Fourth Offering of Border Voices Lecture Series Features Filmmaker Paloma Martínez
The fourth offering in Texas A&M International Universitys' (TAMIU) Border Voices Lecture Series featured a film screening and conversation with filmmaker Paloma Martínez.
"A Film Screening and Conversation with Paloma Martínez" washeld Thursday, March 20 in the Laredo Center for the Arts, 500 San Agustin Avenue.
Martínez began her storytelling career as a labor organizer in her native Houston, TX. With her films, she hopes to empower communities and spark dialogue.
In 2018, she was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker. She graduated from Stanford University's Documentary Film MFA program and is Assistant Professor of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL.
TAMIU assistant professors Dr. Adam Kozaczka and Dr. Zachary Hernández, faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences, department of Humanities, organized the Series.
The Border Voices Lecture Series is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the State affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the community partnership of the Laredo Public Library and the Webb County Heritage Foundation.
For more information, contact Dr. Kozaczka at 956.326.3300 or email adam.kozaczka@tamiu.edu, or Dr. Hernández at zachary.hernandez@tamiu.edu, or 956.326.2582.
Previous Border Voices Lecture Series presenters have included Rick Jervis, journalist and author of Devil Behind the Badge: the Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer, and Dr. Norma E. Cantú, author and Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, who conducted her “From the Self to the World: A Generative Writing Workshop.” Also, featured was a lecture by Elizabeth González James, the author of the novels Mona at Sea and The Bullet Swallower.
The remaining 2025 lecture in the Border Voices Lecture Series is:
*Border Girls: Reading Laredo with Dr. J. Buentello Benavides (April 17, 2025), writer, editor, translator, and assistant professor of English at Belmont University in Nashville, TN.
Visit the dedicated Border Voices Lecture Series website for additional details.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this speaker series do not necessarily represent those of Humanities Texas or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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