11th & C Street Productions Seeks Short Film Treatments and Scripts for Writing Contest

We're looking for relationship stories, true stories, or cultural stories, all with a strong, interesting leading female character.  10-20 minutes in length. The top 3 treatments or scripts win $500 and have the opportunity to be produced and submitted to film festivals.

Send submissions (by mail) NO LATER THAN: June 1, 2005 .

Although there is a deadline for the contest, we are always accepting new material.  Good Luck!

For more information, please contact:

Tlaloc Villarreal
11th & C Street Productions
8265 Sunset Blvd.  Ste. 105
West Hollywood , CA 90046
T (323) 848-3083
F (323) 848-3085
www.11cstreet.com
tlaloc@11cstreet.com
www.11cstreet.com
Lorie Mendez-Collins - President

Call for Entries for Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival

The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival celebrates its 29th year as the premier festival in the United States for cultural documentaries. The Festival is organized through the Museum’s Department of Education and will be held *November 3-6 and 12 &13, 2005*.

SUBMISSION DATES: *Now through June 15, 2005*

ELIGIBILITY: The Festival will consider all non-fiction films and videos, including shorts, experimental non-fiction films, and animation. Production year must be 2003-2005.

No resubmissions.

ENTRY FEE: NONE

Please note: Submissions will not be returned.

PREVIEW FORMATS : *1/2” VHS (Please clearly mark NTSC or PAL on the tape) or

DVD (Multi-zone or Zone 1, North American)

PRESENTATION FORMATS: *35 mm, 16 mm, BETA SP (NTSC ONLY), and DVD. Works in any language other than English must have English subtitles or English voice-over narration.

For info on submitting, go to website: www.amnh.org/mead

DIGITAL VIDEO EXPO EAST—
If You're Involved in Professional Video, You Need to Be Here

If you're a video professional, you don't want to miss your chance to attend this industry-leading event.

Conference: July 18-21
Exhibits: July 19-21
Javits Convention Center
New York , NY
DVEXPO.com
http://updates.dvexpo.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/enX30GwSYg0A0Dgy0AI

Get hands on time with the world of professional video techniques and technologies.

The fourth annual Digital Video Expo East is a four-day event that includes a conference on the technical, legal, and business challenges driving change in our industry, plus an exhibit hall chockful of new gear from market-leading companies.

World-renowed speakers--among them, lighting masters Bill Holshevnikoff and John Jackman, camera guru Adam Wilt, audio expert Jay Rose, industry-pro Richard Harrington, and award-winning motion graphics designers Chris and Trish Meyer--present full-day and half-day tutorials designed to help you sort the work and the workarounds.

Select from a one-day, two-day, or four-day conference package option and attend the following sessions:
* Studio Survival: Keep Your Multimedia Shop in the Black and on the Map
* The Lighting of Digital Images
* High-End Results with Digital Video Cameras: DV, HD, and HDV
* Studio Techniques: Photoshop CS and After Effects Integration with Results
* Audio Post Workshop
* IPTV as Video Distribution Alternative Panel Discussion
* Successfully Producing DVD Projects
* Shooting HDV for Broadcast Panel Discussion
* Legal Landmines for Video Producers and Digital Filmmakers
* Webcasting Production
* Introduction to Motion Graphics
* Lighting for DV, HD, and HDV

The exhibit floor offers you a chance to get hands on time with cutting-edge solutions and technological breakthroughs from such exhibitors as Apple, Arri, B&H, Canon, Discreet, Panasonic, Sachtler, and Sony, and others.

Register Online for a Conference Credential or Free Exhibits Pass

Argentine Road Movie (‘Historias Minimas’ / ‘Intimate Stories’) Opens
San Diego Latino Film Festival’s 2005-2006 Monthly Film Series

Never before screened in San Diego and just recently released in New York & Los Angeles, the San Diego Latino Film Festival is proud to bring to local audiences New Yorker Film's quirky road-movie set in beautiful Patagonia that has won the hearts of countless film festival-goers worldwide.  Near the provincial town of San Julian , three vibrant characters undertake seemingly mundane journeys that turn out to be subtly life changing. A lonely, fastidious traveling salesman quests for the perfect cream cake to win the widow of his dreams. A grizzly grandfather hitchhikes to town to find his forgotten lost dog and seek forgiveness. A poor young mother hopes to win the grand prize--a microprocessor--as a contestant on a TV game show. The gain may simply be the satisfaction of fully lived moments. In each case, the journey is the reward.

Acclaimed director Carlos Sorin's (Bombon El Perro), HISTORIAS MINIMAS / INTIMATE STORIES won Best Spanish Language Foreign Film at the 2004 Goya Awards and was in the OFFICIAL SELECTION at the Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival and the San Sebastian Film Festival.

HISTORIAS MINIMAS / INTIMATE STORIES will be screened for ONE WEEK ONLY exclusively at THE MANN THEATRES HAZARD CENTER conveniently located off the 163 freeway at Friars Road from MAY 13TH through MAY 19TH.

"Cinema En Tu Idioma" is presented by Santana's Mexican Grill and sponsored by: Univision KBNT-TV, El Latino Newspaper, Telemundo 33, Radio Latina, & El Sol de San Diego . Special thanks also to Casa de Argentina!

HISTORIAS MINIMAS / INTIMATE STORIES will screen five times daily from May 13th through MAY 19TH at: 12:30pm , 2:45pm , 5:15pm , 7:30pm and 9:45pm .

Tickets are: $8.50 general admission, $6.50 students, seniors and "Aficionados del Cine Latino" club members.  For mature audiences. In Spanish with English subtitles.

For additional information about screening times and tickets visit: www.sdlatinofilm.com or call 619.230.1938 #2. Hi-res. jpeg images available on-line at:
http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/nyf/t_elements/intimate/intimate_st.htm

Cuaron Could Get Slice of ‘Pi’

By Lisa Johnson (www.filmstew.com)

With M. Night Shyamalan opting for Lady in the Water, Alfonso Cuaron may come on board to helm Life of Pi for Fox 2000.

Full Story: http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=11200

HBO Sponsors Latin Filmmaker Award

By Lisa Johnson (www.filmstew.com)
For the second year, HBO teams up with the NYILFF to find an up-and-coming Latino/NALIP filmmaker.

Full Story: http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=11208

Banderas Heads for ‘Bordertown’

By Lisa Johnson (www.filmstew.com)
Gregory Nava will direct Antonio Banderas and Jennifer Lopez in the indie thriller.

Full Story: http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=11379

‘Ink’ Dries on Big Screen

By Lisa Johnson (www.filmstew.com)
Brian Grazer will produce the life story of an East L.A. graffiti artist-turned-tattoo-er.

The story is based on the life of an East L.A. graffiti artist who got a job as an illustrator for Hustler magazine and a designer of low-rider cars.

Full story: http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=11376

Owen Protects in ‘Children’

By Lisa Johnson (www.filmstew.com)
Alfonso Cuaron is directing Children of Men based on the P.D. James novel.

Full story: http://www.filmstew.com/Content/Article.asp?ContentID=11387

Arroz con Pollo for Mother's Day

NALIP’sters: Here is a great dish to share with family and friends on Mother's Day. Everybody loves Arroz con Pollo (Chicken and Rice), specially Cuban style. For your FREE Arroz con Pollo recipe, please go to: http://www.cubanfoodmarket.com/recipe_home_page.htm

It is very easy to prepare, yet delicious.

Enjoy !!

The Cuban Chef
www.cubanfoodmarket.com

Cinco De Mayo w/ Los Pochos @ Temple Bar (CA)

Join us one week from today when we'll be in Santa Monica , CA for Cinco De Mayo!!!

Thursday, May 5th, 2005 - Doors open @ 8:00 PM
Cinco De Mayo with Conjunto Los Pochos
The Temple Bar: 1026 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401

Opening up the show:
- DJ SLOE POKE
- HUAYUCALTIA (including Cindy Harding from Conjunto Jardin)
- OYE

    **Make sure to tell the doorperson that you're there to see 'LOS POCHOS'**

For more info, check out our gigs page: http://lospochos.com/gigs.html

Hope to see you there!
Otoño.

P.S. Our friends, Los Texmaniacs (texmaniacs.com), will be in town this weekend performing. You can catch them on Saturday, April 30th, from 8p-12a @ VFW Post-1944, 16151 East Gale, City of Industry , 91746. They will be joined by fellow-Pocho and musician extraordinaire, Lorenzo Martinez!

For more info, call Joe Torres @ 626-338-0792

Limited Release--‘MACHUCA’ ( Los Angeles , CA )

A film by Andrés Wood
(Chile/Spain/UK/France, 2004, 120min.
In Spanish with English subtitles)
A Menemsha Films Release
PICK OF THE WEEK - L.A. WEEKLY

WINNER Audience Award
Vancouver * Portland * Philadelphia * Mexico City

* Bogota * Quito * Valdivia * Lima * Vina Del Mar

The best reviewed film of this year opens in three Laemmle Theatres (LA, CA:
#1 Laemmle's Fairfax (323) 655-4010;

#2 Town Center Encino (818) 981-9811;

#3 Playhouse 7 in Pasadena (626) 844-6500
--This Friday, April 29--Don't miss it!

Santiago , Chile , 1973: Two 11-year-old boys from different sides of the tracks share the same classroom, but different perspectives on the impending coup against Allende. Gonzalo lives in a wealthy suburb, unaware of the growing resistance of his class to the socialist president; the more outgoing Machuca is one of many children inhabiting the city’s rough and tumble shantytown. When they become buddies, Machuca teaches Gonzalo to take advantage of the situation by selling nationalist banners to right-wing protesters and Communist banners to left-wing activists! But when the coup arrives they are affected in drastically dissimilar ways. MACHUCA is not just a political drama, but a poignant coming-of-age film, with perfectly pitched performances by the young actors, based on filmmaker Andrés Wood’s own childhood.

Production Sound Needed For Edgy Short – ‘The Sins of Eve’

A mixer with their own equipment is needed to donate their generous services to Claudine Guerrero, an incredible young woman who is making her first film. NALIP's very own Sonia Gonzalez will edit and is begging her fellow NALIP’sters to be part of this amazing project.

’The Sins of Eve’: A modern day Eve struggles to choose between her love of crime and the love of her family.

Shoot Dates:  May 20-21

Contact Margot Brawer at mdbrawer@aol.com or 310.801.8013

Searching for Talented DP & Several Crew Positions

HD Independent Feature, based on a successful play, is looking for a
talented, passionate, and creative DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

Dependable and assertive OFFICE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT/INTERN also needed to start immediately. Good opportunity for those who want to get involved with a great project and who are looking to build their resume.  Should be personable, and computer savvy.  Overall, want someone with positive attitude; willing to get and/or make coffee, run errands, fax, copy
scripts/documents, filing, answer phones, and keep office organized and clean. There is no pay at the moment.  Experience working in a production office and familiar with Los Angeles area a plus. Schedule is flexible.

The shoot will take place this summer and there is some pay.  Being bilingual (English/Spanish) is a +plus.

We are also looking to fill the following positions:
 
--Script Supervisor
--Production Designer
--Art Director
--Set Decorator
--Prop Master
--Set PA’s
--Sound Mixer
--Boom Operator
--Costume Designer
--Make Up Artist
--Editor
--Composer
--Music Supervisor
--Sound Designer
 
Please send reels and resumes to:
Grupo de Teatro Sinergia
c/o MJFP
2332 West Fourth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Tel. #: 323-883-1600
E-Mail: mujjua@sbcglobal.net

Crew Needed for Riveting Short in San Francisco

STRONG, POLITICAL, RIVETING SHORT FILM WITH FEATURE LENGTH POTENTIAL SEEKS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, DP AND ACTORS

”Soledad Is Gone Forever” is a personal, impressionistic film about a woman’s poignant journey that explores the long lasting psychological effects of warfare in the children of missing Chileans during the Pinochet era. Settled in contemporary Chile and San Francisco the film is a narrative and visual feast with a strong female character.  Soledad Gonzalez, a woman in the verge of a nervous breakdown, seeks the truth about her father's death only to find out a dark revelation about the nature of her own memory and the impact of her trauma in her work as a fine arts photographer.

Film references include "Repulsion," "The Tenant," "The Forgotten," "The Grudge" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring".

Now seeking:

CREW
-Resourceful executive producer to secure additional funds
-Fundraiser
-Talented DP with a great eye an extensive narrative experience
-AD
-Art Director
-Script supervisor / bilingual a plus
-Make up artist with effects experience
Pay: Indie, Negotiable

CAST
-Leading man
-Latina actress with native Spanish
Pay: deferral.  Willing to go SAG under the experimental agreement

Shooting dates: During the summer, exact dates TBD

Both union and non-union actors are welcomed to apply * 

Robert Marquez, leading man
Late 30's to late 40’s, Latino descent preferable
Soledad Gonzalez manager and a key figure to her success in the art scene.  A father figure to Soledad, he is social, charismatic, deal maker, tactful, analytical, planner, realistic, steady, confident, natural leader; judgmental at times. An art lover who instinctively knows what good art is and how to make money out of it. He reaches out to help Soledad  as she begins to show her psychological trauma and becomes her friend.

Beatriz Flores, supporting role
Latina . Mid 30’s to early 40’s. An elegant upper class native Spanish speaking woman. She is the daughter of a Colonel who has devoted her life to activism after learning that her own father is a perpetrator of human rights abuses. She is truly committed to justice even if her father must be prosecuted. Passionate, compassionate and outspoken, she sits as the chair of the Center of
Missing Chileans in her native country of Chile . A quietly determined woman, she convinces a reluctant Soledad to return to Chile to solve the mystery surrounding her father.

Send headshot and resumes ASAP as attached word and jpeg files to Mabel Valdiviezo/director at haikufilms@aol.com.

Demo reels can be sent to: 1290 Jackson Street # 4 , San Francisco , CA 94109

TV Drama Series Needs Writers

We are in search of writers for upcoming TV Drama Series to be produced and shot in South Florida for the Latino international TV market & Major Networks Telamundo / Univision. In the event you feel you may help us in finding qualified writers.

Please feel free to contact me...Phone (954) 729-5790 Darryl Smith of 24P Cinema.

D. Smith
President: 24P Cinema
http://24p-cinema.com

Mis queridísimos amigotes y amigotas: 

Went ... looked at the calaca... le saque la lengua... and me vine de vuelta. There is nothing like having the threat of a potentially terminal-illness-guillotine-over-your-neck to rearrange your priorities in the proper order. 

I want to believe that I have lived most of my adult life always with the awareness that anyone can drop dead at any given minute and that one should live his/her life to the maximum because of this, but nothing to bring it home so good as to being told that it actually can happen, truly and literally, any given minute and have the clinical proof of it in your hand (in my case a sobering and very scary plate of a CT Scan of my artery about tu burst open).

 I can brag that more than rearranging the order of my priorities I have learned to increase the quality of them. To explain: I have, at least for many years now, been convinced that to offer my love to my daughters and wife, is my first and foremost priority, but even when this have been true for some years, now I know that I need to dedicate even more attention to it. Once you are sitting at a hospital waiting for someone to come and bring you in into the prep room before your procedure starts (a procedure that even when you have been reassured that has a good chance to succeed, you still know that you can come out of it like crap, if at all), every little second you can use to record their beautiful features and lovely laughter is invaluable and full of joy. 

I have also, mostly always, believed on the power of love, friendship and positive thinking. But again, there is nothing to have in your hand the experience of their power. Even when it is to be expected, the support and love offered by your family is extremely comforting. The fact that my older brother immediately traveled from Mexico to be at the side of my wife and daughters while I was going through the procedure allowed me to face it with a much higher degree of peace, knowing that if something went wrong my family will not need to face it alone. Then, just minutes before I was to go into the operating room I found out that a cousin of mine and her husband, both very dear members of what I consider my closest relatives, were already driving in route from Nogales, Sonora to also be with my family. These demonstrations of love give you and incredible dose of tranquility to face whatever comes your way. 

I have also believed, even when not always, in the afterlife and that in the other side of that border, there are your loved ones that have gone before you, looking down for you. I, probably in order to give myself courage, believe that the reason that the election of Pope Benedict XVI was made so quickly, was because Mi Viejita stormed into the Holy Spirit's office demanding from It to make up his mind because she needed It to pay full attention to my case. Knowing my Viejita, she would not settle with the help of la Guadalupana, Chuchito and the Big Boss only. 

 And then ... there are my friends... Even when you want to believe that you have worked hard and conscientiously in developing friendships and relationships and that you enjoy giving them more than you ever expect to get back, nothing than to be in a situation like mine to receive the greatest and most enjoyable gift, their love and care.

 I was fully conscious while the doctors were messing around inside my head, (they need you awake for you to tell them if they are screwing up or not), once they had enough certainty, four hours later, that they could proceed as planned without making me more loco or pendejo that I already was, they knock me down and proceeded to fix the problem for good. After the operation and once I was moved into the ICU room, I was coming in and out of conscience for the rest of the day, each time waking up to new company on my cubicle. My daughters and wife first, then my bro and sis-in-law, then my cousin and her hubby and then... surprise! Danny Rodriguez and Robert Parada, producers of THE DEVIL INSIDE. Why this is significant for me? I have know Danny and Robert for just short four years, during that time I have enjoyed partying and working with them, but also I have enjoyed sharing support and help with them several times in difficult times and long and behold, first non-relative faces I see... that of dear and beloved friends who lost no time in making me laugh. Yes, with stupid and crude jokes, but that served wonders in cheering my spirits at an instant. 

Later, when I was moved to a "regular" room, I arrived at it to find a plethora of cards, flowers and fruit baskets sent with their good wishes by many of my dearest friends, also with a litany of names listed by my wife of friends that have called wishing me the best. Next day while still dosing in and out, I woke to find even more friends at my side, Alex Cortez and Loree Campos, David DeLeon, etc. 

A couple of days later I was able to get back home, and in another two or three days after, that I started regaining my feet and was able to start reading, I checked my e-mail in-box and I realized that I had more than 200 messages of people wishing me well (I am still feeling el cuero chinito from that moment). Many of them from people that I haven't ever met personally. That did wonders because after reading each one of them my spirits were so high that the doctors were even willing to replace the very potent pain killers prescribed for the very strong headaches I was getting (y que me tenían todo apendejado), for over-the-counter Motrin pills (I demanded to replace them for tequila, but that didn’t work). And since then I haven't needed them again. I am truly and forever grateful to all of you for your prayers and good wishes (I heard rumors that the Heaven Security Agency, that intercepts all earthly communications checking for people praying, was overwhelmed by the outpouring of requests on behalf of the well being of this your humble servidor) They all worked to the max, since as you can all read now, I'm back, even when few hours at the time, ready to do my travesuras again. Yes, all your "Hierba Mala..." and "Not another Day without a Mexican..." notes were so successful that today I feel stronger and more enthused about life than I have ever felt before. Gracias a tochos! 

Oh, and for those that have asked, yes, the doctors were willing to repair all those things that my wife asked for since they were going to be on the neighborhood, but since the insurance didn’t agree to pay for them, and they were so many (even requiring a major lobotomy and brain transplant), that she couldn’t afford to pay for them, so… sorry, she and all the world will need to keep been patient with me, con toditas mis faltas, ni modos! 

I am still following the advice of many of you to take it easy, so, please, keep sending your postings to Jose Murillo (Muy especiales gracias a ti, mi hermano, por todo tu amor y apoyo) until further notice. Like now, I’m getting a little tired of focusing on the computer screen so I’m going for my Siesta.  

Alexito, el renacidito.