9 Latine Films To Watch at the Denver Film Festival
…Sundance earlier this year. Colombian filmmaker Enrique Pedráza-Botero’s No Se Ve Desde Acá (You Can’t See It From Here), meanwhile, is an experimental documentary set in Miami. It is centered…
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Meet LALIFF's Diana Cadavid, Guardian of The Latin Film Galaxy
…Panama, and then Miami, and a number of different film festivals,” she says. Twenty years after starting her work in Canada, Cadavid would find herself as a programmer stateside for…
Do We Really Need a “Scarface” Remake?
…– but it certainly cemented them into popular culture. Decades later, Miami still lives with the cultural scars of those portrayals, and Cuban Americans still feel the lingering stereotype of…
Op-Ed: We Need Joyful, Messy, Latina Fiction (Like "Someone’s Gotta Give")
…citizen and have been luckier than most. I grew up in a middle-class suburban household in Miami with loving parents and a public school education good enough to get me…
What They're Selling Us with Latina Bravolebrities
The Real Housewives of Miami is currently airing, and has always featured the most Latinas amongst the Real Housewives franchises. So what’s going on with the new and old crop…
Owen Wilson’s “Stick” is Giving Us Golf, Grief, Growth… and Spanglish
…son —a fluid, natural blend that never feels forced. The Mexican actress nails it with expressive glances and gestures, while Dager, the Miami-born actor with Venezuelan and Cuban roots, brings…
Why "No Other Land" Is Particularly Resonant to This Latina
…picked it up. And the Miami Beach mayor even threatened a local arts theatre with eviction (and defunding) if it screened the film. Why? One word: fear. Doctor, freelance journalist,…
Cuban Actress Samantha Lorraine is the New Live-Action Dora the Explorer
…time. I kept asking myself, ‘What would little Samantha want to see?’” Samantha Lorraine, who grew up in Miami with a large Cuban family, said watching the animated TV series…
Lots of Latino Content Coming to Netflix
…film is centered around a small group of cops who uncover a gigantic stash of cash in Miami. Will they accidentally lose the deniro, split it, or turn it over?…
5 Latina Actresses Who Were Holding It Down on 70s TV
…sitcom,” ¿Qué Pasa, USA? from 1977 to 1980. The show centered on her Cuban family, living in Miami while navigating life between two cultures and languages. Other Cuban actors who…