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• Cochiloco, frijoleros, mezcal y mas at the 2013 HOLA MEXICO FILM FESTIVAL

  I remember five years ago hearing something about a Mexican Film Festival in LA called Hola Mexico. I was intrigued to hear it was part of an ambitious tour in which a different selection of contemporary Mexican films would be brought to Chicago, New York, San Francisco and LA.  But more than intrigued, I was […]

• #HotSec Fridays – MEXICAN FRIED CHICKEN, a short film by Ivete Lucas

  Continuing my Friday short film series on underrepresented American bi-cultural walks of life, I’m so happy to share this documentary short film, Mexican Fried Chicken by Ivete Lucas and Otis Ike.  It’s a glimpse into the laborious life and overloaded pressures of Moises, a 14 year old teenager who in between his job at Popeyes, […]

• TRAILER WATCH: Mexican film, HELI by Amat Escalante

  Amat Escalante is now three for three as he will be taking his third film, HELI to next week’s Cannes, but this is his first time in Official Competition.  The screenplay for Heli was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters lab 2010 where it won the NHK Filmmaker Award.  At that stage the logline was described: “In a […]

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  FILM REVIEW: THE CRUMBLES – viva punk rock soul – GO

  Yo!  San Francisco, Chicago and NYC!  Trucking through their nationwide DIY theatrical release, the LA Echo Park set indie rock film, The Crumbles is heading to your cities! This Saturday at the Roxie in San Francisco, May 24 & 27 in Chicago as part of the Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Theater, and June 8 at […]

• Meet Iris Almaraz, the emotional exhibitionist filmmaker of Delusions of Grandeur

  Iris Almaraz is the writer/director of the delirious, incandescent and quirky film, Delusions of Grandeur, about a naive, grunge-y chicana, Lucy who moves out of her dad’s place in Oakland, and out of her medicated dazed and confused mess, to seize her independence across the bridge when she moves in with a hopeless romantic tranny […]