Every restaurant, bar, office, and hotel lobby in America has been smoke-free for decades. But walk into a casino resort in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, or certain parts of Pennsylvania, and the rules suddenly change. Families, kids, employees — everyone inside breathes the same air. I’ve been fighting to change that. My name is Lawrence […]
In March 2009, the FMLN won the Salvadoran presidential election for the first time in the party’s history. Mauricio Funes became El Salvador’s first left-wing president after nearly two decades of ARENA government following the end of the civil war. For the Salvadoran diaspora community in Maryland — one of the largest Salvadoran communities in
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In 2013, I had the opportunity to film a full live performance by Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy in Washington, D.C. The concert ran for nearly an hour and twenty minutes, and I captured the entire thing. For anyone who knows Nicaraguan music and Latin American folk tradition, filming Mejía Godoy perform live is not a
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Maryland filmmaker Lawrence Justin Mills describes making The Path of the Shadows, a documentary featuring survivor Carlos Mauricio, who was persecuted by Salvadoran government death squads during the Civil War.
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