NALIP--Latino Writers Lab
(Correction)
Applications must be postmarked by March 23, 2005
The all new Latino Writers is a unique program for NALIP members who aspire to work as professional screenwriters or who desire to develop a strong and viable screenplay for production or sale. Writers who are selected for the program will be invited to attend an 8 day intensive workshop. The first four days will be held in
New York City and the second set of days will be in Santa Monica, California. Morning instructors include Ted Braun, USC School of Cinema-Television, Harrison Reiner, UCLA School of Film and Television, Chip Diggins, producer/former Paramount Pictures Vice President, Marilyn Atlas (REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES), producer/ M.A. Management and Edward Pomerantz (CAUGHT), Columbia University.
For more information log on at www.nalip.org
HBO/NY Latino Film Festival Competition
HBO/N.Y. Latino Film Festival Short Film Competition
Ten Dollars + Five Minutes = $15,000
HBO has teamed with THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LATINO FILM FESTIVAL (NYILFF) to find the next hot Latino Filmmaker. The HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition is an opportunity where the winner will receive $15,000 in funding to produce and direct on digital video (DV) an original five minute short film narrative. The winning film will be presented on screen this summer during the 2005 New York International Latino Film Festival, July 26-31, 2005.
Applications can be found at our website: www.NYLatinoFilm.com
Deadline Friday May 6
Application Fee $10.00
Call For Entries-Extended
Call For Entries: New York International Latino Film Festival
Deadline Extended: Friday April 1
Applications can be found at: www.NYLatinoFilm.com
Celebrating six years of Latino cinematic excellence, NYILFF is committed to showcasing films and artists that offer expansive depictions of Latino culture to a cross-section of our diverse nationalities and communities. NYILFF screens films from North, Central and South America and the Caribbean made by, about and/or featuring Latinos or other indigenous people of the Americas.
Previous NYILFF premieres include: Imagining Argentina, Girlfight, Nicotina, Day Without a Mexican, Raising Victor Vargas, Empire, Crazy/Beautiful, Undefeated, Manito, Washington Heights, Rhythm of The Saints... to name a few.
NATPE TV Producers--BOOT CAMP (July 28-29, 2005)
***ATTENTION***
Special NALIP Member Offer!
Save $25 off NATPE TV Producers’ Boot Camp Registration. For more information go to www.NATPE.org to download your application.
NATPE TV Producers’
BOOT CAMP
Workshops and Pitch Pit
July 28-29, 2005
Wyndham Bel Age Hotel / West Hollywood, CA
Chica Luna Latina Short Film Showcase 2005
Chica Luna Productions and Latino students at Columbia University join efforts to present the First Chica Luna Short Film Showcase. Based in El Barrio, Chica Luna is a non-profit organization that seeks to develop and support women of color who use popular media to engage social justice themes and are accountable to communities.
Join us to celebrate the First Chica Luna Short Film Showcase which features work from a current wave of emerging Latina and Chicana filmmakers from the west coast to the east. This long-awaited event will take place on Monday, March 21, 2005 starting at 7 p.m. at Columbia University's Lerner Hall Roone Arledge Cinema and is open to the public. Tickets are five dollars.
"These emerging Latina filmmakers can now control how the nuances, subtleties and complexities of the Latino culture are parlayed to a worldwide audience. This important transference of power can also help shape, in great degree, the ways in which our culture is understood by the mainstream America audience," writes Adriana C. Muñiz and Maria Fernanda Nieto (HISPANIC magazine, Feb. 2005).
The showcase features nine short films including Co-founders of Chica Luna and Columbia Alumni Sofia Quintero and Elisha Miranda's BLIND DATE, a dark romantic comedy about a woman who goes on a date with the man who tried to mug her. Quintero, author of EXPLICIT CONTENT published under her pen name Black Artemis - perhaps the first novel about hip hop with female protagonists, wrote BLIND DATE, which was directed by Miranda, who is currently in pre- production on her first feature OUTSIDE THE WALL. Miranda's project was selected by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) to participate in the 2004 Producer's Academy and recently sold her first novel, "Miz Fitz" to Simon & Schuster.
Award-winning playwright and MFA candidate in Columbia University's School of the Arts Film Program Elvira Carrizal is the writer and director for IGNACIO'S KEYS, a drama about a porter who risks his job for his passion when his dream of becoming a pianist drives him to enter a tenant's apartment to play her piano. Carrizal is currently in pre-production on her non-thesis film ESCAPING JUAREZ, an adaptation of her play set in Juarez, Mexico in the midst of hundreds of unsolved murders of women, which was most recently produced by New Heritage Theatre Group at El Museo del Barrio's Teatro Heckscher.
PURA LENGUA (All Tongue) directed by Aurora Guerrero, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival 2005. Based on true events, this film written by Maritza Alvarez is a visual testimony of the violent circumstances that lead to the rise of a queer, Xicana poet. Guerrero is currently working on her first feature MOSQUITA Y MARI.
Sonia Gonzalez' documentary, BRAGGING RIGHTS chronicles how the New York City game of stickball has saved lives, broken down racial barriers and continues to build family and community. She received funding for BRAGGING RIGHTS from Latino Public Broadcasting and will have a completed piece on TV this year.
In SWEAT'IN, writer/ director Sonia Malfa debuts the story of a girl who escapes into her subconscious to confront the pressures of her life as an urban female warrior.
JUICY written and directed by Juan Caceres features actor Isabel Dawson, mother of Rosario Dawson. Other award- winning directors in this diverse mix include work from Susana Tubert, Marta Masferer and Cristina A. Kotz Cornejo.
This showcase is being presented by Chica Luna Productions, Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA), Student Organization of Latinos (SOL), Chicano Caucus, Accion Boricua, Mujeres, Smart Women Lead, Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad/Lambda Pi Chi Sorority, Inc. Beta Chapter, and Alpha Beta Chapter of Hermanidad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc.
The screening will begin at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 21, 2005 at Columbia University's Lerner Hall Roone Arledge Cinema (114th Street and Broadway). Tickets are five dollars which includes a short reception immediately after.
For more information call (212) 410-3544.
Chica Luna Productions
Elvira Carrizal
Film Showcase Coordinator
email: info@chicaluna.com
phone: 212.410.3544
Annenberg Latino Student Association's (ALSA) Special Event
"LATINOS IN ENTERTAINMENT"
Come learn about the politics, challenges, and rewards in entertain-ment and listen to the stories of these young professionals on the rise.
The newly established Annenberg Latino Student Association (ALSA) will be hosting their biggest event of the semester on Monday March 21, 2005 at 5pm at the University of Southern California. ALSA will be presenting a night of "Latinos in Entertainment" featuring ALEXXX from SUPER ESTRELLA 107.1 FM, Susy Tavarez from 102.7 KIIS FM, and producer Giovanna Reyes from VH1.
Members and non-members of ALSA are excited at the opportunity of hearing an "insider's" perspective about the English and Spanish entertainment industries. The event promises to be everything true to our Latino culture: con mucho sabor.
WHAT:
LATINOS IN ENTERTAINMENT
WHEN:
MARCH 21, 2005 @ 5PM
WHERE:
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM (EAST LOBBY), RM. 236, 3502 Watt Way Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281
DIRECTIONS:
http://ascweb.usc.edu/asc.php?pageID=385
(WILL INDICATE MAPS AND DRIVING DIRECTIONS)
PARKING:
VERMONT STREET PARKING (PSA) ENTER AT THE VERMONT AVE ENTRANCE AT 36TH PLACE (GATE 6)
CONTACT US:
CO-CHAIRS /FOUNDERS: DIANA BEAS (562) 322-6278 (cell) &
BRENDA DURAN (562) 201-7592 (cell)
'El Trafico' Gains Entrance Into The 5th Annual Phoenix International Film Festival
'El Trafico', an independent short film from Volarefilms LLC and directed by Marco Santiago Jr., gains acceptance into the 5th annual Phoenix International Film Festival. The film festival, scheduled to run from April 7th through April 10th 2005, will exhibit "El Trafico" as part of its slate of short and feature length films.
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) March 16, 2005 -- Directed by award wining filmmaker Marco Santiago, El Trafico won top honors last May at the 24th annual MP/TV film festival in Scottsdale, Arizona, including Best of Show, Best Dramatic Short, Best Directing, and Best Cinematography, among other notable awards. The story reflects the growing violence involved in the trafficking of humans. Set in Southern Arizona, the story depicts a young boy who gets caught-up in the underworld of human traffickers. "El Trafico" is one of a series of short films directed by Marco Santiago that deal with immigration issues in the United States, human trafficking in general, and their associated violence. "We feel that this film is as timely as you can get considering the current events in the United States and the rest of the world, and the Phoenix International Film Festival is a perfect venue for local and regional audiences to appreciate the theme expressed in this film." says Marco. "El Trafico is only the beginning. The plan is to continue to crank out content that is relevant, emotionally impacting, and entertaining,” he continues.
Volarefilms LLC is currently in pre-production of a 35mm action/comedy short film titled Diablita, a story about how a screenwriter’s concept goes south during a surreal development meeting as two fast-talking studio executives proceed to turn his script concept into a T&A laden, gun fest driven, car chase between two hot & sexy females, in order to conform to a Hollywood style commercial marketing strategy. Diablita is set to begin production in late May.
For more information regarding "El Trafico", or for a copy of the "El Trafico" Press Kit, visit http://www.volarefilms.com/Projects/ElTrafico1/eltrafico.htm or contact Marco Santiago. IMDB information on this project can be obtained at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411992/
Volarefilms LLC is an Arizona based independent film company engaged in the development and production of feature length motion pictures, film shorts, and documentaries with the aim of creating works that are commercially viable, culturally significant, intellectually satisfying, and emotionally impacting.
Contact Information:
Marco Santiago
Volarefilms LLC
480-229-3143
http://www.volarefilms.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1642239/
“Un Secreto de Esperanza” Screening, March 18, 2005
Friday, March 18, 2005 there is a Private Screening of "Un Secreto de Esperanza" with Katy Jurado at PhotoKem, 2801 W. Alameda in Burbank, CA 91505 at 7 pm. The film is being released by Buenavista/Columbia Pictures in more than 300 theaters in Mexico tomorrow March 18. On Tuesday was held a Gala in Polanco, Mexico City were hundreds of people of the entertainment industry in Mexico, fans and media gather to view the posthumous film of Katy Jurado.
"Katy Jurado acreedora de una nominacion a los Oscares, da una interpretación magnifica...es una de las grandes interpretaciones de despedida...su ultimo personaje en cine provee un elemento esencial...a esta pelicula."
Scott Foundas
Los Angeles Film Critic
VARIETY
Visit: www.unsecretodeesperanza.com for more information.
The 9th International Latino Film Festival-
San Francisco Bay Area
9th ILFF in San Francisco
November 4th - November 6, 2005
9th ILFF in Marin County
November 11th - November 13, 2005
9th ILFF in San Jose
November 18th - November 20, 2005
Dear Friends of the ILFF!
The 9th International Latino Film Festival - San Francisco Bay Area is proud to copresent with the Balboa Theatre and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival the award-winning film by Daniel Burman, EL ABRAZO PARTIDO (Lost Embrace).
The International Latino Film Festival - San Francisco Bay Area featured the West Coast Premier of EL ABRAZO PARTIDO (Lost Embrace) at the 8th edition of the Festival in November 2004. IlFF and Balboa Theatre are delighted to offer ILFF Members a reduced admission fee of $6.00
E-mail: info@latinofilmfestival.org
Phone: (415)454-4039
Web: http://www.latinofilmfestival.org
Texas Media Empowerment Project Upcoming Events and
General Meetings for Spring 2005 - San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, TX - A co-op of individuals, grass-roots organizations, and volunteers announce upcoming meetings to organize future special events and media empowerment projects starting March 16th 2005 at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 922 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio, Texas at 6:30PM.
Regular meetings will be held every first and third Wednesday at 6:30PM at the Peace and Justice Center. Meetings will be held to organize upcoming film screenings, the Democracy Now! Broadcast, Indy Press fundraiser, and the community Mediawatch program.
What is Media Empowerment? Media Empowerment means communities taking back the power to define themselves, their needs and their vision. It means empowering people with the knowledge and skills to make media work for justice in their communities.
Meetings are dedicated to those who enrich our local communities through the process of empowerment. All co-organizers encourage volunteerism, activism, environmentalism, and community awareness through media advocacy. Therefore, creative support for the evening will provide an open space to collect information on programs promoting arts, culture, and political consciousness.
Meetings take place on Wednesday, starting March 16, 2005, at the, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, 922 San Pedro Avenue, San Antonio, Texas at 6:30PM. Fact Sheet and Mission Statement available upon request, and for additional information contact DeAnne Cuellar via email at deanne@tokyo.com, or 210.320.7561 or 210.228.0201
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IFP/LA’s INDIELINK
A quarterly filmmakers networking forum.
IFP/LA and NALIP Members, Guests, Vendors and Industry Consultants are getting together to network, discuss their their upcoming project needs, and find collaborators for their films at IndieLink.
Resumes, headshots, and reels are encouraged. Bring your business cards to be eligible for giveaways including:
SmartSound SonicFire Pro software, Final Draft software, and more.
IndieLink is open to:
Producers, Writers, and Directors looking for crew, talent, or resources Actors, DPs, Editors, Composers, Art Directors, Costume Designers, etc w/ resumes/reels offering their skills or services. Established filmmakers who are in pre-production, production, or post and want to increase their industry contacts New filmmakers who want to learn more about the industry and the latest media technologies
We would like to extend an invite for IndieLink to the members of NALIP.
To attend IndieLink please RSVP at reservations@ifp.org by Friday, March 18th.
IndieLink
Monday, March 21st at 7:00PM at CineSpace
6356 Hollywood Blvd (one block west of Vine)
Hollywood, CA 90028
¡GAYTINO! Playing At The Kirk Douglas Theatre NOW!!!
Center Theatre Group's Latino Theatre Initiative along with and LA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES FOUNDATION invite you to a New Theatre For Now VECINOS NIGHT presentation:
¡GAYTINO!
written and performed
by DAN GUERRERO
directed by Diane Rodriguez
Dan Guerrero, a Los Angeles native, hilariously chronicles his journey from East L.A. in the 50s to New York's Great White Way in the 60s and 70s and back to Hollywood. This musical theatre performer, agent, producer and all around Chicano mover and shaker tells of self-discovery, self-identity and acceptance.
Mariachi to Merman! Sondheim to Cesar Chavez! Show tunes and cancíones en Español. Dan's relationship with his father, the legendary "Father of Chicano Music" Lalo Guerrero, and a treasured boyhood friendship with acclaimed Chicano artist Carlos Almaraz drive the play through decades of Chicano history and the gay experience from a unique perspective. All universal themes in this 75-minute solo play with music that is witty, poignant and all true. www.gaytino.com
Vecinos Night tickets are $25 and include:
- Private Pre-show Cocktail Reception
- East L.A. Days/Fellini Nights by Marisela Norte
Part I - a 15 minute Gallery Performance
- Preferred seating for Gaytino performance
- Post Show VIP Reception (antojitos y musica)
PLUS
- New Theatre For Now Festival Pass *
Free access to 20+ Festival presentations over 3 weeks, beginning March 23
ORDER TICKETS BY PHONE NOW! CALL C. Raul Espinoza (213) 972-7513 or Fax the attached order form today!
KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE
9820 Washington Blvd. (at Duquense)
Culver City, California 90232
* The Festival Pass allows you to attend over 20 New Theatre For Now presentations that includes works by the following artists: Josh Kun, Carmelita Tropicana, Juliette Carillo, Ricardo Bracho, Robert Castro, Carmen Aguirre, Jorge Ignacio Cortinas, and Jon Lawrence Rivera.
For a complete festival schedule please visit www.KirkDouglasTheatre.org
Reel Rasquache 2005 - U.S. Latino Film Festival
Reel Rasquache 2005 - Festival of the U.S. Latino Experience in Film & Art returns for its second year on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. This year's festival will be held in the Luckman Intimate Theatre, Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1. Reel Rasquache 2005 will present approximately 20 new independent U.S. Latino films and videos from across the nation, guest filmmaker Q & A sessions, panel presentations, celebrity awards, and a Los Angeles high school student film showcase. The program will feature a screening of Jesus Trevino's landmark 1979 film, Raices de Sangre, one of the most significant works of Chicano cinema. The festival will also include an art exhibit, and multimedia performances of music, poetry, and spoken word to provide a unique West Coast celebration of works by and about U.S. Latino communities and experiences. For ticket information, call the Luckman Box Office at 323-343-6600. (Filmmakers: Reel Rasquache is still accepting film submissions for 2005. The deadline is March 25. For more information, contact John Ramirez at 323-343-2190 or jramire4@calstatela.edu.)
Christopher A. Best
Director of Development
College of Arts and Letters
California State University, Los Angeles
323-343-5061
323-343-6440 fax
cbest@cslanet.calstatela.edu
12th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (March 10-20, 2005)
[Day 9: Vanessa Bauche, Luis Mandoki, Dolores del Rio y más!]
Line-up for tonight Friday, March 18th, choose from nine feature films, after-party w/ KINO, and meet tonight's wonderful celebrities!
* TODAY IN PERSON: VANESSA BAUCHE (Amores Perros), & LUIS MANDOKI (Voces Inocentes)!
* Purchase tickets today at Mann Theatres Hazard Center box office (off 163 Freeway on Friars Rd.). Arrive at least 30 min. before showtime!
* After-party at FAT CITY tonight (9PM to 2AM) - (2137 Pacific Highway - near airport), only $10 cover.
TONIGHT! Friday, March 18, 2005
*Screen 5 - Sycuan Casino & Resort*
5:00 O Homem do Ano / Man of the Year
(Brazil, 2004, 113 min., 35mm)
Young Maiquel is thrown into a world of corrupt cops, drug-dealers and vigilante justice after a fateful trip to the hair dresser in this stunning Scorsese-esque tour de force from Brazil.
7:30 Perder es Cuestion de Método / The Art of Losing
(Spain/Colombia, 2004, 95 min., 35mm)
Far from the drug dealers and guerrila war, the discovery of an impaled corpse outside of Bogota leads journalist Victor Silanpa to discover that there exists another form of violence in his country: corruption.
9:45 Dias de Santiago
(Peru, 2004, 83 min., 35mm)
After fighting in the Peruvian army for years, 23-year old Santiago returns home to find that the military has not prepared him to cope with the realities of life on the mean streets of Lima.
*Screen 6 - Bank of America*
6:00 Digna: Hasta el ultimo aliento - Vanessa Bauche IN PERSON!
(Mexico, 2004, 117 min., video)
This powerful documentary on the life of slain Mexican human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa looks into the circumstances surrounding her death in 1991.
8:00 La Otra - Tribute to Dolores del Rio!
(Mexico, 1946, 98 min., 16mm)
Mexican movie legend Dolores del Rio lights up the silver screen in the dual role of a wealthy woman and her poor twin sister in this film noir classic. Proceeds from this screening to benefit McDonald's HACER (Hispanic American Commitment to Education Resources) scholarship program.
10:15 Promedio Rojo
(Chile and Spain, 2004, 104 min., 35mm)
Nerdy comic book aficionado Roberto Rodriguez battles low self-esteem, loser friends and vicious high school bullies as he vies for the heart of Cristina, the hot new girl from Madrid.
*Screen 7 - Southwest Airlines*
4:00 Rocco and His Brothers - Luis Mandoki IN PERSON!
(1960, 35 mm, 177 min., Italy / France)
Italian neorealist classic about a young man and his brothers who move to Milan from the country with their mother after the death of their father
7:00 Machuca
(Chile, 2004, 121 min., 35mm)
This magnificent coming-of-age story offers an unflinching look at life before and after the military coup in Chile as seen through the eyes of three schoolchildren of differing class backgrounds.
10:00 Desnudos
(Mexico, 2004, 100 min., 35mm)
A story of two unhappy couples, an innocent artist and his unfaithful girlfriend and a naïve girl with an abusive boyfriend.
* Meet Mexican actress Ofelia Medina! Purchase a Closing Night Gala (3/19) Pass today: http://www.presaleticketing.com/customer/611073826963/show_event?event_id=3071
The 12th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival takes place until Sunday, March 20, 2005 at the Mann Theatres at Hazard Center (off the 163 Freeway on Friars Road) in beautiful San Diego, California.
Movie tickets range from $6.50 Members/Students/Seniors to $8.50 General Admission for film screenings, $10 to $25 for concerts and galas. For complete information on group rates, festival passes, press credentials and a festival schedule, visit the SDLFF website at www.sdlatinofilm.com or call 619-230-1938.
* Purchase a Closing Night Gala (3/19) Pass today: http://www.presaleticketing.com/customer/611073826963/show_event?event_id=3071
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