Spurred by the police killings of Black people in 2016, Roberto Minervini decides to make a film about Black America. By slowly absorbing their life in New Orleans, and by formally approaching the Black Panthers he builds a picture. As a film-maker, he calls himself a ‘politically charged citizen’. […]
Author: ThePrisma
Immigrants and activists: Inequity is the continuation of colonialism
Carlos Cruz was a very young boy when his father was threatened with death and had to leave his country for the UK. Aware that the plundering of the global South by Northern countries is the cause of his migration and the violence in those countries, he decided to become a political activist like his parents and to support social movements in Latin America.
Cuba and Bolivia: Talking to Ariana Campero
The island suffers a media war with destabilising aims similar to the one faced by Bolivia before, during and after the 2019 coup d’état. Carmen Esquivel There are several similarities. The first is the coordinated use of the media and social networks as an instrument of destabilisation and […]
Off to war with a Camera
The soldiers thought of it as a foreign holiday and so they brought their cameras. Their country has the best –35 mm. Leicas and the Rolleiflex and the Rolleicord were all made there– and its military capability was just as first-rate. Sean Sheehan The war in Spain has […]
America must be ours
A week ago, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that it is time for a new coexistence between all the countries of the Americas. Luis Manuel Arce Isaac He said it and his reasons were more than convincing. He said that the model imposed on the continent […]