wave of migration

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This 1978 TV Ad for a Republican Senator Featuring a Corrido Changed Everything for Latino Voters

Andrew S. Vargas — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:04:27 +0000

As election day approaches, we find ourselves on the verge of knowing if the “sleeping giant” of the Latino vote has at last been roused from apathy. But the project behind our slowly emerging electoral identity is one that actually goes back generations, to the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy and, on a smaller

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5 Facts From ‘Willie Velasquez: Your Voice is Your Vote’ Doc That Will Have You Running to the Polls

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:17:26 +0000

For decades Latinos in America had no political power. That’s the line with which Hector Galán opens his documentary on Willie Velasquez, one of the greatest advocates for US Latino voter registration of the 20th century. Tracing his rise from a butcher’s son to an admired political activist, Willie Velasquez – Your Vote is Your Voice is

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You Can Stream These Latinx Short Films for Free Thanks to PBS

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 21:31:56 +0000

Short films can pack as big a punch as their lengthier counterparts. Their stories may be quick, small even, but they can speak to larger themes and broader cultural conversations. In fact, their intimacy and locality can oftentimes add to their impact. That’s precisely the case in two short films by Latinx filmmakers making their

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3 Groundbreaking Mediamakers on Pushing the Boundaries of Latino Content

Carlos Aguilar — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 19:25:56 +0000

The NALIP Media Summit brought together William Caballero, Karla Legaspy, and Hector Galan to talk universal storytelling and the future of public television.

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