LAS 460/560 I Final Projects
Jan. 15, 2026
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For their final projects in Fall 2025, students in LAS 460/560 Film and Feminism in Latin America taught by Dr. Katie O'Brien had the option to create either a short feminist film or a website for a hypothetical feminist film festival. We invite you to view explore their projects. Congrats to the students on a job well done and thank you to Luis Carrion for providing filmmaking workshops and guidance to the students.
1. Film title: Entre Decisiones (Paloma Diaz-Minshew, Andrew More, Sadie Holm)
A group of young Latinas preparing to go out grapple with the implications of intimacy in a post-roe context, weighing the cost of sex, birth control, and an uncertain reproductive future.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/WQKJ9nrQOa8?si=52w1T5qdXyJSugUS
A group of young Latinas preparing to go out grapple with the implications of intimacy in a post-roe context, weighing the cost of sex, birth control, and an uncertain reproductive future.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/WQKJ9nrQOa8?si=52w1T5qdXyJSugUS
2. Film title: Aliento de la Vida (Adriana Morales and Diego Esteban Meringer)
As a Mexican vocal performance major, Alma, prepares to give her degree-qualifying recital, she navigates criticism from university faculty causing her to second-guess her abilities; she must find strength in herself and her instrument in order to be successful.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/Y0Knxjhize0?si=9UArMnp7MEw6buRM
As a Mexican vocal performance major, Alma, prepares to give her degree-qualifying recital, she navigates criticism from university faculty causing her to second-guess her abilities; she must find strength in herself and her instrument in order to be successful.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/Y0Knxjhize0?si=9UArMnp7MEw6buRM
3. Film title: XX (Edna Luna Salazar and Gloria Guerrero)
On March 7, Jessica Alvarez is preparing her speech that she will deliver at the 8M March in Hermosillo Sonora the next day. Jessica goes out the next day, but doesn't come back. She becomes a victim of what she has been fighting for recently...a victim of femicide. The film is a reflection of the common feelings of a woman in modern day with the modern issues, in this case femicide, that dominate Mexican society.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/TCwfO_v1TtI?si=u1P72FtVNFOUgJ8z
On March 7, Jessica Alvarez is preparing her speech that she will deliver at the 8M March in Hermosillo Sonora the next day. Jessica goes out the next day, but doesn't come back. She becomes a victim of what she has been fighting for recently...a victim of femicide. The film is a reflection of the common feelings of a woman in modern day with the modern issues, in this case femicide, that dominate Mexican society.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/TCwfO_v1TtI?si=u1P72FtVNFOUgJ8z
4. Film festival title: Motherhood on the Margins (Ursula Denholm)
A film festival website that explores the infrapolitical nature and lived experiences of motherhood in Latin America. The festival’s theme draws particular inspiration from Baronesa (2017), which portrays how motherhood and maternal subjectivities are shaped by intersecting forces of class, gender, race, and colonialism. This website serves as both a curatorial and analytical space, where I weave in sections discussing the social, cultural, and political dimensions of motherhood that are represented across different geographic and cinematic contexts. The festival focuses on motherhood as something that’s more than a barrier and treats motherhood as a potential site of resistance and hope. My hope with this project is that it would facilitate a space for audiences to reflect on the politics (both overt and invisible) that shape the realities of mothers and mothering.
Website: https://udenholm6.wixsite.com/motherhood-in-the-ma
Congratulations!
Website: https://udenholm6.wixsite.com/motherhood-in-the-ma
Congratulations!