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La Otra Conquista on DVD Today

10:57 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Movies · 9 Comments

16 Oct 2007

This film was made before Apocalypto and tells about the clash of cultures that in part made the Mexican mestisaje we have today. I watched the film last night and today I will interview the director, Salvador Carrasco. Find out more about the film by visiting Union Station Media.

You Know What They Say About Sticks and Stones

1:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Internet|Movies|VivirLatino · 8 Comments

7 Jan 2007

Most people know that I’m not one to shy away from taking a controversial position and that I stick to my points of view firmly in spite of criticism, pero por favor at least get it correct. Recently, another Latino blogger pointed fingers at me, saying I was advocating bootlegging.I do not advocate bootlegging or any other sort of “illegal” activity. If one were to go back and read my posts regarding Mel Gibson’s Apocolypto, one will see that I was reporting on a phenomenon happening in Mexico where the film was available super cheap on the streets before even hitting the screens there, which is ironic on a number of levels. Second, what I did say is that I would be more inclined to give my hard earned cash to an immigrant on the street here in NYC than to Mel Gibson and Hollywood studios for producing what I still consider to be a racist production (because I don’t need someone, for example, to call me a spic to know racism when I see it).

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Apocalypto a 2 Dollar Film on Mexico Streets

11:41 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Movies · 4 Comments

19 Dec 2006

The movie hasn’t even hit the Mexican big screen, but Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is a big hit on the Mexican streets. For about 2 dollars you can get your own bootlegged copy of the film complete with people walking in front of the screen.

I know many people didn’t agree with my take on the movie but I might be tempted to pay $2 for a copy to review from the comfort of my bedroom, especially if I knew that mone y wasn’t going into Mel’s pockets.

Via / El Diario/La Prensa

Apocalypto Racist? No duh!

7 Dec 2006

Looking to Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, set to open on Friday, as a source of historical accuracy regarding Maya culture makes as much sense as looking to this book for information about the Aztecs. Call me a judgemental, oversensitive woman of color (really, it wouldn’t be the first time) but I don’t need to see the movie to have a bad gut reaction, you know what I’m talking about Latinos, that something here just ain’t right. I sure am not gonna drop $10 plus to prove myself right and at least one group of indigenous activists in Guatemala, where a large population of Maya still live agrees.

“Gibson replays, in glorious big budget Technicolor, an offensive and racist notion that Maya people were brutal to one another long before the arrival of Europeans and thus they deserved, in fact, needed, rescue,” said Ignacio Ochoa, director of the Nahual Foundation that promotes Mayan culture.

Mel Gibson gets Latino business award

11:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Movies · 1 Comment

3 Nov 2006

Yesterday, while a bunch of Latino musicians were being honored at the Latin Grammys in New York, Mel Gibson was being honored on this coast by a group of Latino business owners for his film Apocalypto.

Enthusiastic applause greeted the Oscar-winning actor and director as he walked onstage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to receive the Latino Business Association’s Chairman’s Visionary Award.

Gibson answered questions from association Chairman Rick Sarmiento about the film, a Mayan-language epic filmed in Mexico chronicling the decline of the native civilization.

The head of the organization says that Gibson was worthy of the award for using all Latino actors in the film, while Gibson pointed out that the movie was cast using all Mexican actors, most of whom were not actors at all.

Gibson was also quoted as saying that his movie is “a badge of honor for the Latino community.

Spain’s 20 Minutos published a really unflattering photo of Gibson at the event, check it out.

Apocalypto movie site

Via / Guardian Unlimited

WTF?: Mel Gibson to speak in Mayan at the Oscars

1:04 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism|Celebrities|Events|Movies|TV · Comments Off

4 Mar 2006

Yes, you read right, and yes, your cries of “WTF?!” are echoed across America. According to Time magazine, Mel Gibson is to speak en lengua maya at the Oscars this Sunday.

His last film, The Passion of the Christ, was spoken entirely in the dead languages of Latin and Aramaic. Now Mel Gibson will appear in a brief spot on this Sunday’s Oscar broadcast speaking another exotic tongue: Maya. That’s the sole language of Apocalypto, the adventure epic set in Pre-Columbian Mexico that Gibson is currently shooting on the edge of southern Mexico’s rainforests, in the state of Veracruz.

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