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Is there a "last frontier" for civil rights? A documentary provides all the clues...
Netflix unveils the last years of famous astrologer Walter Mercado in a documentary
01/22/2020 - 01:58
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Entitled "Mucho Mucho Amor", the documentary will be coming to Netflix this summer, after screening at Sundance and Tribeca festivals.
Documentary looks at controversial deaths on US-Mexico border
11/10/2017 - 07:41
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"Bullets at the Border" aims to bring renewed attention to two fatal shootings by Border Patrol agents and to a third death blamed on negligence by US Customs and Border Protection personnel.
No papers, no scholarship: Latino budding scientist becomes food truck chef
06/20/2017 - 06:39
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After winning a prestigious robotics contest, Dreamer Lorenzo Santillan had the chance to become a scientist, but his immigration status kept him from getting a university scholarship and he had to find an alternative, which turned out to be a traveling food truck that he calls "Neither Here Nor There."
[OP-ED]: Documentary ‘Elián’ Brings Back Painful Memories for Cubans
06/06/2017 - 16:28
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“Elián,” a recently released documentary about the saga of Elián González, the little Cuban castaway that became a worldwide cause célèbre 17 years ago, is bringing back painful memories of the Cold War-induced bitter political battle between South Florida Cuban-Americans and Cubans on the island. At a time when President Trump seems poised to reverse Barack Obama’s measures and go back to a Cuba policy of hostility and irrationality, the film becomes even more distressing.
Grabados de la mente y la imaginación de Francisco de Goya en el Museo de Arte de Filadelfia
05/26/2017 - 13:04
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Desde sátira política e injusticias sociales hasta sus batallas físicas personales y su final aislamiento de la gente, el creativo genio del trabajo de Goya estuvo ampliamente influenciado.
Prints from the mind and imagination of Francisco Goya at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
05/25/2017 - 23:54
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From political satire to social injustice to his personal physical battles and his ultimately isolation from people were the factors in the creative genius of his work.
Almendrones, the real stars of Miami's CubaNostalgia fair
05/22/2017 - 04:58
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The popular US vintage cars of the 1940s and '50s, still seen driving around the streets of Cuba, played the leading role at the CubaNostalgia fair in Miami. The CubaNostalgia program commemorates the independence of the Caribbean country that is celebrated every May 20.
"Film studios failed to realize what the Latino community means to the movie industry," Hayek
05/02/2017 - 05:06
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The box-office success of the film "How to Be a Latin Lover," which entertained the second-largest number of moviegoers last weekend in the United States, plus the growing presence of Latino films in theaters nationwide, indicate an awakening both of the film industry and of Hispanic audiences.
“Voy para el Cine” – Latino Films debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival
04/21/2017 - 15:50
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Several Latino-directed films make their screening at one of the most popular film festivals in the country
[OP-ED]: Trump could fix health care
04/07/2017 - 13:23
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The recent Republican debacle on health care could prove to be an opportunity. It highlighted, yet again, the complexity of America’s system, which continues to be by far the most expensive and inefficient in the advanced world.
[OP-ED]: A familiar voice with an all-too-familiar story
04/06/2017 - 11:02
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Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell says it takes around 10,000 hours of practice to master a craft.
But there’s a catch. Who’s to say that, by the time you put in the years necessary to get really good at something, you won’t be at an age where it is tough to find gainful employment?
Hispanas: seis mujeres, una sola historia
04/05/2017 - 11:53
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Pese a que todavía existen brechas en temas como el acceso a la educación y la equidad salarial, miles de latinas están liderando los índices de acceso a educación superior y creación de empresas. AL DÍA News reconocerá este 12 de abril seis experiencias exitosas.
Women at the Top
04/05/2017 - 11:45
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Overcoming all odds, Latinas are progressing almost twice as fast as their male counterparts in their community. AL DÍA News will honor them.
[OP-ED]: Trump’s Latino enablers will be neither forgiven nor forgotten
03/24/2017 - 09:24
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Latinos are much like the Irish. Both came to America as down-on-their-luck Catholic immigrants from failing countries only to be despised when they got here.
[OP-ED]: As the circus leaves town for good, may the increased respect for animals endure
01/19/2017 - 07:29
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I will never get to take my grandchildren to the circus.
For that matter, I’ll never again get to take my parents -- who adore going with their own grandchildren to the circus for the cotton candy, popcorn, acrobats and animals -- now that Feld Entertainment has announced that, after 146 years, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will close in May after a few final performances.
Brazil and Philly: a common story of an education marked by segregation
08/16/2017 - 17:13
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The consequences of slavery to education both in Brazil and in the USA is the scenery for Baobab Flowers, a film directed by the Brazilian filmmaker Gabriela Watson.
En esta “Primavera Rosa”, la tasa de asesinatos en la comunidad LGBT de México es protagonista
04/28/2017 - 15:02
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La vida LGBT de México es el centro de atención .
In this “Pink Spring,’ Mexico’s LGBT murder rate takes center stage
04/27/2017 - 15:50
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Mexico's LGBT life takes center stage.
La Historia de Elián González llega a Tribeca
04/22/2017 - 16:09
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El mediático caso de Elián González, el niño cubano que en 1999 naufragó en las costas de EEUU y protagonizó una batalla político-judicial entre ambos países por su custodia, llegó hoy al cine de la mano del festival de Tribeca.
“Voy al Cine” – Films latinos que debutarán en el Festival de Cine Tribeca
04/21/2017 - 16:14
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Varias películas dirigidas por latinos debutan en uno de los festivales de cine más populares del país.
Latino gang fought for their pride, tells story in new documentary
08/02/2016 - 16:33
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Community advocate and award-winning filmmaker Gilberto Gonzalez documents the story of a little-known Latino gang in Spring Garden, the “20G”, as they protected their neighborhood from outside threats.
Fred Armisen y Bill Hader en Ciudad Juárez
08/19/2015 - 15:18
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En Dronez: La búsqueda por El Chingón —parodia periodística al estilo de Vice Media (en Brooklyn)— Armisen y Hader interpretan a dos periodistas, ‘hipster’ y un tanto despistados, en busca del peligroso capo de drogas conocido como “El Chingón”, en Ciudad Juárez, México.
Ciudad Juarez becomes the subject for IFC Documentary Now!
08/17/2015 - 19:11
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In Dronez: The Hunt for El Chignon – a Vice-parodying installment of Documentary Now! – Armisen and Hader play hipster journalists tracking down a dangerous drug lord, a.k.a El Chingon, in Juarez, Mexico.
Help fund the ultimate Bill Nye documentary
07/27/2015 - 18:43
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Described as a film for and by Bill’s fans, David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg teamed up to launched the $650,000 campaign to get their project off the ground.