Violet Crown’s latest signature series is a collaboration with Cine Las Americas, bringing the best of films from around the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world to Austin audiences. Taking place the last Wednesday of every month, for the next four months the selection will be gathered under the banner of Mujeres en la Lucha (Women in the Fight), focusing on women in South and Central America leading the struggle for environmental and reproductive justice. It begins Jan. 31 with Máxima, in which documentarian Claudia Sparrow follows Peruvian indigenous farmer Máxima Acuña as she fights back against U.S. mining companies ravaging the land and the people who live on it. – Richard Whittaker
