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NALIP 10 Conference Audiocasts Now Online
Were you so engaged in Wilmer Valderrama's talk at the NALIP conference that you could not check out the simultaneous sessions?
Were you wondering what went on at "Fire Eaters and Pink-haired Strippers?"
Did you miss part of the exciting keynotes by Luis Valdez, Michael Lombardo or Herb Scannell?
This and so much more are now available online. Stream the audiocasts or download the MP3s for your computer or MP3 player.
Check out these and our library of past talks and workshops - still fantastic information! Click here to visit the NALIP Audiocasts page.
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Call for Submissions: Fox Diversity Writers Initiative
The Fox Entertainment Group announces the 2009 edition of its Diversity Writers Initiative. We again invite submission of original television pilot scripts in the multi-camera comedy, single-camera comedy, animation and drama formats. Writers selected will be invited to attend a six-week session at Writers Boot Camp and subsequent consultation with WBC mentors during which their scripts will be rewritten and improved. The goal is to execute scripts at a level of professional quality equal to those purchased by Fox in the course of its normal television development.
We have been excited by the quality and originality of some of the material which contributed new diverse themes and characters to our development discussion. We encourage all diverse writers with a story to tell, or writers of any color with a project that features a diverse series lead character to submit their scripts per the guidelines below.
We will accept submissions until July 3, 2009.
For details and application information please visit the Fox Diversity Writers Initiative site.
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| MEMBER SPOTLIGHT |
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Director/producer/writer Sonia Fritz is the director of the feature film for children Adventure in the Estuary, currently in post-production; and is working on the pre-production of the film America’s Dream, based on the novel by Esmeralda Santiago; she is executive producer of Manuela y Manuel, which premiered at the AFI Film Festival in November 2007 (distributed by Latido and Regent). As producer, she is presently working on the post-production of the film Miente/Lie, a psychological thriller. In 2008, her production company finished the documentary Little Immigrants, the story of two Mexican kids who try to re-unite with their mother who is illegally working in Phoenix. Sonia has a BA in Communications from the University of Mexico and an MFA from Vermont College; she teaches production at Sacred Heart University in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The recurring themes in her work are migration, gender issues, society, art, and Puerto Rican culture. Sonia is a past fellow of NALIP's Latino Producers Academy and Latino Writers Lab.
"Directing is my passion, producing is the next best thing, and working with my students keeps me energized. Since my years at the University in México I have been committed to social issues and fighting for a better and more equal society. In one way or another I have been inspired to use film and video to capture all that I care about."
- Sonia Fritz
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| FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
May 2009
Dear NALIP Members:
“NALIP at 10. On April 9, 1962, Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno became the first Latina to win an Oscar for her role as Anita in West Side Story. On April 12, 1980, Bronx City Councilman, Gilberto Gerena-Valentin, conducted a public hearing on the merits of a movie called Fort Apache the Bronx, a film against which the late Richie Perez, whom we honored a few years ago, would later organize the biggest Latino boycott of a Hollywood production in history. And on April 19, 2009, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers celebrated its 10th anniversary. Tonight, we make history.”
Conference co-chair, Frances Negron-Muntaner, opened our NALIP 10 Awards Gala with these powerful words. I hope that you were able to join us at our 10th anniversary celebration, and become part of history.
What makes NALIP worthy of history? NALIP is the first U.S. media organization to bring together Latino producers working in all forms across the country. As the first national organization of its kind, NALIP has expanded the definition of who belongs to this Latino creative community. As we heard from Luis Valdez’s inspiring opening keynote at the Conference, to HBO president Michael Lombardo’s wide survey of their engagement with Latino/s artists, to Herb Scannell’s review of the past decade and his expectations for the next one, NALIP serves a large, vital, and hungry community. This is the creative community that you are part of, as a NALIP member. We are proud that NALIP 10 hosted artists from 20 states, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Canada. We are proud that NALIP is as much a home for the filmmaker in San Antonio, Texas as for the one in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, or Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. As Frances Negron-Muntaner so eloquently put it at the gala, “NALIP, then, puts the ‘trans’ in ‘trans-national,’ and in this way helps us to better understand why the history of America is not that of a country, but of a hemisphere.”
READ THE FULL LETTER
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