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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
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OLMOS'
'FAMILY' GETS GOLDEN GLOBE WAKE UP CALL
Early
monday morning, Gregory Nava's production shingle El Norte Productions
received news that his Edward James Olmos led family drama 'American
Family: Journey of Dreams' was nominated for 'Best Mini-Series
or Motion Picture Made for Television'.
For the
full list of nominees, go to:
LATINA
FILM FESTIVAL MAKES NEWS-NALIPsters INVOLVED!
Three
NALIP members this past weekend put together the first ever all
women Latina film festival
in Los Angeles, called
the Boyle Heights Latina Independent Film Extravaganza. A lot of planning went
into this festival, along with tons of inspiration. The festival was founded
by creative director, Josefina Lopez, who was inspired by the idea
at the 2004 NALIP Conference in Santa Barbara. The other two NALIP
members, who played a key role in producing the festival were none
other than Iris Almaraz and Erick Garcia both from Los
Angeles.
The
festival included over 30 independent films, which included narratives,
documentaries and experimental pieces coming from Los Angeles, New
York, Houston and San Francisco, just to name a few. The women selected for
the festival were required to submit films as writer/director.
Winners of the festival received cash prizes, Final Draft
screenwriting software, unique artwork and accessories..oh yeah.and
a 120GB external firewire hard drive from Melrose MAC, located at
Melrose Avenue and Highland.
The
festival was a success, all thanks to Courage Productions, Total
Axis, Latin Heat Magazine, Spanix,
LA Weekly, Vanguard Cinema and
NALIP for their support.
You
can also find more information about the story in the LA TIMES Sunday
Edition, December 12,
2004 or watch LA Tv this coming week.
Contact:
bhlife2004@yahoo.com
OR erickgarcia@nalip.org
for more information.
MIAMI
NALIPsters--
3GZ
PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS "WOMEN IN FILM NIGHT"
Miami
Beach - On December
18th 2004 at 8:30pm at the Miami Beach Cinematheque
we are screening the trailer to the recently wrapped Wicked
Garden and showcasing
7 diverse women filmmakers including our very own Franceasca,
Iris B, and Nicholene. Films will also be provided by
Karine Nissim of Broken Legs Productions, Mara Farina, and Itzel
Ramos. Afterwards please stick around for our official wrap
party (location TBA) if you have any questions please call 786.200.2986
or e-mail Franceasca@aol.com or Iris
B at 305.926.7221 or Irisb@electro-dziska.com. Check out the
New Times on the Dec 16th in the See/ Be Seen section for the
article on 3GZ Productions Franceasca Seiden's new production
company. We look forward to have you there - Come out and support!!!!
The
Miami Beach Cinematheque
512
Espanola Way
Miami
Beach Fl 33139.
Peace
and Love
Franceasca Seiden
3GZ Productions
786.200.2986
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NALIP
MAKES WAVES AT SUNDANCE!!!
Not one, not three or six, or even eight,
but fourteen active NALIP members worked in all aspects of production
on the truly independent film HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS SPENT THEIR
SUMMER, Georgina Ridel's new feature accepted into competition
at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
From the writer/director to producers
and production manager, from the set designer and production attorney
to even craft services and production assistants, the 'HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS
SPENT THEIR SUMMER' team was mostly Latino filmmakers and mostly
NALIP members! Writer/Director/Producer
Georgina Garcia Ridel graduated from AFI, and later partnered with
her shorts producer Olga Arana--2004 Latino Media Resource Guide
Research Manager (LMRG) and Jose Mangual (LPA Production
Coordinator) to cast and prep the project. The film shot in Yuma,
Arizona in fall 2003, just after
the close of NALIP's first Latino Producers AcademyT.
Our very own NALIP Signature Programs Director Octavio Marin
came aboard as Unit Production Manager, and enlisted many LPA staff
and volunteers to help get the film in the can. Now, the film heads
to Sundance where it is being repped by NALIP's Alexis Garcia of
Sheppard, Mullin!
'THE GARCIA GIRLS' is set during
a long, hot summer in the small border town of Somerton,
Arizona. When Dona Genoveva (Lucy
Gallardo), the Garcia family matriarch, purchases a car, she sets
off a chain of events that lead to a sexual revolution within her
family, from her middle-aged daughter (Elizabeth Pena) to her teenage
granddaughter (America Ferrera).
Other cast members include: Steven Bauer,
Jane Sevilla, Rick Najera, Alyssa Diaz, Ana Cervantes, David Barrera,
Leo Minaya, Jorge Cervera, Ricki Lopez, Victor Wolf and Chuey Perez.
NALIP congratulates all of the members
that participated in the film for such an achievement!
Writer/Director/Producer
Georgina Garcia Ridel
Producer
Olga Arana
Producer
Jose Carlos Mangual
Unit Production
Manager
Octavio Marin
Second AD
Michael Baez
Second Second
AD
Valentino Costa
Art Director
Elizabeth Calienes
Assistant Art
Director
Carlos Espinoza
Craft Services
Lori Cordova
Production
Assistant
Dolly Espinal
Production
Assistant
Ben Lopez
Production
Assistant
Sierra Ornelas
Attorney
Alexis Garcia
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SPANISH TV DOES WELL
IN NOVEMBER SWEEPS
Spanish-language television networks attracted larger audiences
in the November sweeps. Telemundo
and TeleFutura saw
growth in total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. Univision, while flat in total
primetime viewers, saw a 6.1% rise in 18- to 49-year olds.
Media Life (12/10)
SANTA
FE FILM FESTIVAL BESTOWS AWARDS
BizJournals Fri, 10 Dec
2004 9:58 AM PST
The fifth annual Santa Fe Film Festival handed
out 10 Milagros Awards and honored two film veterans,
actor Alan Arkin and director Alfonso Arau.
'SPANGLISH'
HAS LANGUAGE ALL ITS OWN
Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:28 pm PST
AP - Cool, collected and
classy describe the Hollywood premiere of James L. Brooks'
"Spanglish," a dramatic comedy with a language all its
own. Full
Story
MOVIE
NEWS
Zap2It Fri, 10 Dec
2004 10:13 PM PST
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) -- Walter Salles, who directed
"The Motorcycle Diaries" this year, is receiving the International
Filmmaker Award at the 16th Palm Springs International
Film Festival in January.
JENNIFER
LOPEZ TURNS PRODUCER:
New Kerala Sat, 11 Dec
2004 5:32 AM PST
[World News]: London, Dec 11 : Pop diva Jennifer Lopez
is presently spicing things up in the South Beach. She
has entered a contract with UPN to produce a Miami-based
prime-time soap opera.
CINDERELLA
STORY DREAMS COME TRUE FOR KRANKS CO-STAR GONZALO
Canoe Sun, 12 Dec 2004
0:34 AM PST
HOLLYWOOD -- Julie Gonzalo is used to surprised looks
when she walks into a casting session. "Given my last
name, they're expecting a more traditional Latino look,"
says Gonzalo, 23, whose fair hair and fair skin decry
her heritage.
WAR AFFECTS TV NEWS
COVERAGE OF HISPANICS
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Television news coverage of Hispanics
was more favorable in 2003 - largely because of reports
on the wartime service of Hispanic troops - but America's
largest and fastest-growing minority remains mostly ignored,
according to an annual study being released Monday....
For the full text of this story, click here.
FREDDIE PRINZE GETS HIS STAR
The late Freddie Prinze was honored
with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday,
Tuesday, Dec. 14. Johnny Grant, honorary mayor of
Hollywood and chairman of the Walk of Fame Committee,
presided over the event with actors Freddie Prinze, Jr.
and George Lopez, star of the "George Lopez Show," also
participating in the ceremony.
CLOONEY'S (AND ANDY GARCIA'S) OCEAN
RIDES BOX-OFFICE WAVE
There was no stopping the all-star caper, which stole
National Treasure's crown...
Go
To Story>
GERMAN &
SPANISH PICTURES DOMINATE 2004 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Head
On and Sea Inside share top prizes. Barcelona event rewards
local favorites--with one major exception.
http://indiefilm.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000150023387/
'SIDEWAYS'
LEADS GLOBES WITH 7 NOMINATIONS
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 06:35 am PST
AP
- The road-trip flick "Sideways" led Golden Globe contenders Monday
with seven nominations, including best musical or comedy film, three
acting nominations and best director. Jamie Foxx scored three nominations
- two for the movies "Ray" and "Collateral" and one for the TV movie
"Redemption." Full
Story
The
LATINO Related Nominations are:
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A
MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
JAVIER BARDEM THE SEA INSIDE
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE
FILM
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (BRAZIL)
South Fork Pictures/Tu Vas Voir Prod.; Focus Features
THE SEA INSIDE (SPAIN)
Sogecine/Himenoptero; Fine Line Features
BEST TELEVISION SERIES
- MUSICAL OR COMEDY
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (ABC)
Touchstone TV
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A
TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
CHARLIE SHEEN TWO AND A HALF MEN
BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE
MADE FOR TELEVISION
AMERICAN FAMILY - JOURNEY OF DREAMS (PBS)
El Norte Prods.
Congratulations to all the nominees!
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POKER BABES LOOKING
FOR FEMALE MODELS
Poker Babes is
looking for girls with model looks, a dynamic personality and the
instincts of a cardsharp.
Casting Date: Dec.15th
Time: From 10 am-6 pm
Pay Rate: 14 models will be selected for a $1,000 each, 2
of those models will have the chance of winning $3,000 each, if
they win the poker game.
To qualify: Be comfortable with showing their breasts, have great
personality, have a great body.
You will come out in a poker babes DVD, be aired on pay per view
for a month, have your own personal Poker Babe website along
with other Poker Babe winners, also come out on calendars, posters,
coffee mugs etc.
Please contact me immediately if you're interested in submitting:
And say you were referred by Jeff Gund
Alexandra with Secret Angels talent agency, (626) 827-8902
And email your pictures to lupemuro@yahoo.com
check out www.ultimatepokerbabes.com <http://www.ultimatepokerbabes.com>
OPEN CASTING
CALL UNDERWAY FOR 'MIAMI HONEYMOON'
We are proud to announce that
casting is open for our 2005 production
of "MIAMI HONEYMOON", a psycho latino
dramatic musical thriller..........
like NOTHING ever seen before, guaranteed........
This wonderful story is about a latin
family, their son, his new yankee bride,
their honeymoon, a van and traffic....
Consider "que pasa usa"
meets CHICAGO the musical, with some addams
family values tossed in.....
Batovision Films is seeking bilingual
actors for several characters:
Concha : the wise but oversexed aunt
Abuo : the elderly grandfather
Mamita: repressed and repesssive
mother, very pretty, quietly bossy
in her own way
Viejo: the father of the troupe, thinks
he's macho and the boss but he's very
hen pecked.
Tico : the newly married son, bright and
optimisitic, naive..... thinks he's
Ricky Martin...... thinks the world is
tolerant and socially open to his ideas......
Lalisa: older jilted sister......
twice married by 19 and has five children
already by 21....... loud, screaming,
opinionated......
Loco: the nervous uncle, paranoid, prone
to flashbacks from life on a cuban farm....
Tonya: Tico's new very black, very yankee
bride. she has no idea what she got into.
Very pretty, very sexy, she's 150% woman
and likes to show off her beauty. Very
PROUD but occasionally she shows a demanding,
dominating side to TICO that no one else
sees....
This film will be produced in HIALEAH
SPANGLISH, has comedic highlights,
several musical numbers, but a heavy psychodramatic
tone.
Interested Actors should send a headshot
and resume to:
Batovision Films, 8581 sw 36 street,
Miami Fl 33155 attn: Mijo
Auditions will be scheduled for march'05,
with production planned to
starting in june'05.
more info on batovision films is
available at www.batovision.com.......
NEVER IN CINEMA HISTORY HAS ANYTHING LIKE
THIS EVER BEEN DONE!
be part of the future TODAY.............
OPEN CASTING CALL--
SEEKING 11-15 YEAR
OLD ASIAN, LATINO, AND EAST INDIAN BOYS
TO PLAY ROLES AS 13 YEAR OLD CHARACTERS
Spelling Bee Productions and LIONS GATE
ENTERTAINMENT, producers of THE PRINCE AND ME, OPEN WATER, MONSTER'S
BALL, are seeking 11-15 year
old boys to play 13 years old for 2 leading
roles in the feature film, AKEELAH AND
THE BEE.
This film shoots in Los
Angeles starting approximately January
23rd.
Here is what we're looking for:
DYLAN: 11-15
year old boy, to play a 13 year old Asian
or East Indian, a long-time spelling bee
participant, second place winner in the
national finals two years running.
Considered cold by others in the competition,
Dylan, we soon learn is being pressured
by his overachieving father.
JAVIER: 11-15
year old boy, to play a 13 year old Latino,
from an upscale Woodland Hills family,
Javier is a tremendously engaging and
charismatic kid with a great sense of
humor.
WHERE:
JAPANESE AMERICAN CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY
CENTER
244 South San Pedro St.
(Between 2nd and 3rd
Sts.)
Library, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90012
DATE:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2004
TIME:
11AM - 3PM
BRING:
PICTURE/RESUME or RECENT SNAPSHOT if
you have one
Pura Vida,
Henry K. Priest
Nosotros American Latino
Film Festival
Festival Director
NEW
TV SHOW LOOKING FOR HOSTS AND HOME VIDEO
BLOOPERS!!!
Tim
Greene Films is looking for your most
outrageous home video footage and bloopers
for a new national television show to
air in the spring of 2005. We are looking
for any funny skits, pet tricks. kid tricks
and funny home video bloopers to air on
the show. Send in any non-returnable VHS
or DVD disc as soon as possible (please
do not send your only copy - send in a
dub copy only). Urban themed bloopers
are welcome!!
Tim
Greene is also looking for hip hosts for
the show male or female ages 18 to 34.
No
phone calls or e-mails please.
Send
Home Video Bloopers or Headshots to:
Tim
Greene films.com
Box
20554
Phila,
Pa 19138
Please
write in the right corner of your envelope
if you are sending in a blooper or headshot
for consideration. Tim Greene has also
completed filming his 4th feature film
which is a G-Rated kid's movie due out
in the summer of 2005.
CASTING
'HORROR SHORT'
HORROR
SHORT
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Tyger Torrez
LOW BUDGET (some pay, credit, food- NO
COPY; there IS DISTRIBUTION, good for
a reel);
SHOOT DATES: MARTIN LUTHER KING WEEKEND
(JAN. 15, 16, 17) in and around
L.A./Montebello area
NON-UNION
H/R ASAP TO:
Tyger Torrez
1167 N. Hobart Bl. #8
Los Angeles, Ca, 90029
For info e-mail: cinematiger@aol.com
Cast
requirements:
KASSANDRA (Latina, 20s, pretty in an unassuming
way; shy, wears glasses, a
bit of a nerd, turns into a sexy Vamp),
OMAR (Black, same age; athletic, open
to adventure),
DANTE (Asian, a little older; the cynic
of the group),
(already Cast, but Back up okay) SEBASTIAN
CROWE (Anglo, handsome, pale,
serious, sad eyes; becomes a DEMON),
(already Cast, but back up okay) VASHISTA
(Anglo, gorgeous, dark hair,
piercing eyes; exuding confidence &
sexuality; becomes a DEMON).
Plus:
the ELITE: handsome MEN, stunning WOMEN
(open to all ethnicities)
the FREAKS: Very Tall, very Short, Overweight,
Thin, Tattoos, Piercings
(open to all ethnicities; all turn out
to be DEMONS)
GREAT
FILM LOOKING FOR GREAT PEOPLE!!!
A
Florida-based feature film directed by
award-winning Susan Seidelman (Sex
& the City, Desperately Seeking Susan)
is looking for some great extras for an
important scene to be filmed in the Miami
Airport this Thursday, December 16th,
2004 from 7am to 2pm.
The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club
is a charming romantic comedy starring
Brenda Vaccaro, Len Cariou, Dyan Cannon,
Joe Bologna, Sally Kellerman and Michael
Nouri embodying the grain of independent
cinema in the hands of competent craftsmen
and being an extra would be a great opportunity
to contribute to great filmmaking while
getting a front row seat to all the action.
We are looking for men and women of all
ethnicities and ages for this Thursday.
To be considered for a part as an extra,
please send an e-mail ASAP to karnissim@aol.com
with the following information OR CALL
305-761-7227 TO CONFIRM AVAILABILITY IMMEDIATELY:
NAME:
PRIMARY PHONE:
SECONDARY PHONE:
EMAIL ADDRESS:
ADDRESS/CITY:
HEIGHT:
AGE OR AGE RANGE:
HAIR/EYE COLOR:
UNION STATUS:
AND, if possible, a recent photo of yourself,
preferably from the shoulders up. You
may also call 305-761-7227 and leave your
name, phone number, and demographic description.
This is an unpaid position and extras
must have reliable transportation.
INFO: Miami Airport on Thursday,
December 16th from 7am - 2pm
CONTACT: Karine Nissim, karnissim@aol.com
or 305-761-7227
Many thanks for your help in spreading
the word. Please respond or forward
ASAP and no later than NOON TOMORROW -
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15TH.
SEE YOU IN THE MOVIES!
Karine Nissim
305-761-7227
karnissim@aol.com
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Alex Mendoza
Alex
Mendoza & Associates
AMARTE Design & Digital Printing
9513 Longden Avenue
Temple City, CA 91780
626-614-8277
alexmend@aol.com
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