Following the Voz Box Interview by Tony Plana with Dennis Leoni, a selection of shorts by NALIP filmmakers will be presenting a screening of their selected works. Please come out and support these wonderful up and coming directors/writers and NALIP Members: Iris Almaraz, Rina Fernandez, and Corina Mora (Jayson), Carla Gutierrez (Time Lost), and Iris Almaraz (La Puta) as they showcase their latest shorts for all to see. The screenings begin at 9PM .
Flix #1-- “Jayson”
Synopsis: In Jayson, Arleen Lopez shows us life through the eyes of a child. Jason's parents are so lost in their continual struggle that they have lost sight of the damage it is inflicting upon him. The film begins on an optimistic tone with Jason (Jared LeBaron) enjoying an intimate moment with his mother, Emma (Rina Fernandez). The mood is quickly broken to reflect the tension that exists in the house. From there, we meet Tony (Ryan Quintana), the husband and father, who comes home from work to play out yet another terrible incident with his wife. The resulting violence becomes the final straw that finally motivates Emma to take the action to save herself and her son.
Bella Donna Films:
Iris Almaraz, Rina Fernandez, Corina Mora are guerrilla filmmakers writing, directing, producing, acting in and editing their own films. Jayson is the second of a series of eight shorts being created by Bella Donna Films in 2004; four of which are being submitted to this film festival. Not only are they able to create a large quantity of films, but they are equally concerned with the sincerity of their stories and quality of their production value. Putting more of a women's touch into their shorts, they have created a refreshing and unique style that is easy to appreciate.
Flix #2— “Time Lost”
Synopsis: Albert Johnson's baby girl was just over a month-old when he was arrested and charged with two counts of rape. After 11 years in prison a DNA test exonerated him from one of the two charges. Time Lost delves into Albert's story as he attempts to reconnect with his teenaged children whose childhood he missed. Albert's story sheds light to the larger workings of our police and justice system. If DNA proves innocence in a black and white, what happens when the results are gray?
“TIME LOST” Short Film: 18 min.
If DNA proves innocence in a black and white world, what happens when the results are gray?
FILMMAKER :
Writer/Director Carla Gutiérrez is a native of Peru . After studying art at Williams College , she worked in the advertising industry in New York . Carla then moved to Washington D.C. where she was the supervising producer on Telemundo's Linea Directa, a weekly Spanish-language educational program. Carla also associate produced a national Spanish-language media campaign on lead poisoning awareness. carlagu@earthlink.net
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
Princess Grace Award Recipient, 2003
Flix#3— “La Puta”
Synopsis: Gaby is growing up much too fast and struggling to find her identity. Her trials are beyond her self-indulgent mother's ability to cope with. Luckily for her, the local town whore (La Puta) has a heart of gold and is doing her best to help the girl out by giving her some much needed advice on dealing with overly anxious boys and mother's with hardships beyond their daughter's comprehension. Meanwhile, Chencha (Gaby's mother) is so wrapped up in finding her dark knight that Gaby takes the role of mother and Chencha becomes the irresponsible daughter. "La Puta" is the story of three women who, like the town they live in, are stuck in between opposing streams of life.
Note from Iris Almaraz - Writer/Director
I learned much about the art of filmmaking while working as a waitress at the world famous International House of Pancakes (IHOP), mostly on the weekends, when she WAS NOT serving short stacks or funny faces. Iris has been the dictator who worked for twenty hours a day whipping her stable of slaves into filming and editing what is now "La Puta". However, the sweatshop conditions were not enough to deter the humbled servants who anxiously fulfilled their duty for a mere smile and a cerveza at the end of each day.
Event Information:
The Flix Screenings will commence immediately following the Vox Box event/interview with Dennis Leoni (Presented by CineSpace)
The schedule is as follows: The evening will begin at 7:00 PM with cocktails and dinner (optional) followed by a 90 minute interview session by with Writer/Director/Producer Dennis Leoni who will be interviewed by a close and personal friend (Tony Plana) giving the evening a very intimate look at the life and work of a very outspoken and opinionated filmmaker. Immediately thereafter (between 9-10:00PM ), will begin the Flix Screenings. (See above schedule for short breakdowns)
The Preferred Seating Deal: Since there are only 150 dining seats with an additional 100 spots in the screening area, and a total capacity of 600+. The venue is being offered for free; we will offer those members who make dinner reservations, preferred seating. We encourage you to come dine with us and watch a free movie and make new contacts. You must make dinner reservations directly with CineSpace by calling 323-817-3456. Seating is available on a first come first serve basis.
You must RSVP to this email FLIX@TotalAXIS.com for seating only. Entry is FREE but you are responsible for your own food and drinks.
Positions open in following areas:
--Membership/Administration
--Special Programs
--Office/Reception
Candidates must be energetic, professional, detail oriented, possess great phone manners, be computer (PC/MAC) and internet savvy, have the ability to multi-task and work well under deadlines. Looking to hire individuals who can commit 1-2 semesters and/or who can work between 10-15 hours/2 days per week. Flexible schedule available for right candidates. Exciting opportunity to work in a fun and relaxed work environment for a great team. This is an excellent break for anyone looking to familiarize themselves with the entertainment industry, gain valuable “assistant” experience working for executives or for those who would simply like to learn the ropes on how an organization like NALIP operates.
Students welcome. Positions non-paid and start ASAP. School credit available for qualifying students. Send resumes w/cover letter to NALIP at 310-395-8811 Attn: Jose Murillo
OR Call 310-395-8880 if you have any questions or wish to set up an appointment.
‘THE KRUTCH’ written and directed by Judith Escalona
16mm/DV, 29 minutes
Saturday, April 16 at 3PM
The Quad Cinema
34 West 13th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
The story of a Puerto Rican psychoanalyst with an identity problem... With Jaime Sanchez as the mysterious Dr. Guzman and Cathy Haase as his unsuspecting patient.
She will also be participating in the following panel:
Filmmakers Panel and Industry Reception
Current Perspectives in Latin American Cinema
Monday, April 18 at 6PM
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
FREE: RSVP 212.946.1839 or info@hffny.com
NALIP LPA 2003 Fellows Dora & Manuel Peña to Premiere short “CRAZY LIFE” at Cine Las Americas (TX)
Hey everyone, our short film "Crazy Life" made the selection for the upcoming Cine Las Americas Film Festival in Austin , TX . If you can come, we'd love your support.
Here are the screening details:
Cine Las Americas
April 20-24 th
Regal 14 Theatres, Metropolitan B
April 23, 2005 1:00pm
901 Little Texas Lane
Austin, TX 78745.
Call: 512.447.0110 for additional schedule information OR email www.crazylifefilm.com; www.cinelasamericas.org (the festival schedule is now posted)
"Living Together", a spec sitcom pilot created by Dave Matalon and Chris Woolsey and directed by NALIP Member Nicole Sacker has completed principal photography and is currently being shopped around.
Logline: A year after their marriage Ryan and Nikki have gotten divorced only to find they'll lose all rights to the luxury loft Nikki's Grandmother gave them as a wedding present if they don't keep living together (Granny's old fashioned and believes couples should work things out). Unwilling to give up their swanky pad they make a deal to live separate lives, together.
To know more, please call Dave at 323-664-7088 or Nicole at 310-266-7402
For more info on Nicole and her directing and producing work, go to http://www.nicolesacker.com.
The Roy W. Dean $50,000.00 film grant is closing 5/30/05 and the $50,000.00
LA video grant is closing 6/30/05 . If your film is "unique and makes a contribution to society" please read our guidelines and complete your application online at
http://www.fromtheheartproductions/. Any questions email caroleedean@att.net
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center presents the 28th Annual CineFestival en San Antonio
Entries Accepted: January 24, 2005 ▪ Submission Deadline: July 29, 2005
The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (Guadalupe), one of the nation's premier Latino arts institutions, presents the 28th Annual CineFestival en San Antonio - the oldest running international Latino film and video festival in the United States.
CineFestival will be held November 11 - 19, 2005 at the historic Guadalupe Theater and the new Guadalupe Visual and Media Arts School and Galeria Guadalupe. CineFestival provides an important regional forum for viewing a representative sampling of works produced by and about the Chicano/Latino/Indigenous people.
For more information please contact our website: www.guadalupeculturalarts.org
Wild Wimmin Films is Pleased to Announce:
‘LA GUERRA QUE NO FUE’ / ‘THE WAR THAT NEVER WAS’
A short film by (NALIP Member) Cristina Kotz Cornejo featuring Darío Prince and Romina Polnoroff and Music by Bernardo Monk will screen at the following venues:
8th CINE LAS AMERICAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
April 20-24, 2005
Thursday, April 21, 2005 @ 6pm
Austin, TX
www.cinelasamericas.org
13th PROVIDENCE LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
April 24-30, 2005
Monday, April 25, 2005 @ 7pm
Providence, RI
www.latin-americanfilmfestival.org
For more listings and show times, please contact info@wildwimminfilms.com OR www.wildwimminfilms.com
Don't forget about the CINEFESTIVAL deadline! You can access the entry forms through the NALIP website. Here is the link:
http://www.nalip.org/texas/sananto/CINEFESTIVAL.htm
The film short ‘Pact’ has made it into another film festival. This time it's The Beverly Hills Film Festival. Hanley Valentin, NALIP member, originally from The Bronx now living in LA is a producer on the film. If you'd like to see this raw and dark film, it will be screening: Friday April 15th at 10 pm at the Clarity Theater on 100 N. Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills .
Go to: www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com for schedule, date and time info.
The Latino Writers Committee of the Writers Guild of America Invites members of NALIP and a guest to a special screening of ‘Innocent Voices’/’Voces Inocentes’
Set in war-torn El Salvador in the mid-1980s, an eleven-year-old boy must decide between joining the army or fighting alongside the guerrillas. ( Mexico ’s 2005 Academy Awards entry this year for Best Foreign Language Film)
Followed by a Q&A with Co-writer/director Luis Mandoki (‘Trapped’, ‘Angel Eyes’, ‘Message In A Bottle’, ‘When A Man Loves A Woman’, ‘Born Yesterday’, ‘White Palace’, ‘Gaby: A True Story’) and co-writer Oscar Orlando Torres. Moderated by: Val Zavala (KCET)
Monday, April 18, 7:30 P.M.
Dessert Reception to follow
FREE ADMISSION & PARKING
Writers Guild of America Theater,
135 S. Doheny Drive , Beverly Hills
RSVP: (323) 782- 4536
A Discussion with Mayoral Candidates on Issues of Culture, Arts and Technology
Monday, April 25, 2005 at the Downtown San Antonio Public Library Auditorium, 600 Soledad
6:30 Doors Open
7-8:30 p.m. Discussion with Candidates
All the Mayoral Candidates have been invited to participate in this public meeting and bring their perspectives on San Antonio's most imaginative communities who are creating the Future in Culture, Arts and Technology. This democratic exercise demands your input. *You are invited to submit written questions for the Mayoral Candidates.
On April 17th, a panel of arts, cultural and technology advocates will choose twenty questions from those received. Candidates will be sent these questions with the understanding that no less than five questions of these twenty will be directed toward them on the night of April 25th. This ensures that the candidates will make substantive statements for the concerns of our Cultural, Arts and Technology communities.
Help us make this event a success. Send your questions to: imagination@dcci.com
NALIP’sters,
I am looking for producers or philanthropists interested in investing in a project on human rights abuses in Colombia through the medium of film. This feature length documentary will be an exploration on how this internal conflict, including the war on drugs, has affected the rich culture and everyday life in Colombia .
I have a talented Colombian crew, famous scholar consultants, and Edward James Olmos as my consulting producer. My short film on human rights abuses through the eyes of a displaced Afro-Colombiano who hid in a river for three days while the paramilitaries and Colombian army slaughtered nearly everyone in his village premiered in the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival presented by Edward James Olmos. My film was honored with a Showtime Award nomination. I also have fiscal sponsors, the Center for Independent Documentary. They have 501 (c) non-profit status which will make your contributions to the project tax deductible should you decide to help with financing. Remember, April 15th is just around the corner. Please visit my website for further information: www.venturafilms.com
Thank you in advance for your time.
Sincerely,
Mary Cuevas
455 E. Ocean Blvd. #207
Long Beach , CA 90802
562-331-4074
Please forward this message to any friends interested. This is the other side of the duplex I live in with my roommate. I would love to have some amazing friendly neighbors. So pass this along!
--Tonantzin
DESCRIPTION:
2 Bedroom large beautiful Spanish style duplex in Silverlake for rent. Newly remodeled, 1 and 1/2 bathrooms, hardwood floors, new slate tile kitchen floor, upstairs/ downstairs, W/D hookups, large yard and garage. Across the street from the reservoir / jogging trail, beautiful view, walking distance to shopping, cafes, restaurants, yoga, Trader Joe’s. Asking price: $2,200.00. Great location and a beautiful place if you work from home it is a peaceful quite area. Great yard to BBQ, garden or hang out.
Call 323-661-9882 or reply to tonantzin_e@hotmail.com
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NALIP would like to congratulate members Katrina Cabrera Ortega and Benjamin Lobato on being chosen by NALIP as the two screenwriting finalists nominated to ABC's Talent Development Scholarship Grant Program.
Chosen from a competitive field of member entries, these two writers' projects are forwarded into the competition that grants $20,000 to support development and completion of polished work for fresh and emerging voices. Katrina's script, "The Bad Mamajamas" is a light-hearted tale about a "mommy-and-me" group determined to pull off a jewelry heist at Tiffany & Co. in Beverly Hills . After Giselle Covarrubias falls on hard times, she convinces four fellow mommies they could use their collective talents to rob the iconic diamond shop and free themselves from financial problems.
Ben's "The Last Telenovela Star" is about Juliette, a telenovela junky who dreams of being whisked away by a handsome rebel on a white horse. When Rolando, an Average-Joe construction worker, rescues her from a grocery store brawl on the back of a donkey, she figures "close enough" and marries him. But ten years and two unruly sons later, Juliette has become a desperate housewife, so when Rolando takes her to a midget-wrestling match on their tenth anniversary, Juliette decides she's had enough and runs off to Mexico to become a telenovela star.
A native of California 's San Joaquin Valley , Katrina Cabrera Ortega graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English Literature in 1993. She went on to attend UCLA's School of Theater , Film and Television M.F.A. screenwriting program, completing in 1996. Since that time, Katrina has worked in television production in various capacities, from Researcher on the sci-fi series, The X-Files, to Writers' Assistant on a resurrection of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. While working on the show, Katrina pitched a story, " Sunrise ", which was bought, produced, and subsequently aired during sweeps, May 2003. Since that time, Katrina has taken time off to pursue motherhood and a freelance feature screenwriting career.
Benjamin Daniel Lobato is an award winning filmmaker and playwright. He is currently an MFA candidate in Dramatic Writing at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University , where he will be graduating this May. His award Winning film Mariposa Canyon has screened at over twenty-five national and international film festivals garnering numerous awards and accolades to include the prestigious Imagen Award and the Best Director Award at the Latin USA Film Festival at Madison Square Garden. Benjamin is also a 2004 Latino Producer's Academy graduate; and was recently selected by the McNamara Foundation to receive a twenty thousand dollar project grant for his short film Aire. Benjamin also recently signed on with Fluid Motion Productions to direct, The Midas Touch, a romantic Comedy set for production this summer in New York City .
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NALIP’sters,
I need a couple of cameras (preferably mini-DV's), operators, and some PA types (very outgoing and organized) to work the line, sign in people, etc. We have a limited budget, so please have a quote available when inquiring with me on how much you will charge for your services working a schedule from 9am-7pm on Thurs & Friday, so that I will be able to determine who I can hire and get my budget approved.
The shows we're casting for are:
#1
Urban Jungle 2: Privileged 21-25 year olds to live on the other side of the tracks in tough LA neighborhood for 3 weeks.
#2
Slam: An urban arts competition show (MC Battles, Dance, Urban Designers, Models, Spoken Word, etc.)
Let me know if you need anything further. Ideally, I'd like people to get back to me over the next couple of days. I appreciate all your help!
Dolly Josette Espinal
Manager of Development
Sí TV
3030 Andrita Street , Bldg. A
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Main (323) 256-8900 x 133
Direct (323) 543-2763
Fax (323) 256-9888
April 8, 2005 – April 15, 2004
Positions Included:
Storyboard Revisionist (2), Storyboard Artist (2), Character Designer, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer, Character Designer, Background Designer, Animation Director, Prop Designer, Background Layout Artist, Storyboard Artist, Storyboard Artist/Revisionist, Background Painter, CG Generalist, Character Rigger, Compositor, CG Character Animator, CG Modeler, 3D Layout Artist, Production Assistant, and many, many more…
JOB HOTLINE: 818.736.3673
Espa ñol :
Busco una narradora en el Area de la Bahia de San Francisco para un largometraje documental. Debe tener una voz que la identifique como una mujer de 20 a 35aqos y hablar castellano de origen latinoamericano. El castellano debe ser su lengua natal. Busco a alguien que pueda hacer la narración con un acento mas bien "neutro", es decir, que no sea facilmente identificable como Mexicano, Argentino, etcetera. Este es un trabajo remunerado. Por favor escribir a Gabriela Quirss a azulproductions@yahoo.com contandome sobre su experiencia y diciendome si puede enviarme un audio cassette con una prueba de voz.
English:
I am looking for a female narrator in the San Francisco Bay Area for a Documentary film I am completing. Candidate should have a voice which identifies her as a woman in her 20’s to mid-30’s with hints of a Castilian accent from Latin America . Castilian Spanish must be candidate’s native tongue. I am looking for someone who can narrate with an otherwise “neutral” accent, so as to not be easily recognizable as a Mexican, Argentinean accent, etc…Will compensate for hours worked. Please e-mail inquiries to Gabriela Quirss at azulproductions@yahoo.com including relevant experience and if there is a possibility to send an audio sample of your voice for review.
Muchas gracias/Thank you
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