Quiet Pictures

10/11/2025

Thank you for hosting this conversation about upcoming 5-film retrospective put together by and ! Looking forward to sharing more info about the screenings!

10/04/2025

Reporter Sergio Haro. Photographed by .gorosave. Emmy-nominated ‘Reportero’ (2012), follows Mexican Haro and fellow journalists at .tijuana who continue to publish stories in the face of attacks, the murder of colleagues and efforts to censor their reporting. Screening in NYC as part of a first ever retrospective of Bernardo Ruiz’s independently produced films.

10/03/2025

Harvest Season (2018). Photo by . One five films screening in November 2025 as part of the first-ever mid-career retrospective dedicated to Bernardo Ruiz, “a pathbreaking three-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker whose documentaries have carved a space for complex and humane portrayals of the Latin American experience at home and in the U.S.”

Presented by through its Elev8Docs marketing initiative and co-presented by , this citywide 5-film retrospective — opening at the on Saturday, November 1 — comes at a moment “when nonfiction cinema is an indispensable tool for reckoning with fractured public discourse, contested histories, and ongoing struggles for justice.”

03/10/2023

A new documentary, "El Equipo," focuses on Clyde Snow, whose team provided key evidence of the former military government's torture and executions via NBC Latino. Screening next at San Diego Latino Film Festival, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival Sonoma International Film Festival Movies that Matter before airing on PBS this fall.

A new documentary, "El Equipo," focuses on Clyde Snow, whose team provided key evidence of the former military government's torture and executions.

01/20/2021

Four years ago this week (01/28/17) thousands of protesters gathered at JFK airport to protest the Trump issued executive order which barred entry of nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries...

09/29/2020

Our first stop was Las Vegas, Nevada where we spent time with . Thomas and other young organizers registered Latino voters with hopes of a historic turnout for the Nevada caucuses.

We’re now one week away from our premiere, tune in or stream TUE 10/6 at 9pm ET on

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09/25/2020

In battleground states, Latinx organizers, fight to get out the Latino vote, even as the Covid-19 pandemic ravages communities. Will 2020 be a tipping point moment for the Latino vote?

Airs Oct 6 at 9pm ET on PBS Latino Public Broadcasting

Artwork by Edel Rodriguez

05/03/2020

Streaming now: "Queens in Quarantine" via Cinema Tropical. A short visual dispatch (less than 5 mins) about how some of NY's most impacted neighborhoods in Queens cope during the last week of April, 2020. 🎥⬇️

Mexican-American filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz, a resident of the New York City borough of Queens—one of the most affected zones in the city by the coronavirus—has photographed and directed the short film Queens in Quarantine depicting the neighborhoods of Jackson Heights, Corona, Flushing, Elmhurst a...

04/17/2020

Stream Bernardo Ruiz's HARVEST OF SEASON For Free here https://to.pbs.org/3bkmhls, Courtesy of Independent Lens | PBS via Cinema Tropical

Harvest Season , a timely and moving portrait of the Mexicans and Mexican-Americans behind California’s multibillion-dollar wine industry by two-time Emmy® nominated documentary filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz ( Reportero , Kingdom of Shadows ), will be streaming for free for sixty days starting today, F...

04/17/2020

Thanks to for the shoutout this morning. Our low-budget PBS doc, HARVEST SEASON, streams for free for 60 days via with love from . Link in bio.