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…
Producer/Director Laura Varela
AS LONG AS I REMEMBER: AMERICAN VETERANOS examines the steep personal toll and enduring legacy of the Vietnam War on three artists from south Texas: visual artist Juan Farias, author Michael Rodriguez and actor/poet Eduardo Garza. Through the personal histories and experiences of these Chicano veterans, the film examines the role art plays in…