Author: Gary Alvarez

NEW BLUES FESTIVAL II BRINGS SOME MUCH NEEDED FEELING TO EL DORADO PARK 

NEW BLUES FESTIVAL II BRINGS SOME MUCH NEEDED FEELING TO EL DORADO PARK 

Posted by | Aug 30, 2016 | , , , , , |

  Labor Day Weekend, 2015—Long Beach, California Saturday, September 5th 8am I wonder if this is what it was like for Robert Johnson after a Friday night barnburner, hobbling back to a rickety shack under the Mississippi sky…It’s too damn early for the blues, I cuss to myself aloud, parking my VW space pod in a lot behind Kohl’s at the Long Beach Towne Center. The sun is shining, it’s hot and getting nothing but hotter and I’m already breaking a sweat. For me, the landscape is a bit more urban, though entirely not out of tune with the...

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OBSERVATIONS OF A YOUNG CHICANO FILMMAKER AT SUNDANCE 2016…

OBSERVATIONS OF A YOUNG CHICANO FILMMAKER AT SUNDANCE 2016…

Posted by | Feb 9, 2016 | , , |

Park City, Utah            …with no film to screen at the film festival—for the second year in a row. And for the second year in a row, I’m here at the festival as the contributing writer of RACK FOCUS for the online magazine Landscape Latino. My assignment is to interview breakthrough filmmakers who are screening at Sundance, but this year that’s gonna be tough compared to last year ’cause our crew doesn’t have press credentials. I’m left to my own devices to connect with the filmmakers themselves, or at least their publicists—I only know one...

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