In the parking lot of a Metro by T-Mobile store tucked in the heart of Boyle Heights, just miles from where generations of Mexican families ha…
Francisco Aviles Pino
About
Francisco Aviles Pino is a Mexican writer whose work has appeared in Vogue, The Intercept, The Nation, Netflix, and HarperCollins. They are alum of the Macondo Writers Workshop, the NALAC Leadership Institute, The Poetry Foundation's Incubator Fellowship, the Center for Cultural Power's Disruptors Fellowship in Screenwriting, and UCLA where they are currently a Senior Fellow for the UCLA Center for Art and Global Health and also teach in the UCLA School of Art.
A month and a half into the ongoing and often violent immigration enforcement raids impacting Southern California, what remains is the sheer f…
In the lot where “The Mummy,” “Nacho Libre,” and iconic Universal monsters existed, Mexico Town at Universal Studios, a new chapter in Latino …
For almost a century, artists, writers and filmmakers from the Latino community have been documenting and dissecting the immigration experienc…
In early June, Ben Camacho found himself in one of the dozens of protests that had erupted across Southern California in response to the immig…
Sitting in the fourth row of the Hollywood Chinese Theatre was Angeli Rose Gomez, a farm worker and single mom who in 2022 ran into Robb Eleme…
Social media, WhatsApp, and text messages have become some of the only ways community members across Southern California have been able to doc…
The reality of Latino representation in the entertainment industry is that audiences and marketing campaigns create what we define as “represe…
Theater is a one-of-a-kind medium, older than television and film, yet it is the underdog in this city of lights, camera and influencers.