Brazil: young people teach social distancing
Rios de Encontro, the eco-cultural and social education Project, based in the community of Cabelo Seco, Marabá, since 2008, is in quarantine. Dozens of...
Short films from indigenous Latin American filmmakers at Native Spirit Festival
There’s still time to catch a number of short films from indigenous Latin American filmmakers at Native Spirit Festival: the UK’s first and only annual independent festival to promote indigenous filmmakers, media and artists.
Chile: Censored humanity
Chile's protests were thwarted when the arrival of Coronavirus forced the population to stay at home. As the impact of the quarantine takes its...
My Beloved Barrios Altos
LAB's film curator Karoline Pelikan is joined by Peruvian director Jimmy Valdivieso to discuss his latest film My Beloved Barrios Altos.
Latin America’s Oscar Contenders
In recent years, this highest award in the filmmaking business has been kind to Latin American filmmakers, especially Mexican directors: Since 2014 five directing awards were won by Alfonso Cuarón (for Gravity in 2014 and Roma in 2019), Alejandro González Iñárritu (for Birdman in 2015 and The Revenant in 2016), and Guillermo del Toro (for The Shape of Water in 2018). The Oscars 2021 submissions from Latin America are:
Latin America is Moving
A new online seminar series from the Latin America is Moving Collective will explore Latin American social movements before and after the pandemic.
Victor Jara presente – across the world
Immediately following the military coup in Chile on September 11 1973, the Pinochet dictatorship set about destroying as much as they could lay their...
First Festival of Peruvian Cinema in Native Languages
The festival took place in Trujillo and Cusco from 18-21 July 2019. It followed on from the success of ‘Winaypacha’ (Eternity), the first Peruvian...
London’s First Cartonera Book Festival
London’s First Cartonera Book Festival Celebrates Cultural
Activists from Latin America who Turn Waste into Books
The first-ever London
Cartonera Book Festival will be held from 17-20...