On Food & Culture
Ernesto Cabellos and Stepanie Boyd completed this riveting documentary, “Choropampa” about a community in the Peruvian Andes who was contaminated when a truck carrying a mercury-filled tank capsized. Do try to see this inside view of current life outside Lima. The video has a rough …
I’ve been trying to find a way to obtain copies of a wonderful 1995 Brazilian short film, 5 minutes, by Cao Hamburger, “O Menino, A Favela E As Tampas de Panela” Let me know if you have any info. about possible distributors. I hope we …
Last Thursday, 6/19, I presented a workshop to students at MACC in San Antonio, Texas and they were greatly surprised to learn that US Hispanics, as well as the general population, watch over 50 hours of TV every week. I see two general reactions among …
Here are some more animations that you may be able to project in class, discussion groups or just enjoy at your desk. First, some links from the site, thequickie.com, about Iraq, War, Religion. The first is a game that is on their homepage now called …
In one of her blog entries for June 8, Mary Hess poses a question asked by one of her students. I want to pass it along, as well as some of the ways that she suggests the question can be answered. The question is: “If …
We have finished taping for the documentary that will feature Lima, Mexico and Dominican Republic as portraits of Catholic faith. The crew is exhausted but very happy. I watched the footage thus far and, gracias a Dios, it looks great. The interviews are amazing, proof …
Today we tape establishing shots of the traffic in downtown Lima and then head for the airport for the last leg of this documentary shoot, Santo Domingo. Many Quechua people in Peru, to mention only one and the most numerous of the indigenous communities in …
Am today shooting the documentary in Lima, Peru. Imagine my surprise when upon approaching the presidential palace in the middle of Lima I saw the gay flag colors flying next to the Peruvian flag atop the palace! This just goes to show my myopic view …
This is the final day of taping Mexico City and this afternoon we go to Lima, Peru. Learned about a radio station in the Indigenous communities of Otomi, Nahuatl and Kepehua that has been operating for 35 years. The story of the radio having become …