The Center for Latin American Studies has a small film library
from which we can loan out videos to SDSU students and faculty.
The collection contains a mixture of feature films and educational
works dealing with Latin America. ITS and the Love Library also
have numerous films with Latin American Content. (This section is
a work in progress)
Film are listed alphabetically A-C, D-G, H-M, N-S, T-Z
The Take - In the wake of Argentina's 2001 spectacular economic collapse, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself in a ghost town of abondoned factories and mass unemployment. In The Take, director Avi Lewis and writer Naomi Klein combine the workers' stories with comments from factory owners, politicians, and judges, to form an examination of the macro-economic policies of globalization. The result is an exhilerating political thriller about people forging genuine alternatives to a brutal economic model; a story whose implications are universal.
This is What Democracy Looks Like - At the WTO protests in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw beyond the borders that divide us. We saw people come together across every kind of political and cultural difference and stand up in a way that we have not seen in this country for decades. We saw peaceful protests shut down one of the most powerful institutions in the world and we saw a system dazed and frightened by the sound of our voices. We left Seattle energized, believing that we had taken part in the birth of a new movement.
Three Dynamic Economies: Peru Road to Recovery - Despite political problems, rampant terrorism, and hyper-inflation, Peru is somehow managing to turn itself around economically. This program explores that about-face and Peru's newfound economic and social stability. Also discussed are the many challenges that remain, the most urgent of which is how the country can release all of its 25 million people from the grip of cyclical poverty.
Tierra Mexicana - Description Not Available
Unheard Voices - Description Not Available
US and Mexico: Neighbors - Description Not Available
US Policy in el Salvador p1 and 2 - Description Not Available
Waiting for the Messiah - Someone hits the wrong key in Hong
Kong and a bank in Buenos Aires goes under. In an increasingly globalized
world, a financial breakdown in the Far East instantly reverberates
in the Third World, and modern-day Argentina is no exception. Some
lose their savings, others their jobs. The film centers on the stories
of Ariel, a young Jew proud of his origins but suffering an identity
crisis; and of Santamaria, a bank employee whose dignity is at stake
after losing his job, his house, and his wife. Ariel wants to discover
the world, and Santamaria wants to get his back. 'Waiting for the
Messiah' is an urban tale about the relationships between people
who live in the small universes hidden within Buenos Aires
War on Nicaragua: Frontline 4-21-87 - Description Not Available
We are Guatemalans - Description Not Available
Welcome to Colombia - In Welcome to Colombia, filmmaker Catalina Villar travels across her country - through territory held by guerrillas, paramilitaries and government forces - during the course of Colombia's 2002 presidential election. Everywhere she finds people who are tired of the fighting and the blaming, and who simply want peace. Although Villar herself shows little sympathy for the guerrillas, she also offers a counterpoint to sensational television coverage and government propaganda that obscures the fact that the vast majority of the killings in the civil war are perpetrated, not by guerrillas, but by paramilitaries.
Where Teachers are Targets - Description Not Available
Without Fear of Being Happy - Description Not Available
Women of Latin America: To be a Mother in Latin America - This program discusses reproduction and motherhood in the hyper-patriarchal societies of Latin America. Women on different economic and social levels discuss such topics as working mothers, and how the extended family contributes to child-rearing; the sterilization movement; abortion; gay parenting; manipulation of women's reproductive rights by governments; and how access to medical services varies from country to country
Women in Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Journey, Development Under Fire - Description Not Available
A World of Ideas: Victims of Two Cultures Richard Rodriguez - Richard Rodriguez, a writer who in 1990 had just published his autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. He talks about his growing up in the American melting pot society. He denounces affirmative action and bilingual education, and advocates the melting pot ideal. He believes that children who use their "family language" in school will not be able to enter the public realm in an adequate way. According to Rodriguez, family and school should remain separate. He discusses the impact of language on life, and the use of language as a force of separation.
Zapatista - It is New Year's night 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. To the Mayan Indian communities in the Lacandon Jungle of Southeastern Mexico, NAFTA symbolizes the culmination of over 500 years of exploitation. That night, 2,000 Indian soldiers occupy several cities in the state of Chiapas and declare political and economic independence. They call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).
Last Update: 21-Oct-2008
