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TITLE: IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE
AUTHOR: Frank Christopher and Alex Drehsler
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, 1984
PHYSICAL DESCRITIPON: 1 videocassette (75 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8121
Summary: An evocative vision of a nation and its tragic civil conflict, In the Name of the People is the record of four filmmakers who secretly entered El Salvador, marched with a guerrilla column across the troubled country, and followed it into combat against government forces in San Salvador. The civil war is given a personal dimension as wee meet the insurgents and their supporters - a guerrilla commander, a 12 year old messenger, a peasant family victimized by right wing death squads, and Charlie Clements, an American doctor working with the rebels.


TITLE: THE NATIONALISTS
AUTHOR: Jose Garcia Torres
IMPRINT: 1973.
Call Number: VCA 5820
Summary: Surveys the activities of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in the 1950's, including the background to the shooting incident in the U.S. Congress by four Puerto Rican nationalists in March 1954, and the contrigutions of the movements leading figure, Don Pedro Albizu Campos.


TITLE: A NATURALIST IN THE RAINFOREST: A PORTRAIT OF ALEXANDER SKUTCH
AUTHOR: Feyling, Paul
IMPRINT: Bullfrog Films, c.1995
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (28 min.): sd., col.; « in. & 1 study guide.
Call Number: VCA 6657
Summary: Alexander Skutch, "one of the greatest naturalists of our time", with extensive experience in the rainforest and birds in Central America -- and particularly in Costa Rica, where he settled in 1941-- gives a guided tour in the rainforest.


TITLE: NEW CINEMA OF LATIN AMERICA
AUTHOR: Chanan, Michael
IMPRINT: CINEMA GUILD, INC. 1985.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: PART I, PART II.
Call Number: VCA 4430 (Part I & Part II)
Summary: Traces the history and development of the modern motion picture in Latin America, including the difficulty faced by film makers in present day Latin America.


TITLE: NGANSA KIYANGALA, CONGO RELIGION IN CUBA
AUTHOR: TATO QUININES AND LUIS SOTO
PHYSICAL FEATURES: DOCUMENTARY 33 MIN. 1991
Call Number: VCA 6756
Summary: This film describes the history, rites and practices of Ngansa, the Bantu based belief system of the slaves brought to Cuba from the Congo region of Africa. Ngansa is one of three or more sects in Cuba which are more African than Christian in belief, rituals, music and dance. The film focusses on the actions performed by a Palero during hsi mourning devotion. Miguel Barnet a respected ethnographer and writer, explains many of the rites, ritual objects, symbols, dance, vocabulary and music.


TITLE: THE NIGHT OF SAN LAZARO
AUTHOR: Fransi de Villar Dille and Oranne Mounition
IMPRINT: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (35 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8474
Summary: After years of official restrictions on religious observance, Cuba today is experiencing a real religious revival. Indeed, every year Cuba's most important parade pays homage to San Lazaro. For some, he is the healer saint, for others and African divinity. On foot, on their knees, or rolling along the ground, thousands of pilgrims live a night of frenzy and immoderation, giving themselves up to ecstacy and pain. THE NIGHT OF SAN LAZARO seeks neither to interpret nor analyze this religious event, but simply to observe and present its lyrical visuals of fervor and devotion, images which reveal the re-emerging interest in the divine in Cuba.


TITLE: NO ME AMENACES (Don't threaten me) [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Racz, Juan Andres.
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, c1990.
PHYSICAL FEATURES:1 videocassette (52 min.):sd.,col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3085
Summary: This documentary by Juan Andres Racz is a fast paced and enlightening record of the events of 1988 to 1990 which led to the end of military dictatorship in Chile.


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TITLE: LA OPERACIÓN [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Garcia, Ana Maria.
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : The Cinema Guild [distributor], [1992]
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 40 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2760
Summary: As of 1980, Puerto Rico had the highest incidence of female sterilization in the world. This shocking film argues that since the 1930's the American government's efforts to control and manipulate the island's population by sterilizing its women has primarily served the business interests of American corporations located there. Uses newsreels and excerpts from government propaganda films, plus interviews with Puerto Rican women, doctors, birth control specialists and politicians to explore the controversial use of sterilization as a means of population control.


TITLE: LA OFRENDA: THE DAYS OF THE DEAD
AUTHOR: Lourdes Portillo and Susana Munoz
IMPRINT: Los Angeles: Direct Cinema 1989
PHYSICAL FEATURES:
Call Number: VCA 2090
Summary: In Mexico, the first days of November are the times when the souls of the dead come to visit the living and are welcomed in celebrations that combine ancient Indian traditions and Catholic ritual. During these feast days, families clean and decorate the gravestones of loved ones and erect festive altars to the dead at home, complete with photographs of the deceased, candles, dolls, and abundant offerings of flowers and special foods. Cameras visit the ruins of Mitla, considered by Indians to be the gateway to the underworld, and follow the tradition of the Days of the Dead to the Latino community in California where the holiday reinforces spiritual and cultural life in exile. In a classroom, children bring offerings to honor their counterparts in war-torn countries and are encouraged to speak about death as a natural order of events and not as an occurrence to be feared.


TITLE: THE ORGAN LESSON -PARAGUAY
AUTHOR: JUAN CARLOS MANEGLIA
IMPRINT: FICTION 10 MIN. 1989
Call Number: VCA 6751
SUMMARY: In this comedy of manners, repressed passions in the proper household spring to life at the torch of an organ. A proper mother escorts a debonair organ teacher into the room where her sultry daughter will be given music lessons. When the overly zealous prying mother closes the door, fingers begin to play all over the organ. Images of wild love scenes follow while the organ continues to be played. Is this passion real, or the product of the mother's imagination? Viewers are titillated but not told.


TITLE: ORI
AUTHOR: RAGUEL GERBER
IMPRINT: THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VIDEOCASSETTE 1993 (55min.)
Call Number VCA 3320
SUMMARY: Provides an overview of the Black Movements in Brazil during the 70's and 80's and tells the story of Beatriz Nascimento, an activist and historian.


TITLE: ORIGINS OF THE CINEMA
PHYSICAL FEATURES: DOCUMENTARY 27 MIN. IN SPANISH
Call Number: ON ORDER
Summary: Documents the history of cinema in Mexico. Extemely informative and detailed, this documentary shows how the first films made in Mexico were influenced by the Revolution of the 1900's and move on to portray the struggles of the film industry in the 1910's -20's and how sound revived the business in the 1930's.


TITLE: ORINOKO, NEW WORLD
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 90 MIN. NO DIALOGUE
Call Number: ON ORDER
Summary: With layers of hallunications and no dialogue, Orinoko narrates the Spanish and English explorations of the Orinoko river and the quest for El dorado, the first by Columbus, and subsequently by Alexander Von Humboldt. These explorers encounter and initiate the destruction of the indegenious communities they meet. With magnificant photography and haunting sound track, the film captures the first explorer's phantasmagoric experience. The film begins before the encounter with the stunning sequence of an Anerindian tribe going about their daily activities. Each shot means meant to distance disorient the viewers, compelling us to decipher each action, much as the conquistadors may have done. When the European characters make their appearance on the Orinoco, they are filmed in an equally opaque manner. No word is spoken; it is a silent adventure, except for the strange and ominous sounds of the jungle. Viewers are not encouraged to identify with these strange , rather bizarre yet solorful individuals. Toward the end of the film, it becomes clear that the entire experience of the Europeans has been filmed from the point of a Yanomami shaman in a drug induced trance.


TITLE: OSMARINO RODRIGUES
PHYSICAL FEATURE: DOCUMENTARY 29 MIN. 1992
Call Number: VCA 6778
Summary: Osmarino Amancio Rodrigues, secretary of the national council of rubbertappers and president of the rural workers union of Brazilea in the state of Acre, comments on the life-threatening situation facing rubbertappers in Brazil and offers his evaluation of solutions proposed from the outside to save the forest.


TITLE: THIS OTHER HAITI
AUTHOR: Korb, David
IMPRINT: NEW YORK. CINEMA GUILD, INC. 1993.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS VIDEOCASSETTE
Call Number: VCA 4238
Summary: The film documents the emergence of a national movement of Haitian peasants, thousands of whom have ignored brutal harassment and have organized to regain control of their lives and to ignite the courage to demand change. Members of the organization show how they set the stage over two decades for the first free and fair elections in Haiti's history. And, perhaps most important, it concludes that despite repression by military dictators these groups will reemerge and begin anew to bring about change for all of Haiti's people.


TITLE: EL OTRO LADO / THE OTHER SIDE
AUTHOR: Alex Webb
IMPRINT: :New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1992
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (10 min.)
Call Number: VCA 4336
Summary: Webb introduces the vibrant personalities who populate the Mexican/U.S. border. Americans simply pass through turnstiles for cheap thrills in Tijuana. Mexicans on the other side, however, face endless barriers of barbed wire, attack dogs, and armed border patrols. They wait for nightfall to attempt crossings, to live or simply in search of a day's work. Alex Webb captures the odd panorama of border - comical peddlers making deals with amused tourists, U.S. servicemen in search of tequila, and Mexicans furtively looking to get stateside. Many are caught, ,but they merely try to cross again when released. The border is a constant flurry of activity which represents different things to different people - depending on which side you are on.


TITLE: THE OXCART/ LA CARRETA
AUTHOR: JOSE GARCIA TORRES
IMPRINT: CINEMA GUILD 1972
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (20 min.) [realidades-WNET]
Call Number: VCA 2754
Summary: Based on the play by Puerto Rican playwright Rene Marques, this video portrays the migration of a Puerto Rican family from the countryside to the San Juan ghetto and eventually to Spanish Harlem in New York City.


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TITLE: PAN CARIBBEAN [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Hall, Tony.
IMPRINT: Worthing, Barbados (West Indies) : Crossbread Productions [distributor] c1991.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2775
Summary: One of the only acoustic musical instruments invented this century is the steelpan of Trinidad and Tobago. The spread of this instrument in the popular culture of the other islands of the region has made the instrument almost synonymous with the Caribbean. This program looks at this phenomenon and the use of the steelpan in popular jazz and classical music of the rest of world.


TITLE: PARQUE CENTRAL
AUTHOR: Andres Agusti
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : First Run Icarus Films, 1991
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (11 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8156
Summary: A lilting, meandering visual homage to Venezuela's capitol city, Caracas. Intercutting pictures of statues, buildings, street performers, parks, mountains, roads, roller coasters, and a pickup basketball game, PARQUE CENTRAL communicates the energy and splendor of this bustling metropolis.


TITLE: THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE [videorecording] / Sankofa Film/Video Collective.
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : Women Make Movies (U.S. distributor), 1994.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3542
Summary: A drama which attempts to break down notions of a homogeneous black community and reflects instead the diversity of the black experience of Britain in the 1980s. Examines issues of gender, power and sexuality.


TITLE: PELÉ [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Tollin, Michael.
IMPRINT: North Bergen, N.J. : Sports Legends Video, Inc., 1985, c1980.
PHYSICAL FEATURES:1 videocassette (30 min.):sd.,col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 1123
Summary: A live interview with the great Brazilian soccer star Pelé, featuring original film highlights of his career. At the age of 17 in 1958 Pele lead the Brazilian team to the first of their three World Cup Victories. He then singlehandedly launched professional soccer in North America as catalyst of the NASL Cosmos. * Gift of Rogerio Almeida.


TITLE: PEMP
AUTHOR: Carelli, Vincent
INPRINT: Centro de Trabaljo Indigenista, 1995
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS, 27 minutes
Call Number: VCA 4436
Summary: documents the recent history of the Gaviao tribe in the Eastern Amazon. As the video shows the group has pioneered some approache to living on the interface with the Brazilian culture.


TITLE: PEOPLE POWER [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Ziv, Ilan
IMPRINT: New York : First Run/Icarus Films, c1989.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3071
Summary: An exploration of non-violence as the means to achieving social reforms, focusing on the downfall of Pinochot in Chile, the Palestinian Intifada and Cory Aquino's "people power" revolution iin the Philippines.


TITLE: PERFECT IMAGE?
AUTHOR: Blackwood, Maureen
IMPRINT: THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL. 1988.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS VIDEOCASSETTE (30 MINS).
Call Number: VCA 4378
Summary: This film examines stereotypical images of black women and explores women's own ideas of self worth.


TITLE: A PERUVIAN EQUATION
AUTHOR: Gilles Peress
IMPRINT: :New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, 1992
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (10 min.)
Call Number: VCA 4346
Summary: Descending from the mountains in mostly unfruitful searches for work, a Quecha Indian community has developed in the shantytowns just outside of Lima, where daily quests for food and water are a struggle. Peress lives with one Quecha family for one week, documenting their difficult daily routines, Perdita, mother of nine, speaks of a life filled with conflict and suffering. The threat of military brutality is ever present, and the shantytown is the domain of the unpredictable and ultraviolent Shining Path. This observing portrait is enhanced by Peress' innovative use of subtitles which provide an endless stream of statistics that place Perdita's life in the broader context of Peruvian poverty.


TITLE: PERUVIAN WEAVING: A CONTINUOUS WARP FOR 5000 YEARS
AUTHOR: Cohen, John
IMPRINT: 1993
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS, color, 25 minutes
Call Number: VCA 3240
Summary: In this film the late Dr. Junius Bird of the American Museum of Natural History traces the beginnings of the Peruvian weaving tradition back to a preceramic period. Continuing in the present, three generations of modern Quechua speakers are shown using warp pattern technique on both back strap and four stake looms.


TITLE: PHOTO ALBUM
AUTHOR: Enrique OLIVER
IMPRINT: Flower Films 1989
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (14 min.)
Call Number: VCA 2522
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TITLE: PLENA IS WORK, PLENA IS SONG (Plena canto y trabajo) [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Zeig, Susan.
IMPRINT: New York, NY : Cinema Guild, 1989.
PHYSICAL FEATURES:1 videocassette (29 min.):sd.,col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2416
Summary: Brings to life the culture and political history of Puerto Rican plena, which is a musical blend of African and Spanish idioms, and largely the music of the working classes and protest. Includes shots of Plena being performed in Puerto Rico and in the Bronx.


TITLE: PORTRAIT OF THE CARIBBEAN
Call Number: ON ORDER
Summary: a combined production of the BBC and Turner Broadcasting. A six hour series. Available from Facets.

TITLE :PROFISSAO CRIANCA (PROFESSION, CHILD)
IMPRINT: [New York] : Cinema Guild, 1994
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION :1 videocassette (35 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 9078
Summary: Reveals the exploitation of child labor in Brazil today, focusing on the daily lives of four children. Ranging in age from ten to twelve years old, these boys and girls are paid minimal wages by their employers. They work in unsafe environments, have no job benefits or legal protection of any kind, and must endure brutal conditions merely in order to survive.


TITLE: PROJETO VIDEO NAS ALDEIAS
AUTHOR: Carelli, Vincent
INPRINT: Centro de Trabaljo Indigenista, 1989
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS, 10 minutes
Call Number: VCA 4432
Summary: see Ranucci pg. 34


TITLE: EL PUEBLO SE LEVANTA
AUTHOR:
IMPRINT: THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL 1968
Call Number: VCA 2739
Summary: In 1969, conditions for Puerto Ricans in the United States reached the boiling point. Victimized by discimination, inadequate housing and the paucity of educational and employment opportunities, Puerto Rican communities began to take aggressive measures to empower themselves and reverse negative trends. This cinema verite film, bracketed by a defiant poem concerning the struggles of the Puerto Rican immigrant, records the activities of the Young Lords Party in Spanish Harlem ( El Barrio). Cameras follow the Young Lords as they occupy a neighborhood church where they institute a breakfast program and liberation school for children before being evicted by police. The radicals are also filmed attending a rally in the South Bronx in support of striking hospital workers and protesting the substandard care of a fellow activist who died in the hospital following an abortion. Members discuss the Puerto Rican migrations and the importance of teaching Puerto Rican history and culture as a way of inculcating pride and self determnation.


TITLE: EL PUENTE SOBRE EL CARIBE: DESARROLLO ECONOMICO EN PUERTO RICO (A BRIDGE OVER THE CARIBBEAN: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PUERTO RICO)
AUTHOR: Sonia Fritz
IMPRINT: [S.l.] : Cinema Guild, 1995
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION :1 videocassette (37 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1 /2 in.
Call Number: VCA 6940
Summary: Surveys the economic development in Puerto Rico, from 1940 to the present day, including the impact of NAFTA on the commonwealth's economy.


TITLE: PUERTO RICO: ART AND IDENTITY
AUTHOR: Sonia Fritz
IMPRINT: Cinema Guild, 1991
Call Number: VCA 4399


TITLE: PUERTO RICO: PARADISE INVADED [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Beato, Alfonso.
IMPRINT; New York, N.Y. : The Cinema Guild [distributor], [1986?]
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2757
Summary: This award-winning documentary examines the history and present-day reality of Puerto Rico. Among the many issues examined in the film are the history and the contemporary relationship between the "Commonwealth" of Puerto Rico and the United States, the impact of industrialization on the island's economy, ecology and social life, including the cultural disintegration of Puerto Rican national identity; the economic exile and life in New York City; and the history of the Puerto Rican independence movement. The film abounds in striking images of the country's natural beauty contrasted with the devastating impact of its increasing commercialization and industrialization.


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TITLE: QEROS: THE SHAPE OF SURVIVAL [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Cohen, John.
IMPRINT: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, Extension Media Center
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3272
Summary: Life and hardships of the Andean nomads called the Qeros. Film describes their means of subsistence, their rituals and beliefs, and the pattern of discrimination they have undergone.


TITLE: QUIÉN BAILA AQUÍ?: LA RUMBA SIN LENTE JUELAS [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Ruiz, Elio.
IMPRINT: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Blackmind Book Boutique, Inc., [1993?].
PHYSICAL FEATURES:1 videocassette (46 min.):sd.,col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3198
Summary: Documentary traces the origin and tradition of the rumba in Cuba, and its African and Spanish heritage. Includes interviews with experts.


TITLE: A QUIET REVOLUTION: CHRISTIAN BASE COMMUNITIES IN LATIN AMERICA [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Glynn, Audrey L.
IMPRINT: [S.l.] : McCormack/Glynn Associates, c1987.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 1660
Summary: Documents the efforts of Christian base communities, which are small groups of poor and marginalized people in Latin America who are attempting to counter hunger, disease, unemployment, and other critical problems in Latin America through the application of biblical principles. The film focuses on the poor in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.


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TITLE: RAIZ DE CHILE (CHILE'S ROOTS)
AUTHOR: David Benavente
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. First Run/Icarus Films, 1991
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (51 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8162
Summary: RAIZ DE CHILE compares the contemporary rural lives of the Aymara and the Mapuche, Chile's largest indigenous groups. 50,000 Aymara live in the northern Andes, while 500,000 Mapuche dwell mostly in the mid-region of the country. This video looks at how these cultures have blended their traditional ways with new customs from outside. While the Mapuche still play Palin, an ancient game similar to field hockey, they now plant "certified" see providing wheat harvests many times more bountiful than in previous generations. And while the Aymara continue to weave llama wool into colorful clothing on traditional looms, Christian evangelism has brought new values into their communities - one ceremoy has been abolished because of excessive alcohol consumption and the violence it often led to. Although many modern methods are welcomed, elders of each group feat for the loss of their ethnic identities. The children are sent away to school and lose interest in learning their languages or traditions. When members of each group are shown video of the other, both Aymara and Mapuche admire the other's spirit and customs, and express sincere wishes that their cultures will continue to survive.


TITLE: THE REAL THING
AUTHOR: Peter Schnall
IMPRINT: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1984
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (ca. 37 min.)
Call Number: VCA 3805
Summary: When the Coca Cola bottling plant in Guatemala City was abruptly closed in 1984, 460 workers lost jobs. The owners claimed bankruptcy, the workers cried foul play and refused to leave the plant. THE REAL THING tells the union's story, and of the ultimately successful year long occupation of the plant, as it examines the use of bankruptcy as a method to bust unions and the neglect of foreign responsibilities by U.S. based multinationals.


TITLE: REBELLION IN PATAGONIA
AUTHOR: Olivera, Hector
IMPRINT: NEW YORK. CINEMA GUILD, INC. 1974.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS VIDEOCASSETTE.
Call Number: VCA 4240
Summary: The classic of the Latin American cinema is based on actual historical events involving the brutal military suppression of a series of stikes during the early Twenties by rural workers in the southernmost province of Argentina. The film's narrative, set with a richly detailed social context and mounted as a colorful action film, features fascinating character studies of the main protagonists, including the anarcho-syndicalist leaders of the worker's movement and the ruthless military commander who realizes too late that he is merely a tool of the wealthy landowners.


TITLE: REFUGEES IN OUR BACKYARD
AUTHOR: Georges Nachitchevansky and Helena Pollack Sultan
IMPRINT: First Run/Icarus Film 1992
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (58min.) Color/ 1990
Call Number: VCA 2331
Summary: Since the early 1980's, over two million Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans have fled countries shaken by violent civil wars and acute economic crises. One million have come to the U.S. Refugees in our Backyard focuses on the controversies created by the arrival of so many undocumented aliens into the U.S. With sections detailing the dangers of the journey north, State Department poicies, and the hardships faced by those who succeed in becoming illegal aliens, Refugees inour Backyard thoroughly investigates the impact of civil strife on Central America, and the enormous obstacles its people face as they attempt to escape into the United States.


TITLE: REMEMBERING ROMERO [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Chappell, Peter.
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, c1991.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col., with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3073
Summary: A commemorative documentary for Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador and champion of peace and the poor, who was brutally assassinated on March 24th, 1980, one day after his appeal to the armed forces to stop killing their fellow Salvadorans. Shortly before his death the Archbishop posed for a photograph with a group of young Salvadorans. These youths, now older, talk about their feelings and admiration for Romero and their memories of him and the day the photograph was taken.


TITLE: REPORT ABOUT TV VIVA
PHYSICAL FEATURES: NEWS REPORT 15 MIN. 1990
Call Number: VCA 6747
Summary: This is a close up look at TV viva, a community television production group based in Recife, Brazil. Active since 1984, TV viva works with social movments and neighborhood organizations to provide an alternative to commercial television. Interviews with producers and clips of their work introduce the philosophy and objectives of TV viva as well as its role in the community. Community residents ask TV viva to make programs about various social issues. The completed programs are shown 0n large screens in town squares, to enable crowds to discuss the issues after viewing. TV viva members explain that independent producers are having an influence on the large commercial stations, who are copying some of the techniques they employ.


TITLE: RETRATOS
AUTHOR: Bird, Stuart
IMPRINT:
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS, color, 53 minutes
Call Number: VCA 5279
Summary:Chronicles the life stories of four individuals from New York's Puerto Rican community, each of whom has attempted to assimilate to life in America, but who also maintain strong ties to their cultural heritage.


TITLE: THE RETURN OF THE MOTHERLAND
AUTHOR: Downey, Juan
IMPRINT: Electronic Arts Intermix, 1989
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS, 27 minutes
Call Number: VCA 3966
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TITLE: RICE & PEAS [videocassette]
AUTHOR: Kramer, Karen
IMPRINT: NEW YORK : DIST. BY FIRST RUN/ICARUS : 1990.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS VIDEOCASSETTE, COLOR, 12 MIN.
Call Number: VCA 4302
Summary: In this charming film Gillian Charles, the restaurant's proprietress and chef, prepares her own recipe for the staple of West Indian fare, Rice and Peas, while reminiscing about her native Trinidad and the adjustments she has made in the United States. In this way, Rice and Peas provides an ecample of how one woman has kept her cultural heritage intact by introducing it onto her new world.

TITLE :ROAD OF NO RETURN: THE BANISHMENT OF MARIA DE LAS MERCEDES BARBUDO
AUTHOR: Sonia Fritz
IMPRINT: [S.l.] : Isla Films : [distributed by] Cinema Guild, c1997.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION :1 videocassette (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 9069
Summary: A dramatic re-enactment of the life of Maria de las Mercedes Barbudo, who was deported from Puerto Rico in 1824 for her radical nationalistic activities.


TITLE: EL ROJO PARA LOS LABIOS (RED FOR THE LIPS)
AUTHOR: Pablo Basulto
IMPRINT: :New York, N.Y. : First Run Icarus Films, 1991
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (13 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8157
Summary: Employing a mixture of video graphics, computer animation, and documentary footage, Basulto uses the metaphor of a disenchanted and lethargic woman to lament the loss of Cuba's revolutionary ideals and fervor. He complains that in the current consumerist climate, the revolution has been reduced to subject matter for postcards - in a country where the mail doesn't work.


TITLE: ROSALINA
AUTHOR: Jenkins, Leslie
IMPRINT: FIRST RUN ICARUS. 1987 (23 MINUTES).
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS VIDEOCASSETTE (23 MINUTES).
Call Number: VCA 4558
Summary: This haunting film is a day in the life of Rosalina, a twelve year old Salvadorian girl whose family has fled to a refugee camp in Honduras after their house was set afire during the civil warin El Salvador. In the film, Rosalina goes to school, helps her mother, enjoys games with her friends, and dreams of returning to the village where she was born, a place which is gradually fading from her memory. Rosalia wil help young people learn about the daily life of Central American refugees, and make the individual stories behind the news reports come alive in discussions of current events.


TITLE: THE ROTUND WORLD OF FERNANDO BOTERO
AUTHOR: Patricia Castano and Adelaida Trujillo
PHYSICAL FEATURES: DOCUMENTARY 58 MIN. 1986
Call Number: VCA 6758
Summary: This documentary about the life and work of the Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero follows his life during the one year period 1992-1993. Botero travels to the exhibits of his sculptures in New York and Paris, we also watch him create and see the Colombia that he expresses through his art. The film focuses on influences on Botero's work deprived from his life experiences.


TITLE: ROUTES OF RHYTHM WITH HARRY BELAFONTE
AUTHOR: Eugene Rosow and Howard Dratch
IMPRINT: Cinema Guild, 1990, 3 programs, 58 min. each
Call Number: VCA 2977, 78 and 79
Summary: Chronicles the flow of Afro-Cuban music over five century period.


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TITLE: SABEMOS MIRAR
AUTHOR: Dolly Pussi
IMPRINT: First Run/ Icarus Film 1991
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (25 min.) Color/1991
Call Number: VCA 4038
Summary: The 1976 military coup dramatically halted the political activities of Argentina's youth. Despite the moral liberal regimes since, there is still much repression. Sabemos Mirar looks at how rock music has become an outlet for young Argentineans' frustrations. Focusing on a band called Bersuit Bergaravat, the film's subjects speak of their powerlessness, how being young in Argentinia means being a suspect. They tell of the close police scrutiny of rock shows, but note that if rock music is an outsider's movement, it must be remembered that tango once must have been as well. Closing with performances by Bersuit Bergaravat and Mercedes Sosa at a No to Impunity rally in Buenos Aires protesting the beating of filmmaker Pino Soanas, the death of Walter Bulacio, and threats against the mothers of Plaza de Maya, Sabemos Mirar reveals much about the political undercurrent driving Argentina's young people.


TITLE: SACRED EARTH (TIERRA MADRE / TERRE SACREE)
AUTHOR: Mary Ellen Davis
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Call Number: VCA 8969
Summary: Film examines the conditions of Mayan farmers in Guatemala, their fight for land rights and the persecutions they have suffered through 35 years of civil war. Emphasizes their spiritual relationship to the land and their struggles for political and social autonomy.


TITLE: SANTA MARTA: TWO WEEKS IN THE SLUMS
AUTHOR: Eduardo Coutinho
IMPRINT: ISER, distr. By Cinema Guild, 1986, 54 min.
Call Number: VCA 1619


TITLE: EL SALVADOR: ANOTHER VIETNAM
AUTHOR: Glenn Silber and Tete Vasconcellos
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, 1981
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (58 min.)
Call Number: VCA 2372
Summary: Using archival and contemporary footage, El Salvador: Another Vietnam provides the most comprehensive overview of U.S. military and economic policy in Central America from 1948 through Reagan's pledge to "draw the line" against "communist interference".


TITLE: SCRAPS OF LIFE
AUTHOR: Jamison, Gayle
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PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS, 28 minutes
Call Number: VCA 5280
Summary: In this spirited three-part musical odyssey, host Harry Belafonte journeys to equatorial villages, New York dance and jazz clubs, and exuberant Caribbean street carnivals to chronicle the flow of Afro-Cuban music from its origin five centuries ago in Africa and Europe to the contemporary sound of such popular artists as Gloria Estefan and Ruben Blades. The video presents stories from the mother, sisters, and wives of person's detained or disappeared in Chile under President Pinochet.


TITLE: SCAVENGERS VIDEO
AUTHOR: Coutinho, Eduardo
IMPRINT: FIRST RUN/ICARUS. 1992.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS VIDEOCASSETTE (49 MINUTES).
Call Number: VCA 4274
Summary: Common to nearly all Brazilian cities are groups of poor who earn their living scavenging in the immense urban garbage dumps, searching for whatever they can find to sell - paper, plastic, scrap metal, tin cans - as well as whatever they can find to eat. Without judgment, this unnarrated video records the scavengers, watching attentively while five people who work at the Itaoca garbage dump in Sao Goncalo. Rio de Janeiro, go about their daily routines with friends and families. The result is a straightfoward and objective portrayl of their reality. While the film draws no conclusions, the testimonies of the scavengers themselves make plain the horrors of life within the dump, which, relative to much of Brazil's poor, provides a comfortable exisitence.


TITLE: SECUESTRO: STORY OF A KIDNAPPING
AUTHOR: Camila Motta
IMPRINT: [New York] : Cinema Guild, c1993.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (93 min.)
Call Number: VCA 6923
Summary: Dramatizes the complex problem of kidnapping in Colombia, where the disparity between rich and poor has turned kidnapping for ransom into a virtual business, with a kidnapping occurring every seven hours. In 1985, 20-year-old Sylvia Motta, daughter of a wealthy industrialist was kidnapped by ten armed men. Director Camila Motta, the victim's sister, re-creates the harrowing three months of psychological torment experienced by the victim and her family as they faced the ruthless but thoroughly professional criminal methods of her captors.


TITLE: SERGIO BIANCHI
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IMPRINT: Brazil, 1992
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (29 min.)
Call Number: VCA 6779
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TITLE: SEVEN DREAMS OF PEACE
AUTHOR: Lluis Crous
IMPRINT: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1996
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (49 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8132
Summary: In 1992, after 12 years of war, peace officially came to embattled El Salvador. But what has this armistice meant for El Salvador's people? In Seven Dreams of Peace, seven Salvadorans share their experiences, and their hopes for their nation's future. Juan is an actor with the "Sol del Rio" theatre group. Once an FMLN radio announcer, he broke ranks when he became disillusioned with their ideology. Guadalupe lost her parents, husband, and a son in the war. With seven children left to raise on her own, she nonetheless supports the actions of the FMLN, and believes in the cause which took the lives of so many of her loved ones. Angel, formerly an FMLN guerrilla, was a mortal enemy of Nicolas, who was a policeman during the conflict. Now they are both members of the National Civil Police - and friends. Miguel and Vitelio are war orphans, trying to reconstruct a semblance of family life. And Francisco is a happy to lucky bus ticket collector whose primary interests are women and Hollywood. As the film presents the lives of Salvadorans today, it also questions the stability of the calm and asks whether the foundations of the peace accord - controlling delinquency, meting justice, redistributing land, and fighting poverty - will ever be realized. Seven Dreams of Peace is a hopeful and troubling look at the legacy of the war in El Salvador.


TITLE: SIMPLEMENTE JENNY
AUTHOR: Solberg-Ladd, Helena
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PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS, color, 33 minutes
Call Number: VCA 5348
Summary: Examines women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives.


TITLE: THE SIXTH SUN: THE MAYAN UPRISING IN CHIAPAS
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TITLE: SLAVE SHIP NAVIO NEREIRO
AUTHOR: ANNA PENIDO AND DAVID SONNENSCHEIN
PHYSICAL FEATURES: DOCUMENTARY: 28 MIN. 1994
Call Number: VCA 6753
Summary: Celio, an ex-street kid from Rio de Janeiro who has mastered Afro dance and the Brazilian martial art of capoeira, trains a group of slum children to perform in a musical theatrer piece entitled "Slave ship". "Slave ship" is based on the epic poem by Castro Alves which depicts how slaves were taken from their home in Africa and forced to row a ship toward their gruesome destiny. Celio relates the story to these children who struggle to survive on the streets. From the humble beginnings of the school play, the kids are spotlighted on national TV for their powerful performances. Visiting their neighborhood and relatives, we discover how Celio has helped to save these kids from crime.


TITLE: SOCA: SOUL TO SALE [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Hall, Tony.
IMPRINT: Worthing, Barbados (West Indies) : Crossbreed Productions [distributor] c1991.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2783
Summary: Soca music is the latest version of the calypso to impact on international markets. This program traces its history and the many forms it takes in the region.


TITLE: SOCIETIES UNDER THE INFLUENCE
AUTHOR: German Gutierrez
IMPRINT: New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION :1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 8935
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TITLE: SOLO DE WET VAN DE FAVELA (SOLO, THE LAW OF THE FAVELA)
AUTHOR: Jos de Putter
IMPRINT: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1994
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (54 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8140
Summary: In the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the favelas, soccer might be the only avenue of escape from the pervasive atmosphere of violence and crime. Young boys who play soccer on the streets dream of a future as a professional with a real shirt and a real club. SOLO, THE LAW OF THE FAVELA examines this dream within the context of everyday life during the time of the World Cup Championships. The film focuses on two eleven year-olds, Anselmo and Leonardo, who play soccer together on a neighborhood club. When a scout from the rich soccer club Fluminense appears, it looks as if their dreams may come true. We follow the boys down the arduous path which might lead to a contract with the club. But the tenuousness of the process, and of their fates, becomes evident on the day of the big match, in which they are to prove themselves. After the match Leonardo must choose: either continue playing in the favela with his friend or go to a big club alone, where he can earn money for his family. The question becomes whether this is a real choice, or nothing more than "the law of the favela," which, one way or another, has its grip on everyone.


TITLE: SOMOS + (WE ARE MORE)
IMPRINT: ANTU Producciones ; New York, N.Y. : First Run Icarus Films [distributor], 1986
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (ca. 15 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8470
Summary: Documents a march by women in Santiago, Chile in demand of democracy and freedom. Their peaceful demonstration is first intercepted and then attacked by the police.


TITLE: SOUTH OF THE BORDER [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Bradbury, David.
IMPRINT: [S.l.] : D. Bradbury, c1987.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 63 min.): sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 1662
Summary: Yet another scathing critique of U.S. foreign policy toward the countries of Central America, this time by an Australian filmmaker. Unfortunately, the United States, in its efforts to preserve its economic domination of Central America, has a long tradition of forcefully or fraudulently establishing puppet military dictatorships in this area and then maintaining them through "foreign aid", half of which goes to military equipment and training to suppress any native popular resistance or dissent. This has had appalling, disastrous effects on the social fabrics and economies of countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. But these countries have their own long traditions not only of armed resistance but also of resistance voiced through popular music and song. This moving film takes the viewer into each of these countries, offering many samples of this kind of song along with interviews with armed resistance fighters, some of them children.


TITLE: SPIRIT OF SAMBA, THE BLACK MUSIC OF BRAZIL
AUTHOR: Jeremy Marre
IMPRINT: Newton, NJ: Sanachie, 1990
Call Number: VCA 5008


TITLE: THE SPIRIT OF TV
AUTHOR: Careli, Vincent
IMPRINT: Centro de Trabaljo Indigenista 1990
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS, 18 minutes
Call Number: VCA 4433
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TITLE: LOS SURES
AUTHOR: Diego Echeverria
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Call Number: VCA 2759
Summary: More than 20,000 Latinos, mostly Puerto Rican, live in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn(locally known as Los Sures), one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. In Los Sures, painted sidewalk memorials attest to gang violence, but hopes and dreams persist. Through the stories of five residents, filmmaker Echeverria offers a cross-section of this beleaguered community.


TITLE: SURVIVING COLUMBUS: THE STORY OF THE PUEBLO PEOPLE [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Reyna, Diane.
IMPRINT: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Home Video [distributor], c1992.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3147
Summary: The story of the European conquest as viewed by America's Pueblo people - told in their voices and seen through their eyes. The rich legacy of the Pueblo people, and their 450 year struggle to preserve their culture is revealed.


TITLE: SWEET SUGAR RAGE [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Ford Smith, Honor.
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : Third World Newsreel, [1993?]
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (42 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3319
Summary: The Sistren Theatre Collective is an independent popular theatre company which has developed since 1977 from the initiative of working-class women in Jamaica. Using drama workshops and original plays the group works at advancing awareness on questions affecting women, particularly Caribbean women. In this film the group concerns itself with women sugar cane workers in and around "New Sugar Town," Clarendon, Jamaica. After interviewing the women in the fields, the group analyses its findings on conditions in the sugar belt and the scenario for a play emerges.


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TITLE: TAKING AIM
AUTHOR: Frota, Monica
IMPRINT: Monica Frota, 1985
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS
Call Number: VCA 3366
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TITLE: TALK AND MORE TALK [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Hall, Tony.
IMPRINT: Worthing, Barbados (West Indies) : Crosreed Productions [distributor] ; c1991.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2777
Summary: Much of Caribbean culture is oral if not aural. This program looks at oral "literature" in the region and features many of the Caribbean's best oral performers and "composers".


TITLE: EL TANGO ES UNA HISTORIA (The Tango is also a history) [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Rios, Humberto.
IMPRINT: [New York] : First Run/Icarus Films, [1982?]
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3417
Summary: Examines the tango as an embodiment of the character of the Argentine people and as a reflection of Argentina's history. Traces the origin of the tango in the melding of indigenous gaucho music and the music of Argentina's European and African immigrants in the 19th century and demonstrates how tango lyrics have always been used to express popular views on political and social issues. Includes interviews with and performances by noted tango musicians Astor Piazzola and Osvaldo Pugliese.


TITLE: TERENCE TURNER
PHYSICAL FEATURES: DOCUMENTARY 29 MIN. 1992
Call Number: VCA 6781
Summary: Anthropologist Terence Turner shows the environmental problems affecting the livelihood of the Kaiapo tribe, and their use of media to mobilize public opinion.


TITLE: THIS IS NOT YOUR LIFE
AUTHOR: Jorge Furtado
IMPRINT: First Run/ Icarus Films 1993
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocasette (15min.) Color/ 1991
Call Number: VCA 4034
Summary: In THIS IS NOT YOUR LIFE Jorge Furtado randomly chooses a Brazilian woman, Noeli Cavalheiro, and lets her tell the world her story. Noeli is not extraordinary. Raised by godparents after her father's death, she raided neighbor's tangerine orchards and played at giving birth with her girlfriends. She had boyfriends and then married a black man, displeasing those around her. Noeli could be just another demographic statistic, but Furtado's point is that numbers have no name, people have a name. Everyone has. For viewers who might find this troubling, Furtado assures them that there is no need to worry- this is not your life.


TITLE: THIS OTHER HAITI
AUTHOR: David Korb
IMPRINT: NY,NY: Cine soleil, c1993
Call Number: VCA 4238

THOSE WHO MADE OUR CINEMA SERIES


TITLE 1: TRILOGIA DE LA REVOLUCION

This videocassette includes: LA MUJER DEL PUERTO, EL MELODRAMA FAMILIAR and REDES. See summaries below.
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  • TRILOGIA DE LA REVOLUCION/Trilogy of Revolution:
    Fernando de Fuentes, outstanding cinematography director, one of the first to use the thematic of the Mexican revolution in the movies, produces his films "Prisoner Number Thirteen", "Comrade Mendoza" and "Off We Go With Pancho Villa" In the thirties. This program makes a brief showing of his work.
  • LA MUJER DEL PUERTO/The woman at the dock:
    Movie produced in 1933 by the director Arcady Boytler, Russian living in Mexico, who incursions in a topic prohibitted by Mexican society: prostitution. Review program in which the fundamental role this film plays in Mexican cinematography is analyzed.
  • EL MELODRAMA FAMILIAR/Family melodrama:
    On Mother's Day, 1935 the film "Dear Mother" is shown for the first time, the film is directed by Juan Orol, opening the way to familiar melodrama in Mexican cinematography. Fernando de Fuentes would contribute to this kind of film with the movies "Women Order" and the "Dressel Family". This program offers a sample of the movies of this time.
  • REDES/Nets:
    In 1933 one of Mexican classic movies is filmed, under the direction of Fred Zimmerman and Emilio Gomez Muriel, the theme of "Nets" is the confrontation of a group of Mexican fishermen against the monopolist that harasses the region.
TITLE 2: ALLA EN EL RANCHO GRANDE
This videocassette includes:DOS MONJES, UNA DECADA EN RETROSPECTIVA and DOS DEBUTS AFORTUNADOS. See summaries below.
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  • ALLA EN EL RANCHO GRANDE/Over at the big ranch:
    The initiation of country melodrama is defined by the work of Fernando de Fuentes, who obtains with this film the Photography Prize of Venice's Festival, first international prize to Mexican cinematography.
  • DOS MONJES/Two monks:
    Juan Bustillo Oro is one of the main star makers in Mexican cinematography; "Two Monks" is the movie that consecrates him. The program presents interviews with Gabriel Figueroa, Fernando de Fuentes, Joselito Rodriguez and Delia Magana, characters of Mexican cinematographic that narrate their experiences around Bustillo Oro.
  • UNA DECADA EN RETROSPECTIVA A decade in retrospective:
    Trip through Mexican cinematographic production of the thirties, seen from an analytical perspective: "The Woman at the Dock:", "Santa", "Nets", "Janitzio" and "Off We Go With Pancho Villa".
  • DOS DEBUTS AFORTUNADOS/Two fortunate debuts:
    Retrospective of the cinematographic work of Julio Bracho and Emilio "the Indian" Fernandez: movies that go beyond frontiers with nostalgic topics of Porfirian remembrances, that are a sample of the way of living of the country men at this time.


TITLE: TODOS SANTOS CUCHUMATAN [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Carrescia, Olivia Lucia.
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, c1982.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 43 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2329
Summary: Guatemala is a divided society. It is run by and for the Ladino Guatemalans who make up 45% of the population. The Ladinos are of mixed European and Indian ancestry. They speak Spanish and follow the customs and traditions of Western culture. The other 55% of Guatemala's people are the 3 1/2 million pure-blooded Indians who until recently carried on their traditional way of life in silence and isolation in mountain villages. This film is about life in one such Indian village, Todos Santos Cuchumatan. Between 1980 and 1982 these highland Indians became increasingly involved in the political and social turmoil in Guatemala, and in 1981 hundreds of Mam Indians from Todos Santos and nearby communities were executed, reportedly by army and security forces who suspected them of aiding the right or the left.


TITLE: TODOS SANTOS: THE SURVIVORS [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Carrescia, Olivia Lucia.
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films [distributor], c1989.
PHYSICAL FEATURES:1 videocassette (58 min.):sd.,col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2328
Summary: Documents the impact of civil war, guerrilla warfare, and government reprisal on the Mam Indian village of Todos Santos Cuchumatan, in the Guatemalan highlands, since 1979. Shows agricultural, economic, social, psychological, and theological effects on the villagers. Sequel to Todos Santos Cuchumatan.


TITLE: TODOS SOMOS MARCOS / We Are All Marcos
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PHYSICAL FEATURES: DOCUMENTARY WITH 47 MIN. 1995 with english subtitles
Call Number: VCA 6732
Summary: An excellent introduction to the EZLN uprising, focusing on the period from President Erneso Zedillo's inaguration on December 1, 1994, through the collapse of the Mexican economy later in December. Also featured are the fast of Bishop Ruiz and the Mexican army invasion of Chiapas on February 9, 1995.


TITLE: THE TOURED: THE OTHER SIDE OF TOURISM IN BARBADOS
AUTHOR:Julie Pritchard Wright
IMPRINT: Univ. Of Calif. Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, c1991
Call Number: VCA 5325
Summary: Examines the realities of making a living in a tourist economy, deling with stereotypical "ugly Americans," witnessing one's traditional culture change under the impact of foreign visitors, and absorbing unceasing fovernment exhotations to "make a friend of Barbados today.


TITLE: THE TRAIL NORTH
AUTHOR: Thomas Karlo
IMPRINT: Cinema Guild, 1983, 28 min.
Call Number: VCA 5851
Summary: Follows anthropologist Robert Alvarez and his 10-year-old son Luis as they recreate the journey which their family's ancestors made in coming north from Mexico several generations ago.


TITLE: TRANSNATIONAL FIESTA
AUTHOR: Martinez, Wilton
IMPRINT: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA EXTENSION. 1993.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS VIDEOCASSETTE.
Call Number: VCA 6204
Summary: Each July, a festival honoring the Virgin of Carmen takes place in Cabanaconde, a peasant community in the Southern Peruvian Andes. During the festival, the population doubles as former villagers living in far-flung lands return to their mountain home. Cabanaconde's joyous fiesta forms the centerpiece of this video that examines the multicultural and transnational experiences of Peruvian immigrants living in Washington, D.C. Although the U.S. provides the Peruvian exiles with employment and educational opportunities denied them because of racism and strife in their troubled homeland, the immigrants rue America's materialism and lack of family cohesiveness.


TITLE: TRILOGY OF THE REVOLUTION
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PHYSICAL FEATURES: documentary 27 min.
Call Number: ON ORDER
Summary: The works of the Fernando de Fuentes who made the three classic 1930 films about the Mexican revoluton.


TITLE: TRINKETS & BEADS
AUTHOR: Christopher Walker
IMPRINT: New York : Faction Films : First Run/Icarus Films (distributor), 1996
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (53 min.)
Call Number: VCA 7370
Summary: After twenty years of devastating pollution by oil companies in the Amazon basin of Ecuador, a new kinds of oil company - Dallas based MAXUS - promises to be the first company which will protect the rainforest and respect the people who live there. TRINKETS &BEADS tells the story of how MAXUS set out to convince the Huaorani - known as the fiercest tribe in the Amazon - to allow drilling on their land. It is a story which starts in 1957 with the Huaorani massacre of five American missionaries, moving through the evangelization of part of the tribe by Rachel Saint, pollution of Huaorani lands by Texaco and Shell and manipulation and buying off of Huaorani leaders by MAXUS. Now the Huaorani leader, Moi, is trying to unite the tribe to force MAXUS off their lands. "It's not just about exploiting oil," says Moi, "it's about who controls the rainforest...it's everyone's concern because this is the heart of the world." The story of how the Huaorani are attempting to survive in the Petroleum Age on their own terms, to outwit and outfight the forces of change, exposes one of the best-hidden consequences of our relentless drive to "develop" the world. Filmed over two years, TRINKETS & BEADS reveals the funny, heartbreaking and thrilling story of the battle waged by a small band of Amazonian warriors to preserve their way of life.


TITLE: TUPAMAROS
AUTHOR: Heide Specogna and Rainer Hoffmann
IMPRINT: New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 1996
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (95 min.)
Call Number: VCA 7894
Summary: In 1963, a group of young men raided the Swiss Gun Club in Uruguay. This armed actin signaled the birth of Latin America's most famous urban guerrilla group, the Tupamaros. Their military successes and their popular Robin Hood-type actions made them well-known no only across the continent, but throughout the world as well, seving as a role model for European urban guerrillas. The early 1970s brought division and crisis, and during the military dicttorship, the group barely survived prison and torture. But today, the Tupamaros is one of the few Latin American resistance movements which has made the transition from an outlawed guerilla organization into a legal political force. Now for the first time, in TUPAMAROS, current and former leaders of the MLN-Tupamaros tell the 35 year story of their movement in front of a camera.


TITLE: TWO FORTUNATE DEBUTS
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PHYSICAL FEATURES: documentary 27 min.
Call Number: ON ORDER
Summary: History of film's Mundiales, the national company that produced most of Mexico's films including the work of Julio Bracho and Emilio "Indio" Fernandez.


TITLE: TWO WORLDS OF ANGELITA (Los dos mundos de Angelita)
AUTHOR: JANE MORRISON
IMPRINT: FIRST RUN/ICARUS FILMS 1982
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (72 min.)
Call Number: VCA 3001
Summary: Told from the perspective of nine year old Angelita, the film follows a young Puerto Rican family's journey from a small town on the island to New York City's lower East side. As the family attempts to maintain their cultural identity, they are confronted by a series of unexpected conflicts. THE TWO WORLDS OF ANGELITA is a sensitive drama that conveys a young girl's reactions to her new home while it offers an illuminating glimpse of the hardships and conflicts that all new immigrants face.


TITLE: TXAI MACEDO [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Machado, Marcia and Tal Danai
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (50 min.)
Call Number: VCA 3014
Summary: Deep under the lush green foliage of Brazil's Amazon Rain Forest, Antonio Macedo leads an alliance of Indian and White rubber tappers in a flight against oppressive Rubber Barrons, land owners, drug lords, and the other corrupt legal system which protects them. TXAI Macedo reveals the exploitation encountered by inhabitants of the Alto Jurua Reserve in the State of Acre, and the steps Macedo has taken to defend these people's rights in the dwindling rainforest.


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TITLE: THE UNCOMPROMISING REVOLUTION [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Castro, Fidel, 1927-
IMPRINT: Washington, D.C. : Institute for Policy Studies, 1988.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca 78 min.): sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 1684
Summary: This documentary presents a candid and on-the-whole positive overview of Communist Cuba thirty years after its revolution of 1959. Castro himself is seen traveling around the country inspecting development projects and encouraging working people and listening to their complaints. A variety of citizens including women and intellectuals share their views of a social and economic life in Cuba before and after the revolution. Accusations of civil rights abuses, especially those against prisoners and homosexuals are countered. A capsule history of Cuba since its independence from Spain as well as a history of its relations with the United States both before and after the revolution is presented. Includes clips of current interviews and speeches of Castro as well as clips of past interviews and speeches, with some biographical material of exceptional interest.


TITLE: UNFINISHED DIARY
AUTHOR: Mallet, Marilu
IMPRINT: NEW YORK. WOMEN MAKE MOVIES. 1986.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: VHS VIDEOCASSETTE (55 MINUTES).
Call Number: VCA 4447
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TITLE: :O VELHO: A HISTORIA DE LUIZ CARLOS PRESTES (THE COMRADE: THE LIFE OF LUIZ CARLOS PRESTES)
AUTHOR: Toni Venturi
IMPRINT: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (105 min.)
Call Number: VCA 7896
Summary: The end of the cold war and military dictatorship in Brazil permitted the realization of this documentary about one of the most persecuted figures in 20th Century Latin American history: Luiz Carlos Prestes, the "Knight of Hope" (1898-1990). THE COMRADE is the story of a myth, of a man who became a legend, of a man who embodied a cause. Controversial leader of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) for over 35 years, Prestes believed in ideals which today seem buried under the Berlin Wall. The film coverse seventy years of Brazil's contemporary history, of which Presetes was one of the principal protagonists: the epic 15,500 mil march led by rebel lieutenants in the 20's; Prestes' dramatic romance with the German Jew and Cominterna gent Olga Benario during the disastrous communist revolution of 1935; the military coup; the armed struggle and the fierce political repression between 1964 and 1974. A web of statements by journalists, family-members, former PCB activists and historians, interwoven with rare historical footage, forms the first film biography of Prestes, a stubborn Don Quixote who throughout his life pursued a dream of a better world.


TITLE: LOS VENDIDOS
AUTHOR: Luis Valdes and George Paul
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Call Number: VCA 2830
Summary: Los Venididos ( The Sellouts) is set in the showroom of Honest Sancho, a salesman intent on satisfying the urgent need of Mrs. Jiminez, an assimilated Chicana, who requires a token Chicano for the governor's collection of used Mexicans: the lethargic peon, the migrant family farm laborer special, an urban streamlined, low riding survival model, and a 1944 East LA zoot suiter. Unimpressed, Mrs. Jiminez demands something more traditional, and is delighted when Sancho emerges from the storeroom with naugahyde color. In the skit's subversive ending, the stereotypes discard their socially manufactured guises and confiscate the money earned by their salesman.


TITLE: VENEZUELA: FEBRUARY 27TH
AUTHOR: LILIANE BLASER
PHYSICAL FEATURES: DOCUMENTARY 28 MIN.
Call Number: VCA 6744
Summary: The film reports on the riots that took place in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb.27th-28th, 1989, shortly after the re-election of President Carlos Andres Perez, when he imposed international monetary fund inspired economic austerity reforms. A spontaneous popular uprising ensued. Massive looting by the people from marginalized sectors erupted throughout Venezuela. Curfews were imposed, civil rights suspended and an offical figure of 300 dead was announced after the uprising was repressed. Documentary footage shows scenes from the riots as well as interviews from the victims, their relatives, and scholars. In addition, the video provides some statistical information on poverty in Venezuela. The director's aim is to provide an alternative reading of this event to confront thr censorship imposed by the government, which did not allow the public to be informed about the true dimensions of the violence.


TITLE: VENTRE LIVRE (LIBERATION)
AUTHOR: Ana Luiza Azevedo
IMPRINT: New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 1995
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION :1 videocassette (46 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 9079
Summary: Discusses sterilization and abortion as the primary choices for birth control by women in Brazil.


TITLE: VISIONARIES [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Hall, Tony.
IMPRINT: Worthing, Barbados (West Indies) : Crossbreed Productions [distributor]
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2781
SERIES Caribbean eye ; [program 10]
Summary: This production looks at some visual artists who work on a large scale : intuitive sculptor and painter Philip Moore of Guyana, sculptor Alvin Mariott of Jamaica, and artist Peter Minshall of Trinidad.


TITLE: VOICES OF THE ORISHAS
Call Number: VCA 5384
Summary: Ethnographic documentary demonstrates the survival and strength of the African cultural and religious heritage of Yoruba in the contemporary life of Caribbean African-Hispanics. Filmed in Havana among Afro-Cubans who practice Santeria the video documents an important Guemilere, a ritual ceremony featuring danding, singing, praying and drum beating, and in which the pantheon of 22 deities or Orishas, of the Yoruba religion are invoked. The ceremony re-creates a seminal Yoruba myth.


TITLE: THE VOODOO DANCE: LA RONDE DE VODU, EN HOMMAGE AU PEUPLE HAITIEN [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Haas, Elsie.
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : Third World Newsreel, c1990.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 3321
Summary: Documents the significant role of Voodoo in Haitian culture from the perspectives of Voodoo priests, government officials, historians, and politicians.


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TITLE: THE WAR IN CHIAPAS
Call Number: VCA 6750
Chiapas: The fight for Land and Liberty


TITLE: WE ARE ALL MARCOS / Todos Somos Marcos
AUTHOR:
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PHYSICAL FEATURES: DOCUMENTARY WITH 47 MIN. 1995 with english subtitles
Call Number: VCA 6732
Summary: An excellent introduction to the EZLN uprising, focusing on the period from President Erneso Zedillo's inaguration on December 1, 1994, through the collapse of the Mexican economy later in December. Also featured are the fast of Bishop Ruiz and the Mexican army invasion of Chiapas on February 9, 1995.


TITLE: WAITING FOR FIDEL [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Rubbo, Michael.
IMPRINT: [Montreal] : The Board, [1986?], c1974.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 724
Summary: Funded by Canadian millionaire Geoff Stirling, and with a personal invitation from Fidel Castro, former Premier of Newfoundland Joseph R. Smallwood makes a trip to Cuba hoping to film a lengthy interview with Castro himself. The aims of the Canadian film crew aren't fully realized, but during their wait for Fidel to appear they capture a fascinating slice of life in contemporary Communist Cuba.


TITLE: WHITE GOLD
IMPRINT: New York : First Run Icarus Films, 1986
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (26 min.)
Call Number: VCA 4677
Summary: In the 1530s, Portuguese settlers in Brazil began planting sugar cane using native labor, and later, slaves from Africa. By 1620, the area around Recife in northeaster Brazil was producing more raw sugar than all the rest of the world. WHITE GOLD tells of the initial rise of sugar and slavery, first in Brazil and later in the Caribbean.


TITLE: WHOLES
AUTHOR: Antonio S. Cecilio Neto
IMPRINT: New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, 1991
PHSYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (10 min.)
Call Number: VCA 4037
Summary: A humorous and scathing satire in the style of ISLE OF FLOWERS, WHOLES considers the social ills plaguing Sao Paulo, Brazil, the "sixth or maybe seventh" largest city in the world, through the metaphor of potholes, which may or may not be a problem, in fact, may or may not exist, depending on who you ask, and therefore may or may not need attention.


TITLE: WILBERT, STREET KID IN NICARAGUA
AUTHOR: Bent Erik Kroyer
IMPRINT: New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 1995
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (16 min.)
Call Number: VCA 8108
Summary: Fourteen year old Wilbert has lived on the streets for seven years. He is quite familiar with the mental and physical pain that street kids all over the world have to live with. When he was born, he had a family, but his father left his mother for another woman. Wilbert's mother had to work as a prostitute to support the family, but she died of cancer when he was only 7 years old. Wilbert "lives" in Leon, the second largest city in Nicaragua. And he is not alone. In Nicaragua it is estimated that 10,000 children live on the streets. Half of Nicaragua's population of 4.5 million are under the age of 16 and apporximately 600,000 children are in immediate need of help in the form of food, medical assistance, and education.


TITLE: WINDS OF MEMORY
AUTHOR: FELIX ZURITA
IMPRINT: FIRST RUN/ ICARUS FILM 1992
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (52 min. )
Call Number: VCA 3013
Summary: Filmed over three years, Winds Of Memory reveals Mayan life and culture in Guatemala today, five centuries after the discovery of America. The Tzutuhil Indians of Santiago Atitlan, a lakeshore village among volcanoes, seek to regain their lost world. Over run by tourists by day, haunted by death squads at night, the natives reveal the disjunction of their current lives: they exorcise death by exposing mass graves practice a religion where ancient gods reappear as Christian saints, and daily suffer the racism and repression shown by the descendants of the conquerors. As natives defy their repressors in order to practice Mayan rites, interviews with General Benedito Lucas Garcia, former Commander in chief of the army, and the Bishop of Santa Cruz de Quiche reveal the harsh repercussions of Columbus' voyage which are stil felt by Mayans today.


TITLE: WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING HAPPY
Call Number: VCA 5575
Summary: Profiles the Workers Party in Brazil, the largest left-wing political party in the world today, and the most important political opposition to emerge in Brazil since the formal return to democratic rule in 1985. Filmed during the 1994 elections, the video features interviews with Lula, PT President, Benedita da Silva, Brazil's first black female senator, Paulo freire, revolutionary educator and philosopher, Augusto Boal, creator of the Theatre of the Oppressed, and many other PT members and congressional representatives.


TITLE: WITNESS TO WAR
AUTHOR: DEBORAH SHAFFER AND DAVID GOODMAN
IMPRINT: FIRST RUN/ ICARUS FILM 1986
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette ( 30 min.) Color/ 1985
Call Number: VCA 1623
Summary: Witness To War is the Academy Award winning story of Dr. Charlie Clements who, as a pilot in Vietnam, seemed headed for a distinguished Air Force career until he refused further combat missions. Stripped of his military identity, Clements dedicated his life to non-violence and healing, ultimately to find himself tending wounded behind rebel lines in El Salvador.


TITLE: WOMEN IN ACTION [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Hall, Tony.
IMPRINT: Worthing, Barbados (West Indies) : Crossbread Productions [distributor] c1991.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2779
SERIES Caribbean eye ; [program 8]
Summary: Women have always been prime movers in the "informal economy" of the region. This program looks in at some projects centered on women and work in Dominica, Jamaica and Guyana. This show is co-hosted by Vincentian Earlene Home--mother, farmer and Secretary of the St. Vincent Farmers Union--and follows her through a busy day.


TITLE: WOMEN OF EL PLANETA
AUTHOR: María Barea
IMPRINT: Women Make Movies, 1995
Call Number: VCA 4226

TITLE: WORK IN PROGRESS
Author: Luis Valdovino
Imprint: Third World Newsreel, 1990
Call Number: VCA 4351


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TITLE: YA BASTA! LE CRI DES SANS VISAGE (YA BASTA! THE BATTLE CRY OF THE FACELESS)
AUTHOR: Thierry Zeno
IMPRINT: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 1997
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (50 min.)
Call Number: VCA 7913
Summary: In Mexico on January 1, 1994, Indians of Mayan origin staged an armed take-over of several Chiapas municipalities. But the Zapatista Army of National Liberation did not wish to seize power; rather it demanded land, work, housing, education, healthcare, food, justice, independence, freedom and democracy. The Indians' spokesman and head of military operations, Sub-commander Marcos, is not an Indian. He has been able to rally public opinion on the Indians' tragic living conditions. Now a war of words has replaced the armed struggle. The Zapatista movement's cause echoes worldwide but the lives of the Indians today in the mountains and the jungles of Chiapas are no less precarious than before. In this documentary if is the Indian men and women who speak, re-situating their struggle in its human, cultural and historical context.


TITLE: YANKI NO! [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Drew, Robert (Co-produced by Time, Inc. and ABC-TV)
IMPRINT: Los Angeles, Calif. : Direct Cinema LTD., c1960.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 1440
Summary: This "film editorial" reviews U.S. relations with Latin America in general and with Cuba and Venezuela in particular in the early 1960's. At a meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) in San Jose, Costa Rica, the U.S. uses its influence to expel Cuba from the meeting and sponsors the Declaration of San Jose, condemning Sino-Soviet intervention in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and the shipment of Soviet missiles to Cuba. Venezuelan foreign minister Arcaya sides with Cuba at the meeting and is subsequently removed from office by Venezuelan president Betancourt. This action spurs big anti-American protests in Caracas. The film then looks at the general dire poverty that prevails throughout Latin American and suggests that such poverty helps foster anti-American feeling in the region. Finally the film turns to Cuba, where we see people whose lives are being changed by Castro's regime, and also Castro addressing a protest rally of over one million people. The Declaration of Havana was made at this meeting, denouncing the Declaration of San Jose.


TITLE: YO, LA PEOR DE TODAS
Author: Maria Luisa Bemberg
Imprint: First Run/Icarus 1990
Call Number: VCA 5495
Summary: Drawn from Octavio Paz's book on Sor Juana, the film is a portrayal of 17th century Mexican writer Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, one of the Spanish language's greatest poets. In order to pursue her passion for writing, Juana enters the convent. There she deveops an intimate relationship with the vicereine, who inspires her poetry. But when the forces of the Inquisition invade the convent, the women have only each other to turn to.


TITLE: YO SOY [videorecording]
AUTHOR: Trevino, Jesus Salvador and Jose Luis Ruiz
IMPRINT: [New York, N.Y.] : Cinema Guild [distributor], 1985.
PHYSICAL FEATURES: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Call Number: VCA 2303
Summary: Many Mexican Americans, in the fields of business, education, labor and politics, tell and show how they have been active in today's society, responsible in dealing with some of its problems, while retaining their Chicano heritage and identity.


TITLE: YO SOY CHICANO
AUTHOR: Jesus Salvador Trevino
IMPRINT: New York: Cinema Guild 1992
PHYSICAL FEATURES:
CALL NUMBER: VCA 2751
SUMMARY: Music, art, interviews and sepia-toned historical ree-creations are interwoven to chart the Chicano experience from the pre-Columbian eon to the civil rights activities of the 1960's and the 1970's.


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