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El actor expone las
duras experiencias de los indocumentados en su cinta
independiente ‘The
Gatekeeper’
John Carlos Frey creció en el sur de San Diego, muy
cerca de la línea fronteriza con Tijuana. Ahí, por el patio de
su casa pasaban...
Vaticinan que la
población hispana de EE.UU. se triplicará para
2050
El tamaño de las
comunidades hispana y asiática de Estados Unidos se triplicará
para el año 2050, y la suma de todas las minorías será casi
equivalente a la cantidad de blancos estadounidenses, vaticinó
la Oficina del Censo del país. ARTICULO COMPLETO
Editor’s Note:
Once more the numbers are staggering, but I continue to claim
that these ARE NOT the most relevant of statistics. I insist
that the numbers that are truly relevant are those that show
that in the five top US markets, three of them the most
influential markets of the world,… WE ALREADY ARE THE
MAJORITY. WE ARE THE TRENDSETTERS. WE ARE THE MAINSTREAM! We
need to take ownership of this fact! Just my humble opinion…,
Alex
ON THE SCENE ®: Cinequest Awards Brazilian "Man" its
Maverick Spirit Award; Touts Online Project
(by Brian Brooks, March 18, 2004)
The Cinequest Film
Festival closed last weekend, awarding Brazilian film "O Homen
Que Copiava" (The Man Who Copied) its Maverick Spirit award,
capping a 12-day event in San Jose, Calif., that included 168
films from 22 countries. The top competition prize winner,
directed by Jorge Furtado, follows the story of a 20-year-old
high-school drop out who finds
himself counterfeiting
money as a means to get a girl's attention, only to be drawn
further into the criminal underworld.
In other prizes,
Cinequest presented its best feature documentary prize to
Celesta Davis' "Awful Normal." The film, which had its world
premiere at the festival, focuses on the
director and her
sister's experience with child molestation in the late-1970s.
Growing up, the two were surrounded by a "normal" loving
family, but were abused by a social acquaintance of the family
that never went challenged by their parents. Twenty-five years
later, Davis confronts the man on-camera about
what had happened.
Read the Full Story @
indieWIRE.com
http://www.indiewire.com/onthescene/onthescene_040318cine.html
The Vine: All-star lineup seduced by
'Sin'
Robert Rodriguez is packing up a
U-Haul with a host of top talent in hopes that they'll move
into "Sin City," which he is directing for
Dimension Films. According to multiple sources, Leonardo
DiCaprio, Bruce Willis, Elijah Wood, Mickey Rourke, Brittany
Murphy, Kate Bosworth and Jaime King have been targeted for
the film, an adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic
novel
series. Read the story!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000465390
11th Annual
San
Diego Latino
Film Festival's
SONIDO LATINO! CONCERTS @ THE
FEST
Three more nights, 13 live acts (Jack
"Mr. Bongo" Constanzo, Orquesta Binacional de Mambo),
celebrities (John Leguizamo, Patricia Velasquez) and
more! The
San Diego Latino Film Festival is presented by the Southern
California Lincoln Mercury Dealers
(http://www.lincoln.com/).
Schedule of
Events
Galas &
After-parties
Ventanas &
The Westgate Hotel
** Friday, March 19th - Our
Latin Thing
** Saturday, March 20th -
Closing Gala Celebration & Awards Ceremony (John Leguizamo
IN PERSON!)
The 11th Annual San Diego Latino Film
Festival is proud to present the first ever Sonido Latino! Concerts
@ the Fest, Latino music showcase. This is a highly unique
opportunity for musicians, poets, dancers, filmmakers and
moviegoers to fuse together in this melting pot of Latino
culture.
at Westgate
Hotel
1055 Second Avenue in downtown San
Diego
$25 /
$20 at the door
(includes film screening - El Nominado
@ 7:30, El Misterio del Trinidad @ 7:00 &
Farmingville @ 8:00, hors d'oeuvres & 2 complimentary
drink tickets!)
9 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Live entertainment
by:
* Omo Achè (Folkloric
Afro-Cuban Dance Troupe)
* Jack "Mr. Bongo" Constanzo Band
featuring MariLu (Salsa)
*
Israel Maldonado (Brazilian
Rhythms)
* DJ Sesqui (Vintage
Salsa/World Rhythms)
note: Transportation from
Madstone Theaters to The Westgate Hotel will be provided
throughout the evening. Parking is also conveniently located
across the street from hotel. Or, stay the night at the
Latino Film Festival's "Official Hotel - The Westgate" (only
$135 per night).
**
Friday, March 19th - Our Latin Thing
**
at Ventanas Restaurant
338 Seventh
Avenue in downtown San Diego's Gaslamp District with live
entertainement
$10
9 p.m. - 2
a.m.
** Saturday, March 20th -
Closing Gala Celebration & Awards Ceremony
**
Guest celebrities include: John
Leguizamo (Moulin Rouge), Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under),
& Adam Rodriguez (CSI Miami)
at The Westgate
Hotel
1055 Second Avenue in
downtown San Diego
$25 /
$20 at the door
(includes film screening - Undefeated
@ 7:30, Amarte Duele @ 7:00, Kill Me Tender @
8:00, hors d'oeuvres & 2 complimentary drink tickets!)
9 p.m. - 2 a.m
Live entertainment
by:
* Areito Borincano (Folkloric
Puerto Rican Dance Troupe)
* Orquesta Binational de Mambo
(Big Band Mambo and Salsa)
* Gilbert Castellanos Quartet
(Latin Jazz)
* Bobby Matos & Rogelio
Mitchell Acoustic Duo (Afro-Cuban)
* DJ Sean Perry (Vintage
Salsa/World Rhythms)
note:
Transportation from Madstone Theaters to The Westgate Hotel
will be provided throughout the evening. Parking is also
conveniently located across the street from hotel. Or, stay
the night at the Latino Film Festival's "Official Hotel - The
Westgate" (only $135 per night).
For additional information, please
call 619-230-1938.
The Los Angeles Latino International
Film Festival joins "American Family" to invite you to please
join us at the following special free
screening:
"AMERICAN
FAMILY - JOURNEY OF DREAMS"
Special cast and crew
screening
Dear Friends,
You and a
guest are invited to attend a special screening of the first
two chapters of the miniseries, "AMERICAN FAMILY- JOURNEY OF
DREAMS." AMERICAN FAMILY, PBS' widely acclaimed drama, returns
to broadcast television Sundays at 7 p.m.
beginning April 4, 2004, with the Gonzalez clan celebrating
the wedding of one son while confronting their worst fears as
another goes off to war. Starring Academy Award(r)
nominee Edward James Olmos, Constance Marie, Yancey Arias,
Jesse Borrego, Patricia Velasquez, Kate del Castillo and
Raquel Welch, with special guest stars Esai Morales, Lynn
Whitfield and Rachel Ticotin, and special appearances by Sonia
Braga, the second season juxtaposes the Gonzalez family's
story against the broad sweep of contemporary history.
AMERICAN FAMILY - JOURNEY OF DREAMS
interweaves the
Gonzalez' courageous escape from the Mexican Revolution to
seek a better life in America with the sacrifices the family
made in the 1990s to send their first-born son to medical
school and the consequences of those sacrifices as seen
through the prism of war in Iraq to reveal how their past
informs their future.
AMERICAN FAMILY - JOURNEY OF
DREAMS was created by Gregory Nava and is produced by his
company, El Norte Productions, and KCET/Hollywood, in
association with The Greenblatt Janollari Studio and Fox
Television Studios. Underwriters: Johnson & Johnson, The
American Legacy Foundation, Public Television Viewers, PBS and
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Please join us
at the following special screening:
Thursday, March 25th at
7:30 pm
Hollywood Pacific
Theater
6433 Hollywood Blvd. in Hollywood
(between
Wilcox and Cahuenga)
RSVP to (310) 385-4415. For
more information, please contact Margie Hernandez
at
margie@arenasgroup.com or (310) 385-4421.
We
encourage you to join us for the second season will premiere
on Sunday,
April 4th, 2004 at 7:00 PM on PBS.
Smoking Mirrors Studios and Edicions Arte
Riff-Raff extend LA-area residents a cordial
invitation to a benefit fundraiser and birthday salute in
honor of poet/activist raulrsalinas, a granduncle of Chicano literature who has
shared podiums and microphones with everyone from Pedro Pietri
and Miguel Piñero to Oscar Zeta Acosta and Ernesto
Cardenal. Salinas is one of several writers recently
featured in Texas Voices, a new film by NALIP Member Ray
Santisteban. Join us for an unforgettable evening
titled:
FROM
BEBOP TO HIP-HOP:
A
Latino Spoken Word/Music/Media Celebration in Honor of
Literary
Pioneers, Cultural
Warriors
and Community Elders
&
Birthday
Salute to Legendary
XicanIndio
Poet raúlrsalinas
(be.
March 17, 1934)
Sunday,
6:30 PM
March 21st, 2004
Self-Help
Graphics
3802
E. Cesar Chavez
Los
Angeles, CA 90063
$5
Donation
For
more info call 323.888.9660. The event will be videotaped for
a documentary project on Raul's life in jazz, beat poetics,
the American Indian Movement, prison activism, international
human rights, liberation struggles and writing
clinics/workshops for youth in and out of juvenile detention
facilities as well as community centers nationwide. Special
guests to include actor, director and independent
producer Jesse Borrego, members of Culture
Clash and spoken word artists from Basement
Nation.
The
Writers Guild of America, West, The Academy of Television
Arts
Sciences
and Daily Variety Proudly
Present
The
2nd Annual Nonfiction Forum
Saturday,
March 20, 2004
WGA
Theater
135
South Doheny Drive
10AM
- 7PM
RSVP
to (323) 782-4570 or
Email:
mailto:nonfictionrsvp@wga.org
WGA
MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS WELCOME Free
Admission, Free Lunch & Free Parking!
Schedule
of Events
Panel
#1: NONFICTION TV -- 10AM
Moderated by Jim Milio (Panelists confirmed by this date
include Susan Lacy, Executive Producer, PBS American Masters
Series & Gary Benz of GRB
Entertainment)
COMPLIMENTARY
LUNCH -- Noon
Catered by Truly Yours
Screening
#1: WORD WARS -- 12:30PM
Filmmakers: Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo
Nominated for
the 2004 Sundance Jury Prize, the film explores the obsessive
world of competitive Scrabble.
Panel
#2: NONFICTION FRONTIERS -- 2PM
Moderated by Barry Clark (Panelists confirmed by this date
include Andy Gellis, VP of Large Format Cinema Association
(Former VP of IMAX Corp.) Andrew Soltz Writer/Producer of
Imagine & This is Elvis and a representative
from Bit Pass, Inc.)
Panel
#3: NONFICTION FILM -- 3:30PM
Moderated
by Ted Thomas (Panelists include Udy Epstein, President of 7
Art Releasing, a representative from the Sundance Film
Festival, and the filmmakers from Word Wars &
Spellbound. )
Screening
#2:
SPELLBOUND
-- 5:00PM
Filmmakers: Jeffrey Blitz and
Sean Welch
Academy-Award Nominated Documentary
that follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the
1999 National Spelling Bee.
CALL FOR STEERING COMMMITTEE
MEMBERS
The Latino Film Festival San
Francisco Bay Area seeks to fill positions for its
Steering Committee for the 8th Edition of the Film Festival
that will take place on November 5-21, 2004 in San Francisco
at Castro Theatre, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts &
Mission Cultural Center; Marin at Lark Theatre & Marin
Academy; San Jose at Mexican Heritage Plaza; Berkeley at La
Pena Cultural Center.
MISSION STATEMENT: The Latino
Film Festival, San Francisco Bay Area, promotes and celebrates
cultural understanding through the art of film and
filmmaking.
The Steering Committee is composed of a
group of professionals, educators, and film lovers willing to
donate its time and energy to steer this exciting annual event
forward. It meets once a month in San Francisco or San Rafael
in order to brainstorm on needs and solutions in all aspects
of the festival, including the following:
Development
-Corporate & Grant Writing
In Kind
Sponsors
Membership
Marketing
Media
Graphic
Designing
Web
Design
Events
Hospitality
Outreach Program
Programming- Jury Awards
Publication
Youth in
Video Program (film school)
The positions will start
immediately.
San Francisco meeting:
Monday, March
29, 2004 at 6:00pm
Univision KDTV 14
50 Fremont Street,
41st Floor
Conference Room
San Francisco
Marin County meeting:
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 at
6:00pm
Marin Academy
Foster Hall 2 (the three story
Victorian mansion)
1600 Mission Ave. at Cottage
San
Rafael
The members of the Steering Committee will be
working independently in San Francisco or San Rafael. Steering
Committee members are only expected at one of the two
locations.
This is an unpaid position. It has a number
of excellent benefits for film-lovers, educators, and
professionals, including free admission to screenings,
parties, and dinners with filmmakers, acknowledgment in LFF
catalogue and web page, and the possibility to work and
contribute to the community in a creative environment of
passionate film lovers and much more. Lots of
fun!!!
Please email a statement about your skills and
possible contributions to the LFF to
info@latinofilmfestival.org
Latino Film Festival - San
Francisco Bay Area
in association with Dominican
University of California
50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael,
CA
P: (415) 454-4039
F: (415) 454-4613
www.latinofilmfestival.org
Hispanic Promotional Events Company
seeks Bilingual Staffers
Our Male and Female Promotional
Models help distribute product samples, interact with
consumers and educate them on new products and services for
National promotional events in their local market
area.
We are always
looking for people with these skills
·
Promotional experience a plus!
·
Bilingual-Bicultural
·
Positive, outgoing, energetic!
·
Must be dependable and reliable!
·
Can demonstrate the ability to go
the extra mile!
Please send resume or a description of
yourself and attach pictures on .jpg format only.
For Additional
Information
E-mail our staffing
department at:
jobs@CarolinePromotions.com
Executive
Director Wanted for: VOICES
IN HARMONY
Position
Description/Background
Founded
in 1995, Voices in Harmony’s mission is to help at-risk youth
improve self-esteem, enhance communication and leadership
skills, improve inter-cultural understanding, and increase
academic engagement and achievement using mentoring and the
performing arts.
Voices
in Harmony fulfills this mission through two current programs:
Voices Theatrical
Production, which is a six-month, one-on-one mentoring
program that pairs urban teens with professional actors who
serve as mentors and creative collaborators. As a group, the
teams engage in theater and trust exercises throughout their
participation in the program. The group also focuses on a
theme such as stereotyping, substance abuse or violence, and
each individual pair develops an original short play based on
how these issues affect their lives. When the scripts are
finished, professional writers and directors offer their
expertise, helping each teen and mentor bring his/her shared
vision to the stage. As a result of this process, they are
able to impact others with their stories and share their
vision of what is possible in our community.
Voices of the
Classroom,
which is a classroom-based program that fosters a
transformative experience for students, helping them not only
become better students, but better citizens. Key elements of
this program include an intensive performing arts-based
curriculum - using explorations in drama, oratory, music and
poetry to improve student attitudes toward learning, schooling
and themselves. This program concludes with a culminating
event made up of student presentations and a second
culminating event delivered to a larger audience. Both of
these programs provide teenagers with a productive means of
self-expression that helps them to appreciate the power of
their own voice, connects them with the surrounding community
and encourages them to make positive life choices. We
emphasize the importance of life skills such as time
management; honoring personal commitments and learning to rely
on others; acknowledging and working on areas of weakness;
and practicing mutual respect through eye contact and active,
supportive listening. For
the past six months, Voices In Harmony’s Board of Directors
has been engaged in a strategic planning process to enhance
the current program model, expand our outreach to serve more
teens and work with additional program partners,
institutionalize our infrastructure and improve our
organizational sustainability. This planning has necessitated
the hiring of an Executive Director.
The
Executive Director will bring to the organization a commitment
to provide educational and
developmental
opportunities for at-risk youth in Los Angeles. He/She must
also have a demonstrated commitment to forge, build and
maintain communication channels to all segments of the
community. He/She will be expected to play an active role in
fundraising and donor development in order to support the
operations of the organization; develop and manage programs;
build consensus for and coordinate efforts to obtain resources
to support Voices in Harmony; build and maintain a high degree
of enthusiasm and support for the organization and its
programs; and, identify and build effective working
relationships with all
key
partners, stakeholders and segments of the community. Minimum
Requirements
All
candidates seeking the position of Executive Director must
possess the following minimum requirements in order to be
considered as a qualified candidate:
A minimum of (5) five
years of increasingly responsible nonprofit management
experience.
An interest
in/familiarity with mentoring, youth, education, theatre and
media (film/television).
Proven experience and
background in fundraising and development, with heavy emphasis
on fiscal planning, donor and sponsorship development, grant
writing, and donor relations.
Experience to develop
infrastructure, operations and programs for an organization or
start-up. Proven ability to develop, manage, supervise, and
direct a nonprofit organization.
Effective media and
communication skills--both written and verbal—working with a
wide variety of audiences.
Proven experience
working with community-based organizations.
Outstanding
interpersonal skills.
Knowledge and
experience working with a variety of software programs,
particularly datadriven software.
Bachelor’s degree from
an accredited four-year college or university.
Bilingual in
English/Spanish a plus.
Compensation
The
salary for the Executive Director is $45-50,000. Benefits
include flexible work hours, the opportunity to work from
home, as well as paid medical insurance, paid sick time,
vacation and holidays.
Application
Procedures
Email
cover letter highlighting relevant experience and
qualifications, a resume, salary history and a writing sample
to voicesedsearch@yahoo.com. While emails are preferred, you
may fax this information to the attention of “VOICES” at
818-655-8358. For more information visit www.voicesinharmony.com.
Voices
in Harmony is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Alex
Mendoza
Alex
Mendoza & Associates
8835 Las Tunas
Drive
Temple City, CA
91780
626-614-8277
alexmend@aol.com
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