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Djali Alessandra Brown-Cepeda is a New York City-born-and-bred filmmaker, racial justice advocate and archivist. You may recognize Brown-Cepeda from her digital archive project Nuevayorkinos, which was born in 2019 out of a void in representation for Latinx people in New York City. Brown-Cepeda describes this project as her “homage to [...]

If the phrase "as above, so below" could conjure up an image, it would be the Magician tarot card — one hand raised to the sky, wielding a double-sided wand, the other pointing to the earth below him. He is a conduit between the spiritual and the physical realms — [...]

Back when Blumhouse Productions was the Little Indie Horror Studio That Could, their recipe for success was simple: release low-budget films that connect with audiences and consistently rake in absurd sums of money. But the siren song of big streamers like Hulu and Amazon has Blumhouse’s recent output feeling more [...]

Lauren Ridloff has three major obsessions in life, running, reading books, and art. That she is a deaf, Black Latina who cherishes culture and frequent runs was all Oscar winning director Chloé Zhao needed to know. Zhao, director and co-writer of “Eternals”, and Nate Moore, a producer on the movie, [...]

Tropical synth-pop duo Buscabulla moved back to their native Puerto Rico in 2018, amid an economic crisis, the grueling aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and ongoing political turmoil. But those were not deterrents for Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, the serendipitously connected couple that make Buscabulla’s hypnotic melodies and [...]