SubCine is the best source for independent Latino film and video. We are an artist-run and artist-owned collective of Latino film and video makers.
Through SubCine, you'll find some of the most challenging, experimental, and progressive film and video work being done today. Works in our catalog have been screened on PBS, in the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and at the Sundance Film Festival, among others venues.
THE AWARD-WINNING FILMS OF JIM MENDIOLA AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME AS A COMPLETE SET ON DVD
Subcine announces the DVD release of Jim Mendiola‘s, COME AND TAKE IT DAY and SPEEDER KILLS now available for institutional use. To celebrate the release, Subcine will be offering the complete set of Mendiola’s three films (including PRETTY VACANT) at a discounted price through January 1, 2011.
The films have been used in American Studies, Chicano/Latino/Mexican-American Studies, History, Critical Studies and have been featured in several academic books.
Mendiola's filmmaking style contains energy and enthusiasm to burn, brimming with attitude. - Variety
SubCine is very proud to announce the DVD release of director Natalia Almada's award-winning documentary feature, AL OTRO LADO, a "lyrical and beautiful account of border culture." -Variety
"The documentary is handsomely filmed, whether in sun-drenched landscapes or crowded nightclubs. It's not a history of corridos, which have roots that reach back to medieval songs; it's a glimpse of art running parallel to daily life."
AL OTRO LADO follows an aspiring corrido composer from Sinaloa, Mexico facing two choices to better his life: traffic drugs or cross the border and search for work in the United States. From the remote coast of Mexico to South Central L.A., AL OTRO LADO explores the conflicts around drug smuggling, immigration, and the corrido music that chronicles it all.
Click here to view an in-depth interview with director Natalia Almada.
Director Alex Rivera's Sundance award-winning visionary sci-fi film SLEEP DEALER is now available on DVD!
"Exuberantly entertaining! A dystopian fable of globalization disguised as a science-fiction adventure. Mr. Rivera — a brilliant young director — takes his audience into a future of “aqua-terrorism” and cyberlabor that I wish I could dismiss as implausible." This truly unique film, packed with lush visuals, is the perfect conversation-starter for discussions about labor and immigration, technology and ethics, globalization and the environment."
"This is a powerful documentary and should be on every list for teaching about the Puerto Rican community and the 60s civil rights movement." Viewing Race
I'm thrilled about the launch of Subcine; as a programmer I've longed for a smart and exciting distribution source of Latino-themed work. Subcine's catalog features an eclectic group of works by some of the most innovative film and videomakers working today.
María Christina Villaseñor, curator, Guggenheim Museum
