Cruz Quinal, "the mandolin king," lives near Cumana in a mountain valley surrounded by sugarcane fields. Perpetuating 16th century Spanish traditions of guitar-making, Cruz fashions such musical instruments as cuatros, marimba, escarpandola, and his own creation, a mandolin with two fretboards. He is an accomplished musician as well. In this moving portrait, Cruz compares himself to a decaying colonial church across the street: revered yet neglected, the village altar stands, paint peeling, under the open sky.
In this Concert he focuses on the star and most important defender of bachata, the Dominican singer and songwriter Romeo Santos, and his concert on September 21, 2019 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, which broke attendance record . Romeo took advantage of this event to bring together, for the first time live, all the legendary bachateros with whom he collaborated on his acclaimed album Utopia (2019), to the delight of the public who sang his favorite hits.
The San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards presents John Santos, musician and cultural activist, with the Helen Crocker Russell Award for making music that transcends cultural barriers and serves as a tool for social justice. As an educator, scholar, performer, and composer, he celebrates and promotes Latin music and understands that art has the power to inform and nurture.
It’s the final school year, and with it comes the long-awaited graduation trip to Uruguay, the last chance for everyone to be together before each one goes their own way. The story follows six teenage friends as they experience the first sparks of love and heartbreak, all while expressing a passion for music, tropical vibes, and Latin culture.
To some, Doña Cecilia is an invisible, elderly woman. For others, her presence validates their existence. This movie on children's civil rights shows how borders are transformed into bridges by the power of unconditional love and music.
The Fania All Stars perform for 44,000 fans at Yankee stadium in New York. Besides concert footage, there's also included a history of Salsa, and vintage film clips of Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in movies during the 1930's and 40's.
María Becerra - Estadio River Plate
This is a story set on the future Caribbean coast, which is almost uninhabitable due to pollution and climate change. Amidst the gloomy landscape of the new world order OHM, we find Ivy, our protagonist, who, after a heartbreaking breakup, is left in a very delicate emotional state.
When the construction of the Aswan High Dam threatened to destroy the Ancient Egyptian monuments of Nubia in the 1960s, archaeologists from around the world came together to save these precious pieces of history. One of those heroic researchers was Dr. Abraham Rossenvasser, a self-taught Egyptologist from a small, poverty-stricken Jewish colony in Argentina. While Rossenvasser’s expedition rescued thousands of historical treasures from imminent destruction, his story is not often told. In From Sudan to Argentina, Charlottesville-based filmmaker Ricardo Preve rescues the legacy of this forgotten figure, and ensures his deeply impactful work can be celebrated. Told largely through the eyes of Rossenvasser’s daughter, Dr. Elsa Rosenvasser Feher, this documentary shines a well-deserved spotlight on the remarkable efforts of a man who committed himself to preserving crucial parts of history for generations to come.
Supervolcan Yellowstone : Menace sur la planète ?
SKE48 Request Hour Setlist Best 30 2010 ~Kami-kyoku wa dore da?~ was SKE's first solo Request Hour concert. A voting ticket was included in Aozora Kataomoi's Regular Edition and all the songs from S1, S2, S3, KII1, KII2 and single songs including AKB's A-Sides from 10nen Zakura to Sakura no Shiori (Including Majisuka Rock'n'Roll) were available to vote. The Request Hour concert was held on July 31, 2010 at Nagoya International Convention Center, Century Hall.
Love Live! Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club OPENING LIVE EVENT ~Bloom the Dream~ (ラブライブ!蓮ノ空女学院スクールアイドルクラブ OPENING LIVE EVENT~Bloom the Dream~) is Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club's debut live concert event that took place at Pacifico Yokohama National Convention Hall in Yokohama, Kanagawa on June 4, 2023.
Documentary film that follows a group of Swedish engineers who build Sweden's first spacecraft.
The energetic 2022 performance of Florence + the Machine at Flow Festival, Helsinki, Finland — August 13th, 2022. Florence Welch delivers a phenomenal evening performance.
This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.
In October 2019, The Dammed took the stage at London’s Palladium for a very special, immersive musical and theatrical experience. A Night of A Thousand Vampires teams the band with the cast of The Circus of Horrors for an evening of shock, awe, and a fierce live rampage through their 40-year rich catalogue. A true event from showmen supreme, it was a historic night in the history of a storied band and a memorable evening for fans and band alike. It was also a fond farewell for drummer Pinch, his final gig with The Dammed after 20 years.
Award-winning investigative journalists and forensic engineers analyze never-before-seen evidence that indicates NASCAR legend Tony Stewart killed a competitor after accelerating his car and fishtailing it toward the defenseless man.
This last testimony of Robert Kramer (1939-1999) is a moving documentary with the independent American film director, in which he speaks of his political activism, his way of filmmaking, his relationship with Portugal and the revolutionary movements.
La divina cometa