In a memorable scene from Robert Altman’s 1975 classic “Nashville,” a ditzy British reporter played by Geraldine Chaplin wanders beside a fleet of yellow school buses, scavenging for glib metaphors ...

A decked-out bus gets a new life in Guatemala as part of the documentary film "La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus." (Emerging Pictures) 5 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11; Northwest Film ...

GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemala is no stranger to the iconic symbol of North American transport: Big, yellow school buses crowd the streets of tiny pueblos and carry thousands of chapines (Guatemalans) up ...

The Guatemalan documentary “La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus,” from American director Mark Kendall, sheds light on a little known connection between the United States and Central ...

Documentary filmmakers can make any number of rookie mistakes with their first features. Casting too wide a net is one of the most common. “La Camioneta” avoids that pothole, beautifully. Filmmaker ...

It might seem strange that the protagonist of Mark Kendall’s feature debut is also, in fact, the conveyance vehicle of the film’s journey. La Camioneta begins by embracing the inherent oddity of its ...

Every day, dozens of yellow American school buses leave the United States on a southward migration to Guatemala, where they are resurrected as the brightly colored camionetas that take Guatemalans to ...

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the ...

Mark Kendall is the director and producer of the documentary "La Camioneta," which plays this week at the Nashville Film Festival. My first short film, "The Time Machine," tells the story of a ...