What was your last big project? Hearts of Palm, an experimental narrative feature about love, decay, creative pairs, the space between languages, and mystical forces. What’s your next big project?

With the East Oregon Film Festival underway this weekend in La Grande, Oregon, Filmmaker is happy to once again host the festival online selections here at the site. Starting now, for 48 hours, you ...

Hearts of Palm, world-premiering at the Miami International Film Festival this week, sorrowfully repeats the phrase “El la amaba y ella lo amaba” (“He loved her and she loved him”). The repetition ...

The Florida sun has rarely seemed harsher than it does in “Ectotherms,” a bristling, defiantly lo-fi debut feature from multitasking filmmaker Monica Pena that offers a pithily poetic view of ...

Writer/director Monica Peña obliterates the notion of sophomore slump with her second independently produced feature film, Hearts of Palm, which will have its world premiere at Miami Dade College’s ...

Local trailblazers Monica Peña, José Faus and Baldemar Rivas are featured. Kansas City PBS presents Victor Antillanca’s We Are Latinos III, a series of three documentary shorts that showcase the ...

When a certain, elegant 1948 Chevy Stylemaster coupe, custom painted pearly white with a baby-blue top, lumbers down our city streets, everyone in Kansas City’s lowrider community knows the woman ...

Monica Pena, the first female president of the KC Estilo Car Club, has honored fallen members of the local lowrider community with a Dia de los Muertos altar in the trunk of her 1948 Chevy Stylemaster ...