What is better than Amazon for Christmas? #buylocal 🎄

Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Get Ready With Me to hunt down my father, who created me from the body parts of corpses and condemned me to a dreadful existence #BadDad #Frankenstein #Elizabeth

This urban planner is leading tours behind Chicano-shaped spaces in East LA. For years now, urban planner James Rojas has led tours of L.A.’s Eastside, pointing out the murals, landmarks and architecture formed by Chicano and Latino culture. laist.com/news/los-ang...

In honor of Spike Lee’s latest film ‘Highest 2 Lowest’, #ontheblog we have a loose retrospective on some of his most acclaimed and underrated titles in regards to storytelling and the human experience. 🎞️ Read here: bit.ly/48SwMNB ✍️: Adam Vargas

The U of A collaborated with the CIA in the 1960s to spy on chicano students and infiltrate and sabotage chicano groups. Something to add to the U of A Chicano Studies curriculum. Beyond shameful but not surprising. azluminaria.org/2025/01/21/c...

Quick! 🚨 Submit to the 2026 Episodic Directing Intensive by Mon, Sep 22~ This three-day program prepares its directors for a career in episodic directing through convos with veteran directors, showrunners and executives. 📺 Apply now or join as a #FiMember for more time. bit.ly/EpDirInt

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

Noem’s cruelty is possible because it draws from racism long embedded in US history. Structural racism—framed as “patriotism” and “order”—makes such policies acceptable and normalized. She isn’t the originator but part of a long legacy of racial state violence in America.

100 years ago today, Frantz Fanon was born. Martiniquais by birth, Algerian by struggle #Fanon100 was not only a seminal thinker of anti-imperialist struggles in Africa and the Global South, but also a revolutionary activist. "What matters is not to know the world but to change it"

Ryan Coogler’s #Sinners is a thrilling ride—a blood-soaked, blues-inflected fever dream. Equal parts Mississippi Gothic, coming-of-age parable, musical and vampire #horror. Although the script is unbalanced it's electrifying watching a genius filmmaker create a new genre--the vampire blues.

One of the most powerful documentaries on Netflix is The Guardian of the Monarchs. The film follows environmentalist Homero Gómez, who dedicated his life to protecting the monarch butterflies. It’s a stunning portrait of a father passing his wisdom to his son—in spite of the risk to his life.

Thank you to @sensesofcinema.bsky.social for the wonderful opportunity to share my work!

During WWII, Mexican American youth especially those wearing zoot suits—were framed as internal threats to public order. Military personnel, police, and media collaborated to portray Chicano youth as criminals. Operation Wetback (1954) were framed as national security responses. Sound familiar?

Lupe Velez takes her Chihuahuas for a spin around the RKO backlot, 1941.

Biidaaban is an absolutley stunning short film by Amanda Strong. A must watch for anyone that loves stop motion and #cinema www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjn...

I normally post about films and filmmaking yet if you are in CA please urge @gavinnewsom to suppport millions of California families who rely on Medi-Cal for essential care! Protect our most vulnerable communities! #Health4All #ValueCHCs

Cliff Curtis and Temuera Morrison (both of 1994’s ONCE WERE WARRIORS) star in this sweeping Māori-language epic about the 1864 Battle of Ōrākau, as an Indigenous tribe defends their land from invading British forces. 🎦 Fri 5/16 at DT 🎦 Sun 5/18 at Shoreline CC Showtimes: siff.info/kawhawhaitonu-bs

The poet gets the prestigious award for New Yorker essays ‘on the physical and emotional carnage in Gaza’ amid war.

#NoOtherLand is not just a film it’s a reckoning. It tears away the filters, the silence, the normalization of ethnic cleansing. Going forward it’s hard to imagine how #film can truly even matter—unless it stands in protest to genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOOg...

Incredibly excited to see this film! Art can be revolutionary and move our spirit in times of chaos and when the world is in need of inspiration. #thefishbowl #cinema

In the face of a world heavy with grief, and injustice, we still deserve space to breathe, and to witness beauty—especially the kind rooted in resilience. I'm honored to share my latest article, “The Fluidity of Muxe Identity in El secreto del rio” www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/feature...

¡Dímelo, Connecticut! On May 7th, @santiaaurora.bsky.social and I will be at Central Connecticut State University talking about nostalgia and historical memory in the discography of Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, "directamente desde el espacio".

A brilliant film deserves a brilliant analysis "Here lies the film’s first biopolitical layer: listening as self-governance, as a method of emotional regulation. Grief, which ought to disorganise, is carefully choreographed by Yûsuke" dmovies.org/2025/04/08/t... #cinema #drivemycar

The legendary Spike Lee will be releasing a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s film, High and Low. The film by Spike Lee is titled Highest 2 Lowest, inspired by the Japanese director’s 1963 crime thriller. deadline.com/video/spike-... #spikelee #a$aprocky #icespice #cinema

"No recent Palestinian film has achieved the same heights as this Berlinale- and Oscar-winning documentary" Stream it now, for free: dmovies.org/2025/03/06/n...

#Boycott Avelo Airlines who will mostly cease operations at Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport, to fly deportation flights for ICE from Arizona yet some routes from Burbank wil continue. www.pressdemocrat.com/article/nort...

Dominican animated feature OLIVIA & THE CLOUDS won the Best Film Award at San Diego Latino Film Festival. Check out all the winners from the 32nd edition!

In #SansónandMe memory and testimony guide the narrative. Unable to film the protagonist who is incarcerated, Director Rodrigo Reyes builds a cinematic bridge using letters, testimony from family members, and reenactment, creating a powerful, collaborative portrait. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U7K...

In a new body of work on view in NYC this week, Elina Chauvet stitches a line between delicacy and brutality, using embroidery to approach the seeds of spousal abuse and subjugation that germinate into violence.

Excited for this new film Directed by Rachel Morrison Written by Barry Jenkins. The Fire Inside comes out on Christmas Day:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFyNvUmJzmE #BarryJenkins #Cinema

Name a film where every color felt unforgettable. In Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, I’ll never get over how breathtaking the color yellow is in that opening sequence—warm, golden, and full of quiet power. #BarryJenkins #ifbealestreetcouldtalk #cinema www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGJ...

"So much of the work of oppression is about policing the imagination." - Saidiya Hartman

Maydegol trailer. 🎥 #berlinale2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlbV...

I can't wait to see #Maydegol, a documentary about a girl who wants to be a a professional Muay Thai boxer, despite her family’s conservative mindset. The film features themes of #resilience and realities that immigrants face. variety.com/2024/film/gl...

Sign of the times. Who will protect creativity and the intellectual property of artists? www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The first Native American and second woman to Chair the National Endowment for the Humanities, Shelly C. Lowe, has stepped down from the role “at the direction of President Trump.”

Save the date for the next imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival: June 3-8, 2025 (Toronto) and June 9-15, 2025 (online)! 🍓 Learn more at imagineNATIVE.org/faq

CFP: Indigeneity and the Arts, deadline 3/21

Beautiful poster for thee film La Llorona direced by Jayro Bustamante. #cinema #guatemala #jayrobustamente

Cumbia rebajada en la película Ya No Estoy Aqui. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjqP... #FernandoFrías #yanoestoyaqui

for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, a real privilege to IV great Haitian director Raoul Peck for his terrific new doc ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND, on groundbreaking South African photographer who helped expose Apartheid. out now in the UK via @dogwoofdocs.bsky.social www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

“YOU BURN ME cements [Matías] Piñeiro as having one of the most far-reaching imaginations in current experimental film, beckoning us to follow even if he’s many intellectual steps ahead” says @thefilmstage.bsky.social, now playing at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, a @cinemaguild.com release!

🌿 In Nudo Mixteco & Roma, Mixteco thought shapes stories of land, memory & resilience. Existence isn't fixed—it’s a cycle of rupture & return. Balance is key: between past & present, self & community. These films aren’t just about loss, but restoring harmony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Aq...

Today, I presented a lecture on the film #Roma. I was thinking what a blessing it is to wake up in the morning and know that my work is to help others open their eyes to the beauty, poetics and craft of storytelling that is available to us through the art of #cinema. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKVY...

No Other Land wins Best Documentary Feature Film at the #Oscars The film was the Highest Rated Documentary on Letterboxd in 2024.

Free Palestine now and forever #Oscars

"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡

Really disappointed to discover that actress Fernanda Torres once appeared in Blackface. Although she has apologized, the fact of what she did is striking in an industry that makes it difficult for Black, Indigenous and women of color to be successful. #oscars people.com/oscar-nomine...