Mas Natalia

Reseña de la película "1917".

La ponceña Lillian Torres comparte su perspectiva sobre el impacto de Huracán María, y la corrupción y mal manejo de ayuda.

Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Whose Streets,” about the street responses to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson MO in 2014. Trailer here: whosestreets.com

Hurricane Corruption joined forces with Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. The manmade storm began in the 1990s, when US Attorney for Puerto Rico Guillermo Gil summarized the jaw-dropping theft of untold millions of public dollars by the Gov. Rosselló Administration this way: “Corruption has a name and it’s called the New Progressive Party.” The debt was compounded because of illegal multi-billion loans and spending on poorly concieved projects that resulted in the complete abandonment of the island’s infrastructure in order to pay back the loans with interest rates of 75 cents on the dollar. Gil sent many from the administration to prison, but the island’s health, education , publoc works and electrical grid was already in shambles.

Now Trump is going on Tuesday. Ay Dios mío. How many storms must Puerto Rico take?

Vice President Pence was scheduled to go to Puerto Rico as well. As if Hurricane María and Trump weren’t already horrible. As if the pro-statehood party hadn't already done catastrophic damage to Puerto Rico with decades-old corruption that weakened the electric power grid.

Ariadna Goenaga reseña a “Detriot”, dirigida por Kathryn Bigelow, sobre los disturbios raciales hace 50 años. ¿Qué ha cambiado?

A heart divided by two. A Guatemalan mother and daughter share their experiences about going back for the first time (daughter, 19 years old, born in USA) and mother (who had not been back since she was an adolescent more than 20 years ago). In English and en español.

Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography ” a documentary by Errol Morris. Trailer here: http://bsidefilm.com

Laura Lovett, U.S. women’s history professor at UMass, and Maurianne Adams, retired social justice professor at UMass, and journalist Marla Goldberg (amherstspectator.com) on the push to create a new historic district in Amherst based the people who lived in the North Prospect-Lincoln-Sunset area.

Filmmaker Larry Hott recommends a podcast called “S-Town”.Link here: stownpodcast.org. Listening to it, you will see a magnificent film created by your imagination based the true story of an Alabama man who thinks he knows who committed a murder.