The National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) was present at this years Tribeca Film Festival where we were excited to see fellow Latinos and many NALIPsters and NALIP supporters attend and participate this year! Check out some of the content creators that were there are not only attending and screening at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival but are also successfully navigating their labs and grant programs.The incredible talent of each of the individuals below is indicative of the diverse storytelling within the Latinx community. Check out the work they helped bring to life!

2018 Fox Directors Lab Now Accepting Applications

21CF Global Inclusion is excited to announce the launch of the 2018 Fox Directors Lab (“FDL”).  Applications will open on April 23^rd and will close on May 14^th.  The Fox Directors Lab is a highly selective initiative designed to nurture experienced television directors who have diverse voices, backgrounds, and life experiences.  The goal of the program is to create a strong pipeline of well-rounded talent for potential staffing on Fox television shows.  The initiative offers 6-7 directors a rigorous four-week curriculum focused on professional development, mentorship, and exploring the business of media and entertainment.  All directors will be placed on shadowing assignments on one of Fox’s television shows.

The selected intern will assist the NALIP Media Summit and LMM team develop and produce the 2018 Emerging Content Creator Workshop Internship and the Latino Media Market Programs Internship.

Universal Cable Productions will team with producer Scott Glassgold’s Ground Control, a management and production company specializing in film shorts, to create the Universal Cable Productions and Ground Control Film Lab, an initiative to find and nurture new storytellers.

The Film Lab is designed to challenge aspiring filmmakers “to submit a sample of their directorial/visual style, as well as an original television program concept, for a chance to have the opportunity to develop a television project with UCP.”

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At the first-ever Creators Summit presented by GLAAD and the Creative Artists Agency, producers, writers, content creators and industry execs gathered to discuss the future of diversity, inclusivity and intersectionality in entertainment at the agency’s headquarters in Los Angeles. (The daylong event kicked off the 29th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which will be held in LA on Thursday.) Panelists spoke about ways to increase authentic representations of the LGBTQ community in the media while flipping the script on stereotypical portrayals.

Asghar Farhadi’s thriller will be only the second non-English, non-French film to open the festival

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“Everybody Knows,” starring Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Ricardo Darin, will open the 71st Cannes Film Festival, festival organizers announced on Thursday.

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Queen of the South season 3 is headed our way and it's sure to set our summer on fire! The action packed female led show follows Teresa Mendoza (Alicia Braga) as she aims to become the most powerful woman in the cartel business. 

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The renewal came after critics, fans, and several Latino groups lobbied Netflix hard to bring it back.

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Up on your feet, somewhere there’s music playing: Netflix has renewed “One Day at a Time” for Season 3. The renewal wasn’t a slam dunk, as the show is believed to just have middle-of-the-road viewership — hence the time Netflix took to crunch the numbers and make it work. But the show has garnered loads of critical acclaim — and has been lauded in particular for its depiction of a Latino family, and embrace of important issues through the lens of comedy, giving Netflix plenty of reasons to find a way to bring the show back.

NALIP members Miguel J. Soliman and Alejandro Sugich will be screening their projects at the 25th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF). The festival is produced by the Media Arts Center San Diego, who started SDLFF 25 years ago initially as a student film festival (Cine Estudantil) focusing on works by Latinos and/or about the Latino Experience. Since that time, the San Diego Latino Film Festival has developed into one of the larger and well-respected Latino film festivals in the world. Over 325,000 people have attended during the past 25 years and over 3,880 films/videos from across Latin America and the United States have been screened.

The NALIP Media Summit is the largest annual gathering of Latinos in media nationwide. The weekend-long event will take place on June 21-24, 2018. The event focuses on bringing content creators of all levels together to give them the tools and information they need to help them move forward and promote diversity through our #WeAreInclusion campaign.