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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In 2013, I was falsely imprisoned by security at Maryland Live Casino. What started as an ordinary evening turned into a multi-hour ordeal that changed how I think about civil rights, documentation, and the importance of holding institutions accountable. I filmed what happened, and that footage became the basis for two videos that have now
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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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