La Niña y el Arpa | The Girl and the Harp 
Leyzer Chiquin
2017 - Guatemala - 6’ - Drama
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Maria is a Mayan girl who lives north of Guatemala. She and her father are about to be evicted, the land they live in is ideal for the African palm monoculture. She doesn’t want to leave her home behind. 

Awards:  Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, The Americas Film Festival of NY, ICARO, Festival de Cine Latinoamericano Rosario
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Los Retratos | The Portraits
Ivan D. Ganoa
2012 - Colombia - Fiction -  15’

It's Sunday, the day to shop at the local market and Grandma Paulina wants to prepare creole hen for her husband, but the money is not enough. Without wishing it, she wins a Polaroid camera in a raffle, so, she proposes to her husband to take pictures of their lives in the country. But the camera roll ends up and the hunger persists!
Libre | Free
Anna Barsan
2018 - U.S.A - Documentary Short -12’

For detained immigrants who can’t pay their bond, for-profit companies like Libre by Nexus offer a path to reunite with their families. But for many, the reality is much more complicated. “Libre” sheds light on one of the many hidden costs of reunification for immigrant families.
The Sorcerer Cricket | El Chapulin Brujo
2013 - Mexico - Animation - 1’

A long time ago, a tree that was a prophet told the Yaqui people that a ferocious monster would arrive from the North. In preparation, the Yaqui set permanent warriors in different strategic points. Some time later, a great serpent appeared. After fighting it and losing two battles, Napowisáin Jisákame, commissioned the swallow to ask the sorcerer cricket for help oh behalf of the eight tribes. The swallow flew until it found the cricket, who, after giving it some thought, started sharpening its sawed legs, climbed a steep hill saying mysterious words and with a hard blow of its spurs jumped so far that anyone would need to walk eleven and a half days to cover the distance. Suddenly, as if fallen from the sky, the cricket appeared in the center of the Yaqui settlement. The Yaqui bathed it with an extract of twigs and green leafs and put it on a tree, as it had instructed them. When the monster approached the tree, the cricket jumped on him, delivering two brutal blows that severed the monster’s body. And this is how they got rid of the monster and the prophecy that the tree had made. Nevertheless, at the same time, a new prophecy was made… When the serpent died, it warned them that years later a new menace would come and they would have to face it even with more courage: white men with great weapons that would spit fire….
Cross Roads  
Ramiro Puerta
Canada - 1994 - 28 ‘ - Fiction

This comic tour of Latino life in Toronto centers on Verdecchia’s stage persona: the Argentinian-born Toronto actor Guillermo, and the inflated stereotype of Wideload. Guillermo is caught between fixed borders and alienating cultures; he is displaced from his history, his surroundings, and himself. Wideload ponders “Saxonian” attitudes, offers comparative histories, examines myth and mysticism, and provides lessons in language and dancing. Based on the play Fronteras Americanas by Guillermo Verdecchia.
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