NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2015 - Op-Docs, The New York Times's editorial department's section for short, opinionated documentaries, joins the 2015 Ambulante documentary film festival, with screenings beginning today, for the duration of Ambulante's tour through 12 Mexican states from Jan. 29 to May 3, 2015.

As part of the collaboration between Op-Docs and Ambulante, six Op-Docs will be shown before various full-length documentary films throughout the Ambulante tour, which makes stops in Mexico City, Guerrero, Morelos, Puebla, Veracruz, Zacatecas, Coahuila, Michoacán, Chiapas, Jalisco, Baja California and Oaxaca, Mexico.

The Op-Docs to be featured, which may be viewed currently at NYTimes.com/OpDocs, are:

· 35 and Single

· Bronx Obama

· Leymah Gbowee: The Dream

· Gospel of Intolerance

· VHS vs. Communism

· The Public Square

Begun in 2011, Op-Docs has quickly become an important platform for original short documentaries, presenting the work of more than 100 acclaimed and emerging filmmakers to the world online.

"Our collaboration with Ambulante this year provides us with an exceptional opportunity to showcase some of our most talked about Op-Docs to new and growing New York Times audiences throughout Mexico," said Jason Spingarn-Koff, New York Times commissioning editor for Opinion video and Op-Docs series producer and curator. 

Ambulante is a non-profit organization that focuses on supporting and promoting documentary film as a tool for social and cultural transformation.  Founded in Mexico in 2005 by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Pablo Cruz and Elena Fortes, Ambulante brings documentary films and training programs to places where they are rarely available in order to create a participative, informed and critical public, cultivate new forms of expression, and encourage debate in Mexico and abroad.

Currently the largest documentary film festival in Mexico, Ambulante includes film screenings, workshops, talks, seminars, symposiums, networking panels, documentary theater, drive-in cinema and a showcase of documentaries at the Ibero-American Music Festival Vive Latino held in Mexico City.

Ambulante is a non-competitive film festival, and more than 60% of its program is free.

To learn more about Op-Docs at Ambulante, visit Ambulante.com.mx/en.

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