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
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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.