The Scottish producer Owen Gower talked about his film “Still the enemy within”. His first documentary film as a director was on the miners’ strikes that ravaged the country years ago. Fernando Marín Gascón “We knew people who had lived through the strikes themselves, with experiences that had […]
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Viva Rita in Hollywood!
Hollywood. A dream factory, source of aspirations and opportunity for some, but historically a virtual closed shop for others. Sometimes for legitimate reasons, but often not! Ethnicity, for example! Chris Ludlam To this day, only one Latina/Hispanic Actress has won a coveted Academy Award (Oscar) – Rita Moreno […]
Portugal, the forgotten memories of colonialism
Debunking the belief that the Portuguese were more benign colonizers than the Spanish in South America, Ariel de Bigault points out that Brazil is one of the few countries that was totally based on slavery. Trafficking: tearing people out of their homelands to force them to work in another continent was invented by the Portuguese.
Fragments of a dream
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup. A group of people come together in the Welsh town of Machynlleth to produce “El sueño existe” (The dream lives on), a festival of politics and culture. Mydylarama team This is the subject of Pablo Navarrete and Teilo Vellacott’s short doc Fragments […]
A cinema evening with Alborada
andA double bill of documentaries exploring the relationship between culture and politics will be screened Alborada Films this Thursday 19 January in East London. The evening will start at 6 p.m. with the UK premiere of “The people’s Train of culture” (El tren popular de la Cultura), Carolina Espinoza’s […]