Alma Martinez – MRQE

Under Fire

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

A Little Family Drama

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Mexican American family, whose lives revolve around their legendary restaurant, prepares for their annual family reunion dinner oblivious to the fact that a shattered taco truck dream is about to change everything.

How the Gringo Stole Christmas

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Bennie’s daughter is on her way home for the holidays. However she surprises him by arriving with her brand new boyfriend – an uninvited gringo.

Tyger Tyger

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman and her group of selfless thieves rob a pharmacy and hit the road to distribute medication, but find themselves trapped in the fringe lands of a law-less psychedelic city.

Ms. Purple

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Kasie, stuck in LAs Koreatown, works as a karaoke hostess getting paid for her companionship by drunken men. When her dads hospice nurse quits she reconnects with her estranged brother, Carey, forcing them to enter a period of intense self-reflection as their single father who raised them nears death.

Transpecos

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

For three US Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours may cost them their lives.

Dolly Dearest

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An American family moves to Mexico to fabricate dolls, but their toy factory happens to be next to a Sanzian grave and the toys come into possession of an old, malicious spirit.

Maria’s Story

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the front lines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria’s daily life in the war.

Barbarosa

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger from his father-in-law Don Braulio, a wealthy Mexican rancher. Don Braulio wants Barbarosa dead for marrying his daughter against the father’s will. Barbarosa reluctantly takes the clumsy Karl on as a partner, as both of them look to survive the forces lining up against them.

Zoot Suit

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez’s critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.