Latino Producer’s Academy Fellow Almudena Carracedo is selected to receive presitigious funding from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund

Almudena's project, "MADE IN L.A.," is one of fifteen works-in-progress to receive funding from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.  The fund supports U.S. and international documentaries that "focus on current human rights issues, freedom of expression, social justice, civil liberties, and explore critical issues of the time." Films that are works in progress receiving grants include  "Made in L.A." by Almudena Carrecedo and Robert Bahar (US);  "The Learning" by Ramona S. Diaz (US/Philippines); and "The Baton Resistance" by Margarita Martinez Escallon and Miguel Salazar (Colombia.; Established by the Sundance Institute in 2002, grants are announced twice yearly and the Fund has awarded $4 million to 113 projects since its inception. For more information, and complete project descriptions, visit the Sundance Institute's website.

Water & Power to open at the Mark Taper Forum this week.

Plus, a giveaway of two tickets and dinner for two at Ciudad Restaurant in downtown Los Angeles!

Read about it and Enter-to-Win here:  http://www.centertheatregroup.org/winticket.asp.

Water & Power
by Richard Montoya for Culture Clash
Directed by Lisa Peterson
World Premiere

With: Mateo Arias, Moises Arias, Dakin Mattews, Richard Montoya, Emilio Rivera, Winston J. Rocha, Ric Salinas, Herbert Siguenza
Culture Clash is back in a story of power and politics told with a pulsing city beat.

Twin brothers, nicknamed Water and Power, are on their way to take Los Angeles. Water is an ambitious state senator. Power a top-ranking police lieutenant. There can be no power without water, and no water without power. The brothers soon find themselves at opposite ends of an abuse-of-power city scandal. Who really runs the streets of LA? The police? The gangs? The politicians?

It’s LA, where no amount of sunlight can illuminate the shadows.
Show & Ticket information: http://www.centertheatregroup.org/show.asp?id=316

It is my pleasure to invite you to the World Premiere of

VIVA LA VIDA!
By: Diane Shaffer
Starring Mercedes Ruehl as Frida Kahlo
Directed by SUSANA TUBERT
Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, Long Island
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - Sunday, August 6, 2006

Tony and Oscar award-winning actress Mercedes Ruehl brings to life the Queen of Mexican Modernism, Frida Kahlo . . . celebrating her art, politics and her passions during the last 18 months of her life. The human spirit prevails in this stylish and uniquely theatrical experience directed by NALIP member, Susana Tubert, who is also the producing Executive Director of the inaugural 2007 Latino International Theater Festival of New York. (For more info write: litfny@verizon.net

Performance Schedule: Tuesdays-Saturdays @ 8pm, Sunday evenings @ 7pm, & Matinees on Wednesdays at 2pm &   Saturdays at 4pm.
To purchase tickets and to get travel information to Sag Harbor go to www.baystreet.org.

THE MANY WAYS TO PITCH
The 3 Min. vs. The 15 Min.

Saturday, August 12, 2006
11:00 AM
The Writers Store
2040 Westwood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(866) 229-7483
No RSVP Required - seating on first come basis, so arrive early!

 
Is your pitch up to par? Join producers & authors of "I Liked It, Didn't Love It", Rona Edwards & Monika Skerbelis, to learn pitch-perfecting techniques.  Plus, some participants will win a chance to pitch during the workshop and receive valuable feedback.

World Film Magic, a Hollywood based film and DVD distribution company, announces two new releases for July, Love Takes Time and Los Tres Michoacanos.

Award-winning Love Takes Time, produced by Melvina D. Saldaña and directed by Quincy Reyes, stars Jaylani Roberts in a romance in the tradition of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale. Maybe yearning for love is like a dry desert yearning for rain, even though rain will eventually destroy it. Shakira has all these questions and more, and she soon finds out the truth. When she finds Duane, she is seeking the perfect man, but disappointment is on the horizon. When Nick comes into the picture, he appears to be a life raft from heaven to rescue her. Will she confuse a coincidence with fate? How far will she let this life raft take her into uncharted waters? Love Takes Time has won awards at the New York Latino Film Festival, the San Diego Film Festival, Festival de Cine in Havana, Cuba, and the International Black Women's Film Festival; it has been entered in other festivals in Italy, Poland, Canada, and Mexico.

Los Tres Michoacanos stars Mexican cinema favorites Hugo Stieglitz and Armando Infante, son of the legendary Pedro Infante, as well as starlet Costa Rica Kelyn Peña. Produced by Javier Gutierrez and directed by Hugo Stieglitz, it is the story of three mechanics, friends who specialize in high tech cars and trucks and all fall in love with the same girl. It’s a fight between good and evil in which fast cars, high stakes gambles, a gang of car thieves, and betrayals bring romance, danger and humor. The film also features the music of Los Perez with songs by Jose Alfredo Jimenez and Banda San Francisco.

Both films are available on July 25, 2006 at www.worldfilmmagic.com and from selected major retail outlets.

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The 5 Races to Watch
Calendarlive.com Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:26 AM PDT
Emmy Awards are handed out in dozens of categories, but, let's face it, most TV watchers aren't mulling over the nominees for best casting or outstanding art direction for a multi-camera series. Here's a look at five of the more intriguing races in the Aug. 27 ceremony hosted by Conan O'Brien.

Marianne Romano Promoted to Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Tue, 25 Jul 2006 8:54 AM PDT
Marianne Romano has been promoted to the position of Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group. The announcement was made today by Dan Martinsen, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, Nickelodeon and MTVN Kids and Family Group, to whom she will continue to report.

Man claims games are racist ( News )
EuroGamer Tue, 25 Jul 2006 8:41 AM PDT
A graduate from the University of British Columbia has published his honours thesis on racism in games, claiming that negative representations of ethnic minorities are far too widespread.

Quentin Tarantino Confirms Kurt Russell Collaboration
Hollywood.com Tue, 25 Jul 2006 7:28 AM PDT
Director Quentin Tarantino has confirmed action star Kurt Russell will star in his new horror movie collaboration with Robert Rodriguez--and he insists the collaboration is a dream come true.

Festival packs Latin punch
New York Daily News Tue, 25 Jul 2006 1:22 AM PDT
Four years after making his full-length directorial debut at the New York International Latino Film Festival, Washington Heights resident Alfredo De Villa is in L.A., working with some well-known Hollywood names - and wrapping up his third movie.

SF360: Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga on the weight of words
As debuts go, Guillermo Arriaga's explosive screenplay for "Amores Perros" is hard to beat. "21 Grams," his follow-up with director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, provided more than enough emotional red meat for Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts to carve into Oscar nominations. For his next trick, Arriaga nabbed the prize for best screenplay at Cannes 2005 for "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," a modern Western about friendship, responsibility and the unintended effects of violence. "Babel," which stars Brad Pitt and garnered the best director award for Inarritu this year at Cannes, opens in the fall. Michael Fox speaks with...

Longoria To Play Dead Girlfriend
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is set to play a jealous, dead ex in new movie How I Met My Boyfriend's Dead Fiancee. The actress, who plays Gabrielle Solis in the hit TV series, will come back from the dead to haunt a psychic, played by Lake Bell, after the latter falls for the former's boyfriend. The 40-Year-Old Virgin star Paul Rudd will play the boyfriend stuck in the middle of the surreal love triangle.

LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:
Lionsgate will release its second Spanish-language pic, "Pretendiendo," in October. Romantic comedy starring telenovela thesp Barbara Mori falls under its joint venture with Jim McNamara's Panamax Films, which kicked off in mid-April with drama "La mujer de mi hermano," also starring Mori.  

U digs 'Gardener' guy
Studio also building slate of German pics over next year
Universal Pictures and Focus Features have inked a three-year first-look production pact with helmer Fernando Meirelles to bring Portuguese- and English-language pics by Brazilian helmers to the studio.

Burnett Speaking Spanish
Exec, Estefan in bilingual bid
Mark Burnett is teaming with music entrepreneur-producer Emilio Estefan to mount an assault on the burgeoning Latino crossover marketplace. Duo have launched Estefan/Burnett Entertainment with an eye toward developing TV, Internet and wireless programming that targets an English-speaking Hispanic aud while also appealing to Anglo viewers.

Historias del otro lado
Al norte de México, en la frontera con los Estados Unidos, los mexicanos creen que su país está muy lejos de Dios, y muy cerca del cielo. La cineasta mexicana Natalia Almada escuchaba esta expresión a diario durante su infancia en Sinaloa, México, y por ello siempre quiso que fuera el tema de su debut cinematográfico.

Executive Assistant Wanted At Management/Production Company

Boutique Talent Management and Film/TV/Theater Production Company looking for an Executive Assistant to start immediately. Must have at least two years office experience in the industry– agency experience a plus.

Duties include scheduling, answering phones, planning travel, general management and maintenance of a small home office, talent submissions, coverage and notes. Mac experience a must! Be highly organized with strong people skills and bring creativity and dedication to the job.

TO APPLY:
Email resume and cover letter to: ftmjob@aol.com

CASTING CALL: Santa Monica, CA

Casting Internet Commercial
PAID, Non Union.
Shoot day August 1st from 5:00 pm until 9pm

Internet Commercial
You will get a demo
2-3 lines of dialog

Roles:
32-year-old African American man
43-year-old Hispanic or vague ethnic woman (MOM)
69-year-old Caucasian woman (classy but older)

TO SUBMIT:
Please email your headshot and resume, no later than Friday, July 28th, 2006, to: casting@aveoentertainment.com

Aveo Entertainment
1639 11th Street Suite 170
Santa Monica CA 90404

CASTING CALL: New York, NY

Male Actor Needed For Short Script Reading

Vista Clara Productions and Pagan-images is looking for an actor to help with auditions for a short film entitled "Committed," written and to be directed by Derek Velez Partridge (www.imdb.com/name/nm0186668), and shot in New York by cinematographer Edwin Pagan (www.imdb.com/name/nm1900335).

Actor will be unpaid, but this is a chance for an aspiring actor to network with an up-and-coming team of filmmakers. Check out vistaclaraproductions.com to see our previous work.

The actor's responsibility will be to read with auditioning actresses.

Contact: derek@vistaclaraproductions.com

Friday, July 28th 10PM-1PM

Audition location:
Shelter 54
244 W. 54th. St. 12th Floor
New York, New York 10019
Between 7th & 8th Avenues

CASTING CALL: Boston, MA
Seeking Latin bands, actors, comedians, poets, painters, or artists of any kind to appear on Fernandito’s live television program called “El Show de Fernandito.”
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H. Fernando Bossa
594 Columbia Road, Suite 302
Boston, MA 02125
617-265-0363 (O)
617-816-1232 (M)
Fax-617-825-3522
fernandobossa@hotmail.com
www.elshowdefernandito.com

CASTING CALL: Nationwide