ABC Colombiaby Enrica Colusso and Gioia Avvantaggiato Through the eyes of children, ABC Colombia explores the realities that nurture and perpetuate violence in a rural community controlled by paramilitary forces. Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Baby Loveby Carol Cassidy In blunt, provocative, and often humorous language, young mothers between the ages of 13 and 17, from various social, racial, and economic backgrounds, tell their own stories of what it means to be a teenage mother. | |
Baby Mama Highby Heather Ross It’s the last few weeks of high school for Yessenia, a soft-spoken senior with two small daughters and a boyfriend who’d rather she stay at home than go to school. Yessenia is forced to choose: stand up for herself and her daughters, or give in to expectation. | |
Beyond the Border - Más Allá de la Fronteraby Eren McGinnis and Ari Palos Beyond the Border — Más Allá de la Frontera traces the painful transition made by four sons in the Ayala family who leave their family in Mexico to seek "una vida mejor" (a better life) in Kentucky, where they fight cultural, class and language barriers. Global Voices, True Stories | |
Brincando el Charco: Portrait of a Puerto Ricanby Frances Negrón-Muntaner An experimental narrative that explores the definitions of Puerto Rican social, political, and sexual identities in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. | |
Brown Is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Dreamby Phillip Rodgriguez Comedian George Lopez examines how American media and Hispanic marketing are shaping the contemporary Latino identity. | |
California and the American DreamBy Paul Espinosa, Lyn Goldfarb, Jed Riffe, and Emiko Omori Exploring the dynamics of culture, community, and identity in one of the world’s most diverse regions, the four-part series California and the American Dream reveals how the last 35 years of divergent social trends have changed the state’s Hollywood dreamscape image of the past. | |
Can't Hold Me Backby Betty Bastidas and Madeline Bair Can't Hold Me Back follows Detroit teen Fernando Parraz as he overcomes a mountain of roadblocks to become the first in his family to earn a high school diploma — his ticket out of the struggles of inner-city poverty and violence. | |
The Carmelita Tropicana Storyby Ela Troyano The Carmelita Tropicana Story is an experimental narrative that explores the bicultural and bilingual experiences of Latinos and Latinas living in New York. | |
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Storyby Jordan Mechner, Don Normark, Andrew Anderson, and Mark Moran Don Normark's haunting photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, razed in the 1950s to build Dodger Stadium. Independent Lens |
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