Convocatoria de Casting — Casting Call — Una Chica Indigena de Oaxaca para Nueva Película –Un Rol Principal — Comparta, Por Favor (Please Share)
The emotional heart of our movie follows a young, Oaxacan Indigenous teenage girl skater named MONA. Could you please spread the word about our casting call? Please circulate widely, throughout the pueblos, please. We are focusing our search on one of the lead roles: MONA Character Description: MONA 12-15 years old, Indigenous Mexican or Central American […]
Oaxaca Screenwriting Workshop for Film + TV: We All Have a Story
Arrive Thursday, March 28 and depart Wednesday, April 3, 2024–Semana Santa Experience What makes a good story? And how do we translate that to a movie or television? We might say: That show has a good story line, or I love those characters (or not), or The plot is unbelievable (as in, either amazing or […]
Photography: Cartier-Bresson Exhibition in Mexico City
The Mexico City exhibition featuring 398 pieces by French photographer-filmmaker Henri Cartier-Bresson closes May 17, 2015 at Palacio Bellas Artes. Please don’t miss it. Considered the founder of photojournalism, this is the first major retrospective since his death in 2004. An hour is not long enough to absorb the emotional intensity of Cartier-Bresson’s work. […]
Oaxaca Day of the Dead Film in Production
Day of the Dead in Oaxaca is celebrated with energy, solemnity, respect, and joy. That’s why we focus on it with Day of the Dead Photography Expedition workshop. Still a few places open! A couple of weeks ago, University of Wisconsin-Madison textile and design associate professor Carolyn Smythe Kallenborn sent me an announcement of her […]
About Immigration, “The Girl” Movie Opens This Weekend, Filmed in Oaxaca
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez from Democracy Now interview independent film maker David Riker and award-winning Australian actress Abbie Cornish who made a movie about what it means to be involved in the human trafficking of undocumented immigrants who do America’s work. The Girl is an intimate story that reminds us that Mexicans and Central […]
Archives of American Art historic film footage from 1930’s Mexico: A rare delight
From the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art, here is rare and restored footage of 1930’s Mexico, filmed by expatriate artists Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo while they were living in Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico and visiting Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. Thanks to Patricia Thompson, a Oaxaca Cultural Navigator blog follower for bringing A rare delight: Mexican home […]
University of Wisconsin Hosts Oaxaca Weaver Tito Mendoza, October 7-12, 2011
News and Events: Oaxaca, Mexico weaver and artist Erasto “Tito” Mendoza will be in Madison and Whitewater, Wisconsin, October 7-12, 2011, to discuss and demonstrate tapestry weaving techniques. *** For weaver Erasto “Tito” Mendoza, weaving is more than a skill passed down through the generations of his Zapotec family. It is an art form that […]
A Tribute to Potter Dolores Porras, a Documentary Movie by Michael Peed
I want to tell you that Michael Peed has made a remarkable, endearing, engaging, and beautiful film about Dolores Porras and her pottery. Michael is the perfect person to have made this documentary because he is a potter himself. That is why the narrative is laced with terrific explanations of the pot-making process, how the […]
2011 Day of the Dead Photography Expedition, Oaxaca, Mexico
Saturday, October 29 – Friday, November 4, 2011. Bill Bamberger is your expedition leader. He teaches at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies. Travel with us to Oaxaca, Mexico where you will explore the magic and mystery of Day of the Dead through photography– […]