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King of the Tostada: The Local Chef Shaking up Guatemala’s Booming Food Scene
Guatemalan Chef Pablo Díaz has been called the King of the Tostada because of his fresh takes on Guatemala’s most popular street food. His restaurant Mercado 24 in Guatemala City, which only serves the best ingredients in the…
COMPARSA (2025) written and directed by Doug Anderson and Vickie Curtis.
Well-received at the 2025 Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, this is a moving feature-length documentary that explores how a group of women from Peronia, in Guatemala are challenging the authorities over the woeful lack of…
Gabriela (2023) Oscar-qualifying short film by Guatemalan-American director Evelyn Lorena
Gabriela, a young Guatemalan undocumented immigrant struggles to fulfill her dreams of becoming a competitive swimmer for a local Country Club in North Carolina.
OUR MOTHERS (Nuestras Madres) - A Debut feature by César Díaz
Winner of the Camera D’Or in Cannes, Guatemalan filmmaker César Díaz’s multi award-winning film, OUR MOTHERS opens us to the horrors of the 36 year civil war in Guatemala between 1960 and 1996, through the experiences of Ernesto…
Transforming Urban Spaces: Guatemala City’s barrancos
“We dream of a green city, an inclusive city, full of squares, full of children. We dream of a fair, walkable, accessible, liveable city. We believe in a greener, happier, more human city.” Urban planners and community gardeners…
Guatemalan Fire
Gaby Moreno, this Guatemalan Latin Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, has left an indelible mark in the collaborations she has partaken in, making her a true inspiration for all Latinos, let alone the small central American…
Guatemala: Indigenous Women take on Canada’s Mining Industry
Elena Choc Quib, a unilingual Q’eqchi’ speaker from a remote village in rural Guatemala, never imagined travelling outside her country, let alone boarding a plane to Toronto. But everything changed when she and 10 other women…
Guatemala: a Rotten State
President Morales' anti-corruption pose is dropped as soon as his own family is in the frame
5 SIGHTS OF SOUTH AMERICA YOU WON'T FORGET
Bored of beaches, banal museums and grotty hotels? Want to do something different this time you go away? South America harbours some of the most breath-taking natural phenomena in the entire world. No tour guide needed, just a…
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