Rooted in Honduran director Nicole Mejia’s perspective, “A Place in the Field” is a scrappy film with a deep sense of place and culture.
Cristina Escobar
Cristina Escobar
A writer and activist, Cristina Escobar is the co-founder of latinamedia.co, uplifting Latina and gender non-conforming Latinx perspectives in media. A rehabilitated English major, she’s a member of the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association and writes at the intersection of race, gender, and pop culture. Her words can be found in Glamour, Roger Ebert, Latino Rebels, Remezcla, Shondaland, and lost grocery lists. Finally and most importantly, her abuelita made the best tamales this world has ever seen. You can follow her on Twitter: @cescobarandrade.
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It’s a funny turn, seeing hapless Mexicans maneuver the attention of organized crime in Spain in “I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me.”
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White supremacy is scary as fuck. It’s the evil idealogy powered by the colonial world order, creating a hierarchy of humans as if light skin can equate to worth rather…
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“De La Calle” isn’t perfect but my Spotify has been bumping since watching Nick Barili recount Latinx artists’ contributions to Urbano music.
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“You Were My First Boyfriend” left me pondering my own adolescence. Watching it, I oscillated between being tickled, disturbed, and challenged.
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“If You Were the Last” gives us a funny, sexy, and silly story, delivering a compelling treatise on love in all of its complicated glory.
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“La Borinqueña” writer/creator Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez discusses the superhero’s origin, her impact so far, and crowdfunding the hardcover.
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On his documentary, “El Equipo, director Bernardo Ruiz says “Collecting evidence is one of the few ways to hold the powerful accountable.”
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Director Roger Ross Williams says, “Getting past homophobia and sexism – It’s possible. ‘Cassandro’ lets us see that it’s possible.”
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A beautiful, meditative film, “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe” both is and is not the typical coming-of-age story.