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Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Felipe, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, has reached a crossroad. After living 16 years in Brooklyn, working three-paying jobs, and sending the bulk of his earnings to his wife and children in Mexico, he's decided to return home to the family he hasn't seen in almost two decades. But when he informs them of his plans, he discovers that they've squandered the money, are deeply in debt and don’t want him to return. They need him to stay in the U.S....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Costa Rica’s motto is Pura Vida - Pure Life - and it boasts some of the most spectacular wildlife in the world. Venture across the nation’s rugged landscapes, from volcanic peaks to coastal jungle to misty cloud forests and get to know Costa Rica’s dazzling diversity of hummingbirds. Discover these astonishing little birds’ outsize ripple effects on macaws, quetzals, monkeys, tapirs and more.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
With visually stunning landscapes and immersive sound, GODS OF MEXICO is a poetic survey of the vast landscapes and rich diversity of several communities of rural Mexico. Using richly saturated color and hypnotic black-and-white interludes, filmmaker Helmut Dosantos takes viewers through salt pans, deserts, highlands, jungle, and underground mines—paying tribute to those who fight to preserve their cultural identity amidst the shadows of modernization....
4) Agave
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This journey takes us to the world’s most bio-diverse landscape of the agave plant, Mexico; here families have been passing down the tradition of distilling agave for generations, at times, even clandestinely. From the alluring red highlands of Jalisco to the rugged mountains of Oaxaca the film follows three producers - Carlos, Graciela, and Aquilino in this burgeoning renaissance. From a bootstrap ambition to carrying on a father’s legacy, their...
5) Borrufa
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Shot on 16mm film in long, thoughtful takes, Roland Dahwen’s debut feature tells the story of an immigrant family in Oregon whose life is disrupted when it’s revealed that the father has a second family. Reeling from this news, his wife Leonora must choose to either leave her husband, her dying mother, and her son, who has a mysterious illness—or to move on, and let her husband take responsibility for the family he’s destroyed. With a pace...
6) Road Runners
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In Montego Bay, young athletes prepare to compete in the island’s greatest sporting event: Champs. Through a story of hope, struggle, and identity, see what it means to grow up in Jamaica, and learn why these young athletes are striving for success that could determine the rest of their lives.
7) 499
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Exactly 499 years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, an unnamed conquistador washes up on the east coast of Mexico as if ejected from a time machine. In his period costume, he treks over the mountains, from Veracruz to Mexico City, the same route Hernán Cortés took to conquer Tenochtitlan.
Publisher
Visit Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After his terminal cancer diagnosis in 2017, the late Indigenous screen legend David Gulpilil sits down in front of the camera one last time to tell his story in his own words, taking us boldly on the journey that is his extraordinary life and career.
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the Executive Producers of the acclaimed Documentary BLACKFISH and director Joel N Clark comes an epic trek of survival, hope, mercy, and human will. An expectant mother determined to give her unborn child a life she never knew. A devoted son torn between seeking freedom and living far from the home and mother he loves. A daughter struggling to comprehend the cost of losing her family in order to begin one of her own in a new land. This is the...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of Latin American coffee farmers and how our daily brew is deeply connected to the region's troubled past and hopeful future. Following a 1000-mile journey from Mexico to Nicaragua, the film shows how equitable trading relationships are helping empower communities and take a step towards social justice. On every step of the film’s journey we see the indomitable spirit of people who are determined to live joyfully...
Publisher
Pavilion Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Derek Walcott, Literature Nobel Laureate travelled the world while remaining closely connected to his beloved island St. Lucia. As a poet, playwright, painter and even filmmaker, Derek Walcott hymned the Caribbean for over 60 years. This documentary presents an intimate portrait of him, set in his beloved native island St. Lucia. This film explores the poetry of Derek Walcott, the landscapes and people that inspired it.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Savor the sights, sounds and flavors of the U.S.-Mexico border alongside acclaimed chef and James Beard Award-winning host Pati Jinich as she experiences the region’s rich culture, people and cuisine. Travel with Pati as she shares meals with locals from all walks of life and reflects on the melding of cultures.
Publisher
Pavilion Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
So we meet the characters one at a time. Bogart is grumbling about everything being so late. Robby has been in a state of sustained carnival wonder since the early 80s. Paul is jammin’ in Trinidad with Mac Farlane for the first time, lookin’ forward to the party. Jhawhan is a folk dancer with dreams of being the king of carnival. Brian is ambitious and determined and Jenette is a first-time costume maker with stars in her eyes and memories of...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Este libro introduce una mirada esencial sobre la historia de la democracia en Chile y la suma de esfuerzos tendientes a construir un estado de derecho moderno, cuyo desarrollo económico y social nos encamine efectivamente a la igualdad de oportunidades.
Frente a la idea común de que el país ha tenido instituciones excepcionales en la región, o de aquella otra, opuesta, que considera su democracia como una simple máscara de autoritarismo, el...
16) Obras
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Series
Language
Español
Description
Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (1868-1927) es un novelista venezolano. Su narrativa constituye uno de los momentos de mayor vigor y robustez en la literatura de su país. Aunque no cultivó la lírica, Manuel Díaz Rodríguez figuró entre los más militantes modernistas de Venezuela.
Sus primeros libros, como Confidencias de Psiquis (Caracas, 1896), Sensaciones de viaje(París, 1896) donde se incluye el artículo «Alrededor de Nápoles», publicado anteriormente...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Dos generaciones marcadas por las cicatrices de la guerra. Una lucha ya sin rumbo, ni sentido, cargada del ambiente hostil que causa la rutina del conflicto. La Guerra de los Mil Días marcó un momento en la historia colombiana, cargado de avaricia, ansias de poder, violencia y terror, que aún retumban en las páginas de esta novela.
Author
Language
English
Description
The rarest lost book in history has been found, and stolen all over again, in Paris. Its pursuers include the most diabolical literary criminal in the world, Krisko Krillkin. The man who re-lost the masterpiece, bookseller Chester Quinn, is hopelessly overmatched. Luckily, into his life floats Circe Evans, granddaughter of Paris' most renowned and complacent detective, Homer Evans. Circe assembles a motley, fiercely loyal crew and leads a breakneck...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to the presidency in 1957 constituted modern Haiti's greatest...
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Series
Language
Español
Description
La vida parisiense es la construcción literaria de una ciudad. Trazos que dibujan el perfil de un París vital que alimenta la creación literaria del autor. La voz guatemalteca de Enrique Gómez Carrillo es la voz de los modernistas latinoamericanos que convierten la ciudad francesa en su paradigma.
La visión de la ciudad, a través de la moda, la literatura, el teatro y la vida bohemia, construye una crónica de viaje al modernismo, donde París...
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