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Las Américas Film Network distributes documentary, feature, short and experimental films that explore the many complexities of Latin America to the educational and theatrical market. If you are a filmmaker interested in having your films represented by Las Américas, please send an email. If you are a university, library, or community center interested in screening any Las Américas films, please contact us.

NEW ARRIVALS

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90 Miles 
Juan Carlos Zaldivar

Cuba, 2003, 53 minutes

A Cuban-born filmmaker recounts the strange fate that brought him as a groomed young communist to exile in Miami in 1980 during the dramatic Mariel boatlift. 90 Miles is the candid and moving story of an immigrant family, and how the historical forces around them have shaped their personal relationship and their attitudes towards the world around them.

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Gay Cuba (Director's Cut)
Sonja de Vries

USA/Cuba, 1995, 57 minutes

The 1959 revolution which gave Cuba its independence ushered in a new era of equality, blind to race and to gender -- but not to sexual orientation. Military necessity and contemporary Stalinist ideology served only to reinforce long-held stereotypes detrimental to the integration of homosexuals into Cuba’s perpetually reforming social structure.
Gay Cuba documents the promising changes which are beginning to take hold.

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Granito de arena (Grain of Sand)
Jill Freidberg
Mexico, 2005, 60 mins

For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance...Granito de Arena is the story of that resistance – the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, non violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year strugglefor social and economic justice in Mexico's public schools. 

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"ï" the film
Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia
Argentina, todo mundo, 2005, 94 mins

“i” is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the worlds largest all volunteer network of media activists — Indymedia. The feature-length documentary follows the first year of a small collective in Buenos Aires as it struggles amidst assassinations, a collapsing economy, and a whirlwind of political upheaval.

LAFN FILMMAKERS ON TOUR

Bring a filmmaker to your university, school or community center with some of the LAFN filmmakers on tour this fall and spring. Greg Berger and Jill Freidberg team up with Canal de Julio of Mexico to bring you "New Videos from the Frontlines"; and directors Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia also hit the road bringing their highly acclaimed "i" to universities and grassroots organizations throughout Europe and the west coast. For more information please contact us.

ATTENTION FILMMAKERS!

If you are filmmaker whose film fits our mission please contact us. We are currently seeking new material for our fall catalog.

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