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 NALIP and Back Stage Present a Special Latino Edition of
BACK STAGE’S ACTORFEST
OPEN CASTING CALLS FOR LATINO TALENT BY TOP HOLLYWOOD CASTING DIRECTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
IT’S FREE! THIS PRE-CONFERENCE EVENT IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 9 AM-4 PM
This is a free event, open to Latino/Latina performers of all ages and experience. Some casting directors have specific needs, but most want to meet new talent.
The call begins with your arrival and registration at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Resort and Spa at 25135 Park Lantern in Dana Point, CA. Go to Dana 1 meeting room. Doors will open for registration at 7 AM. Please do not arrive before this time. Parking available at the hotel ($14 for the first three hours; $2 additional for the 4th and the 5th hour; $22 flat fee after that).
Casting Directors and Representatives holding Calls Include:
Mark Teschner - “General Hospital” Blanca Valdez Casting
Anthony Krauss - CBS Diversity Casting Jaime Ferrar - JFA
Rosalinda Morales-FarMore Casting & Prod Ivan de Paz Mgmt
NBC/Telemundo The Disney Channel mun2
There will also be great panels from Nosotros, AFTRA, NALIP, and Mun2. They will provide valuable information about your career and opportunities. Speakers include Flavio Morales: Mun2; Yancey Arias: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD; Dan Navarro, recording artist; Kiki Melendez, comedienne; Jason George, TV and film actor and Pepe Barreto, Univision newsperson.
For any questions, email actorfest@nalip.org or click HERE to go to the Actorfest at Conference 9 website. Casting directors added daily! Read Back Stage, too, for details!
CALL ENDS AS NALIP Conference 9 BEGINS. Check out the program at www.nalip.org/conference2008/ and maybe stay the entire weekend!!!
 Important: Wave of Hope Campaign
Dear LITI Readers,
In response to the rise in hate speech, scapegoating, and violence that has surrounded the immigration debate, and which has affected our entire community. National Council of La Raza, of which NALIP is an affiliate, has officially launched the "Wave of Hope Campaign" to educate Americans about these acts and their consequences. Our aim is to counterbalance negative messages about Latinos, our community, and our contributions to and place in this country.
8,000-10,000 Latino media leaders read this eNewsletter each week. Each of you has friends and family, colleagues and a professional network. We ask you to raise the volume of our collective voice. Please visit the website that NCLR is hosting, www.WeCanStopTheHate.org and click on the section called "WRITE THE MEDIA." The greater the response from Affiliates throughout the country, the stronger our message that hate speech and irresponsible journalism are not acceptable to our community.
Please inform yourselves and your network about this issue: NALIP Member Ray Santisteban has cut two informational videos, which can be viewed at this site. We invite you to send examples of hate speech and hate crimes to NCLR to include on the website.
Together we can push back on this hate and promote more hopeful, positive messages that will benefit both our community and our country. I am grateful for your work and our continued partnership, and I thank each of you for standing with NCLR and NALIP to defend our community and our principles through this campaign.
Saludos,
Kathryn
 Deadline Approaching: The Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship
Nickelodeon is offering writing fellowships in live action and animated television to writers with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Participants will have hands-on interaction with executives writing spec scripts and pitching story ideas.
The program, developed to broaden Nickelodeon’s outreach efforts, provides a salaried position for up to one year. The next submission period ends on February 28, 2008.
Applications and submission guidelines are available on our website at www.nickwriting.com
Information via phone: 818.736.3663
Information via email: info.writing@nick.com
 CineFestival Deadline Extended to Feb. 29! Plus, Trailer Trash Challenge
The deadline for CineFestival has been extended to February 29th. If you have any questions, please contact us at the info listed below. To clarify submission guidlines, we are happy to view work directly addressing the Chican@/Latin@ experience, starring Chican@/Latin@s in a major role, or employing Chican@/Latin@s in an above-the-line position (Writer, Director, Producer).
Also, read below for some details about our new "Trailer Trash Challenge." We encourage you to submit your wildest, b-movie style, mex-ploitational 1-2 minute trailer for a chance to win fun prizes and celebrate our collective love for filmmaking! We'll be posting more info about this shortly on our website -- www.cinefestivalsa.org
And remember, that we are still accepting proposals/abstracts for articles to print in Tonantzin (the CineFestival publication), on topics relating Latin@s to film, video and new media.
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CineFestival en San Antonio, the nation's longest-running Latino film festival, is extending its deadline for submissions to Friday, February 29, 2008. Filmmakers are encouraged to download the festival's entry form or submit electronically via withoutabox.com. Links to both methods are available on the CineFestival website, www.cinefestivalsa.org.
The 30th Annual CineFestival en San Antonio will take place from April 10 to 13, 2008 at the historic Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas. The theme for this year's festival is "Digital Revolutionaries: Celebrating 30 Years of Chicano Film and Video." CineFestival is seeking the best Latino features, shorts, documentaries, animation, experimental films and youth works for its 30th annual festival. The call for entries deadline is Friday, February 29, 2008.
This four-day event, which begins Thursday, April 10, will feature screenings, workshops, panel discussions, networking opportunities, gala celebrations, stars and a special CineFestival retrospective art exhibit. Sunday, April 13 will feature senior and family friendly programming. Innovative uses of new technology will also be highlighted through competitions, demonstrations and the involvement of youth filmmakers from media programs throughout San Antonio.
This year's CineFestival will be Co-Directed by Victor Payan and Sandra Pena Sarmiento, two filmmakers who have extensive knowledge of Latino cinema. Victor Payan is an award-winning writer and producer who has worked on documentaries for PBS, has more than ten year's experience with the San Diego Latino Film Festival and has coordinated a major multicultural festival in San Diego. He is also a youth media instructor in San Antonio and is co-creator of the Keep on Crossin' art project.
Sandra Pena Sarmiento is an award-winning filmmaker and curator who served as Festival Director for the San Diego Latino Film Festival. She has also worked with the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival and Spanish-language television networks such as Telemundo, Univision and Fox Latin American. Her seminal writing, "The Pocha Manifesto" was published in Jump Cut film journal and reprinted in the 1993 CineFestival en San Antonio program.
This year's CineFestival will also feature the prestigious Premio Mesquite audience award as well as juried awards for Best Feature, Best Short, Best Experimental Film, Best South Texas First Film and Best San Antonio Young Filmmaker. In addition, the 30th Annual CineFestival en San Antonio will introduce a new Trailer Trash Challenge, which invites filmmakers to create and submit outrageous trailers in any genre.
CineFestival will accept submissions postmarked thru Friday, February 29th, 2008. For information on how to submit a film or to download the 2008 CineFestival Entry Form, please visit the CineFestival Website at www.cinefestivalsa.org. For more information, contact CineFestival Co-Directors Sandra Pena Sarmiento and Victor Payan by email at cine@cinfestivalsa.org or by phone at 619-701-0073 or 714-417-0073.
2008 CineFestival en San Antonio
c/o Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
1300 Guadalupe St.
San Antonio, TX 78207
Ph: 210-271-3151 / Fx: 210-271-3480
Email: cine@cinefestivalsa.org
Web: www.cinefestivalsa.org or www.guadalupeculturalarts.org
 Call for Entries: Reel Rasquache
REEL RASQUACHE 2008: Festival of the U.S. Latino Experience in Film & Art
Deadline: April 25, 2008
A unique West Coast celebration of films by and about U.S. Latinos
The 5th annual Reel Rasquache Film Festival will take place on the weekend of May 30, 31, June 1, 2008 at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles.
Filmmakers are invited to submit films that celebrate the rich diversity of Latino experiences in the U.S. on all topics and in all genres - animation, documentary, experimental, features, and shorts. Reel Rasquache is accepting film submissions through April 25th.
For the fifth consecutive year, Reel Rasquache will bring together East and West Los Angeles, community and University, U.S. Latina/o independents and the Hollywood industry. Showcasing new films, performance, art and music on the U.S. Latino experience by filmmakers and artists nation-wide.
The three-day event will feature screenings, filmmaking workshops and panel discussions, multimedia spoken word, live music, receptions, and networking opportunities. The Festival will also feature the prestigious Rasquache Awards honoring the 2008 U.S. Latino Pioneer, Trailblazer, and Life Achiever in the entertainment industry.
For information on how to submit a film and to download the submission form, or to apply to be an assistant director or a volunteer, please visit the Reel Rasquache Website at www.reelrasquache.org
For more information, contact Reel Rasquache Director, John Ramirez at director@reelrasquache.org or call 323.343.4207.
 Call for Entries: Medina Del Camp Internacional Film Festival
21th MEDINA DEL CAMPO INTERNACIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (April 11-19, 2008) is now accepting submissions!
Deadline: February 29th
Considered as one of the most prestigious short film festivals in Spain, the festival is admitting submissions for its new category: Internacional short film awards in digital format. Competition is open to all nationalities. Two awards of $3,000 and $1,500 will be granted. Please send your work to the following address before deadline February 29 2008. For further information visit: http://www.medinafilmfestival.com/
 LAFF's Fast Track Film Financing Program Launched
The Los Angeles Film Festival FAST TRACK PROGRAM, designed to connect filmmakers and their current projects with financiers and other industry professionals, is currently looking for new films in development in order to help get them made!
The FAST TRACK program is being re-launched as a Film Financing MARKET -- now open to ALL FILMMAKERS. So if you or your members have a film they want to get fast-tracked in production...this is the program for you!
You can download the application (due March 31) at the following link:
http://www.filmindependent.org/index.php/talent_development/fasttrack
Previous Fast Track projects include this years Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner FROZEN RIVER, and many others. For more details...please read the benefits and requirements below...
FAST TRACK RELAUNCHED
DEADLINE: 31 MARCH 2008 (POSTMARKED)
Film Independent is now accepting submissions for its Fast Track program that runs during the Los Angeles Film Festival. The deadline for submissions to the program is 31 March 2008.
WHAT IS FAST TRACK?
Designed to help filmmakers move their current projects, narrative as well as documentary, forward, Fast Track connects them with financiers, production companies, and other industry professionals. This highly selective program is open to established as well as up-and-coming filmmakers with exceptional projects still seeking funding.
Film Independent is also re-launching the program as a film financing market at the Los Angeles Film Festival. In past years, the program was restricted to alumni of the Los Angeles Film Festival and graduates of Film Independent's Talent Development Programs, the Filmmaker Labs, Project: Involve, and the Spirit Award grant winners. Selected filmmakers would get a pass to the festival and one day of industry meetings. This year, we are opening the program to all filmmakers, both national and international, who have strong feature films seeking their financing.
Additionally, the program is being greatly expanded to better serve filmmakers. The filmmakers chosen for the 2008 Fast Track program will receive:
- an Industry pass to the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival
- three days of intensive, high-level industry meetings
- a pass to the 2008 Financing Conference that takes place during the Festival
- a pass to the Filmmaker Forum, which runs in the fall of 2008.
- complimentary membership in Film Independent
- year-round support from Film Independent
"We initially designed Fast Track to help alumni of the Los Angeles Film Festival and our Talent Development Programs," said Josh Welsh, Director of Talent Development. "But the program has been so successful that we want to open it to all filmmakers with strong features in search of financing."
Previous Fast Track projects include Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; Sterlin Harjo's Spirit Award nominated Four Sheets to the Wind; Jennifer Westfeldt's Ira and Abby; Jessica Sanders' award-winning documentary After Innocence; Chris Chan Lee's Undoing; and Scott Prendergast's feature Kabluey, which had its world premier at the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival.
For an application and information, go to http://www.filmindependent.org
 Producing Your Low Budget Film Workshop - Spring Dates
PRODUCING YOUR LOW BUDGET FILM: A Comprehensive Course in 7 Sessions
Presented By: SUZANNE LYONS, Co-Founder of the Flash Forward Institute, Snowfall Films, Inc and WindChill Films, Inc
THE COURSE: This workshop is unique in that it will literally guide you through the entire process of making your film. From my own hands on experience on my last few films I will be taking you through every detailed facet of filmmaking.
Producing Your Ultra Low Budget Film is an intensive 2 month course that takes you through the step by step journey of making your ultra low budget feature film. The Workshop includes:
- How to option a screenplay - Forming an LLC
- Preparing a sales presentation for investors - Creating your killer pitch
- Designing your business plan - Getting a mentor
- Hiring a line producer - Scheduling your EPK
- Creating an empowering environment on set - Finessing a budget & schedule
- Hiring a director - How to cast your film
- Developing a timeline - Creating a marketing strategy
- The details of pre-production - The secrets of a great Production
- Learning the ropes of post - Choosing the right distributor
- Getting the best deal from your distributor - Preparing for delivery
- Entering Film Festivals - Taxes (1099s, Accounting and K1s)
YOUR JOB: In the two month period you will be putting together your Business Plan, your LLC agreements (even if you are not ready to make your film at this point) and your Sales Presentation. You are going to learn how to raise money for your film and you will have all the tools and know how to do it!
GUEST SPEAKERS: (pending availabilities)
Established Film Director Veteran feature line producer Entertainment Attorney
Well known Distributor Feature Editor, 1st Ad, DP
SUZANNE LYONS BIOGRAPHY: In the late 1990s Ms. Lyons co-founded Snowfall Films, Inc. and has produced 5 feature films with actors including Christopher Walken, Naomi Watts, James Caan, Alfred Molina, Brenda Blethyn, Jon Lovitz, Dean Cain, Winona Ryder, Peter Fonda and Adrian Paul. Snowfall Films is gearing up to produce its next picture in Belfast with lead actor Michael Pitt this fall. In 2005 Snowfall Films created a genre division, WindChill Films, Inc. and they just completed their third SAG Ultra Low Budget horror/thriller. (www.snowfallfilms.com) Ms. Lyons is co-founder of the Flash Forward Institute. She has led hundreds of film industry seminars to over 15,000 participants in the US and Canada.
COST: $1,475 (Includes Lunch and Course Materials)
Early Bird Special: Pay by April 4th and pay $1,275 (SAVE $200)
Check and Visa/MC (paypal) accepted
$200 non refundable Deposit to hold your space (No double discounts permitted)
WHEN: (TOTAL OF SEVEN SESSIONS):
Saturday, April 19, Session #1 - 9:30am 12:30, Session #2 1:30 - 4:30pm
Monday Evenings, Session #3 - April 28; Session #4 - May 12; Session #5 May 19;
Session #6 - June 2; Session #7 June 9 (all evenings are 7:00pm 10:15pm)
PLUS: Team meetings on alternate weeks with your teams (Teams change each time)
WHERE: Burbank
HOW TO REGISTER: Call Snowfall/WindChill Films at 818-558-5917 or email Suzanne Lyons directly at snowfallfilms@aol.com
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