S1: Welcome back. You're listening to Kpbs Midday Edition for Hispanic Heritage Month. We are highlighting artists and creators in the community. It's been 50 years since the birth of hip hop and it's ...

Marin is an actor and filmmaker. He lives in Los Angeles. As I reflect on my journey as an actor and filmmaker, I can’t help but feel immense gratitude to be a part of the San Diego Latino Film ...

A couple of weeks ago, someone sent in a letter for ¡Ask a Mexican! seeking a list of great books about Mexican and Chicano cinema. Rather than answer it in my columna, I thought I'd do so in our Film ...

A version of this story ran in the April 2014 issue. In 1978, 32-year-old Efrain Gutierrez found himself locked up in a Bexar County jail cell on trumped-up drug conspiracy charges. The Vietnam War ...

Gregory Nava's "El Norte" strips away any generalizations of Ellis Island romanticism. Despite Los Angeles’ large Mexican American population, Hollywood has always stayed away from its brown neighbors ...

3 Molière in the Park To Present THE LUDICROUS LADIES: A Benefit Staged Reading in Support of Accessible Theater for All From Friday, October 4 through Thursday, October 10, BAM presents a new ...

Political activism has been at the root of CineFestival ever since filmmakers started screening their work as part of the Chicano Film Festival in the late 1960s. Since then, the nation’s ...

It’s easy to dismiss the films of Efraín Gutiérrez. His movies are rough, unpolished, and lacking those things cinema experts consider, well, good. If Ed Wood was “the worst director of all time,” you ...