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
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Title: LA PRISION INSOMNE
Description: This documentary gives the viewer the unfortunate important facets of life and the controversial work of the poet Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, Plácido, during the first half of the turbulent and contradictory colonial nineteenth century in Cuba. The audiovisual speech reveals different nuances and mysteries about the identity of the bard and the essential features and significance of the poetry staff. The film also delves into their participation in the so-called Escalera Conspiracy against the Spanish government in power at the time.
Type: Documentary
Year: 2009
Director: Regino Olivar
Country: Cuba
Film ID: 757
Comments:
Created: 11/30/2011
Copy: M Format: DVD Language: Spanish Subtitles: English Length: 47 min. Copy ID: 1389 Comments: Source: M. Barret Price: 0 Acquired: 11/1/2011
Posted in Art, Biography, Biography, Country/Region, Cuba, Culture/Festivals/Food, Docudrama, Docudrama, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English, Format, History, Language, Literature, Politics/Human Rights, Social Life and Customs, Spanish, Subject, Subtitles, Type
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Title: LA CONJURA DE APONTE
Description: With the help of two important Cuban historians, La Conjura de Aponte describes the social context at the time of Jose Antonio Aponte’s rebellion against Spanish rule in Cuba. Aponte, a free black, sought to unite slaves and free blacks in order to stop Spanish rule.
Subject: History, Social Issues
Type:
Year: 2010
Director: Regino Oliver
Country: Cuba
Film ID: 761
Comments:
Created: 1/13/2012
Copy: 1 m Language: Subtitles: Length: 24 minutes Copy ID: 1394 Comments: master copy for classroom use only Source: Price: 0 Acquired: 9/9/9999
Posted in Biography, Country/Region, Cuba, Director, Docudrama, Documentary, Documentary, DVD, English & Spanish, Format, History, Language, Social Issues, Spanish, Subject, Type
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Description: This docudrama about the life and art of the Brazilian artist Arthur Bispo do Rosário takes the artist’s imagination as its viewpoint. Bispo spent 50 years in a psychiatric hospital in Rio and his art was almost completely unknown before his death in 1989. He is now considered one of Brazil’s most important artists.
Copies: 1 (VHS)
Length: 46 minutes
Posted in Art, Biography, Brazil, Docudrama, Documentary, English, Martinho da Rocha, Helena, Portuguese, Przewodowski, Miguel, VHS
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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
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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
Posted in Docudrama, Documentary, DVD-R, English, English, Latinos/Chicanos, Mexico, Morales, Silvia, Spanish, USA, Women's Studies
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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
Posted in Anthropology/Archaeology, Art, Cinema/Theater, Docudrama, Documentary, DVD-R, English, Eredia, Paula, Fusco, Coco, Latinos/Chicanos, None, USA
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Description: When Lourdes Portillo receives a phone call informing her that her uncle was found dead she returns to Mexico. Her investigation of the circumstances of her uncle’s death takes us deep into the land of Northern Mexico, inside the life of her family and her community, to a place between reality and fiction. Copies: 1 (DVD) Length: 82 minutes
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