Voces
Letters to Eloísa
Letters to Eloísa illuminates the intersection of literature and politics during the Cuban Revolution in an epistolary exchange between novelist José Lezama Lima and his sister.
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined explores the life and work of Latina writer Julia Alvarez, renowned for her contributions to American literature.
- Series
- American Masters
- Premiere Date
- September 17, 2024
- Length
- 90 minutes
Producer/Director
Adriana Bosch
Award-winning filmmaker Adriana Bosch was series producer of Latino Americans and Latin Music USA. She wrote and produced presidential biographies for American Experience and the documentaries The Rockefellers, Fidel Castro, and American Comandante. Her film, Letters to Eloísa aired on VOCES October 2021. She was born in Cuba.
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The Film
Julia Alvarez is the author of seven novels, three collections of poetry, a dozen books for children, and a book of autobiographical essays. Her acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel How the García Sisters Lost Their Accents (1991) was followed by In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), which raised global awareness about the murder of three sisters in the Dominican Republic by the dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Based on a true story, the book was made into a major motion picture.
Julia Alvarez: A Life Reimagined Alvarez’s immortalizes Alvarez’s contribution to the American literary canon. Alvarez’s work dramatizes the immigrant’s perspective in America from her vantage point as a Dominican American woman whose family sought refuge in the United States. She connects the personal and the political through universal themes—from coming of age to growing older, from finding one’s voice to facing grief and loss.
