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AUSTIN, TEXAS LAUNCHES NALIP CHAPTER TO
GREAT FANFARE
I'm
glad to report that the NALIP_AUSTIN launch party last night
(May 11) was a huge success! According to our sign-in
sheets, 54 people came. Of those, 19 indicated interest in
rolling up their sleeves to help shape the organization
further.
The attendees were mostly from Austin and
central Texas (Buda, Del Valle, San Marcos, Round Rock,
Manchaca), and from as far off as Houston. Several
NALIPSTERS from Dora's well-oiled machine in San Anto
(TXNALIP) came as a show of support.
Hector Galan was a
GREAT speaker and extraordinarily gracious, staying after his
talk to answer questions and chat with whomever approached
him. I think that really made a difference in making
attendees feel that NALIP was an organization they would want
to be a part of.
Many of those who attended are NOT
NALIP members. Of those who said they wanted to work on
the organizing committee, we informed them that they would
need to join the organization, as indicated in NALIP chapter
guidelines. We (Manuel, Rupert and I) will be sure to keep
this present in future meetings.
Belinda
Acosta
Austin Texas
People Meter pulls in protesters
The battle over the launch of Nielsen Media
Research's local People Meter service came to Los Angeles on
Monday as activists held a news conference on the steps of
City Hall to criticize Nielsen for what its detractors view as
a systemic problem of undercounting minority television
viewership. "If Nielsen gets its way, minority viewership
could be dramatically undercounted, and the civil rights of
Latinos and African Americans will be shortchanged with less
programming, less economic opportunities and less influence in
the media marketplace," said Alex Nogales, president of the
National Hispanic Media Coalition. "This is an issue of civil
rights for the entire entertainment industry." Joining Nogales
at the morning news conference organized by the Don't Count Us
Out coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers were Rep. Hilda
Solis, D-Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council members Bernard
Parks and Jan Perry and producers Moctesuma Esparza
("Selena"), Josefina Lopez ("Real Women Have Curves") and
Dennis Leoni (Showtime's "Resurrection Blvd."). (Cynthia Littleton)  FULL STORY
Editor’s Note: Mis
estimados compinches, this is a MAJOR ISSUE for our future
including that of our children. Of all the issues that concern
our ability to be successful in the industry, the counting of
our people in the minds of advertisers and programmers is of
the outmost importance. Please support this effort visiting
their web site to get informed and to sign an online petition
letter. DO IT NOW! http://www.dontcountusout.com/
ON THE SCENE ®: DISPATCH FROM CANNES: Day One
Dawning with Almodovar in the Spotlight (by
Eugene Hernandez, May 12, 2004) Cannes coverage
presented by the Sundance Channel's Anatomy of a
Scene
A new season of international cinema will kick
off today (Wednesday) with the opening of the 57th Festival de
Cannes in France. Filmmakers, industry execs, and journalists
from around the world arrived here in Cannes
yesterday, jamming nearby Nice-Cote d'Azur airport before
making their way to the already bustling Croisette to get
settled in for this year's fest. At the Palais des Festivals,
security was expectedly tight with attendees subjected to bag
searches and individual wand scans by guards. Amidst ongoing
terrorism concerns at high profile events such as Cannes,
locals are also keeping an eye on arts protestors who have
vowed to disrupt this year's festival to voice their
frustration over government
employment
benefits.
Read the Full Story @
indieWIRE.com
http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_040512cannes.html
Momentum,
Aurum love The
Dark
Momentum Pictures
and Aurum Producciones make their first joint
acquisition.
BESSON'S 'BANDITAS' LANDS AT
FOX
Hayek, Cruz in talks for roles as
bank robbers
Twentieth Century Fox will handle
the domestic release of "Banditas," from producer Luc Besson.
Besson and Robert Mark Kamen penned the screenplay and have
set directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning for the
pic.
Voy
ventures down Cherry Road
'Blue'
to inaugurate shingle's pic prod'n
activities
By ANNA
MARIE DE LA FUENTE
HOLLYWOOD -- Fledgling
U.S. Hispanic producer Voy Pictures has inked a three-pic
co-development and production deal with Santa Monica-based
shingle Cherry Road Films. Leading
the trio is family adventure pic "Wild Blue," to be helmed by
J.B. Rogers ("American Pie 2"). Penned by John Morgan and
Chris Taylor, pic is a cross between "Romancing the Stone" and
"Spy Kids," with 11-year-old leads.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117904756?categoryid=1731&cs=1
Raul Salinas y Sus Many Mundos Return to Self Help Graphics,
May 13
Seventy-year-old poetic icon raulrsalinas makes
a special unscheduled stop at Self-Help Graphics in East LA on
Thursday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m. with guest musician Mikey
Figgins, an original member of San Diego's Taco Shop Poets now
pursuing music exclusively. Considered by to be one the the
two most important surviving Chicano poets alive today for
historical, political and literary reasons, Salinas has shared
the staged with luminaries such as Pedro Pietri, Miguel
Piñero, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Jose Montoya, Ricardo Sanchez and
many others. His work as a human rights activist is recognized
internationally. This is rare opportinunity to honor and
support a classic author who's book "Un Trip Through the Mind
Jail Y Otras Excursions" is now in reissue at Arte Publico
Press. The event/booksigning is free an dopen to the pubic.
Self-Help Graphics is located at 3802 Cesar Chavez Ave. Visit
www.selfhelpgraphics.com
for more details.
New T.V. Show
Official Launch Parties
MC Entertainment, The Halo Group and
Hitmen Entertainment announce the Official Launch
Party of the recently completed Television
Pilot “LatiNoche” or
“LatiNights”, which covers the hottest nightlife
around the world. This 22 episode travel series has been
described as “ …a delicious cocktail of WILD ON, CANDID
CAMERA, and COPS, mixed in a Latino
blender.”
The Official Launch
Party
will take place on Thursday May 20 th , from
9:30 pm to 1:30 am at CLUB IVAR (6356 Hollywood
Blvd. LA, 90028) and will have a dance exhibition, open bar
from 9:30PM -10:30PM, prize give-aways, dance contests and a
raffle for the “LATINOCHE VIP BALLER CRUISE”, where 2 lucky
winners and their friends, will win a night out on the town in
a Hummer Limousine, accompanied by our dancers (LatiNenas), on
a televised VIP club tour of the hottest clubs in L.A.
The following night, May 21 st , we
will be hosting our Website Release
Party, where we’ll celebrate the
inauguration of our new website, www.Latinoche.com with
world famous Salsa orchestra, SON MAYOR. This event will be
held @ the world famous “CENTURY CLUB” (10131
Constellation Blvd. Cent.City, 90067) from 9:30 pm to 2
am.
“THE VIP BALLER CRUISE” winners depart
at midnight and have scheduled stops at WHITE
LOTUS, CLUB IVAR, and will end up at after hours CLUB
NAKED.
Both events are free and open to the
public. You must be over 21 with valid ID. To attend, you must
go to www.Latinoche.com and fill in the NEWSLETTER Form. You
will receive an email response with your confirmation
code.
***IF YOU DO NOT RSVP via email &
receive a code, admission will be charged at the
door.
*Dress code for The Ivar is casual.
(no athletic gear)
*Dress code for Century Club is
upscale attire. (Slacks, collard shirts
etc.)
HBO & THE NY
INTERNATIONAL LATINO FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCE LATINO FILMMAKER
COMPETITION
HBO TO FUND WINNING
PROJECT
NEW YORK, NY (May 10,
2004) – HBO has teamed up with THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL
LATINO FILM FESTIVAL (NYILFF) to find the next hot Latino
Filmmaker. The NYILFF announced that HBO will be
sponsoring a competition where the winner will receive $15,000
in funding to produce and direct an original short film
narrative. The winning film will be presented on‑screen
this summer during the 2004 New York International Latino Film
Festival in July.
“HBO shares our commitment to
supporting and showcasing Latino film and this competition
will take that commitment to another level,” said Calixto
Chinchilla, Founder and Director of NYILFF. “The
Festival has presented different types of screenwriting and
pitching session competitions, but this one will give an
emerging filmmaker the unique opportunity to realize a project
from beginning to end.”
Call for
Entries
The details for the competition are as
follows:
·
Filmmakers should submit completed
scripts for a narrative short film, maximum 5 minutes long,
plus a filmmaker reel or previously produced short by May 31,
2004 to NYILFF, c/o HBO SHORT FILM CONTEST, P.O. Box 72 New
York, NY 10023
·
Winner to be announced by June 21,
2004
·
HBO to receive final cut of
winning film by July 19, 2004
·
Finished short film to premiere at
NYILFF’s 2004 opening night and presented before every 2004
NYILFF feature screening
·
Application Fee: $10.00
“HBO understands the challenges of
finding fresh voices and stories that speak to the Latino
experience and we’ve been actively pursuing this area for
awhile,” said Olivia Smashum, executive vice president,
subscriber marketing and business development at HBO. “Along
with the NYILFF, this competition allows us to continue to
support the development and promotion of new Latino talent,
and on a broader base, help capture the attention and cultural
diversity of Latinos on film.”
The New York International Latino Film
Festival is the first festival in New York City
to showcase the works of national Latino filmmakers alongside
international Latin American films, while offering expansive
images of the Latino experience. The festival presents works
in the categories of Feature Film (in Spanish and English) and
Vanguard Cinema, which includes experimental works,
documentaries, student works and short films. The 6‑day
festival also includes panel discussions, parties, educational
forums and special events. The festival will be
presented in July 2004 (official dates of the festival to be
announced shortly).
Full details can be obtained from the
Festival’s website, www.NYLatinoFilm.com or by calling THE NEW
YORK INTERNATIONAL LATINO FILM FESTIVAL hotline at
212‑265‑8452.
HBO® is a registered service mark of
Home Box Office, Inc.
YO SOY
LATINA!
After 3 years of sold out Off Broadway
performances and over 50 college
performances
including Harvard, Duke and Brown, the
hit play about 6 Latinas looking for truth is coming to Off
Broadway!
Written and Directed by: Linda
Nieves-Powell
THE PANTHEON
THEATER
303
W. 42nd
Street
between 8th and
9th
Avenue
New
York,
NY
July 13th -
August 1st 2004
Tue-Sat
7:30pm, Sun 2pm & 6pm, Wed. 3pm
Tickets available
through www.smarttix.com
For more info visit our website at www.latinoflavored.com
Produced by: Latino Flavored
Productions Inc.
Experienced
writer/director seeks ASSOCIATE PRODUCER/PRODUCTION MANAGER
for upcoming
projects,
this
summer and beyond. Detail oriented, reliable, energetic -- you
know the drill.
Resumes
to:
Bill
Baykan
4429
N. Winchester
Chicago,
IL 60640
Email
to:
Baykan101@yahoo.com
National Latino TV Show Seeking Filmmaker for Behind the Scenes
Co-Production
AIM Tell-A-Vision seeks film students,
aspiring filmmaker(s) or independent documentary filmmakers to
document the behind the scenes journey of "American Latino TV"
and our other television properties which are set to debut
across the United States in the fall of 2004. We
can supply the camera, stock, editing equipment and potential
distribution platform (broadcasts or cable TV) and you supply
the vision, drive and objectivity.
You will be given free reign to
document the internal and external struggles of a small,
independent production and distribution company that is
helping to change an industry and providing much needed
English language programming to the U.S. Latino marketplace
and youth in general.
Interested parties must be
experienced, passionate, self motivated and recognize the
opportunity for change and the importance of documenting a
journey that is leading to change in the television industry’s
depiction of Latinos on American Television and
media.
Interested parties should email us a
cover letter outlining your experience and desire to take on
such a project to artistandidea@earthlink.net. The project is
non –paying but we can provide access to camera and editing
equipment and a share in the ownership of the finished.
product for possible exploitation via various platforms. For
more information visit www.AIMTV.tv
or email us.
The Los Angeles Latino INTERNATIONAL
Film Festival is getting ready to shoot our festival
trailer. We want to invite all actors and actresses to be part of
the trailer so we can demonstrate the diversity
& beauty of our culture in this community event which is
the festival. We hope you will join us to make the best
festival trailer ever!
1. Age: 24-35. Model-type Latinas of
all ethnicities are welcome. Caucasian, black, Mestizo, Asian,
Hispanic, of Indian origin etc. Diversity is a
plus.
2. Age: 35-60. Caucasian
woman. Hollywood Executive-type.
Think Sherry Lansing, Penny Marshall.
3. Ages: 40
+. Caucasian man. Harvey Weinstein type.
This is for agents, managers and
casting directors only:
Please contact Stephanie Martin at
323 304-5758, laliff2004@yahoo.com
Actors please send headshots/resumes
to:
Los Angeles Latino
International Film Festival
attn: S. Martin
6777 Hollywood Blvd. Suite
500
Los Angeles, CA
90028
Please specify on the cover of the
envelope your country of origin if you are submitting for the
Latino or otherwise please specify
Male or Female Executive.
Marlene Dermer
Executive
Director/Programmer
Los Angeles Latino
International Film Festival (LALIFF)
6777 Hollywood Blvd. Suite
500
Hollywood, CA 90028
323-469-9066 Tel
323-469-9067 Fax
www.latinofilm.org
Alex
Mendoza
Alex
Mendoza & Associates
8835 Las Tunas
Drive
Temple City, CA
91780
626-614-8277
alexmend@aol.com
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