Growing up in Los Angeles, CA's Echo Park in the 1970s and 1980s was not easy. For many young people, gang life was the only path. Artist Jamie Chavez dreamed of a different life. He embraced both his Native American and Chicano roots and combined both cultures in his work. The fusion of both cultures is a refreshing take on life in a rich, diverse city.

Orale Thrucha- The Art of Jamie Chavez

As her father's retirement approaches, a student filmmaker living abroad attempts to bring a story the father wrote to life, to prevent him from abandoning his one last creative passion that's fading away.

Baba's Next Chapter

Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Don Bartletti shares heart wrenching stories from his forty year career documenting history as it unfolds.Internationally recognized for his commitment to photographing the migration of Central Americans to the United States, Bartletti’s images reveal the never ending saga of illegal immigration by individuals desperate to improve their lives.

The Roads Most Traveled: Photojournalist Don Bartletti

Pictorial and acoustic notes from an extraordinary place on the coast of Northern Peru. Lobitos – an outpost with its particular share of history. It was controlled by British oil producers for most of the twentieth century, before being taken over by the Peruvian state in the late 1960s to set up a military base. After waves of dilapitation and revitalization it is today a surf spot, a fishing hamlet, a Potemkin village of sorts. All quite absurd, yet with a wealth of ambiences and pictorial sceneries. Incidentally, it was here that the first cinema in South America was opened, of which only a few remnants can be found on the ground next to the church.

BY THE SEA

“Isolated in Stromboli” is a feature documentary conceived, written and created by Luca Noris. A trip through the most evocative places in Stromboli - a volcanic island off the shore of Sicily - describing the sea, the people, the winter and the vulcano (through the voice of the Sicilian author and storyteller Salvo Piparo). Traditions, places, art and habits of Stromboli connected to respect, love and profound sense of belonging felt by the people living on the island. An interweaving of stories that arouse emotion, enriched by the deeds and voices of the people who live the island as a daydream, surrounded by the silence of the winter and by the authentic noises created by the vulcano and the sea, smoothly softened by the wind.Isolated in Stromboli is a movie that brings you back to the past: the human being lives isolated in a place where nature reigns, art emphasizes every scenery and enhances the genius through craftsmanship. Spectacular images, seen both through aerial views and close-ups, with a high visual and audio impact, highlight and emphasize the genuine and authentic lifestyle that is typical of this place. People are the protagonists and keeper of the island and this emerges from every filmed image. Black shores, white houses, blue windows and a volcano that the inhabitants name “Iddu” (Sicilian dialect for “Him”), center of life and symbol that protects a place where time seems to have stopped from running.

Isolated In Stromboli

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