Icarus Films | Latin American Studies

4 Icarus Films at the American Anthropological Association conference

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:29:43 GMT

The 108th AAA annual meeting is taking place in Philadelphia from December 2 to 6. Four of our films will be presented:

For more information, please visit the AAA website here

Montaña de Luz

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:07:31 GMT

The children of the Montaña de Luz orphanage in Honduras are HIV positive, and a living testament to the beauty and innocence of childhood. This is a stirring portrait of a loving community.

Agustín's Newspaper

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:42:44 GMT

Journalism students at the University of Chile embark on an investigation of El Mercurio, the oldest newspaper in Chile.

The Inheritors

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:42:15 GMT

At early age children begin to work in the Mexican countryside. This is a portrait of theirs lives and their daily struggle for survival.

The World's Next Supermodel

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:41:48 GMT

Asia, Brazil or Western Europe - which will be the world's next economic superstar?

Lucanamarca

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:18:39 GMT

High in the Peruvian Andes, in the town of Lucanamarca, old wounds are re-opened when the Truth and Reconstruction Commission arrives to investigate a massacre from 20 years ago.

Oblivion

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:10:45 GMT

Heddy Honigmann's latest film focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing the contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis and corruption.

Rapayan

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:16:53 GMT

High in the Andes mountains of Peru, above a small village that scarcely seemed to notice, archaeologists have found the ruins of an indigenous settlement that predates the Incas.

Sacred Soil

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:22:58 GMT

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year in order to identify them, and return the remains to their families.

A Mayan Trilogy: Life, Death & Migration

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:19:58 GMT

Now on one DVD, Olivia Carrescia's three films on the Mayan Indians of Guatemala preserve a record, and provide an acute observation on how the indigenous culture has been affected by, yet survived, that country's tumultuous history.

Killer's Paradise

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:23:58 GMT

Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala. Yet law enforcement and government turn a blind eye.

Tracing Aleida

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:23:22 GMT

Thirty years after being separated when their parents "disappeared" during Mexico's "Dirty War" in the '70s, Aleida searches to uncover the truth, and to find her brother.