Iguana Films, LLC

01/24/2025

Sundance 2025 and a moment with my fave owl on Main st!

11/05/2024

09/19/2024

Next Friday 9/27, at West Newton Cinema (MA), in our local arthouse, REBEL will be playing at 6p as a fundraiser to help save our cinema! COME THRU! https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/45353?siteToken=sq9871g21qvhktp727tnes3e3g

05/14/2024

Living in color.

05/03/2024

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar - Antonio Machado.

04/02/2024

Que te detiene?

02/16/2024

Director Maria Agui Carter will be speaking at SXSW2024 will share her strategies for thriving against a retrenching documentary industry! Our session is now live
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP1145001
If you'll be in Austin, TX on March 11 from 3-4:30p come by! Also featuring , Molly Murphy, Nyasha Laing, and Sav Rodgers!

10/19/2023

Friday 10-20-23 9:30am-10:30a
Director Maria Agui Carter will present the Opening Keynote for The International Conference of Hispanic Women in Film (CIMCiH) tomorrow morning! Taking place online and live at Clark University, MA, this biannual conference creates dialog within a wide and diverse group of creators, academics and students seeking to explore and raise the visibility of Latina filmmakers behind the camera.

This second edition of CIMCiH, titled “Cronografias,” will be celebrated live and on line Oct. 20 & 21, 2023. On line links here:

CIMCiH International Conference Hispanic Women Filmmakers CIMCiH Conferencia Internacional de Mujeres Cineastas Hispánicas

06/21/2023

Maria Agui Carter will be talking about directing on the SciGirls Latina series and the need for more brown girls in STEM at the NYWIFT STEM SUMMIT tomorrow! 4-6p! It's free and on line - check it out:

Join us for Day 3 of the 2023 NYWIFT Creative Workforce STEM Summit for a virtual panel on

11/18/2021

Did you know that a report conducted by USC Annenberg in 2021 found that only 21.9% of Hispanic/Latino producers were women, and overall, Hispanic/Latina producers represented less than 1% of all producers across 1,300 top movies?

NALIP’s Diverse Women in Media Initiative (DWIMI) seeks to empower, inspire and advance women of diverse backgrounds to influential positions in media to improve representation of underrepresented communities. The 2021 Diverse Women in Media Forum (DWIMF) on Dec. 1st-2nd brings together diverse women to meet, inspire and empower each other to elevate their careers in the industry. To learn more and register for DWIMF, visit: diversewomeninmedia.org

10/21/2021

Someone just shared this talk by Director Maria Agui Carter about her film REBEL at the UCLA Chicano Studies Ctr. ENJOY!

April 2, 2015This video documents the question-and-answer period after a CSRC screening of María Agui Carter's film, "Rebel: Loreta Velazquez, Civil War Sold...

02/04/2021

Maria Agui Carter'sarticle on media and race! "Magical Realism and Other Subversions" published in Documentary Magazine! https://www.documentary.org/feature/magical-realism-and-other-subversions

January 24, 2021 Magical Realism and Other Subversions By Maria Agui CarterShare: Editor's note: What follows is an edited version of filmmaker Maria Agui Carter's keynote address at the 2020 Getting Real Documentary Conference. To watch the full keynote, head to https://www.documentary.org/video/ma...

01/14/2021

Congratulations Debra Zimmerman, ED of Women Make Movies, chosen by the National Society of Film Critics, for the Film Heritage Award! This award, intended to highlight institutions dedicated to preserving and enhancing cinema culture, was awarded to “Women Make Movies, which, since the 1970s, has been releasing daring and distinctive female-directed movies that more conventional distributors wouldn’t touch." Debra your championing of our work and your legacy of making sure our voices and works are seen cannot be overstated. Gracias, hermana! WMM distributes our film Job For A Woman, directed by Michelle Fillion, produced by Maria Agui Carter as well as so many important and seminal works by talented sister filmmakers! https://www.wmm.com/national-society-of-film-critics-honors-wmm-with-a-2021-film-heritage-award/?goal=0_9003ae77e2-5d651ccfdd-76429759&mc_cid=5d651ccfdd&mc_eid=8339335b16

11/11/2020

This Veteran's Day, the Women's Media Center interviewed Writer/Director Maria Agui Carter on her film REBEL about Latinx Civil War Vet Loreta Velazquez! https://womensmediacenter.com/idare/loreta-janeta-velazquez-the-veteran-you-didnt-know-about

The Confederate soldier-turned-Union spy published her own story. The South buried it.

10/20/2020

The wonderful new magazine, REDEFINE, did a little write-up of director Maria Agui Carter as a nominee and finalist for the Lynn Shelton fellowship nominees. Thank you, and check out this great magazine at https://redefinemag.net/2020/lynn-sheltons-of-a-certain-age-grant-nominees-women-non-binary-filmmakers/

10/05/2020

This week Maria Agui Carter gave the opening keynote at the IDA's Getting Real Conference. They recorded the talk and Q&A here.
MAGICAL REALISM AND OTHER SUBVERSIONS:
When we are fighting a pandemic and on the brink of environmental cataclysm and we can’t breathe and our children are locked in cages, what is our responsibility as artists? An American immigrant writer and director shares her journey and dreams of what media could be.

This video is still being post-captioned. Please check back if you need CC! When we are fighting a pandemic and on the brink of environmental cataclysm and w...

08/22/2020

Director Maria Agui Carter talks about the relevance of her film REBEL in today's era of 21st C. newly emboldened Confederate sympathizers. The Civil War of yesterday echoes the same yearnings for the Civil Rights movements of today. Click this photo and link to see Between Two Worlds: Straddling Fiction and Nonfiction. https://www.facebook.com/FilmFatalesORG/videos/695349137862281/