Mexico’s overlooked black communities are given a voice in this social realist drama

Mexico’s overlooked black communities are given a voice in this social realist drama

Afropunk
2018-08-01

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LA NEGRADA trailer from TIRISIA CINE on Vimeo.

A project by Mexican filmmaker Jorge Pérez Solano, “La Negrada” is a social realist drama that examines an overlooked sector of Mexico’s populace, its Black people, which include descendants of enslaved people brought to Mexico, among others. According to Variety, this is the first fictional film about Afro-Mexicans.

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