Please join the Chicano/Latino Studies Program in collaboration with The DOC LAB and The School of Journalism at Michigan State University for a conversation with filmmakers John Valadez, Carleen Hsu, and Alexandra Hidalgo on Latinx research, art, and storytelling.
The event will take place on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 from 12-1pm (EST).
To register for the event, click on the following link: http://bit.ly/msufilm
Featured Films
American Exile: Latinx cinema at the vanguard of change
Filmmakers John J. Valadez and Carleen L. Hsu will discuss their new feature documentary, American Exile, which will air nationally on PBS
on October 8, 2021. The film tells the story of two brothers who fought in Vietnam. Fifty years later they – like tens of thousands of other veterans – are being deported. Valadez, who is the Director of the MSU DOC LAB, and professor Hsu will use American Exile as a case study in how to use Latinx research, art, and storytelling to shape critical public discourse around race and what it means to be American.
Latina filmmakers Collaborating across continents: The making of a
family of stories
Alexandra Hidalgo, PhD, will screen scenes from her in-production feature documentary A Family of Stories about her search for her
father, who disappeared in the Venezuelan Amazon in 1983, and how that journey transformed her life. She will discuss her long-distance collaboration process with fellow Latina crewmembers who live in South America and Europe and how working with them has helped her creative vision evolve.