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LasAmericasFilms
Registrace 19. 06. 2007
We distribute high quality documentary, experimental and fictional film and video about Latin America to universities, museums and cultural centers throughout the world.
Our films explore the many social, racial, environmental, cultural and political complexities of the region through well researched documentation and high quality filmmaking. Las Américas offers quality films from notable filmmakers seeking to make an informed statement about society and the world around them.
www.lasamericasfilms.org
Our films explore the many social, racial, environmental, cultural and political complexities of the region through well researched documentation and high quality filmmaking. Las Américas offers quality films from notable filmmakers seeking to make an informed statement about society and the world around them.
www.lasamericasfilms.org
Video
Nomadak Tx trailer
zhlédnutí 10KPřed 14 lety
Music has a way of bridging all language and cultural barriers. Music communicates were words often fail. Traveling across the globe, two Basque musicians - Igor and Harkaitz - use their musical talents to create a dialog between people and cultures. Their instrument, the Txalaparta, is a traditional Basque instrument that must be played by two people. The music that arises from this instrument...
Grissi Siknis trailer
zhlédnutí 10KPřed 14 lety
The jungle madness known as Grissi Siknis is a contagious, natural syndrome that occurs among the Miskito of Eastern Central America, effecting mainly young women. Symptoms include long periods of anxiety, nausea, dizziness, irrational anger and fear, interlaced with periods of frenzy in which the victims loses consciousness, and often believes devils are beating them. Traditional Miskito belie...
Super Amigos Trhi rez
zhlédnutí 2,6KPřed 15 lety
From the director of Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary Mexico City is not Gotham City but if you ran into any of the five masked activists who protect this metropolis, youd wonder if you were not living inside a comic book. These modern-day Super Heroes are a group of Lucha Libre wrestlers who have taken their fight out of the ring and into the streets of the Mexican Capital. Super Barrio, ...
Who is The Man of Two Havanas
zhlédnutí 166Před 16 lety
With a childhood filled with bombings and assassination attempts on her father, the filmmaker, Vivien Lesnik Weisman, explores her relationship with him and the Cuba he left behind.
Dos Patrias Cuba y la noche/Two Homelands Cuba and the night
zhlédnutí 6KPřed 16 lety
Trailer of the documentary by Christian Liffers, 84 min Germany 2007
When Clouds Clear Trailer
zhlédnutí 428Před 16 lety
Trailer for an award winning documentary, feature-length documentary that delves into one remote community's radical resistance to a proposed copper mine that would level and destroy their way of life forever. Set in the isolated cloud forests of the northern Andes Mountains, the film is narrated by the founders and children of Junín who depict how the village's daily life has been affected by ...
Eréndira, ikikunari
zhlédnutí 23KPřed 16 lety
ERENDIRA IKIKUNARI is a beautifully shot action film that recreates the 16th century legend of Eréndira, a young Purépecha woman who became an icon of bravery during the destruction of indigenous Mexico by the Spanish conquistadors. When the Spanish arrive, they take advantage of the discord and conflict among the Mexican natives, reaping the benefits of a region divided. Eréndira, a young Puré...
Quilombo Country
zhlédnutí 2,6KPřed 17 lety
Quilombo Country, a documentary film shot in digital video, provides a portrait of rural communities in Brazil that were either founded by runaway slaves or began from abandoned plantations. This type of community is known as a quilombo, from an Angolan word that means "encampment." As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today. Contrary to Brazil's national mythology, Brazil was a brutal and deadly p...
Granito de arena
zhlédnutí 12KPřed 17 lety
For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance... Granito de arena is the story of that resistance the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle for soci...
Favela Rising
zhlédnutí 5KPřed 17 lety
FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sá is a former drug-trafficker who turns social revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counterac...