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Filmmaker Natalia Almada Offers Viewers Space To Reflect on Tech in ‘Users’

Kiko Martinez — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:25:43 +0000

In her exceptionally thought-provoking documentary Users, which also plays like a striking visual essay, Mexican American filmmaker Natalia Almada wants viewers to think about how technology impacts their lives. Almada, who won a Directing Award at Sundance earlier this week for Users, is not here to point fingers at anyone. She’s not here to ask

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20 Latina-Directed Films to Stream During Women’s History Month

Manuel Betancourt — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:54:20 +0000

There are many statistics we could deploy here to remind you of the systemic ways female directors in general and Latina filmmakers in particular are undervalued and under-appreciated around the world. But for Women’s History Month, we figured it’d be more productive to celebrate instead the work of talented Latinas around the globe who are

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10 Latino Directors Who Absolutely Killed it This Year

Remezcla Estaff — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:05:21 +0000

For those would-be directors born in Latin America finding funding for a new production involves applying for dozens of grants provided by their country’s film institute or local government money earmarked for the arts. There’s also European organizations that target filmmakers in the “developing world” and Ibermedia, a consortium of film institutes that support co-productions

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Latino Documentaries You Can Stream During PBS’ Massive Anniversary Marathon

Manuel Betancourt — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:56:52 +0000

Do you already have plans for New Year’s Eve? Do they include staying at home and watching socially conscious documentaries? Because maybe they should. To cap off a year celebrating its 30th anniversary, PBS television series POV is hosting an all-day documentary marathon showcasing some of the best projects they’ve aired over the decades. The binge-worthy

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These Are the Latinos Invited to Join the Academy of Motion Pictures This Year

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:57:59 +0000

Last year, president Cheryl Boone Isaacs made strides to make the Academy of Motion Pictures of America a more inclusive organization. In a released statement, she pledged to make sure its membership could better reflect the world at large. And a few months later she made good on her word. The Academy invited more than

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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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Natalia Almada Used Her MacArthur Genius Grant to Make a Film No One Else Would Finance

Steve Macfarlane — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:51:55 +0000

Natalia Almada’s Todo lo demás (Everything Else) made its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, as part of Lincoln Center’s commendable new “Explorations” series. Gloriously textured, Almada’s new film draws on the autobiographies of both the filmmaker and her leading lady, Adriana Barraza, who stars as Doña Flor, a bureaucrat who speaks

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TRAILER: This Mexican Drama Takes Us Into the Life of a Lonely Cat Lady With a Dead-End Job

Andrew S. Vargas — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:13:47 +0000

Watch the trailer for Natalia Almada's first fiction feature 'Todo lo demás' (Everything Else), starring Adriana Barraza.

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