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WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE!

Title: WE DON’T PLAY GOLF HERE!
Description: Mexico serves as a Third World example of how “free market” economics distorts culture and environment. The construction of a golf course is more than the military trying to replace the democratic sport, soccer, with golf. It is how the golf course is going to affect the people in the surrounding area. Fertilizers and pesticides will pollute the nearby waters, Constructing the golf course would require the government to cut down trees, creating an environmental issue. People who believe in taking care of the natural forests around them were being punished by the military for not agreeing with their course of action. Without an individual voice the people of Mexico came together and had strikes against the golf company, the metal company dumping materials, in order to move toward a more democratic country. Despite globalizing efforts of the govenment, the people of Tepozitlan will always fight for what they believe in.
Subject: Culture/Festivals/Food, Economics/Development, Environment/Geography, Politics/Human Rights, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2007
Director: Saul Landau
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 789
Comments:
Created: 10/25/2012
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 33 Minutes Copy ID: 1416 Comments: Source: Donation Price: 0 Acquired: 10/25/2012

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SOBADA

Title: SOBADA
Description: Sobada is a documentary about the techniques used by midwives in Mexico in order to help a woman during her pregnancy. The specific technique discussed in the video is called sobada which is a type of abdominal massage. This technique is used by the indigenous midwives in order to make the process of birth easier.
Subject: Social Issues, Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year: 2007
Director: Erica Barbiani
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 779
Comments:
Created: 4/9/2012
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: None Length: 35 Minutes Copy ID: 1406 Comments: Source: Price: 0

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SIN DEJAR HUELLA

Title: SIN DEJAR HUELLA (WITHOUT A TRACE)
Description: Sin Dejar Huella uses drama and comedy in equal measure to tell the story of two women–one Spanish and the other Mexican–fleeing from their respective pasts. Ana, a con artist, and Aurelia, a young mother escaping from her drug-dealing husband, meet on the road by chance. Protecting one another from the dangers that pursue them, they travel from northern Mexico to Chiapas. Along the way they gradually learn the truth about one another.
Subject: Social Issues, Drama, Comedy, Travel
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2000
Director: María Novaro
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 744
Comments:
Created: 4/11/2011
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 109 minutes Copy ID: 1363 Comments: Source: Film festival Price: 0 Acquired: 4/11/2011

Posted in Comedy, Country/Region, Drama, DVD-R, English, Feature Film, Format, Language, Mexico, Spain, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Travel, Type | Comments Off

PRESUMED GUILTY/PRESUNTO CULPABLE

Title: Presumed Guilty
Description: In December, 2005, Tono Zuniga was picked up off the street of Mexico City, Mexico, and sentenced to 20 years for a murder he knew nothing about. A friend of Tono’s contacted two young lawyers, Robert Hernandez and Layda Negrete, who gained prominence in Mexico when they helped bring about the release of another innocent man from prison. Shot over three years with unprecedented access to the Mexican courts and prisons, this dramatic story is a searing indictment of a justice system that presumes guilt.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2009
Director: Roberto Hernandez & Geoffrey Smith
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 753
Comments:
Created: 11/28/2011
Copy: M Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 88 min. Copy ID: 1388 Comments: only checking out for classrooms Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 11/1/2011

Posted in Docudrama, Docudrama, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English, Format, Language, Mexico, Politics/Human Rights, Social Issues, Social Movements/Resistance, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Type | Comments Off

NEW WORLD BORDER

Title: NEW WORLD BORDER
Description: New World Border documents the rise in human rights abuses along the U.S.-Mexico border since the implementation of border blockades, which have been erected in populated areas throughout the border region during the last decade. This film includes interviews with immigrant rights organizers, testimony from immigrants, analysis of “free trade” policies & current efforts to build a vibrant movement for immigrant rights.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2001
Country: USA/Mexico
Film ID: 8
Comments:
Created:
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English Subtitles: None Length: 28 minutes Copy ID: 8 Comments: Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 2/23/2009

Posted in Border, Country/Region, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, Economics/Development, English, Environment/Geography, Format, Language, Mexico, None, Subject, Subtitles, Type, USA | Comments Off

LAS MOMIAS

Title: MOMIAS, LAS
Description: This film documents “The Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato” exhibition which appeared at the Natural Science Center of Greensboro, NC in 2012. The history of the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, through the lens of its “accidental mummies”, is explained by historians, architects, anthropologists, and forensics teams. The mummies and crypts are carefully preserved and contribute to the city’s rich cultural heritage.
Subject: History, Social Life and Customs
Type: Feature Film
Year: 2012
Country: United States
Film ID: 794
Comments:
Created: 10/23/2013
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: Length: 55 minutes Copy ID: 1422 Comments: Source: Natural Science Center of Greensboro, NC Price: 0 Acquired: 10/21/2013

Posted in Anthropology/Archaeology, Colonial, Country/Region, Culture/Festivals/Food, Documentary, DVD, English, Feature Film, Format, Language, Mexico, Social Life and Customs, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Type | Comments Off

MAYAS U SU’UT KA’ANSAH

Title: MAYAS U SU’UT KA’ANSAH
Description: Filmed in the states of Quintana Roo and Yucatán, “U Su’us Ka’ansah (The Cycle of Teaching) depicts the living ancestral science within Mayan communities. We are given the opportunity to partake in their cultural practices, experiences, and knowledge, as well as their unique ways of thinking. In addition, the documentary reveals ancient Mayan principles which are still present in Yucatán communities today. We are presented with the problems surrounding their language, customs, ceremonies, traditional medicinal practices, products, and land, and how these endanger their cultural identity and ancestral knowledge.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Environment/Geography, Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year: 2007
Director: Abhayaco Balam
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 798
Comments: Audio is in Mayan, subtitles available in Spanish, English, French, and German
Created: 10/23/2013
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Mayan Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 60 minutes Copy ID: 1418 Comments: Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 10/23/2013
Copy: 2 Format: DVD Language: Mayan Subtitles: English or Spanish Length: 60 minutes Copy ID: 1419 Comments: Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 10/23/2013
Copy: m Format: DVD Language: Mayan Subtitles: English & Spanish Length: 60 minutes Copy ID: 1417 Comments: Master Copy for Classroom Use Only Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 10/23/2013

Posted in Anthropology/Archaeology, Country/Region, Culture/Festivals/Food, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English & Spanish, Format, History, Indigenous Peoples, Language, Mexico, Social Life and Customs, Subject, Subtitles, Type, Yucatec Maya | Comments Off

LIVING JUAREZ

Title: LIVING JUAREZ
Description: After Mexican President Felipe Calderón declared war on drug cartels in December 2006, thousands of people have died in Mexico. Juarez is now considered the deadliest city in the world and where most of the casualties of the War on Drugs have occurred. Among those killed were youths from the neighborhood of Villas de Salvárcar, whom the government had described as gang members. Living Juarez follows the families of the victims as they speak out against Calderón and the violence in this area.
Subject: Social Issues
Type:
Year: 2010
Director: Alexandra Halkin
Country: mexico
Film ID: 769
Comments:
Created: 2/7/2012
Copy: 1m Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 21 minutes Copy ID: 1400 Comments: master copy for classroom use only Source: americas media initiative Price: 0 Acquired: 9/9/9999

Posted in Country/Region, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English, Format, Language, Mexico, Social Issues, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Type | Comments Off

HARVEST OF LONELINESS

Title: HARVEST OF LONELINESS
Description: In today’s weak economy, current immigration laws in different states of the country show hostility towards undocumented immigrants. This was not the case during and after World War II where the United States was in need of laborers who would work the fields of California and other states. This documentary explores the Bracero Program, and immigration reform that sought Mexican workers for temporal guest workers. These workers could not join unions, strike, or seek redress of their grievances, making them vulnearable for exploitation. The program was supposed to boost the economies of both countries, but Mexican wives and children were left behind as husbands traveled north in search of the American Dream. The documentary shows how the main reason for the program was to provide cheap labor without regard for the Mexican families. 58 minutes
Subject: Latinos/Chicanos, Social Issues, Migration/Immigration
Type: Documentary
Year: 2010
Director: Gilbert Gonzalez
Country: US/Mexico
Film ID: 750
Comments: Master Copy: Classroom use only
Created: 10/17/2011
Copy: M Format: DVD Language: English Subtitles: Spanish Length: 56 Minutes Copy ID: 1385 Comments: For classroom use only Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 9/9/9999

Posted in Country/Region, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English, Format, Language, Latinos/Chicanos, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, Social Issues, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Type, USA | Comments Off

EN EL CAMINO DE NUESTROS ANTEPASADOS

Title: EN EL CAMINO DE NUESTRAS ANTEPASADOS
Description: This film uses puppets to deliver lessons about Yucatec Maya language, culture, and history. It deals with issues of contemporary and ancient Maya heritage. The main characters travel to different sites including Chichen Itza, and learn about things such as traditional Maya farming practices, ancient Maya religion, and heritage site looting and preservation.
Subject: Animated, Anthropology/Archaelogy, Environment/Geography, Indigenous Peoples, Social Issues
Type: Documentary
Year: 2012
Director: MACHI
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 786
Comments:
Created: 7/27/2012
Copy: M Format: DVD Language: Maya Subtitles: English & Spanish Length: 60 Minutes Copy ID: 1414 Comments: Source: MACHI Price: 0 Acquired: 7/24/2012

Posted in Animated, Anthropology/Archaeology, Country/Region, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English & Spanish, Environment/Geography, Format, Indigenous Peoples, Language, Mexico, Social Issues, Subject, Subtitles, Type, Yucatec Maya | Comments Off

BETTY Y PANCHO

Title: BETTY & PANCHO
Description: A portrait of the 50 year marriage of Elizabeth Catlett, the renowned African American sculptor, and the Mexican painter, Francisco Mora. Now in their eighties, the couple share the same studio in Cuernavaca, and exhibit their work in New York, Mexico City, London, and Berlin. The granddaughter of North Carolina slaves, Catlett has been presented the key to the city of New Orleans on the occasion of its bicentennial, and won many other awards. Some of her work is included in the Museum of Art at NC Central.
Subject: Art, Music/Dance, Biography
Type: Documentary
Year: 1998
Director: Juan Mora Catlett
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 359
Comments: Possibly something wrong with the DVD and/or the VHS original.
Created:
Copy: 1 Format: DVD-R Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English and Spanish Length: 57 Minutes Copy ID: 658 Comments: Bad copy, a few seconds of tv recorded over the original VHS. Source: MVP Price: 10 Acquired: 2/4/2008
Copy: M Format: VHS Language: English and Spanish Subtitles: English and Spanish Length: 57 Minutes Copy ID: 335 Comments: Bad copy, a few seconds of tv recorded over the original VHS. Source: Price: 40 Acquired: 9/9/9999

Posted in Art, Biography, Catlett, Juan Mora, Country/Region, Director, Documentary, Documentary, DVD and VHS, English, English & Spanish, Format, Mexico, Music/Dance, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Type, USA | Comments Off

BAJO EL TACANA

Title: BAJO EL TACANA
Description: Bajo el Tecana is a short documentary about a group of women migrants, who are interviewed by a group of researchers, before heading to the north. The film takes place in the village of Soconusco, Chiapas on the border between Guatemala and Mexico. Made with the support from Mexican Commission on Human Rights and the OIM ( International Organization for Migration), this film combines text, testimonials and images.
Subject: Border, Migration/Immigration
Type: Documentary
Year: 2007
Director: Isabel Vericat
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 781
Comments:
Created: 4/10/2012
Copy: m Format: DVD Language: SPANISH Subtitles: English Length: 26 MINUTES Copy ID: 1408 Comments: master copy for classroom use only Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 9/9/9999

Posted in Border, Country/Region, Director, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English, Format, Gender/Sexuality, Guatemala, Language, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Type, Women's Studies | Comments Off

AL OTRO LADO

Title: AL OTRO LADO
Description: An aspiring corrido composer from the drug capital of Mexico faces two choices to better his life: to traffic drugs or to cross the border illegally into the United States. From Sinaloa, Mexico, to the streets of South Central and East L.A., Al Otro Lado explores the world of drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and the corrido music that chronicles it all. Description from producer.
Subject: Migration/Immigration, Border, Economics/Development, Latinos/Chicanos
Type: Documentary
Year: 2005
Director: Natalia Almada
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 743
Comments:
Created: 4/4/2011
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: Copy ID: 1384 Comments: Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 9/9/9999
Copy: M Format: DVD-R Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: Copy ID: 1386 Comments: Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 9/9/9999

Posted in Almada, Natalia, Border, Country/Region, Director, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, Economics/Development, English, Language, Latinos/Chicanos, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, Spanish, Type, USA | Comments Off

LAS MOMIAS

Posted in Country/Region, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English, Format, History, Language, Mexico, Social Life and Customs, Spanish, Subject, Type | Comments Off

LOS PUEBLOS INDIGENAS DE HOY

Title: PUEBLOS INDIGENAS, LOS
Description: Los Pueblos Indigenas Hoy is a ten part series that is an educational resource about the indigenous peoples of Mexico. Sponsored by the Mexican government, the series aired on Mexican national television in 2010 in honor of the Bicentennial celebration of Mexican independence. It features studio interviews with indigenous people, including rights advocates and leaders. Each program is 55 minutes and is presented in Spanish and using Spanish subtitles to translate interviews, with two programs on each DVD.

Four-disc set.
Subject: Indigenous Peoples, Culture/Festivals/Food, Social Life and Customs
Type: Documentary
Year: 2010
Country: Mexico
Film ID: 792
Comments:
Created: 10/23/2013
Copy: 1 Format: DVD Language: spanish Subtitles: Spanish Length: 55 minutes per program Copy ID: 1420 Comments: Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 10/9/200

Posted in Country/Region, Culture/Festivals/Food, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, Format, Indigenous Peoples, Language, Mexico, Social Life and Customs, Spanish, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Type | Comments Off

THE GUESTWORKER

The Guestworker tells the story of Don Candelario “Don Cande” Gonzales Moreno, a 66-year old farmer from Durango, Mexico. He has been coming to the United States in a regular basis to work the tobacco and other agricultural fields since the 1960s. The film also portrays the owners of Wester Farms in North Carolina, the employers who use men like Don Cande to work their fields. The owners see in Don Cande a hard-working, committed man who comes back every year through the H2A Guest Worker program. Conditions in the farm are not optimal, for sometimes the men go for weeks without work due to either drought or rain. The employers provide money for groceries and homes that may or not be adequate.

Length: 53 Minutes

Posted in Economics/Development, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, USA | Comments Off

GEOGRAFIAS SUAVES 2

Part 2 of a series of shorts from the 2004 Geografias Suaves regional film festival which feature Maya speaking peoples from Yucatan and Chiapas. The shorts include a video postcard documenting the lives and everyday experiences of children and their communities as well as stories based on folklore and oral tradition from the region.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: ___ Minutes

Posted in Docudrama, DVD, English, Feature Film, Indigenous Peoples, Mexico, Shorts, Social Issues, Social Life and Customs, Spanish, Various | Comments Off

THE VIRGIN APPEARS IN LA MALDITA VECINDAD

Description: The Virgin Appears in La Maldita Vecinidad is a documentary about the Virgen of Guadalupe and the celebrations that occur on December 11th and 12th in her honor. These celebrations occur outside an apartment complex knows as “la Maldita Vecindad” in Durham, North Carolina which is composed of immigrants mainly from Mexico and Central America. This documentary also explores Latin American immigrants in the United States.

Copies: 1 (DVD master)

Posted in Bishop Elva, Cravey Altha, Culture/Festivals/Food, Documentary, Garcia Javier, Latinos/Chicanos, Mexico, USA | Comments Off

GENERAL, EL

Description: In 1910 a revolution erupted in Mexico, among its rallying cries "the right to vote." Nearly a century later "Sufragio Efectivo" is heard again as thousands take to the streets. Through the legacy that filmmaker Natalia Almada inherited as the great-granddaughter of Mexican president Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-1928), one of Mexico’s most controversial revolutionary figures accused of having been a "Dictator", "Iron Man" and "Nun-Burner", yet also acclaimed for having been the "father of modern Mexico," El General is a portrait of a family and a country under the shadow of the past.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 83 minutes

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LOS QUE SE QUEDAN

Description: An award-winning and discerning depiction of the impact of migration on Mexican families and villages left behind by loved ones who have traveled north for work.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 96 Minutes

Posted in Documentary, DVD, Economics/Development, English & Spanish, Hagerman, Carlos, Latinos/Chicanos, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, Rulfo, Juan Carlos, Social Issues, Spanish | Comments Off on LOS QUE SE QUEDAN

ABORTO SIN PENA

Description: In Mexico, the voices of the woman who have chosen to have an abortion are virtually absent from public debate. Aborto Sin Pena will introduce you to three of these women, from distinct cultural backgrounds. What they say will surprise you.

Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 20 minutes

Posted in Berger, Greg, Documentary, DVD, English, Mexico, Spanish | Comments (0)

ACOSADA: DE PIEL DE VIBORA (CORNERED: MADE OUT OF SNAKESKIN)

Description: Eugenia Ramírez, a young dentist, returns home from a congress, only to find that her apartment has been ransacked. Furious, she tries to recover her childhood photo album at any cost, demanding that justice be done. However, she is unaware that this interferes with the interests of a gang of delinquents who turn her into the pursued instead of the pursuer.

Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 101 Minutes

Posted in Drama, DVD-R, English, Feature Film, Mexico, Social Issues, Spanish | Comments (0)

AMERICAS: PART 3

Description: “Continent on the Move” This program examines the causes and effects of one of the most important forces transforming the Americas: the migration of vast numbers of people within the region. The program is set in Mexico, where migration has moved people across borders, and from rural villages to congested cities.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 60 minutes

Posted in Border, Documentary, DVD-R, English, Latin America, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, None | Comments (0)

AMORES PERROS (LOVE’S A BITCH)

Description:This film is a bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, Amores Perros explores the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations.

Copies: 3 (DVD and VHS)

Length: 153 minutes

Posted in Drama, DVD-R and VHS, English, Feature Film, Mexico, Social Issues, Spanish | Comments (0)

ANGEL DE FUEGO

Description: A tragic urban story about the unfortunate life of a 13-year old circus girl in Mexico City. She is expelled from her job when the official of the circus finds out she is pregnant. She meets a troupe of traveling puppeteers preaching the word of God and joins them, eventually entrusting her son to God.

Copies: 2 (DVD and VHS)

Length: 90 minutes

Posted in Drama, DVD-R and VHS, English, Feature Film, Mexico, Rothberg, Dana, Social Issues, Spanish, Women's Studies | Comments (0)

ANIMAQUILADORA

Description: A collection of mostly hand drawn animation, this film brings to reality a life of toling for the cartoonist. Includes: Why Cybraceros?, Dia de la Independencia, Sign of the Times, Latinos on TV, Mysterious, and Apparitions on Tortillas

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 60 minutes

Posted in Animated, DVD-R, English, Feature Film, Mexico, Rivera, Alex | Comments (0)

ART AND REVOLUTION IN MEXICO

Description: Part I is a documentary dealing with the art of the Mexican revolution as a political movement and a revolution in art. Text by Octavio Paz. Part II examines these monumental creations not only for their great aesthetic value, but also as an essential and fascinating part of Mexico’s history. The murals are examples of the marriage of art and political thought. Includes works by Rivera and Siqueiros. Part III is an insight into the elements of the life experiences of Tamayo, a Zapotecan Indian and a famous Mexican painter.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 60 minutes; 30 minutes; 28 minutes

Posted in Art, Biography, Documentary, DVD-R, English, Mexico, None | Comments (0)

ASALTAR LOS CIELOS (STORM THE SKIES)

Description: The documentary is about Jacques Monard/Ramón Mercader, the KGB agent who assassinated León Trotsky in Mexico. It is an account from the people who knew him during his childhood, and up to and after the crime. This film reconstructs his motivations and his destiny. Starring Elena Poniatowska, Carlos Moniváis, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 99 minutes

Posted in Documentary, DVD, English, History, Mexico, Politics/Human Rights, Social Movements/Resistance, Spain, Spanish | Comments (0)

BATALLA DE TEPOZTLAN, LA

Description: This documentary is not only a chronological description of the controversy between the town and the group KS but a much more complex and critical description. It is a contrast between modernity and backwardness, richness and poverty, and what is legal and what is not in present civilization.

Copies: 1 (VHS)

Length: 57 minutes

Posted in Documentary, Economics/Development, Menendez, Oscar, Mexico, None, Politics/Human Rights, Social Issues, Spanish, VHS | Comments (0)

BLOSSOMS OF FIRE

Description: This documentary introduces us to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, home to an indigenous Zapotec society where gender and sexual preference are a fluid concept. The women dominate the home and businesses, while the men do much of the heavy hauling and seem happy to let women rule. The matriarchy also fosters the area’s progressive politics, which include standing up to the PRI and warding off the global market.

Copies: 2 (DVD and VHS)

Length: 74 minutes

Posted in Documentary, DVD-R and VHS, English, English, Gender/Sexuality, Gosling, Maureen, Indigenous Peoples, Mexico, Osborne, Ellen, Spanish, Women's Studies, Zapotec | Comments (0)

BODA, LA (THE WEDDING)

Description: You are invited to the wedding of Elizabeth and Artemio in Nuevo León, Mexico. The video introduces a young couple whose lives and community have roots in Mexico while they encounter the challenges of migrant life in the United States.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 53 minutes

Posted in Border, Documentary, DVD-R, English, English, Latinos/Chicanos, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, Spanish, USA, Weyer, Hannah | Comments (0)

BORDER BRUJO

Description: The acclaimed performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña directs himself in this video focusing on issues of cross-culturalism along the U.S.-Mexico border. In his performance he switches in and out of various characters reflecting different aspects of border culture.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 50 minutes

Posted in Art, Border, Cinema/Theater, Docudrama, Documentary, DVD-R, English, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, None, USA | Comments (0)

BORDERLINE CASES

Description: Nearly 2000 maquiladoras have been built in Mexico by companies from the US, Asia and Europe. As a result, the border has become a 2000 mile-long open sewer, a vast toxic waste dump. Filmed in three border regions, (Matamoros and Brownsville; Tijuana and San Diego; Ciudad Juarez and El Paso), Borderline Cases reveals the complexity and magnitude of the clean-up and gives a sense of energy and imagination found in the diverse mix of people of both countries who are re-thinking traditional notions of borders as they engage in the search for solutions.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 65 minutes

Posted in Border, Corcoran, Lynn, Documentary, DVD-R, Economics/Development, English, English, Mexico, Politics/Human Rights, Spanish, USA | Comments (0)

BORDERS

Description: Borders tells three small stories to illuminate a much larger one: the consequences of a world order in which products freely cross borders that people may not. Borders is a succinct and powerful meditation on the contradictions of U.S. border and trade policy. PART 1: LOVE ON THE LINE: Families divided by the U.S./Mexico border reunite for transnational picnics. PART 2: CONTAINER CITY: The metal containers that bring products to the US make Newark, New Jersey a different kind of bordertown. PART 3: A VISIBLE BORDER: An x-ray image shows the way 21st century workers are responding to borders that are open to products but not to them.

Copies: 2 (DVD)

Length: 2-3 minutes each

Posted in Documentary, DVD, English, English, Mexico, Migration/Immigration, Rivera, Alex, Spanish, USA | Comments (0)

BULTO, EL

Description: El Bulto is a young photographer who is beaten and loses consciousness during a 1971 student protest. He wakes up twenty years later to find a new and different world of computers, new illnesses, and the absence of Communism. His family has also changed, and he is no longer 20 years old. Trying to make up lost time, he learns that his long sleep may have been for the best.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 114 minutes

Posted in Drama, DVD-R, Feature Film, Mexico, None, Retes, Gabriel, Spanish | Comments (0)

CABEZA DE VACA

Description: Freely adopted from the book Naufragios by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (written in 1542). The film portrays the saga of the adventures of a group of Spanish soldiers in Mexico. Their leader, Cabeza de Vaca, is considered to be one of the first Spaniards to come to some appreciation of the native Indians.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 112 minutes

Posted in Biography, Drama, DVD-R, English, Feature Film, History, Indigenous Peoples, Mexico, Spanish | Comments (0)

CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS, EL (MIDAQ ALLEY)

Description: Film adaptation of the Naguib Mahfouz novel. Set in downtown Mexico City, the film portrays three neighbors: Rutilio, whose emerging homosexual orientation destroys his marriage; Susanita, an old maid who falls prey to a thief; and Alma, a virgin (Salma Hayek) who becomes a cocaine addict and prostitute. The film is among the most awarded films of Mexican cinema, having received some 49 international prizes.

Copies: 2 (VHS and DVD)

Length: 140 minutes

Posted in Drama, DVD and VHS, English, Feature Film, Fons, Jorge, Mexico, Spanish | Comments (0)

CANANEA

Description: Story of the revolt at the American-owned Cananea mine in the years preceding the Mexican revolution. This revolt led to the eventual nationalization of Mexican mines. The film is told from both the miners’ viewpoint and the American viewpoint, as personified by Colonel Green, the mine owner.

Copies: 2 (DVD and VHS)

Length: 124 minutes

Posted in Drama, DVD and VHS, English, English, Feature Film, History, Mexico, Social Movements/Resistance, Spanish | Comments (0)

CANOA

Description: One of the first powerful statements about the repression of the student movement in 1968 in Mexico. This documentary-style film depicts the case of five young employees of the Autonomous University of Puebla attacked in the small town of San Miguel Canoa by locals who believed the group consisted of dangerous Communist agitators given the anti-student propaganda circulating at the time. Villagers killed two of the students, and almost burned the remaining three alive.

Copies: 2 (DVD and VHS)

Posted in -No Dialogue, Cazals, Felipe, Drama, DVD and VHS, Feature Film, History, Mexico, Social Issues, Spanish | Comments (0)

CARACOLES: NEW PATHS OF RESISTANCE

Description: This is a celebration of the death of the Aguascalientes and the birth of the Caracoles and the Good Government Assemblies. Zapatista leaders discuss how changes will affect internal political and economic processes, gender relations, and their relationship to international civil society. The video is an open call to join the Zapatista communities in their struggle for recognition of their autonomy and in their fight against neo-liberal economic policies and globalization.

Copies: 1(VHS)

Length: 42 minutes

Posted in Chiapas Media Project, Documentary, English, Mexico, Social Issues, Social Movements/Resistance, Spanish, VHS | Comments (0)

CARLOS FUENTES

Description: An interview with the renowned Mexican novelist for World Monitor–a television presentation of the Christian Science Monitor.

Copies: 1 (VHS)

Length: 7 minutes

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LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE (CARTAS DEL OTRO LADO)

Description: This film interweaves video letters carried across the U.S./Mexico border by the film’s director with the personal stories of women left behind in post-NAFTA Mexico, giving voice to 4 amazing women who feel the effects of failed immigration and trade policies on a daily basis. Focusing on a side of the immigration story rarely told by the media or touched upon in our national debates, Letters from the Other Side offers a fresh perspective, painting a complex portrait of families torn apart by economics, communities dying at the hands of globalization, and governments incapable or unwilling to do anything about it.

Copies: 1 (DVD)

Length: 73 Minutes

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CASTILLO DE LA PUREZA, EL

Description: An educated man tries to keep his family closed off from the outside world while he goes mad from the ideologies contained in books. The film is based on a true story related to the suppression of the student movement in Mexico in 1968.

Copies: 1 (VHS) Length: 110 minutes

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CASTRO PACHECO, EL ARTISTA

Description: Part of the series "Races and Expressions of the Yucatán" produced by the Autonomous University of the Yucatán. This film portrays Yucatan culture through the paintings of Fernando Castro Pacheco, the Yucatán’s most celebrated painter.

Copies: 1(VHS) Length: 25 minutes

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CHAC, THE RAIN GOD

Description: This film, based on ritual and legends from the Popul Vuh, as well as Tzeltal and Mayan stories, and shot in the Chiapas region of Mexico, focuses on a small Tzeltal village during a terrible draught. Desperate for relief, thirteen men set out on a quest to save their people from starvation.

Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 95 minutes

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CHIAPAS: EL SURESTE EN DOS VIENTOS

Description: This video describes Chiapas through the eye of Subcomandante I. Marcos from the Selva la Candona, August 1992. It is a journey into the region where 3.5 million Chapanescos live, describing their living conditions, and their movement for peace and justice. Text by Subcomandante I. Marcos.

Copies: 1 (VHS) Length: 35 minutes

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CHICANA

Description: Made by Sylvia Morales. Chicana traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women’s role in Aztec society, their participation in the 1810 struggle for Mexican independence, their involvement in the US labor strikes in 1872, their contributions to the 1910 Mexican revolution and their leadership in contemporary civil rights causes. A classic film by a leading Latina filmmaker.

Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 23 minutes

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CHULAS FRONTERAS and DEL MERO CORAZÓN

Description: Documentary films of the borderland between Texas and Mexico. Norteña music filled with the poetry of daily life-love songs, passion, death, humor, and loss is explored from dancehalls, small towns, and family gatherings.

Copies: 2 (DVD and VHS) Length: 90 minutes total (58 minutes first film, 28 minutes second film)

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CIUDAD DE MEXICO IMAGINADA POR LOS VIAJEROS, LA

Description: One could never admit to having seen enough of Mexico City." This innovative documentary is a collection of photographic images from Mexico City newspapers of the last ten years which people who travel through Mexico City daily identify as those which best typified the City. Using Nahuatl texts from Montezuma and, the poetry and music of Jim Morrison, the video explores the history of the use of Mexico City by its inhabitants. A collaboration by Nestor García Canclini and researchers at UNAM. Copies: 1 (VHS) Length: 32 minutes

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COLECCION DE CORTOMETRAJES MEXICANOS: VOL. 1

Description: This collection of short films is part of the series Corto metraje, más que un instante from IMCINE and CinemaFilms. This original series showcases 51 short films by up and coming Mexican directors, cinematographers and actors. The films touch on a variety of subjects, people, and lifestyles. Some are comical, some are sad, and some are thought provoking. All of these films are very useful for Spanish Language classes. This specific volume contains the following films: La suerte de la fea a la bonita no le importa; Benjamín; Adiós mama; Noche de bodas; Espías en la ciudad; Sr. X; Hombre que no escucha boleros; Pasajera; Ligerita. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 5 to 20 minutes (films vary)

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COLECCION DE CORTOMETRAJES MEXICANOS: VOL. 2

Description: This collection of short films is part of the series Corto metraje, más que un instante from IMCINE and CinemaFilms. This original series showcases 51 short films by up and coming Mexican directors, cinematographers and actors. The films touch on a variety of subjects, people, and lifestyles. Some are comical, some are sad, and some are thought provoking. All of these films are very useful for Spanish Language classes. This specific volume contains the following films: De mesmer, con amor ó té para dos; Sístole diástole; El agujero negro del sol; ¿Que hora es?; El milagro; De jasmín en flor. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 9 to 22 minutes (films vary)