*Update: Un Trip wins The Godard Award-Best Social Commentary Film! Raúl r salinas and the Poetry of Liberation Documentary Film is part of this year’s Arthouse Festival! Starts tomorrow and runs a week. Big thanks to Giselle De La Rosa for asking us to be part of the last year of this great festival. Tickets $25…
Philly friends and family, we are honored to screen Un Trip online as part of the 12th Annual Philadelphia Latino Film Festival on July 2nd (Week 6)! This is exclusive streaming for audiences in Philly and Pennsylvania. For more info and tickets visit: https://www.phlaff.org/
“Hecho en Tejas” is a series of films produced in Texas. The films are eligible for a Jury Award and Audience Award presented in partnership with the Texas Film Commission (TFC) and the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI). To view the line up or purchase a ticket go here: https://cinelasamericas.org/events/hechoentejasshortscompetitionclaiff25 raúl r salinas…
Documentary Short in Post Production, Produced and Co-Directed by Laura Varela, Co-Director Anne Lewis. Produced by VoxFem Rebecca Flores: Under the South Texas Sun (56 min. Documentary) Rebecca Flores: Under the South Texas Sun (working title) is a documentary film that tells the story of a native daughter returning home to organize the most vulnerable…
American Sons, feature length documentary. Work in Progress. Release 2025 Producer. Years after a deadly deployment to Afghanistan, a brotherhood of Marines reunite over the loss of their friend and confront their past to heal from physical and emotional wounds. During his combat journey, Cpl. Jorge JV Villarreal used a personal video camera to document…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UN TRIP: RAÚL SALINAS AND THE POETRY OF LIBERATION (Documentary Short 25 Min. ) A film by Anne Lewis and Laura Varela LA LOMA Neighborhood of my youth, Demolished, erased forever from the universe. You live on, captive, in the lonely cellblocks of my mind. Un Trip through the Mind Jail, raúlrsalinas,…
Produced and Directed by Laura Varela for the Autism Treatment Center in San Antonio.
Originally posted on the Xica Media Page. The Alamo is a place of ancestral memory where native residents are descendants of the indigenous population that have inhabited San Antonio or Yanaguana for over 10,000 years. The rewriting of Texas history has been one in which the colonial settler narrative attempted to exclude their contribution and…
Altar for the Innocents: Memory and Resistance Main Plaza in front of San Fernando Cathedral November 2nd 2019. For donations please go to: www.paypal.me/varelafilm Monies raised will be used to pay my team and purchased Items we could not get donated. El Altar de los Inocentes: Memoria y Resistencia is a tribute for the living and the dead. …
Segundo de Febrero (Documentary Short) 11 minutes Directed by Laura Varela Laura Varela – Segundo de Febrero February 2nd is a unique Mexican American celebration commemorating the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the U.S.-Mexican War. The date is also considered to be the ‘birth’ of the Mexican American. It merges the commemoration…