AMERICAN SONS A Powerful Documentary Exploring the Enduring Impact of War on U.S. Veterans. Fort Worth, TX – July 2025 – American Sons, a deeply moving documentary produced by Laura Varela and produced/directed by Andrew James Gonzales, will have its official Awards- qualifying theatrical run at the Texas Movie Bistro theater from August 8 –…
The highly anticipated documentary American Sons, Produced by Laura Varela and Directed/Produced by Andrew James Gonzales, will make its world premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival. As an official SXSW selection, this powerful film offers a gripping, deeply personal exploration of war’s lasting impact on U.S. veterans and their loved ones. American…
Presented by Slab Cinema Arthouse at Slab Cinema Arthouse, 134 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78210 Free and Open to the Public Please join us for an evening of film, poetry, and an intimate conversation with award-winning filmmaker Laura Varela and renowned Queer Xicanx Interdisciplinary Artist David Zamora Casas. Slab Cinema presents this Xicanx Month special…
The Bayou City Policing History Harvest Day. The rescheduled date is June 1st, 10 am to 2 pm. Scanning and Digitization of Artifacts and Collecting Oral Histories: 10 am to 1 pm Film followed by Q&A- Un Trip: raúlrsalinas and The Poetry of Liberation at 1 pm. Anne Lewis and Laura Varela will be in…
Hello, Houston friends and family: You are invited to share your stories at the Bayou City Policing—History Harvest Day at the Leonel J. Castillo Community Center on May 18, 2024, from 1 to 4 p.m. In partnership with the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, the Collective of Progressive Educators (COPE), and Mario A. Salinas…
You are invited to the screening of UN TRIP: RAÚLRSALINAS AND THE POETRY OF LIBERATION, in conversation with co-director/producer Laura Varela on Friday, April 19, 2024, 7:00pm at the EastSide Cultural Center in Oakland. Presented by the EastSide Arts Alliance, “Un trip: raúlrsalinas and the poetry of liberation” is a 25-minute split-screen jazz and liberation documentary based on the poem “Un…
UN TRIP raúlrsalinas & the Poetry of Liberation Screening at St. Edward’s University Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 6:30-7:30 pm John Williams Brooks South Carter Auditorium Rm 186 A Film by Award-winning filmmakers Anne Lewis & Laura Varela Up Trip documents the transformative journey of raúlrsalinas, Xicanindo beat poet and beloved maestro. The film is…
San Diego Latino Film Festival presents: UN TRIP: RAULRSALINAS AND THE POETRY OF LIBERATION – a film by Anne Lewis and Laura Varela – Un Trip is a split-screen jazz and liberation documentary based on “Un Trip through the Mind Jail,” written in 1969 by beloved Xicanindio poet raúlrsalinas while he was incarcerated at…
Excited to announce that Un Trip, raulrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation will be a part of the 31st Anniversary of the San Diego Latino Film Festival! As part of “Arte Chicano” Shorts Film Program the film screens on 3/17 at 4:30 pm at AMC Mission Valley 20 (Q&A with Anne and Laura) and on…
Un Trip will be screening in San Marcos with our friends at the Lost River Film Fest on October 14th at 7 pm. For a 7th year, Lost River Film Fest returns to Hays County from Oct 12-15, 2023 with a robust offering of new, independent cinema – culled from across the planet –WITH ADJACENT EVENTS THROUGHOUT…