Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Get a taste of Alamogordo. This Saturday in Alamogordo, pair local wine and agriculture at the Corks and Shells Wine Festival at Alameda Park. “Being in southern New Mexico, we have a lot of…
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Tag: Film Festivals
Movie Magic in Santa Fe
FAST BECOMING ONE OF the most anticipated film festivals in the Southwest, the Santa Fe International Film Festival turns the City Different into a cinephile’s paradise with hundreds of films…
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Get Set for the Tucumcari Film Festival
FOR FILMMAKER RACHEL BARRETT, the Tucumcari Film Festival is like an old-school double feature. She gets to show her movies at the Historic Odeon Theatre and the Tucumcari Railroad Depot alongside…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Catch an arts panel. On Saturday at 2 p.m., artists, activists, and lawyers gather at the Albuquerque Museum to speak about the mass incarceration of immigrants in New Mexico and the rest of the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Attend a film festival. For the first time, the Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFIFF) expands to six full days of programming, showing more than 200 films, including 74 features, at venues…
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Spotlight on New Mexico’s Filmmakers
THE SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL may have a global reach, but its impact for New Mexico filmmakers and talent can make a world of difference locally. Driven by a love of independent film…
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Datebook: April 2025
ON JUNE 25, 1857, Edward Beale left New Mexico’s Fort Defiance on a surveying mission along the 35th Parallel Route to the Colorado River on the Arizona–California border. The party included 12…
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Meet David Manzanares: The Location Scout
D AVID MANZANARES had just finished college and was back at the family ranch in Abiquiú when a London-based photography crew showed up, hoping to shoot fashion stills. They were drawn to the…
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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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A Timeline of New Mexico's Film and TV History
1898 Indian Day School (Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) Less than a minute long, the first film shot in the territory shows children entering and exiting Isleta Indian School. Early 1900s The industry gets…
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