“Rivera revives the promise of an American independent cinema that can intervene in our world, imagine the worst, hope for the best – and entertain like mad long the way.” -B. Ruby Rich, THE GUARDIAN OF LONDON Alex Rivera is a New York based digital media artist and filmmaker. His first feature film, SLEEP DEALER […]
Iris Morales is a New York City filmmaker who came to documentary filmmaking after many years as a community activist, educator, and attorney. Her interest is both in history and contemporary social justice issues especially the struggles and contributions of Latino/as in the United States. Her award-winning documentary ¡Palante, Siempre Palante! The Young Lords, about
Jim Mendiola is a writer/director who divides his time between Los Angeles and his hometown of San Antonio. His award-winning film “Pretty Vacant,” about a Sex Pistols obsessed Chicana punk rocker, has screened in numerous film festivals, museums, and colleges in the U.S. and Mexico. His latest project, a one-hour movie called “Come and Take
Dolissa Medina is the creator of more than a dozen short film and video works, including the award-winning “19: Victoria Texas.” The recipient of a 2010-11 Fulbright Fellowship to Berlin, Medina has screened her work internationally at festivals including Rotterdam and Oberhausen, Germany. She has exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Mexico City’s
Cervando David Martinez was educated in various anarchist gatherings, bohemian ghettoes, and anticapitalist actions in the United States, Mexico, and Europe. He also went to college once. Mr. Martinez has not been the recipient of a macarthur grant, nor has he been awarded a rockefeller or a fullbright. Mr. Martinez is currently based out of
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Jesse Lerner is a documentary film and video maker based in Los Angeles. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Sydney Biennale, the Sundance Film Festival, New York’s Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles International Film
John Jota Leaños is a social art practitioner and who utilizes all and any media to engage in diverse cultural arenas through strategic revealing, tactical disruption, and symbolic wagon burning. His practice includes a range of new media, photography, public art, installation, and performance focusing on the convergence of memory, social space and decolonization. Leaños’
Harry Gamboa Jr. is an internationally recognized writer and visual artist. As co-founder of the Chicano art group ASCO (1971-1987), he developed such multi-media forms as the “no-movie” and “fotonovela,” which drew attention to the workings of mass culture. In the mid-1980s, working through cable access, Gamboa produced a series of “conceptual dramas” that explored
Cristina Ibarra is a New York based filmmaker with roots along the US/Mexico border. Latino Public Broadcasting, Paul Robeson Fund, and New York State Council for the Arts have all funded her work. She is a Rockefeller Fellow, a CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy Fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Her new script,
Efraín Gutiérrez is a pioneer of Chicano cinema. His films include La Onda Chicana (1976), Chicano Love is Forever (1977), Run, Tecato, Run (1979), A Lowrider Spring Break En San Quilmas (2000), and Barrio Tales: Tops, Kites, and Marbles (2008). Films Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive!/Por Favor, No Me Entierren Vivo! (1976)