Los Frikis buries a steel-toed boot into your soul for an emotionally charged look a crazy but true slice of history from ...

Spanish-language feature 'Los Frikis' follows young outcasts who willingly contracted HIV to secure food during the island ...

It all started in Havana. For filmmakers Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson - the directorial duo behind 2019’s Shia ...

The movie, premiering this month, is based on real events in the early 1990s, when a group of young people in Cuba were ...

In 2015, Cuba became the first country to receive validation from the World Health Organization that it had eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. Los Frikis were a group of ...

A new Spanish-language film out Christmas Day in select markets. "Los Frikis" is inspired by true events in 1990s Cuba. It's estimated that between 200 and 500 people intentionally injected themselves ...

Not all Frikis followed suit, but as one former member recalled in a Vice documentary, the sanitorium he went to was almost ...

Despite going the indie route again, the filmmakers do reveal they are developing a 'Treasure Island' take with Disney: “It ...

After a successful festival run, the film about a group of marginalized punk rockers in Cuba during the '90s opens in U.S.

that he and Nilson learned the true story of “Los Frikis” — a group of impoverished punk rockers in 1990s Cuba who intentionally injected themselves with HIV as a means of securing food ...

Traveling through clandestine airwaves, Kurt Cobain touched down in Havana, Cuba, in the turbulent early ... in the vibrant Spanish-language drama “Los Frikis,” from Tyler Nilson and Michael ...

It was through these friendships with actors and artists in the Cuban community, Schwartz says, that he and Nilson learned the true story of “Los Frikis” — a group of impoverished punk rockers in ...