Latinos In The Industry

Latinos In The Industry eNewsletter

Monday, March 29, 2004

NALIPsters:

It is with a heavy heart and enormous regret that we must inform you of the passing of lifelong Puerto Rican activist, and 2004 NALIP Lifetime Achievement in Media Advocacy award recipient, RICHIE PEREZ, on Saturday, March 27th.

We have been informed by former NALIP Board Chair, Lillian Jimenez, that Mr. Perez was with his immediate family at the time of his crossing over. I think we can take solace in the fact that we honored and respected him in life and will remember him as a giant who walked among
us. For a full bio on Richie Perez, please point your browsers to: www.nalip.org/conference2004/Bios.htm#Richard_Perez

God bless his unselfish soul... there will never be another like him.

CPB/PBS Producers Academy Offers Scholarships to WGBH Producers Workshop 2004

The CPB/PBS Producers Academy is offering Scholarship opportunities to 8 individuals for a Producers Workshop to be held at WGBH Boston, Saturday, June 26 - Friday, July 2, 2004. Each scholarship will include the cost of the workshop, and reasonable expenses for airfare, hotel accommodations, meals, and limited ground transportation.

Complete details, submissions requirements, and a downloadable application form can be found at www.pbs.org/producers. To be considered, an application must be received at PBS by 5:00 PM on Friday, April 23, 2004. Scholarship awards will be announced on Friday, May 21^st, 2004.

Over a seven-day period, participants in the Producers Workshop will attend an intensive course that covers a range of production skills and draws on the expertise that has made PBS a recognized force on the American cultural landscape. The goal of the Producers Workshop is to encourage a diverse and talented group of producers who will create new and greater programming achievements in public broadcasting.

The Producers Workshop will be open both to public broadcasting station staff producers and to independent producers who are involved or have an interest in public broadcasting. The Workshop will be located at and administered by WGBH Boston, which provides one-third of the PBS prime-time schedule and is the largest organization of producers in public broadcasting. The executive director of the Workshop is Judith Vecchione, Executive Producer, WGBH National Productions.

J.Lo to Guest on 'Will & Grace'
The singer-actress will play herself in the sitcom's season finale, set in Las Vegas.
http://people.aol.com/people/news/now/0,10958,605406,00.html

'Scooby-Doo 2' Tops Box Office

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Mystery Inc. ghostbusters might have to cut their budget for Scooby snacks. ``Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed'' took in $30.7 million in its opening weekend, good enough for an easy No. 1 finish but 43 percent below the $54.2 million debut the first "Scooby-Doo" managed in June 2002....

For the full text of this story, click here.

Leguizamo habla español en DVD de su ‘Undefeated’

La edición en formato digital tiene una entrevista con el actor de la cinta que marcó además su debut como director

Jorge Cámara
Especial para Espectáculos

27 de marzo de 2004

La película que marcó el debut de John Leguizamo como realizador de cine, Undefeated, pasó prácticamente desapercibida durante su breve corrida en las salas cinematográficas.

Dearest NALIPsters,

As many of you know...we are having the Grand RE-Opening of the Doolittle Theatre and celebrating the renaming of the theatre to The Ricardo Montalbán Theatre. This exciting event will take place on Saturday May 8th with a Special Celebrity Show.

I, Jerry Velasco, would like to ask every single one of you and your friends to come over and help make this event a success. I need volunteers to help stuff 10,000 invitations to the Gala. We will be here on Monday March 29th from 5:30 PM on.....and on Tuesday March 30th from 5:30 PM on...Nosotros will be providing food and refreshments!

Please make time to help with this task, and bring as many friends as you wish. As much time your schedule permits is appreciated.

RSVP by responding to ( victoriaregina@nosotros.org )with the number of persons you can bring to help, in order for us to provide enough food!

Thank You In Advance,

Jerry Velasco
President

PLANNING THE INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION

Many of you have asked me about my course at UCLA in Planning the Independent Production and if it is available to you. At the time I told you it was FTV 247 and that it is only available to students enrolled in the Masters Degree Program in the Producers Program of UCLA School of Theater Film and Television.   Well now I have some good news. We have been able to create an on-line course which parallels that course and you may receive college credit (grad or undergrad) fromUCLA for the course. It is offered through summer sessions in the summer of 2004 and it has the same lectures I do in the Degree Program..it also involves screenings and direct interactivity and communication with you and us during the course...The on-line course has been carefully worked through to give you the same attention one would get if you were in the classroom face to face with me.

If you are interested in taking the class (which I do myself and not staff) then all you have to do is click on the ucla summer session web site: www.summer.ucla.edu

and go to schedule of classes..then click on registrar and select the term "summer 2004" and scroll down to Film and Television. Click Film and Television on and go to FTV 247 section 3 OFF CAMPUS. That's the one...or here is the direct e mail address:

http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/summer/detselect.asp?termsel=041

ALL OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Affinity Models seeks Spanish Speaking Male ONLY Spokesmodels to visit multiple grocery stores for a Food Product promotion.

IF YOU ARE A FEMALE HISPANIC MODEL, PLEASE RECRUIT YOUR MALE RELATIVES
OR FRIENDS!!! WE ARE USING 'REAL' PEOPLE, NOT JUST MODELS!

There will be no promoting! Simply rewarding users of the food product with gifts!
YOU MUST BE FLUENT IN SPANISH!

The MALE spokesmodel will have a $20 gift card/certificate to give to the first consumer that they identify as having the CLIENT'S FOOD products in their shopping cart. The next 9 shoppers with the CLIENT'S food in their basket will be given SPECIAL GIFTS.

Each store must be visited twice within 2 weeks (1 visit per week). We prefer that talent choose 4 or more stores minimum that they can do all on one day and to REPEAT these visits a week later.

DATES: Two store visits, twice between Monday April 19 to Monday April 26th

Pay: $15 per hour. 4 stores minimum per day. (each store is 1 hour)

Here are the stores: Please choose a minimum of 4 STORES that you can visit. You can visit any store in any list. You dont have to limit yourself to one grocery store chain...you can mix and match. You can work 6, 8 OR MORE different stores every day for 6 days if you wish.
You may only wish to work a few days...UP TO YOU!

Please contact us for a complete list of stores. We have included a few as follows:

SUPERIOR STORES:
10211 S. Avalon Blvd. Los Angeles
7316 S. Compton Ave. Los Angeles
3831 E.Martin L King Jr. Lynwood
1954 N. Durfee Ave. South El Monte
7300 Atlantic Ave. Cudahy
1201 W. Whittier Blvd. Montebello
6010 Pacific Blvd. Huntington Park
8811 S. Western Ave. Los Angeles
1710 S. Main St. Santa Ana
1720 E. 17th St. Santa Ana
9801 Laurel Canyon Bl   Pacoima
111 E. Compton Blvd. Compton
3600 Cesar Chavez Ave. Los Angeles
151 S. Hacienda Blvd. City of Industry
1375 N. Citrus Ave. Covina
5824 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles

VALLARTA SUPERMARKETS:
9134 Van Nuys Blvd Panorama City
440 E Palmdale Blvd Palmdale
8323 Reseda Blvd Northridge
13820 Foothill Blvd Sylmar
9136 Sepulveda Blvd North Hills
10859 Oxnard St N North Hollywood
619 S Atlantic Blvd Los Angeles
21208 Sherman Way Canoga Park
21555 Roscoe Blvd Canoga Park
1111 W Avenue I    Lancaster
13940 Ramona Blvd Baldwin Park
5951 East Niles ave. Bakersfield
10950 Sherman Way #110 Burbank

NORTHGATE MARKETS:
722 N Anaheim Blvd Anaheim
580 W La Habra Blvd La Habra
1150 N East St    Anaheim
9101 E Telegraph Rd Pico Rivera
720 W La Palma Ave Anaheim
1425 N Hacienda Blvd La Puente
1623 W 17th St    Santa Ana
409 E 4th St    Santa Ana
230 N Harbor Blvd Santa Ana
6801 Atlantic Ave Bell
1120 S Bristol St Santa Ana
2120 Pacific Ave Long Beach
6991 Lincoln Ave Buena Park

Please send jpg pictures only to info@affinitytalent.com and name them "SPANISH SPEAKING MALE GIFT GIVER" (your name, your city) Be sure to include your phone and full mailing address (no po boxes please).

Open Letter to the National Association of Latino
Independent Producers

Dear Friends, At the last town hall meeting, during the 5th NALIP National Conference, some of us expressed our concern about the future of the relationship between our organization and the corporate sponsors (Time Warner, HBO, Disney and others). Undoubtedly, sponsorship has brought many benefits. I know this because I am one of the many who would have been unable to attend without a scholarship. But I also think the more we seek the support of corporations, the more we need to maintain a firm stance of not surrendering our independence. After all, we are the Association of Latino Independent Producers. I would like to emphasize that I am not criticizing NALIP for attempting to get more Latinas and Latinos into the entertainment industry. However, as a community, I think we would benefit from asking ourselves a few questions: What should our relation to the industry be? What do we want it to be? What can it be? What are the possibilities, which are the challenges? For example: do we expect our sponsors to provide the financial means while we provide the vision? This seems to me to be a pretty naïve expectation, but I already know my opinion. I would like to hear what my fellow NALIP members have to say. Which leads me to my second question: What about working outside the industry? What about alternative ways of producing and showcasing our work? What if the fmedia we are producing does not fit the industry standards? Put in a more direct way: what does it mean to be independent? NALIP's mission statement guarantees "Commitment to Latino/Latina media and filmmakers, regardless of the form or content of their work." I believe that independence necessarily has to do with the individual having her/his own vision; where the individual, not the needs of a certain market, are the origin of the work (hence the word original, don’t we all want to produce original works of art?) I think we need to maintainthe space where alternative non-commercial film and media making is explored. Finally, I’d like to volunteer myself to put together a panel on alternatives to the commercial industry next conference. But I think locally we can, and should, be permanently debating, holding worskhops, lectures, etc. which explore the role of independence rather than touching on it once a year. If we don’t pay attention to our independence, we will lose it. And it is very hard to re-gain lost terrain. We must come together as a community if we really want to frame the future. Anybody interested in helping out, or if you have any reactions to these thoughts, please email me at marcos@cantinafilms.com Saludos, marcos meconi, independent filmmaker cantina films 917 544 8398 Alex Mendoza Alex Mendoza & Associates 8835 Las Tunas Drive Temple City, CA 91780 626-614-8277 alexmend@aol.com

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