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Founder/Executive Director Sabrina Avilés has booked 30 films – 15 shorts, 15 features -- that comprise Cinefest Latino Boston.

"The whole one parent works, one parent stays home, you can’t afford to anymore, especially not around here,” said one woman. “I think probably the biggest reason we’re talking, especially about women going back, if you have family, it’s because you have to.”

On the second floor of the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, I first saw “Taos Drive-In Theater,” a watercolor print by Ken Price, one of a slew of contemporary artists who moved from Los Angeles to Taos in the 1970s.

Despite the dual SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the festival circuit keeps chugging along with a steady stream of indie and international films screening locally. Film critic Erin Trahan highlights the fests to explore this season.

Violence erupted in the wake of an order to desegregate Boston public schools in 1974 — and a long struggle for educational equity preceded it. On PBS, "American Experience" tells the story.