"The Long Game" Celebrates A History More of Us Should Know
…won an Audience Award, but Quintana was nervous to screen the film in front of a Del Rio audience. The response seemed overwhelmingly positive as the audience cheered. Quintana did…
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Camila Mendes Might Just Be Our Generations' JLo
…Someone Great (2019), Father of the Bride (2022), The Perfect Kind (2023), What Men Want (2019), etc. I particularly liked Upgraded (2024), which stars Brazilian-American Camila Mendes as Ana Santos,…
Annenberg’s Most Inclusive Latinx Series Are All Canceled
…by Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres, and Fred Armisen) are hired to trick people through fake supernatural experiences, turning their passion for terror into a business. The quirky comedy set in…
Decoding the Feminine Power in “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans”
…Ambition Truman Capote was born in 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was an avid reader and writer since a young age, and by the time he moved to New…
Latinos at SXSW 2024 Killed It (And Took Home Big Prizes)
…BFF complete with a hair net that itself is worthy of its own IMDB credit. Beatriz is just one of a cast full of fierce females that includes Ana Gasteyer…
Uncomfortable, Intimate SXSW Film “Malta” Portrays a Different Colombian Experience
…with a scene with Mariana urinating in the shower. From there, Malta follows Mariana through countless arguments with her family, a courtship with a classmate, nights of heavy substance use,…
"La Bachata de Bionico" Is a Compelling, Dark Comedy About Addiction
…follows a drug addict, Bionico, as he decides to quit crack because the love of his life, La Flaca (Ana Minier), is getting out of rehab in a week. Directed…
Q+A With The Flores Siblings, the SXSW Filmmakers Behind "The In Between"
…know, I need to just film what I know. If this is going to be a personal film, what I know is the Tex-Mex experience, soy Tejana and I should…
The Short List of the 8 Oscar-Nominated Women Directors
…categories, but that doesn’t mean women aren’t doing brilliant work, they’re just being snubbed. This year, women directors broke an Oscar record – Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall), Celine…
Jackie Cruz Taps into Her Maternal Instincts for “History of Evil”
…government has transformed into a theocratic police state. Cruz plays Alegre Dyer Rodriguez, a political prisoner who escapes from a detention center in Louisiana and reunites with her husband, Ron…