June 1, 2006

Greetings!

Mark your calendars...The ALMA Awards returns with the hottest show yet!

But the true measure of success is ratings, so forward this message to friends, family, colleagues, networks, etc. Consider hosting a viewing party Monday evening! Send us your photos and we'll post on the ALMA Awards website.

Watch, and let us know what YOU think. Let us know your feedback on the show afterwards, and let us know who you'd like to see in next year's show.

TUNE IN-JUNE 5-ABC-9:30/8:30c!
www.almaawards .com

Sincerely,

NCLR ALMA Awards

The Alma Awards...Monday June 5th...ABC-TV -- Co-Written by NALIP's Nancy de los Santos

If you've watched ABC network for more than a minute this past week, you've seen the promos with Eva Longoria for THE ALMA AWARDS airing next Monday, June 5th check local listings for time.

In LA they begin at 9:30 PM

In Chicago probably 10:30 PM

Yours truly worked on the writing team (of two)...with a terrific writer, Jon Macks, who also writes for The Jay Leno Show. It's a fun show with lots of great music and fun awards.. plus a tribute to Andy Garcia (which I worked on...), and another to Marc Anthony....and a host of wonderful Latinos!

The Alma Awards Hosted by EVA LONGORIA ABC- TV Monday, June 5th


IFP ANNOUNCES 1ST ANNUAL DOCUMENTARY GRANTS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FLEDGLING FUND

$20,000 TO BE PRESENTED AT 28TH ANNUAL IFP MARKET

Deadline For Consideration: Monday, June 5, 2006

IFP has announced the first cash prizes for the IFP Market. IFP and The Fledgling Fund are presenting $20,000 in new cash awards to documentary filmmakers during the 28th annual IFP Market in New York from September 17-21.

The two juried awards of $10,000 will go to filmmakers with projects in the Spotlight on Documentaries section.

The first grant, The Fledgling Fund Award for Socially Conscious Documentaries, will focus on a project which has yet to complete principal photography. The second grant, The Fledgling Fund Award for an Emerging Latino Filmmaker, will focus on a project which has completed principal photography.

IFP is pleased to provide two new opportunities to advance the development of documentary projects, says IFP Executive Director Michelle Byrd. Our goal in working with The Fledgling Fund is to establish new opportunities that enable filmmakers to receive tangible financial support that will enable them to complete their work.

The Emerging Latino award winner will also be invited to participate in the IFP Documentary Rough Cut Lab.

For more on the Fledgling Fund, visit www.thefledglingfund.org or www.ifp.org

The deadline for submissions to Spotlight on Documentaries is June 5.

SHATTERED LOVE STORY

PRESENTED BY SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL OPENS JUNE 9TH

Just off a very successful exclusive engagement of AL OTRO LADO in May, the San Diego Latino Film Festival Continues its monthly films series with Spain's Award Winning drama, TE DOY MIS OJOS (TAKE MY EYES). This movie will screen seven times daily from June 9-15 at 10:15 am, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15 and 10:45 pm.

Tickets are $8.50 general admission and $6.50 students/seniors 'Aficionados del Cine Latino' members. TE DOY MIS OJOS (TAKE MY EYES) is rated R and is in Spanish w/ English subtitles.

For additional information on screening times and tickets visit: http://www.sdlatinofilm.com or call 619.230.1938 ext. 2


The Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival and NALIP-Los Angeles present Dirt, the latest work from writer/director Nancy Savoca on Sunday, June 11th at 7 pm at Cheyenne Studios in Castaic, just 30 minutes north of Hollywood.

This moving and dramatic truly bilingual English-Spanish film tells the story of a clashing of cultures and classes through the life of Dolores Del Rosario (played by Julieta Ortiz), an undocumented Salvadorian immigrant, who works cleaning apartments on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, while returning each night to Queens where she lives with her husband and teenage son.

Writer/Director Nancy Savoca's first feature film, True Love, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival and was recently called one of the 50 Greatest Independent Films of All-Time by Entertainment Weekly. Since then, Savoca has written and/or directed many other successful independent films and has been the subject of several retrospective, including one at The American Museum of the Moving Image.


Dirt has screened at a number of festivals in the U.S. and abroad, winning Savoca Best Director in the LA Latino Festival and Julieta Ortiz Best Actress at New York's La Cinema Fe. Two short animated films will also be screened: The Shoes was recently selected as a Regional Finalist to the 33rd Student Academy Awards and A Conversation with Haris has screened at a number of festivals in the U.S. and abroad and in museums across the world. The screening is free and open to the public and is hosted by Cheyenne Studios, located
at 27567 Fantastic Lane in Castaic, CA 91384. For information about the screening please visit www.scvfilmfestival.com or call 661-251-0274.

The Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles presents
1952, Mexican Classic, Dos tipos de cuidado, at Downtown LA Historic
Los Angeles Theater during Last Remaining Seats 2006 Film Series

The Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles is participating at these series with Dos tipos de cuidado (Two Careful Fellows) which is the best film from the Golden Age of Mexican Film featuring the two most representative performers of that era, Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete. This screening will take place on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at Historic The Palace Theather, 630 Broadway Blvd, in LA.

For ticketing information please contact www.lacla.org or 323.223.613; www.laconservancy.org or www.ticketweb.com

THE ACADEMY FOR NEW MUSICAL THEATRE PRESENTS
The 1st Annual THE BIZ OF THE MUSICAL THEATRE BIZ Producer's Conference

On Friday-Sunday, July 14th-16th, the Academy for New Musical Theatre is teaming with State of the Art Productions to host its first annual intensive conference on "The Biz of the Musical Theatre Biz for working and aspiring professionals in the world of musical theatre.

Sessions will include panel discussions with people who are actively producing new musicals for the American stage and with writers who have actually gotten their work produced. Breakout sessions led by industry professionals will focus on the nuts and bolts of contracts, royalties, collaboration agreements, self-producing, and more.

Panelists and speakers include Tom McCoy (McCoy-Rigby Entertainment); Hilary Genga (producer, Tight Quarters); Michael Kerker (ASCAP and ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop); Tim Dang (producing artistic director, East West Players); Sheldon Epps (artistic director, Pasadena Playhouse); Susan Dietz (Hedwig and the Angry Inch); Jon Imparato (producer, The Breakup Notebook); Gordon Firemark (entertainment lawyer and ANMT board member); Dan Berkowitz (Dramatists Guild) and a host of other producers and writers of musical theatre in Los Angeles. (Speakers subject to change, check the Conference page online for up-to-date listings).

For more information, and to register for the conference, click the link below to go directly to the Conference page on our website. You can also download the attached flyer and post it
for anyone who may be interested. http://www.anmt.org/brochure/conference.asp

Darkbeat Tickets On Sale Now! Via 3GZ Website or directly @ 3GZ Loft.


3GZ Productions presents Darkbeat An Electro World Voyage MoviePremiere After Party Fundraising Event!

3GZ Productions and Mi Chica Chico Force in association with The Pawn Shop Lounge present the premiere of Iris B. Cegarra's 3rd documentary Darkbeat An Electro World Voyage. The screening and after party will be hosted at The Pawn Shop Lounge 1222 NE 2nd Ave. Miami FL 33132 on Friday June 30th 2006 @ 8pm. Ticket prices are $20.00 pre-sale/ $25 at the door/ $50 VIP (includes an early release DVD of Darkbeat). All proceeds will benefit the proper packaging, distribution and promotion of this independent film.

Please join us in supporting Darkbeat's movie premiere on Friday June 30th 8pm at The Pawn Shop Lounge. The film is followed by live performances with the US debut of electro artist Boris Divider (Madrid/SPAIN) as well as Cosmic Force (Utrecht/HOLLAND), Alonzo w/Mel (NYC) and DJ's Exzakt (Palm Beach/USA) Uprokk (Miami/USA).

To view the Darkbeat teaser and purchase pre-sale tickets visit 3GZ Productions website at 3gzproductions.com, South Florida's freshest production company creating independent film, videos, and Electro events. For more information call Franceasca Seiden at 305.573.6369 or info@3gzproductions.com.

Nalip member, Mercedes Ilarraza can be seen in When Santo Domingo Isn't Enough on June 16th at The Cherry Lane Theater in NYC The play will premiere at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival.

When a Santo Domingo Isn't Enough exposes the complicated and often painful debate over immigration in the United States, as Chris, a first generation Dominican-American and his girlfriend Gabby, find themselves trapped in ambivalence.

Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street Tickets are $25

FOR MORE INFO VISIT: www.theatremania.com or www.downtownurban.net

LPA DEADLINE NEXT WEEK! DON'T MISS THIS PROGRAM GREAT BENEFITS FOR FELLOWS!!



NALIP's Latino Producers Academy application deadline is Wednesday, June 7. That's Next Week!!

This is one of our most important and comprehensive programs -- don't miss your chance to apply.

Documentary makers -- you can apply with a work-in-progress/proposal OR with a rough-cut your editor.
Feature producers -- you can apply with a development project OR with a script your director.

ALL 2006 Fellows are eligible for a 50% Scholarship to the UCLA Professional Certificate Program in Screenwriting a 50% Scholarships to the UCLA Professional Certificate Program in Producing (fall/winter/spring or summer intensive.)

ALL 2006 Fellows are eligible for the 2 new MPA-sponsored professional internships or shadowing opportunities.
And other software production donations made to NALIP LPA graduating 2006 Fellows.

Questions on your application? Call Octavio or Mateo at 310.395.8880. LPA Fellows have gone on to national broadcasts, major festivals, production, distribution and Grey's Anatomy!! Come join the NALIP Success story.

APPLY TODAY!!

CANNES L'ATELIER '06 INTERVIEW: Cruz Angeles: When you're a little kid riding the big yellow school bus up through Bel Air as your classmates get dropped off in Limos and Benzes you develop a hell of an imagination.

by indieWIRE (May 20, 2006)

Every day through the end of the 2006 Festival de Cannes, including weekends, indieWIRE will be publishing interviews with filmmakers participating in the L'Atelier du Festival, which according to Cannes, was created in 2005 to reveal a new generation of filmmakers through the world, whose works, still at the project stage, might one day be honoured by being selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Eighteen filmmakers were given the opportunity to participate in an e-mail interview, and each was sent the same questions.

Director Cruz Angeles is at L'Atelier with his feature film project, Don't Let Me Drown, which is the story of fifteen year old Mexican-American Lalo, who lives in a sketchy neighborhood with his mother who sells tamales and his father, an illegal immigrant hired for the World Trade Center cleanup. When Lalo meets Stefanie, a headstrong fifteen year old, they discover that while the world crumbles around them they only thing that will keep them from drowning is each other.

Please tell us about yourself and your background, including where you were born and grew up, as well as how you became a filmmaker.

I'm originally from Mexico City but grew up in South Central, LA. I lived on 76 and Figueroa but got bused out to Bel Air and then West LA for school. I experienced LA in extremes and I guess that's one of the reasons I wanted to become a filmmaker - when you're a little kid riding the big yellow school bus up through Bel Air as your classmates get dropped off in Limos and Benzes... well, let's just say you develop a hell of an imagination. After high school, I attended UC Berkeley and that's really where I started getting into film. I did some theatre work and then took a video production class with Loni Ding (my film mom) and made a documentary on youth criminalization in East Oakland. I've been making films ever since.

Please tell us about your previous work, including information about your recent films and other creative projects.

All my films have been personal in one way or another - I don't think it's possible for them not to be. My first two films at NYU were stories from my childhood. I'm also obsessed with photography and my last two shorts have dealt with that. The Show, at one level, is about spectacle and the intersection of race, class and gender during a lynching, but it's also about who has the mode of production and power to frame history through an objective photographic document. My latest short, The Negative, follows a photographer as he takes pictures in a Mexican border town. It's hitting on the same themes as The Show, but it's more of a psychological thriller where the subject being photographed comes back to haunt the photographer. It was inspired by a nightmare I had.

Please tell us about your new project. What is it about and what inspired to pursue this new project?

My new project, Don't Let Me Drown has been a labor of love for myself and Maria Topete (my co-writer and wife). Right after 9/11, Maria and I started talking about how New York City had changed - people were anxious, there was fear in their eyes - and it reminded us of growing up in rough neighborhoods. It was like all of a sudden we had to watch our backs again. It also made us remember how sometimes the only thing that could help you escape all the madness was hanging out with that one best friend or daydreaming of that girl or boy you had a crush on. So, we started writing a love story set one month after 9/11 where two 15 year old Latinos find each other, fall in love and are able keep each other's heads above water while the world around them drowns in grief and hysteria.

What do you hope to accomplish for the project while you are in Cannes? What are your specific needs to continue developing your new project?

The script, thus far, has had an interesting journey. It was part of the 2005 Sundance Screenwriters and Filmmakers Labs, where we were able to really cultivate the script. I was also this year's US winner of the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award. With the award, NHK (Japan's largest broadcaster) agrees to purchase the Japanese television broadcast rights upon completion of the film. We have assembled a strong team up to this point. Maria will produce alongside Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy, who most recently produced Old Joy, Gretchen and Wild Tigers I Have Known. We have Steve Vincent and Sig de Miguel (United 93, Empire) on as casting directors and Jonathan Gray of Spinak Gray (The Station Agent, Mysterious Skin) will handle the Production Legal. At Cannes, we're looking to secure further financing. So, we're really excited about being part of L'Atelier du Festival because it will hopefully enable us to reach new financing opportunities and be a push for the project, which we hope to begin filming this fall in Brooklyn.

What are some of your favorite movies and influences, including other films and filmmakers, as well as other creative influences? Which films are you most interested in seeing at this years Festival?

I admire the work of Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick and Wong Kar-Wai. In particular, I love High and Low, Happy Together and The Shining. Aesthetically, I am very much influenced by cinema verite and the neo-realist styles of filmmaking. So I am a big fan of Vittorio De Sica's The Bicyle Thief, Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows, and Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados. I also love Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai, Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy and Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep.

At this year's festival, the film I'm most looking forward to seeing is Andrea Arnold's Red Road. We were at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab together and I got a chance to hang out with her. She's not only an incredible filmmaker but also really good people. After being blown away by her short film, Wasp, I have no doubt Red Road will be awesome. I'm also looking forward to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and Pedro Almodovar's Volver.

[Article written by indieWIRE posted on May 20, 2006 at 02:31PM filed under Cannes, Interviews]

Bilingual Entertainment Transcends Cultural Barriers
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 By Reed Johnson Los Angeles Times

MEXICO CITY -- Quick, somebody, seal the border! Call out the National Guard, the Minutemen, the Motion Picture Association of America! Round up the chief accomplices -- actor Gael Garcia Bernal, Eva Longoria of ``Desperate Housewives'' and others -- and notify Congress ``muy pronto.''

America is being invaded by Mexican culture, and our republic may never be the same.

This spring, the barriers that once kept out south-of-the-border ``telenovelas'' and ``ranchera'' tunes began to crumble like the walls of the Alamo. In March, the Los Angeles Coliseum played host to 60,000 screaming pubescent devotees of the Mexican pop group RBD, a spinoff of the Mexican-import TV show ``Rebelde,'' which has teeny-boppers swooning on both banks of the Rio Bravo.

Meanwhile, Televisa, the Mexican network giant that produces ``Rebelde,'' has become one of the leading candidates to acquire Univision Communications Inc., the nation's preeminent Spanish-language media conglomerate.

At a time when Mexico and the United States are again struggling to sort out their tangled political relationship, Mexicans and Mexican Americans are dramatically reshaping U.S. pop culture -- and being reshaped by it. More specifically, a new hybrid popular culture is emerging, with a frisky, bilingual sensibility all its own.

Lost in the uproar over demonstrators waving Mexican flags and the Spanish-language version of ``The Star-Spangled Banner'' is that many Mexican and Hispanic immigrants, particularly children and young people, assimilate American cultural values practically the moment they set foot in the United States, even before some of them speak English.

``The whole acculturation process begins the minute they cross that border,'' says Manny Gonzalez, vice president and managing director of Hill Holliday Hispanic/abece, a Miami-based ad agency that specializes in the Hispanic market.

In fact, Gonzalez says, there are two concurrent transformations happening. ``While American mainstream culture is changing because it's being Latinized, Latino culture in itself is changing,'' he says.

The resultant phenomenon goes beyond the periodic ``Latin crazes'' that have swept America every decade or so, says Gonzalez. For example, in Mexico, the second season of ``Desperate Housewives,'' the hit ABC prime-time soap opera that wrapped up its second season last week, has been running Tuesday evenings on the powerful national TV Azteca network, while the first season is being rebroadcast on the same network Monday through Friday evenings -- a measure of the show's popularity.

To read more on this story please visit: cantonrep.com

ON THE SCENE: The Devil Wears Prada to Kick Off 2006 Los Angeles Film Fest; Complete Competition Lineups Also Announced
by Eugene Hernandez (May 31, 2006)
The 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival, running June 22 - July 2, 2006, will open with David Frankel's The Devil Wears Prada and close with Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's Little Miss Sunshine. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's Quinceanera will screen as a centerpiece premiere at the festival. We are thrilled to be bringing another wonderful slate of films from around the U.S. and abroad to Los Angeles audiences, said Rachel Rosen, Director of Programming for Film Independent and the Los Angeles Film Festival, in a statement. This year, the Festival has something for everyone from charming comedies to heartrending documentaries. Audiences will also have the chance to discuss the films they've seen with some of our visiting filmmakers and guests.
Alba's a Ten
City Lights and MEGA Films have teamed up to produce and finance the next Jessica Alba starrer, The Ten.
Cohen's Belle Rings in English
Brazilian director Glenio Bonder will bring an English-language adaptation of the French novel Belle du Seigneur to the big screen.

Writers Wanted

I am developing a dramatic soap opera, Alamo Heights S.A. out of San Antonio, Texas about a 7th generation All American family of Mexican decent and am searching for 2 Writers. These are paid positions. They would need to submit a 15 - 30 page sample of their work and a resume.

Writers should preferably be Texas based but great writers out of area will be considered.

Writing sample and resume should be submitted to: rick@ramcasting.com

P/T NALIP Webmaster and eNewsletter Co-Editor Needed:

2-3 days a week in Santa Monica office, p/t position at dynamic and busy NALIP Membership Office in Santa Monica . Duties include maintenance of the national website including: new postings, updates, national calendar, and collaboration with regional Chapter websites, and graphic design, in addition to editing, layout, and distribution of eNewsletter. Candidates must have good writing and communication skills, plus experience with HTML, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, and eNewsletter distribution/ best-practices. Preferr experience with Macromedia products (Dreamweaver and Contribute) and some marketing background. Starts in June!! Some telecommuting possible. Send Resume and Letter of interest to Kathryn Galan, NalipED@msn.com.

NATIONAL TELEVISION: seeking office manager

National Television, a boutique design, animation and production company, is seeking an experienced office manager to help organize and maintain a creative office space. National Television is located on two floors of the Desmond's Tower, located in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles. Although a boutique company, we are looking to offer a unique environment that is both practical and client friendly. Potential candidates should have experience in a creative office environment including client services, office management, as well as practical, organizational skills.

Potential candidates must have excellent client and phone skills, a working proficiency in standard Microsoft Office applications as well as an understanding of animation, production and advertising industries. We are a small office that needs support with everything from messy freelance artists to coordinating high-profile projects, all at the same time.

Please send your resume and cover letter to: steiner@natl.tv

CASTING CALL: Los Angeles, CA

We need SAG Hispanic Men and Women who look like they are from the 1970's for an ATT commercial shooting Wednesday 6/7/06. This is SAG extra work. Rate is @291.80 for 8 hours. If interested, please e-mail us a photo of you in your 1970's wardrobe along with contact info/phone#.

Only send photos of your 70's look please! -Alice Ellis Casting att@elliscasting.com

Summer is here and Hip Entertainment Group is looking for a few good Interns!

Looking to pick up some experience and get your foot in the door at an Emmy award winning Production Company? Need class credit for an internship class? Want to apply your Broadcast and Communications education and training? Ever wonder when you'd get a chance to use your Espanol outside the classroom? Well here's your chance!!!

HIP Entertainment Group is a Los Angeles and Baja Mexico-based diversified entertainment company specializing in the development and exploitation of English and Spanish language content with broad market appeal. HIP consists of a multi-award winning team of producers and directors who have created over 1000 half-hours of original prime time programming for a variety of television networks.

Now HIP is opening it's doors and looking to train two individuals who are interested in delving into the fun and fast- paced world of independent production. Working alongside industry veterans, you'll learn the production process from beginning to end, not only through administrative duties, but also hands on production experience as well.

Job responsibilities may include (but not be limited to):

- General Production tasks (creative brainstorming, research, screening and logging tapes, assembling production binders, creating contact sheets, production schedules, etc.)
- Receptionist duties (answering/transferring/and coordinating phone calls, greeting and assisting visiting clients)
- Administrative duties (responding to e-mails, making and maintaining relationships with vendors, networks and studios, coordinating meetings/travel with for company officers, etc.)
- General Bookkeeping
- Computer/IT Support (assisting in updating, troubleshooting, and maintaining PC and MAC functionality for the office)
- Organization of previously produced programming (logging, dubbing, and physical organization of master tapes)

Requirements:

Must be professional and trustworthy in all matters.
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills. ( English and Spanish)
Must be well organized, detail oriented, and capable of multi-tasking
Must be computer savvy and a great troubleshooter
Must be Microsoft proficient (Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)
All applicants should be extremely motivated, hard working, and proactive
All applicants should be flexible and be willing to adjust to projects as they arrive
Familiarity with Quickbooks is a plus
Familiarity with Avid Express Pro Editing System is also a plus

Check us out on the web www.hipentertainmentgroup.com

If interested, please submit cover letter and resume via e-mail to interns4hip@yahoo.com
Resumes will be reviewed and those applicants that qualify will be contacted via e-mail or phone to schedule an appointment. Please, no phone calls or faxes.

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