By Natalia Muñoz

La ponceña Lillian Torres comparte su perspectiva sobre el impacto de Huracán María, y la corrupción y mal manejo de ayuda.By Natalia Muñoz

Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Whose Streets,” about the street responses to the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson MO in 2014. Trailer here: whosestreets.comBy Natalia Muñoz

Hurricane Corruption joined forces with Hurricane María in Puerto Rico. The manmade storm began in the 1990s, when US Attorney for Puerto Rico Guillermo Gil summarized the jaw-dropping theft of untold millions of public dollars by the Gov. Rosselló Administration this way: “Corruption has a name and it’s called the New Progressive Party.” The debt …

Vice President Pence was scheduled to go to Puerto Rico as well. As if Hurricane María and Trump weren’t already horrible. As if the pro-statehood party hadn't already done catastrophic damage to Puerto Rico with decades-old corruption that weakened the electric power grid.By Natalia Muñoz

Ariadna Goenaga reseña a “Detriot”, dirigida por Kathryn Bigelow, sobre los disturbios raciales hace 50 años. ¿Qué ha cambiado?By Natalia Muñoz

A heart divided by two. A Guatemalan mother and daughter share their experiences about going back for the first time (daughter, 19 years old, born in USA) and mother (who had not been back since she was an adolescent more than 20 years ago). In English and en español.By Natalia Muñoz

Filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography ” a documentary by Errol Morris. Trailer here: http://bsidefilm.comBy Natalia Muñoz

Laura Lovett, U.S. women’s history professor at UMass, and Maurianne Adams, retired social justice professor at UMass, and journalist Marla Goldberg (amherstspectator.com) on the push to create a new historic district in Amherst based the people who lived in the North Prospect-Lincoln-Sunset area.By Natalia Muñoz

Filmmaker Larry Hott recommends a podcast called “S-Town”.Link here: stownpodcast.org. Listening to it, you will see a magnificent film created by your imagination based the true story of an Alabama man who thinks he knows who committed a murder.By Natalia Muñoz

la curadora Waleska Santiago comparte su perspectiva sobre la pintura “Ataúd abierto”, por la pintora blanca Dana Shutz, de Emmett Till, un muchacho negro de 14 años que fue golpeado y ahorcado en 1955 por racistas en Mississippi.By Natalia Muñoz

Filmmaker Larry Hott on filmmaking in the age of Trump, Part 2. It gets worse...By Natalia Muñoz

We check in with state Rep. José Tosado of Springfield on some of the projects he has been working on to benefit his community.By Natalia Muñoz

For a still mysterious reason, UMass-Boston was about to award the Chancellor’s Medal to Puerto Rico former Gov. Pedro Rosselló, whose administration is considered by historians and political observers as the most corrupt in the island’s history. Dozens of his administrators and Cabinet secretaries were imprisoned for stealing millions of dollars f…

Liz Roberts, CEO of Valley Venture Mentors, says the first step to developing your awesome idea is to get out of the house and come to the monthly meeting, held the second Wednesday of the month (this month it’s on May 10) at 5 pm on the first floor of Tower Square next to Champions Sports Bar. Whether you have a kernel of an idea or want to mentor…

Filmmaker Larry Hott and I talk with Diane Pearlman, executive director of the Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative. The BFMC brings together people who want to start making films and film industry veterans for workshops and networking events, promotes Western Massachusetts to moviemakers and wants to connect with you! On May 12 from 11:30 am to …

Emmy-award winning filmmaker Larry Hott reviews “Street Fight,” about Cory Booker’s 2002 successful 2002 Newark, NJ, mayoral campaign. A documentary film by Marshall Curry.Trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=u6EkpsYtrsELarry also reviews the documentary about deforestation activists “If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation.” Trailer here: yo…

It was bound to happen - Trump noticed Puerto Rico. Oh no. Puerto Rico is in the throes of a catastrophic economy triggered by 1990s Gov. Pedro Rosselló, whose son, Ricardo, is now the governor and who is managing the mess started by his father. It's not that #tricky thinks his father did wrong; he seems intent on trying to erase what his father di…

Ariadna Goenaga reseña la película 'Hell or High Water". Corto aquí: youtube.com/watch?v=JQoqsKoJVDwBy Natalia Muñoz

A moving story by Michael Garjian about his aunt Mabel, a pioneer in the aviation industry.By Natalia Muñoz

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott on independent filmmaking in the Age of Trump.By Natalia Muñoz

Ariadna Goenaga reseña “Stranger Things,” la serie de ciencia ficción presentada por Netflix. Viene la segunda temporada este año, y con razón, dice ella.By Natalia Muñoz

Gina Ayvazian leads the annual commemoration of Armenian Martyrs’ Day, when 1.5 million Armenians were systematically killed by the Turkish government starting in 1915, a genocide. All are welcome and asked to ear black at the event, which takes place April 24 at 5:30 pm at the garage behind Thornes Marketplace.…

Gricel Martínez Ocasio and Nicole Lashomb are the publisher and editor in chief, respectively, of The Rainbow Times, the largest LGBTQ newspaper in New England, now in its 10th year. Here is the link: http://www.therainbowtimesmass.com/By Natalia Muñoz

Filmmaker Bart Layton chronicles the tale of Frederic Bourdin, a con artist who seemingly tricked a Texas family into believing he was a relative who disappeared years earlier.By Natalia Muñoz

Here are conversations with Emmy-award winning filmmaker Larry Hott on documentaries.By Natalia Muñoz

Reseña de la serie "Narcos, por crítica de cine Ariadna GoenagaBy Natalia Muñoz

Deb Krivoy — co-Director of the Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival, now in its 12th year — and Lisa Newman, director of communications and visitor services, on the films showing through April 4 up and down I-91, join filmmaker Larry Hott for conversation on what’s coming up, and behind the scenes on putting together a film festival. More info here…

We have a conversation with Crystal Senter-Brown, featured in Redbook Magazine, Vibe Magazine and Essence Magazine and has been a performance poet and writer for most of her life, about her movie "The Rhythm in Blue," based on her novel of the same name, that is making the rounds in film festival this year.Born in Morristown, TN to a bass-playing B…

The 12th annual Pioneer Valley Film Festival presents award-winning films March 18 through April 4 with screenings, speakers and special events at 16 venues in Hampshire, Hampden and Berkshire counties in Western Massachusetts. Trailers and more info here: pvjff.org/By Natalia Muñoz

Larry Hott and the organizers on the 12th Annual Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival, presented by the Springfield Jewish Community Center, runs March 18 through April 4, 2017, screening 22 films in 9 cities and towns across Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties. More info here: http://pvjff.orgAlso, Estela López, an educator living in Hartford,…

The Museum of the Old Colony is a work of conceptual art conceived by Pablo Delano. The exhibit at the King Juan Carlos l of Spain Center at New York University, 53 Washington Square South, NYC, gathers still photographs and moving images of Puerto Rico that reveal the visual logics of colonialism. This repertoire of images and subjects form a visu…

Patricia Sandoval, professor of communications at Holyoke Community College, produced and directed the heart-filling and bursting multimedia event “Latinas con Pluma,” a Spanish-English bilingual performance of poems, plays and essays by famed and distinguished writers from Springfield-based Magdalena Gómez to Chicago-based Sandra Cisneros and belo…

We interviewed Charles Blatcher lll, chairman of the National Coalition of Black Veteran Organizations, about the very limited display of black veterans and their contributions to the country in times of war and peace and the Civil Rights Movement at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.We also speak with Sh…

Janine Fondon is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Communications at Bay Path University, and one of the conveners of the March 8 “On the Move Forum” that honors our collective intention to advance women -- from Seneca Falls to Houston for the 1977 Women's Conference and now Longmeadow, MA.Also, La historiadora y coordinadora de Arecibo es Color,…

Susan Sarandon famously said that if Trump won, the revolution would start sooner. What she did not know is that millions would suffer devastating harm. But she didn't care. For her, it was either Bernie or Trump.By Natalia Muñoz