An unplanned, spontaneous 1991 interview of Chavela Vargas shot 20 years before her death in 2012 sets the scene for the documentary Chavela, which covers her rise to fame, her downfall and rebirth as ...

1 From Stage to Westeros: Theatre Veterans in HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Music Box Films Home Entertainment has announced today the nationwide debut of the captivating documentary, CHAVELA, on January 2, ...

Legendary Mexican singer Chavela Vargas receives justifiably laudatory treatment in this documentary celebrating her refusal to compromise together with her musical brilliance. In 1992, Catherine Gund ...

IFC Midnight has picked up U.S. rights to first-time director Austin Reading’s horror pic Darkness Rising, with a planned theatrical and digital bow June 30. Written by Vikram Weet. the pic follows ...

Legendary Mexican singer Chavela Vargas is profiled in a new documentary. CONTRIBUTED Legendary Mexican singer Chavela Vargas is profiled in a new documentary. CONTRIBUTED Daresha Kyi considers ...

PETOSKEY – The Petoskey District Library and the Petoskey Film Series will be showing the award-winning documentary “Chavela” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday, Feb. 7 and Feb. 9, at the Petoskey ...

When the singer Chavela Vargas began performing in Mexico, in the 1950s, she dressed as a woman. But "it didn't work." She thought she "looked like a transvestite," she would say decades later, in an ...

When American filmmaker Catherine Gund met Mexican ranchera singer Chavela Vargas in 1991, both women were at major crossroads in their lives. Gund, then a young queer activist, had just lost her best ...

In 1992, Catherine Gund met legendary Mexican singer Chavela Vargas and filmed her with a simple video camera; after Chavela’s death at the age of 93 in 2012, she unearthed the footage and discovered ...

Daresha Kyi considers herself a natural born storyteller. “I love telling stories — whether in a group, one-on-one, singing, writing or through film,” says the fourth-generation Daytonian who returns ...