In a style similar to 'Wonders of the African World, ' Skip Gates will travel to places in Latin America where Africa has touched the continent with lasting cultural results to explore what happens when African and Hispanic worlds meet.

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted...

Sometimes, ordinary people can create extraordinary positive change. The people of a small community in Veracruz are the guardians of one of the ecosystems facing the most risk in the country: the cloud forest. Hoping to save their sacred and fog-laden land, they work for a simpler and sustainable life. Sixteen families redesign their needs, food, education and relationship with other people and with nature. They create an entirely self-sustaining...

The much-celebrated peace agreement runs Colombia into chaos. FARC guerrilla Ernesto, poverty-stricken coca farmers, a mysterious aristocrat, and a passionate right-wing politician struggle at the edge of their morals as they reach for contradictory dreams for a better Colombia. What happens to a very fragile peace in an unequal country if doing the ‘wrong’ thing may easily be justified as the only viable means of struggle?

THE SEARCH is a 24-minute film that explores Estela de Carlotto’s 37-year search for her long-lost grandchild after her daughter was kidnapped and murdered during the Argentinean 1976-1983 dictatorship.

In the fifties, a French-Brazilian photojournalist and a crew of anthropologists encounter an unknown tribe in the Amazon jungle. Decades later, his daughter inherits the photos and sets off on her own quest to rediscover the Kayapo nation.

Systemic killings continue in Mexico - a genocide covered up or even perpetrated by the Mexican government. Carlos Spector, a U.S. immigration lawyer in El Paso, Texas fights to obtain political asylum for Mexicans fleeing the violence. Official Selection at the **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**.

MY BOLIVIA tells what happens when a Latino filmmaker from the United States tries to unravel the myths and realities of his family history in Bolivia; the country where his father was born. Rick Tejada-Flores grew up in California, but never connected with his father’s world till he was in his 50s. When he did he found a history of slavery… his grandfather’s role as President during the bloodiest war in Latin American history…the never-mentioned...

This is the life story of Carlos Jauregui, the most important LGBTQ activist in Argentina in the 80s and 90s. His leadership and tenacity led to in greater equality, dignity and visibility for the LGBTQ movement in Argentina.