¡Adelante Mujeres!
A film by the National Women's History Project, 1992, 30 min., Color
Spanning five centuries, this comprehensive video, produced by the National Women's History Project, focuses exclusively on the history of Mexican-Ame...

After the Earthquake
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1979, 23 min., BW
This dramatic story follows a young Nicaraguan immigrant, Irene, as she faces the challenges of life in the U.S. and re-evaluates her relationships wi...

All Water Has a Perfect Memory
A film by Natalia Almada, 2001, 19 min., Color/BW
ALL WATER HAS A PERFECT MEMORY is a poignant experimental documentary that explores the effects of tragedy and remembrance on a bi-cultural family. A...

An Island Surrounded by Water
A film by Maria Novaro, 1985, 25 min., Color
A beautiful and poetic account of a young girl's search for her mother, who left mysteriously to join a guerilla movement. The narrative combines her...

Ana Mendieta
A film by Kate Horsfield, Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz, and Branda Miller, 1987, 52 min., Color/BW
This beautiful video is a portrait of the life and work of Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta used her own body, the raw materials of n...

Brincando El Charco
A film by Frances Negrón-Muntaner, 1994, 55 min., Color/BW
Refreshingly sophisticated in both form and content, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO contemplates the notion of “identity” through the experiences of a Puerto Ric...

Chicana
A film by Sylvia Morales, 1979, 23 min., Color
CHICANA traces the history of Chicana and Mexican women from pre-Columbian times to the present. It covers women's role in Aztec society, their partic...

Columbus on Trial
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1993, 18 min., Color
Inspired by the controversy surrounding the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of America, Portillo has fashioned a fanciful versi...

CORPUS: A Home Movie for Selena
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1999, 47 min., Color
This classic rerelease from award-winning filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (Señorita Extraviada, Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo ) is a complex tri...

Daughters of War
A film by Maria Barea, 1998, 30 min., Color
How does a 17 year old mother and leader of a girl gang survive in a region where violence and abuse has become the norm? In DAUGHTERS OF WAR, Peruvia...

The Desert Is No Lady
A film by Shelley Williams in collaboration with Susan Palmer, 1995, 45 min., Color
With provocative imagery and spirited juxtapositions, THE DESERT IS NO LADY looks at the Southwest through the eyes of its leading contemporary women ...

The Devil Never Sleeps
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 1996, 82 min., Color
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (LAS MADRES: THE MOTHERS OF PLAZA DE MAYO) mines the complicated intersections of analysis and auto...

Escuela
A documentary by Hannah Weyer, 2002, 53 min., Color
There are over 800,000 students enrolled in migrant education programs in the United States and, of those, only 45-50% ever finish high school. ESCUEL...

Everyone Their Grain of Sand
A film by Beth Bird, 2005, 87 min., Color
This award-winning documentary reveals the struggles of the citizens of Maclovio Rojas in Tijuana, Mexico as they battle the state government’s attemp...

Home is Struggle
A film by Marta Bautis, 1991, 37 min., Color
Using interviews, photographs and theatrical vignettes, Home is Struggle explores the lives of women who have come to the United States from different...

La Boda
A film by Hannah Weyer, 2000, 53 min., Color
In an intimate portrait of migrant life along the U.S.-Mexican border, Hannah Weyer’s new film LA BODA delves into the challenges faced by a community...

Macho
A film by Lucinda Broadbent, 2000, 26 min., Color
In 1998, Managua, Nicaragua became host to one of the most publicized and controversial cases of sexual abuse to hit modern day Latin America. At the...

Maid in America
A film by Anayansi Prado, Produced by Kevin Leadingham, 2004, 57 min., Color
They clean other people’s homes and raise other families’ children—often leaving their own families behind. MAID IN AMERICA is an intimate look into t...

The Mother: Mitos Maternos
A film by Marta Bautis, 1994, 69 min., Color
This wry, self-reflective tape explores the mythical figure of the mother from multiple viewpoints-documentary and fiction, Spanish and English, theor...

Motherland
A film by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, 2006, 41 min., Color
How do we decide where is home? Feeling increasingly isolated in her adopted homeland, accomplished documentarian Dai Sil Kim-Gibson (SILENCE BROKEN: ...

Mujeria
A film by Teresa ‘Osa’ Hidalgo de la Riva, 1992, 20 min., Color
“A hip, lively tribute to the Olmeca culture of Mexico. Less well known than the Aztecs, the Olmeca people played an equally important role in Mexica...

Performing the Border
A film by Ursula Biemann, 1999, 42 min., Color
A video essay set in the Mexican-U.S. border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment j...

Sabor a Mi
A film by Claudia Morgado Escanilla, 1997, 20 min., Color
Claudia Morgado Escanilla's SABOR A MI is an erotic short drama about sensual yearnings, the guilty pleasures of watching, and the secret complicity o...

Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman
A film by Lourdes Portillo, 2001, 74 min., Color
SENORITA EXTRAVIADA, MISSING YOUNG WOMAN tells the haunting story of the more than 350 kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. Vi...

Susana
A film by Susana Muñoz, 1980, 25 min., BW
In this autobiographical portrait, Susana leaves her native Argentina to live her life outside the strictures of Latin American cultural and family pr...

Thunder in Guyana
A film by Suzanne Wasserman, 2003, 50 min., Color/BW
THUNDER IN GUYANA is the remarkable tale of Janet Rosenberg, a young woman from Chicago who married Guyanese activist Cheddi Jagan, and set off for th...

Troubled Harvest
A film by Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco, 1990, 30 min., Color
This award-winning documentary examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherr...

Unbound
A film by Claudia Morgado Escanilla, 1994, 19 min., Color
UNBOUND is a docudrama in which sixteen women of differing nationalities, races and ideologies free themselves from societal definitions, stereotypes-...

War Takes
A film by Adelaida Trujillo and Patricia Castaño, 2002, 78 min., Color
With conflicts raging on nearly every continent, war now regularly transcends the battlefield into everyday life—whether its increased security at air...

Women Organize!
A film by Joan E. Biren, Union Institute Ctr. for Women & Women and Organizing Documentation Project, 2000, 32 min., Color
WOMEN ORGANIZE! is an inspirational, half hour video that portrays women organizers across the U.S. who are involved in the global struggles for racia...

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