Polivision, the School of Modern Languages at Georgia Tech, and the Atlanta Global Studies Center present “Reimagining Latin(o) America in the Pandemic: Media, Culture, and Democracy,” a series of video presentations/interviews with public intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and cultural producers of the region who have covered and/or addressed the crisis in […]
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In 2016, Byte Dance, a Chinese company, created TikTok, but the app became popular in the United States in 2019. A short-form video-sharing app, TikTok allows users to create short music clips, lip-sync, dance, and comedy skits through videos with the use of music and audio clips created by users. […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has paralyzed the normal life of our city and the world. Music, arts, performance events are cancelled for the foreseeable future. Our artists and entrepreneurs are struggling. The Latinx and other vulnerable communities are wrestling in numerous ways. But it will end. Y resistiremos. Stay at home. Be […]
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![Atlanta: FREE SCREENING and Q&A with director. Open to the public. Saturday April 22, 5pm, at Georgia Tech.
We would like to invite you to the 2023 Global Media Festival, with a fantastic participation of Latin American filmmakers and movies. A highlight of the festival is the screening of “La Revolución y la Tierra ” [The Revolution and the Land], Peru’s most watched documentary of all time about the history of struggles for the land and citizenship in the country, and a tribute to marginalized cinema. The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles. After the screening we will have an in-person Q&A with the film director Gonzalo Benavente Secco. The event will be on Saturday April 22nd, at 5pm, Atlantic Theater, Student Center, Georgia Tech. The screening is free and open to the public (so feel free to invite friends). It includes complementary popcorn and catering.
The Global Media Festival (or GMF) is the GT School of Modern Languages’ annual film and discussion series focusing on sustainability across languages and cultures. The 2023 festival explores the theme “reduced inequalities within and among countries” (# 10 of the UN sustainable development goals). More information and RSVP here: https://globalmediafest.modlangs.gatech.edu/](https://polivision.modlangs.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/340830130_647953063760298_2136034546682361865_n.jpg)
