…debut, The Huntress (La Cazadora), invokes the mythos of the Goddess Diana (the Greeks’ Artemis), in a fictionalized telling of the real-life bus murders in Juárez, Mexico, in 2013. In…
…lands and cultures and bodies. And so we try to think really critically about how to approach filmmaking from an Anishinaabe perspective. Part of that is this level of transparency,”…
…or revenge. It is about the moment when a woman realizes she has been living inside a version of herself that no longer fits. Gail’s journey is silly and surreal,…
…list of 2026 reads. And you know when there’s some underrepresentation of a culture, that culture’s women get even less recognition. Latina writers are underrepresented despite the fact that they…
…under the promise of relevance. In those moments, The Gallerist is closest to something real. But Mostly The Gallerist is Cold And Cowardly But ultimately, the film is cold. Not…
…careful distinction between remembering and living. Nostalgia, it suggests, is seductive precisely because it edits reality. It removes the fights. The disappointments. The compromises. It keeps only the sweetness and…
…Ángeles Mastretta’s Mal de Amores (Lovesick), and Jorge Zepeda Patterson’s Los Corruptores (The Corruptors) will finally make the leap from page to screen. Ranging from magical realism to historical romance…
…Jefe, Rafael Trujillo himself. While the novel presents a fictional retelling of the Butterflies’ story, the Mirabal sisters were real revolutionary women whose contributions to the Dominican resistance and eventual…
…today’s world, where those who wield weapons are often just the last link in a chain with no real decision-making power — a reality reflected in the immediate financial jitters…
…you think is yours is mine” line?) and juxtapositions between Latino vs. white culture, Hernandez shares some undeniable truths throughout his performance. In particular, the reality of “not being allowed”…
