América: Recent Episodes
Jordan Salama
This is América, a new English-language series that brings you stories and conversations with the people shaping our hemisphere. We'll be interviewing writers and actors, directors, musicians, and more. Some are well-known, and others are rising stars, but all are names that you should know if you're traveling, if you like Latin music, movies, or books, or if you're just generally interested in the region.
Chilean director and documentarian Maite Alberdi joins us from Santiago to discuss her latest film, "The Mole Agent," nominated for Best Documentary Feature in this year's Academy Awards. It's based on a remarkable--even funny--premise, and all of it is true: an elderly man in perfectly good health is hired by a private investigator to go undercover as a spy... in a retirement home. But the film quickly turns into a moving reflection on aging, on elderly loneliness and neglect, and on what matters most in the end.
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Host: Jordan Salama
Producer: Michael Salama
Special Thanks: Pierpaolo Festa
Music: "Dreams Become Real" by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech)
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3678-dreams-become-real
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Acclaimed writer and journalist Javier Sinay -- author of four books and winner of the 2015 Premio Gabo, one of the most prestigious journalism prizes in Latin America -- joins us from Buenos Aires to discuss the full scope of his work, including his overland trek from Spain to Japan in search of the love of his life, police violence and gun control in Argentina's lower-income neighborhoods, and his book The Crimes of Moisés Ville, which will be published in English next year.
They dropped out of college, wrote 10 songs, and signed a record deal with Universal... all during a pandemic. Alejo Ochoa, Felipe Galat, and Andrés Vásquez of TIMØ--the new Colombian pop group that rose to the top of Spotify's 'Latin Pop Rising' playlist in 2020--discuss launching a band in lockdown, producing their own records, and why they took three fans skydiving to promote their first EP, Algo Diferente. Their first-ever English-language interview also features performances of 'Pase Lo Que Pase' and 'Algo Diferente.'
Host: Jordan Salama
Production: Michael Salama
Special Thanks: Gabriela López, Nicolás Galat
Music reproduced with permission.
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Mateo Sujatovich, the Argentine singer-songwriter behind CONOCIENDO RUSIA, discusses growing up among Argentina's greatest musicians, almost playing for Real Madrid, and what really happened at the corner of Cabildo y Juramento. Includes exclusive, live performances of hit songs 'Loco en el Desierto' and 'Cabildo y Juramento.' Host: Jordan Salama Production: Michael Salama Special Thanks: Margarita Bruzzone, Jesica Kusnier (c) Lulus TV LLC 2021