Your Ultimate Film Festival Guide
SANTA FE FILM FESTIVAL February 21–23, 2025 WHAT YOU’LL SEE: The state’s longest-running film festival showcases 90 narrative features, documentaries, and shorts programs—about a quarter of which are…
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Tag: Arts & Entertainment
What We’re Reading: Light as Light
“LANGUAGE IS AT THE BASE and core of relating to others,” Acoma Pueblo poet Simon J. Ortiz writes in Light as Light (University of Arizona Press). “Language is motion. Action. Doing. Letting. Sharing…
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Meet Amy Mann: The Costume Artist
W HILE MOST PEOPLE strive to take care of their clothes, Amy Mann excels at distressing them. She sands and bleaches T-shirts, paints and scrubs new clothes to look old, and creates special effects…
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Native Lab Amplifies Indigenous Voices
“I ALWAYS LIKE to say that clay is really my family’s way of storytelling,” says Charine Pilar Gonzales. The Santa Fe–based filmmaker and screenwriter, who comes from six generations of San Ildefonso…
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Olive Rush Studio Welcomes a New Era
“ONE LOVELY THING about a garden is the way one’s friends enjoy it,” Olive Rush (1873–1966) once wrote to a fellow artist. On a recent evening in Santa Fe, a circle of young people seated under her…
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The Power of the Pen
“I LOVE MY SOLITARY LIFE,” says Albuquerque poet, novelist, and screenwriter Jimmy Santiago Baca. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Baca spent portions of his youth in a Santa Fe orphanage before…
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Visit These Seven Iconic Film Locations
ALBUQUERQUE NOTABLES: Lonely Are the Brave (1962), Breaking Bad (2008–2013), The Avengers (2012), Sicario (2015), Better Call Saul (2015–2022), Stranger Things (2016–). While most people know about…
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Meet Angelique Midthunder: The Star Maker
E MMY-NOMINATED CASTING director Angelique Midthunder may have been born in Bangkok, but for the last two decades she’s been an integral force in New Mexico’s booming film industry. “It’s been…
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Editor’s Letter: Game Time
THE AUDIENCE cheered as the screen went dark and the credits rolled on Rez Ball. Hosted by the Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFIFF), the special screening was more than an early preview of the…
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Lights, Camera, New Mexico!
NESTLED AMONG the sagebrush and rocky, inhospitable terrain at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, an octagonal hogan sits uninhabited. Just a few weeks earlier, a flurry of…
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