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THOSE I LEFT BEHIND

January 16, 2014

Title: THOSE I LEFT BEHIND Description: Those I Left Behind is a documentary that explores the transnational ties that bind Cuban-Americans in the United States to their families still living on the Island. The film also speaks to the controversial … Read more

SHOVELING WATER

January 16, 2014

Title: SHOVELING WATER Description: Journey to the heart of coca country where United States tax dollars have financed the aerial fumigation of 2.6 million acres of land in Colombia – the world’s second most biodiverse country. See crop-duster’s target coca … Read more

NOAM CHOMSKY: NEW WORLD ORDER

January 15, 2014

Title: NOAM CHOMSKY: NEW WORLD ORDER Description: A talk by Noam Chompsky on the negative effects of U.S. policy in Latin America and the Middle East. Type: Year: Country: Film ID: 765 Comments: Created: 1/17/2012 Copy: 1m   Language:    Subtitles: … Read more

NEW WORLD BORDER

January 15, 2014

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. … Read more

HARVEST OF LONELINESS

January 15, 2014

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 … Read more

GRINGO NEXT DOOR

January 15, 2014

Title: GRINGO NEXT DOOR Description: When Jack sees that his chickens are missing, he turns on the only people he thinks to blame – his Hispanic neighbors. The solution? Hire immigrant labor to build a wall between the two homes. … Read more

BROTHER TOWNS

January 15, 2014

Title: BROTHER TOWNS Description: Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos describes the lives of immigrants from Jacaltenango, Guatemala who currently work and reside in Jupiter, Florida. The documentary explores the motives of migration to the United States and the hardships that the Mayan … Read more

BETTY Y PANCHO

January 15, 2014

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 … Read more

AL OTRO LADO

January 15, 2014

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 … Read more

WHEN THE DRUM IS BEATING

January 13, 2014

Title: WHEN THE DRUM IS BEATING Description: This documentary explores the music of the famous Haitian orchestra “Septentrional” along with the violent history of Haiti. Through Septentrional’s powerful musical pieces, accompanied with brutal scenes, viewers are taken on a graphic … Read more

THE GUESTWORKER

May 25, 2012

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 … Read more

THE VIRGIN APPEARS IN LA MALDITA VECINDAD

January 23, 2012

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 … Read more

FOR GOODNESS SAKE: WHY AMERICA NEEDS IMMIGRATION REFORM

October 26, 2011

In February 2011, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted His Eminence Cardinal Roger Mahony. Cardinal Mahony heads the nation’s largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, the 5-million member Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which is 70% Latino. In his … Read more

AIDS IN THE BARRIO: ESO NO ME PASA A MI (THIS ISN’T HAPPENING TO ME)

March 16, 2011

Description: This film by Francis Negrón and Peter Biella examines the impact of AIDS within Hispanic-American communities, focusing on the specific economic, social and cultural factors which influence perception of the AIDS crisis. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 29 minutes

AMERICAS: PART 10

March 16, 2011

Description: “The Americans” The Americans return to the United States to profile California’s Mexican-American population and the Latin American and Caribbean communities of Miami and New York City. This final episode poses questions about assimilation, national identity and how these … Read more

AND THE EARTH DID NOT SWALLOW HIM

March 16, 2011

Description: A moving and powerful portrait of the life of a poor Mexican American boy and his migrant farm worker family, as they struggle to adapt to life in American society. Adapted from the novel “…y no se lo trago … Read more

BEFORE NIGHT FALLS (ANTES QUE ANOCHEZCA)

March 16, 2011

Description: Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reynaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. By 1964, he is in Havana where his writing and homosexuality get him … Read more

BODA, LA (THE WEDDING)

March 16, 2011

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 … Read more

BORDER BRUJO

March 16, 2011

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 … Read more

BORDERLINE CASES

March 16, 2011

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 … Read more

BORDERS

March 16, 2011

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. … Read more

BREAK OF DAWN

March 16, 2011

Description: Oscar Chavez, a great Mexican singer and actor is the leading actor of this story about the life of Pedro Gonzalez, the host of a radio show in 1930s Los Angeles. His life was filled with romance and music … Read more

BUENAVISTA VASE, THE: ARCHEOLOGY VS. LOOTING

March 16, 2011

Description: The Buenavista Base was produced in 1994 at Duke University Museum of Art for the exhibit Painting the Maya Universe. Dorie Reents Budent, curator of the exhibit and curator at DUMA explains in this video the importance of this … Read more

CAFÉ CON LECHE: VOICES OF EXILE’S CHILDREN

March 16, 2011

Description: An introspective look at young Cuban-Americans, the now-adult children of the first wave of Cuban exiles that came to the U.S. This documentary focuses on the fusion of traditional, old world values of yesteryear and modern, American culture, as … Read more

LETTERS FROM THE OTHER SIDE (CARTAS DEL OTRO LADO)

March 16, 2011

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 … Read more

CHICANA

March 16, 2011

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 … Read more

CHULAS FRONTERAS and DEL MERO CORAZÓN

March 16, 2011

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: … Read more

CIUDAD, LA (THE CITY)

March 16, 2011

Description: Four fictional stories set in New York City, but common to many other places United States or the world. Filmed in black and white, the program depicts Latin American immigrants living in New York: day laborers paid to gather … Read more

COOPERATIVE WITHOUT BORDERS, A

March 16, 2011

Description: This informative piece begins with a presentation of the struggle of Mexican men crossing the U.S. border in search for better economic opportunities. It narrates the crossing of U.S. border in search for better opportunities. It narrates the creation … Read more

COUPLE IN THE CAGE

March 16, 2011

Description: This film documents the traveling performance of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco, in which they exhibit themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island, providing a vivid and provocative interpretation of cultural encounters. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 30 minutes

CROSSES (CRUCES)

March 16, 2011

Description: In 1995, the U.S. Border Patrol instituted Operation Gatekeeper, which has caused the death of about 1800 migrants since its implementation. CROSSES documents the efforts of artists and activists to bring the disastrous effects of Operation Gatekeeper to the … Read more

CRUCEROS Y CAMINOS

March 16, 2011

Description: Like many communities across the Southeast, the town of Clinton, North Carolina, has become home to a vibrant and growing Spanish-speaking community. This diverse community of newcomers, who are attracted to the area by jobs in the agriculture and … Read more

CUBA VA: THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEXT GENERATION

March 16, 2011

Description: A fast paced weaving of sound bites and interviews that lets young Cubans speak and argue for themselves. What they have to say or sing or rap suggests that everyone born after the revolution has an opinion. Directors/Producers: Gail … Read more

CUBA: THE BROKEN IMAGE

March 16, 2011

Description: This program gathers together the most representative of exiled Cuban filmmakers, who recount their personal experiences of having to abandon their work and start a new life away from their country, culture and natural environment. The program features clips … Read more

CUBA: THE FORTY YEARS WAR

March 16, 2011

Description: This documentary follows two Cuban exiles, Bay of Pigs invasion veterans, upon their return to their native island. As attendees of a conference discussing the invasion, they interact and attempt to reconcile the past with former battlefield adversaries, including … Read more

CUBAN ROOTS / BRONX STORIES

March 16, 2011

Description: This documentary traces the tangled paths and multifaceted identity of a black Cuban family in the Bronx. Both working-class and professional, black and Latino, foreign and native, Spanish-speaking and English-speaking, the family is shown in the constant process of … Read more

CUBAN-AMERICANS, THE

March 16, 2011

Description: An exploration of the experience of Cubans living in the United States, focusing especially on the nature of the community since 1959. The film avoids explicit discussions of politics and instead focuses on the maintenance of community, culture and … Read more

DANZA DEL ESPEJO, LA (MIRROR DANCE)

March 16, 2011

Description: Identical Twins, Margarita and Ramona de Saá, grew up to become acclaimed ballerinas with the National Ballet of Cuba. Once inseparable, their relationship deteriorated as one sister left for America and the other embraced the Cuban Revolution. Mirror Dance … Read more

DAY OF THE DEAD: SAN FRANCISCO (DIA DE LOS MUERTOS)

March 16, 2011

Description: This film captures the beauty and richness of San Francisco’s annual Day of the Dead celebration. Enjoy scenes from this cross-cultural Mexican tradition that honors ancestors and families. People of all ages celebrate with a festival of marvelous costumes, … Read more

DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN, A (2004)

March 16, 2011

Description: The California Dream suddenly becomes a hilarious nightmare when the entire Latin American population of the Golden State vanishes. For most “the disappearance” forces the cracks in their private lives wide open, including news reporter Lila Rodriguez, the state’s … Read more

DEATH AND THE MAIDEN

March 16, 2011

Description: A powerful psychological thriller about one woman’s struggle to heal from the effects of torture. Fifteen years after being tortured and imprisoned by a sadistic doctor, Paulina Escobar, played by Sigourney Weaver, faces a man who may have been … Read more

DEDOS DE LUNA

March 16, 2011

Description: Through a poetic combination of words and paintings, Dedos De Luna tells the story of Toño and his grandfather, Don Gregorio. They enjoy making masks together, until Don Gregorio dies after making his last mask. Toño must come to … Read more

DRUG WARS: FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY (PART I)

March 16, 2011

Description: Despite America’s 30-year war on drugs, the use of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana remains essentially unchanged. This two-part documentary presents a television history of America’s war on drugs from both sides of the battlefield. The first episode examines the … Read more

DRUG WARS: FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY (PART II)

March 16, 2011

Description: Despite America’s 30-year war on drugs, the use of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana remains essentially unchanged. This two-part documentary presents a television history of America’s war on drugs from both sides of the battlefield. The first episode examines the … Read more

EDGE WALKER: A CONVERSATION WITH LINDA SCHELE

March 16, 2011

Description: Documentary tribute to the late Linda Schele, among the leading scholars of Maya civilization, who in January 1998 gave a long, filmed interview in which she talks freely and frankly in her own inimitable style about her life, work, … Read more

ESCUELA, LA

March 16, 2011

Description: There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the United States and, of those, only 45-50% ever finish high school. “Escuela”, the sequel to Hannah Weyer’s critically acclaimed documentary “La Boda”, personalizes these glaring statistics through … Read more

FACES OF WAR

March 16, 2011

Description: Produced by Neighbor to Neighbor. Host Mike Farrell-Organizing Version. Copies: 1 (VHS) Length: 27 minutes

FIESTA QUINCEAÑERA, LA

March 16, 2011

Description: This two-part video depicts a young Mexican-American woman’s fifteenth birthday celebration. Set in Dallas, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico, the first part consists of a discussion of the preparations, planning, and logistics that have to be considered in planning this … Read more

FLIGHT OF PEDRO PAN, THE

March 16, 2011

Description: Experience the heartache and uncertainty of the 1960s flight of more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the United States. The children of Operation Pedro Pan share their personal stories of the sacrifice, survival, broken hearts and new beginnings … Read more

FRESCOES OF DIEGO RIVERA, THE

March 16, 2011

Description: “An artist must be the conscience of his age.” In this way Diego Rivera, a leader of the Mexican mural renaissance movement of the 1920’s and 1030’s expressed the philosophy behind his work; in particular the spectacular series of … Read more

FRIDA

March 16, 2011

Description: Taymor recreates the tactile passion and beauty of Frida Kahlo’s art as a backdrop for her life of romance and revolution. Frida chronicles the life of artist Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek), from her upbringing to her worldwide fame. The … Read more

FRIDA KAHLO: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

March 16, 2011

Description: A documentary about Frida Kahlo’s painful life and creative process. Part of the series “Portraits of an Artist.” Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 62 minutes

FRONTEIRA, A (THE BORDER)

March 16, 2011

Description: The story of two Brazilian families who put everything at risk to cross the border into the United States from Mexico, in search of a better life. Having gotten over the first leg of their journey, they all confront … Read more

GREAT MOJADO INVASION, THE

March 16, 2011

Description: The director narrates this pseudo-documentary, fantasizing an invasion of mojados (wetbacks) who reconquer lost Mexican territory to create the “U.S. of Aztlán.” This new regime propagandizes by portraying Anglos with the same stereotypes employed against Latinos. Directed by Gustavo … Read more

GREENER GRASS: CUBA, BASEBALL, AND THE UNITED STATES

March 16, 2011

Description: While unfolding the story of the Cuba vs. the Baltimore Orioles games, this documentary develops a narrative of the history of baseball as an element of Cuban national identity, and the impact the sport has had on both the … Read more

GRINGO IN MAÑANALAND

March 16, 2011

Description: This film is a montage of scenes from travelogues, dramatic films, industrial films, newsreels, military footage, geography textbook illustrations and political cartoons. Together they explore the stereotyped image of Latin America in popular US media during the 20th century. … Read more

GRINGOTON (GRINGO-THON)

March 16, 2011

Description: During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a misplaced gringo in Mexico City helplessly watches the atrocities through Mexican television news. Taking a tip from his local neighbors, he begins to sell chewing gum and wash car windows in … Read more

GUESTWORKER, THE

March 16, 2011

Description: Since 1986, thousands of Mexican men have entered the United States to work under the auspices of the H-2A guestworker program. These men are given temporary visas to come to the United States for several months a year and … Read more

HEAVIER THAN AIR

March 16, 2011

Description: This documentary challenges the popular understanding that the Wright brothers were the “first in flight.” It treats the life of Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont and his mission to create “heavier than air” flying technology. Copies: 2 (DVD and VHS) … Read more

HOTEL CUBA

March 16, 2011

Description: A documentary about the Cuban-Jewish community in South Florida, with interviews from both Cuban-Jewish and Non-Jewish members of the community. Robert Levine began the documentary after realizing the effects of the generation gap between Cuban-Jewish teenagers and their parents … Read more

I AM JOAQUIN

March 16, 2011

Description: This work by Luis Valdez and El Teatro Campesino marked the emergence of film as a distinct cultural and aesthetic practice within the Chicano Movement. In the film, Luis Valdez gives a dramatic interpretation of Rudilfo “Corky” Gonzalez’s epic … Read more

LAGOS, RICARDO (VISIT TO UNC)

March 16, 2011

Type: Documentary, Year: 2001, Country: USA/Chile, Format: DVD-R, Language: English, Subtitles: None

LOW’N’SLOW: THE ART OF LOW RIDING

March 16, 2011

Description: Filmed in San Jose, CA, this work by Rick Tejada Flores documents the art and culture of the low riders, and includes an animated title sequence by Chicano artist Rupert Garcia and music by Jorge Santana. Copies: 3 (DVD … Read more

MAQUILA: A TALE OF TWO MEXICOS

March 16, 2011

Description: This film examines the impact of corporate globalization on Mexico, focusing on the maquiladoras, U.S.-owned factories employing cheap Mexican labor. Archival footage and interviews provide historical background to the present crisis. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 55 minutes

MARIACHI, EL

March 16, 2011

Description: The critically-acclaimed film debut from Robert Rodríguez, shot with no second takes using borrowed equipment and a talented cast of unknowns. A case of deadly mistaken identity leads the protagonist, who aspires only to be a mariachi, to trade … Read more

MAYAN VOICES: AMERICAN LIVES

March 16, 2011

Description: Set in Indiantown, Florida, a small, agricultural town 30 miles west of West Palm Beach, this film illustrates the challenges of a totally alien environment, exploring issues of identity, cultural integration, migration, and social change. It also demonstrated the … Read more

MISSING

March 16, 2011

Description: John Shea, Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon. A young American journalist mysteriously disappears during the violent 1973 military coup in Chile. When his wife and father attempt to find him, they are confronted with a deeply disturbing political reality relating … Read more

MONTANA DE LUZ

March 16, 2011

Description: On a Honduran mountainside overlooking vast fields of sugar cane, a six-year-old boy named Marlon dreams of becoming an artist. Twelve-year-old Inri dreams of attending university. Little Yorleni simply dreams of having a family. Meet the children of the … Read more

MORRISTOWN: IN THE AIR AND SUN

March 16, 2011

Description: This film is the working classes’ response to globalization. It engages the audience in the issues of immigration, factory flight, and the organized demand for economic justice. Filmed over an 8-year period in the mountains of east Tennessee, interior … Read more

MUJERES CUBANAS: MARCADAS POR EL PARAISO

March 16, 2011

Description: They were the women a man would silence. Robbed of their dignity and hope, they became his anonymous victims. Political prisoners, wives, mothers, writers, artists, children, lost at sea…Forgotten over and over. Once deprived of their voices, they now … Read more

NATIVES: IMMIGRANT BASHING ON THE BORDER

March 16, 2011

Description: This film depicts the disturbing increase in racism, violence and intolerance along the US-Mexican border in recent years. NATIVES examines the concerns of some of the individuals involved in San Diego’s anti-immigrant movement. Relying principally on a cinema vérité … Read more

NEW AUDIENCES FOR MEXICAN MUSIC

March 16, 2011

Description: A three-part documentary. Part I describes the phenomenon of banda dance music sweeping the Unites States and Mexico. Part II provides a history of mariachi music and its fusions with country-western and other styles, while Part III profiles Tejano … Read more

NORTE, EL

March 16, 2011

Description: Mayan Indian peasants organize in an effort to improve their lot in life. After the army destroys their village and kills their family, a teenage brother and sister decide they must flee to “El Norte”. After receiving clandestine help … Read more

NUEBA YOL

March 16, 2011

Description: In this comedy, a Dominican widower, Balbuena (Luisito Martí), decides to leave the economic strictures of island life behind for the streets-are-paved-with-gold promise of the Big Apple. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 104 minutes

NUEBA YOL 3

March 16, 2011

Description: In this comically-numbered sequel, Balbuena (Luisito Martí) returns to New York, where he must marry an American citizen to remain in the country legally. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 117 minutes

NUESTRA COMUNIDAD

March 16, 2011

Description: This film documents the personal experiences and work environments of migrant workers living in North Carolina and examines the impact of their arrival on their newly adopted communities. The debate about whether illegal immigrants should be living and working … Read more

NUMEROS Y COLORES

March 16, 2011

Description: Two stories designed to teach children how to identify numbers, colors and figures in Spanish. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 20 minutes

OFRENDA, LA: THE DAYS OF THE DEAD

March 16, 2011

Description: Made by Lourdes Portillo and Susana Muñoz. The very young, the old, and the deceased are all represented in this personal and affectionate filmmaker’s relationship to the history, and present-day celebrations of the Day of the Dead. Copies: 2 … Read more

ON THE CASE OF ROSALIE EVANS

March 16, 2011

Description: A historical discussion among North American and Mexican historians about the diary and life of Rosalie Evans, a disgruntled North American property owner who lost her land during the Mexican Revolution Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 60 minutes

OTRO LADO, EL

March 16, 2011

Description: Americans simply pass through the turnstiles for cheap thrills in Tijuana. Mexicans on the other side, however, face endless barriers of barbed wire, attack dogs, and armed border patrols. Alex Webb captures the odd panorama of the border. Copies: … Read more

OUR BRAND IS CRISIS

March 16, 2011

Description: For decades, U.S. strategists-for-hire have been quietly molding the opinions of voters and the messages of candidates in elections around the world. This documentary is an astounding look at one of their campaigns and its earth-shattering aftermath. With flabbergasting … Read more

PANAMA DECEPTION

March 16, 2011

Description: Banned in Panama and labeled “subversive” in the United States, The Panama Deception gives an account of the events of 1989, when 26,000 U.S. government troops invaded the country searching for one man, Manuel Noriega. Made by a group … Read more

PAPERS: STORIES OF UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH

March 16, 2011

Description: There are approximately 2 million undocumented children who were born outside the U.S. and raised in this country. This documentary explores the situation of young people who were educated in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. … Read more

PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION

March 16, 2011

Description: Photographer-filmmaker Susan Meiselas returns to Nicaragua to find out what happened to the people she photographed years earlier at the height of the civil war. Meiselas and her collaborators capture the shattered lives and broken dreams of people on … Read more

¿QUIEN DIABLOS ES JULIETTE? (WHO IN THE HELL IS JULIETTE?)

March 16, 2011

Description: Shot in Cuba and the US over a period of three years, this film features remarkable cinematography by first time director Carlos Marcovich. Winner of the Latin American Cinema Prize. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 91 minutes

REAGAN AND SASSER: CONTRA AID

March 16, 2011

Description: March 16, 1986.  Presidential address of President Reagan concerning the controversial issue.  Response to the address by Sen. Jim Sasser (D-Tennessee). Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 25 minutes

REVELACIONES / REVELATIONS: HISPANIC ART OF EVANESCENCE

March 16, 2011

Description: Dircted by Edin Velez, Produced and written by Chon Noriega. A documentary about the work, cultural expressions, and recent exhibits of 8 latino artists, this film also provides a means to think U.S. latino identity and history. Copies: 1 … Read more

ROOTS OF MIGRATION

March 16, 2011

Description: A journey by US citizens to Oaxaca, Mexico reveals the global forces that have pushed millions of people to migrate to the United States. Learn first-hand why people make the journey north, why they wish they didn’t have to, … Read more

ROOTS OF RHYTHM

March 16, 2011

Description: This is a joyous and colorful three-part musical odyssey that follows the powerful flow of Afro-Cuban music from its origin five centuries ago in Africa and Spain to the contemporary sound of such exciting popular artists as Gloria Estefan, … Read more

SANDRA HAHN: REPLIES OF THE NIGHT; SLIPPING BETWEEN

March 16, 2011

Description: In Replies of the Night, Sandra Hahn uses computer animation to activate a photograph of her grandfather who died a violent death during the Days of the Dead in 1946. In Slipping Between, she creates a “visual poem” by … Read more

SAVING ELIAN

March 16, 2011

Description: The political, social, and international implications of the custody battle over five-year-old Elián González pitted the U.S. Department of Justice, the Miami Cuban exile community and the Cuban government in a new acrimonious struggle. Documentary footage from Miami, and … Read more

SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS

March 16, 2011

Description: Since it was established in 1946, the United States Army School has trained thousands of Latin American and Caribbean soldiers, among them the former dictators of Argentina, Bolivia, Honduras and Panama. This program shows how officers who studied at … Read more

SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS: AN INSIDER SPEAKS OUT

March 16, 2011

Description: Major Joseph Blair, a former instructor at the School of the Americas, provides a fact-filled and informative portrayal of US military training and doctrine imparted to Latin American armed forces at Fort Benning, GA. Couched as a modernizing influence, … Read more

SEAMS

March 16, 2011

Description: Directed by Karim Ainouz, a young Brazilian American filmmaker, who traveled back to his home in Brazil to interview on film his five delightfully eccentric unmarried or widowed aunts on their views of love, family and marriage. These women … Read more

SECOND VOYAGE OF THE MIMI, THE

March 16, 2011

Description: The crew of a converted French traveler studies ancient Mayan civilization and strives to acquire the science and mathematics expertise to understand it. Adventures develop observation, hypothesis formation, data collection, and analysis skills. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 24 15-minute … Read more

SELENA

March 16, 2011

Description: The story of the legendary Tejana singer, Selena, who was tragically murdered by the president of her fan club. Jennifer López and Edward James Olmos star in this movie about he talents, triumphs, and tragedies of the Quintanilla family. … Read more

SHRINE, THE

March 16, 2011

Description: Explores the traditions and mysteries that surround El Santuario de Chimayo, a small adobe folk church in northern New Mexico. Thousands of people make pilgrimages to see the church and its “holy dirt,” which has origins dating back to … Read more

SLEEP DEALER

March 16, 2011

Description: Sleep Dealer is a futuristic science fiction story set in a world not much different from our own, in which borders are closed, and a global, high speed network ties distant people and places together. The story centers on … Read more

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE

March 16, 2011

Description: Silent motion picture footage of the Spanish-Cuban-American War and the subsequent Philippine insurrection produced by Edison pictures between 1898 and 1901. The two conflicts were the first in which the motion picture camera played a role. Most footage is … Read more

STATE OF SIEGE

March 16, 2011

Description: In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation … Read more

STEPAN CHEMICAL: THE POISONING OF A MEXICAN COMMUNITY

March 16, 2011

Description: The moving account of the people of Matamoros, Mexico after the Chicago-based Stepan plant dumped zylene, a toxic solvent linked to birth defects, into open canals near their homes. The Sanchez family and their community, with the help of … Read more

STREET ART

March 16, 2011

Description: The first and last documentary by 18-year old Ben Gutierrez is a highly informative look at graffiti that breaks the art form down into four distinct categories: “peacing,” gang style, tagging, and mural art. Gutierrez was shot and killed … Read more

SUEÑOS DE ANGÉLICA, LOS (ANGELICA’S DREAMS)

March 16, 2011

Description: Filmed on location in Durham, North Carolina, Los Sueños de Angélica follows the life of a Latino couple striving to enter the mainstream of American society. Angélica and Roberto work multiple jobs and take English classes as a means … Read more

SUEÑOS DE ROBERTO, LOS (ROBERTO’S DREAMS)

March 16, 2011

Description: The sequel to Los Sueños de Angelica picks up 10 years later with the lives of a latino couple living in Durham. The recession has left Roberto without a job for some time, and he and his wife Angelica … Read more

SUPER, EL

March 16, 2011

Description: A humorous and touching view of Cuban exiles living in a basement apartment during a snowy winter in New York, El Super is the story of Roberto, a superintendent who dreams of his warm and friendly homeland and stubbornly … Read more

TUNE IN TOMORROW

March 16, 2011

Description: Based on the Peru-based novel “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter” by Mario Vargas Llosa. When radio reporter Martin (Keanu Reeves) falls for his sexy aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), the station’s zany soap opera writer Pedro (Peter Falk) decides to … Read more

VANESSA, THE ORANGE THROWER (VANESSA, ARROJA NARANJAS)

March 16, 2011

Description: A view into the family values and Catholic guilt in a Latino community. This film examines the tragic-comic problems that a Puerto Rican teen creates for herself when she decides to take attention by saying that she is pregnant. … Read more

VIDA NO ES FACIL, LA

March 16, 2011

Description: This documentary examines the issue of the ineligibility of undocumented immigrants for in-state tuition at North Carolina’s public universities and how this situation affects the lives of college-aged Latino students. Director Maurice M. Martinez examines this controversial topic through … Read more

VOCES LATINAS

March 16, 2011

Description: Produced by the Latinos in West Michigan Project, this video includes three segments of interviews with Latino citizens from Grand Rapids, Holland, and Muskegon. Featured narrators are: Mercedes Toohey, Marilia Blakely, Jurisa Negrón from Grand Rapids; Nereida García and … Read more

YO SOY (I AM)

March 16, 2011

Description: Features interviews with three artists instrumental in the Chicano art movement: Juana Alicia, Jose Montoya, and Malaquias Montoya. The three describe their early influences and inspirations, and discuss their philosophies on art and life. Copies: 2 (DVD) Length: 75 … Read more

ZOOT SUIT

March 16, 2011

Description: Adapted from the 1978 stage play by the preeminent Chicano playwright Luis Valdéz, Zoot Suit is a musical drama of racism and intolerance in the culture of Los Angeles. It begins in 1942 with the death of a young … Read more

ZOOT SUIT RIOTS

March 16, 2011

Description: In August 1942, the murder of a young Mexican American man ignited a firestorm in Los Angeles. The press claimed Mexican youth – know as “zoot-suiters” for the clothes they wore – were terrorizing the city with crime. The … Read more