Hola Mexico Full Scholarship for Emerging Latino Filmmakers/The Rise and Fall of Brown Buffalo Premiered March 23rd

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Hola Mexico Full Scholarship for Emerging Latino Filmmakers

The application for Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today 2018, our 10-day program for Latino emerging filmmakers is now available.
This is a fully-funded scholarship opportunity for 20 participants only. The program runs from from June 1st to June 10th during the Hola Mexico Film Festival. Be part of a growing network of filmmakers eager to voice their creative work and engage in meaningful collaborations by applying to Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today 2018. The 20 selected filmmakers will spend 10 days participating in conversations with top leaders of the Mexican and Hollywood film industry through talks, site visits and master classes.The fully-funded program includes the opportunity to showcase a short film as part of the festival screens. TFT participants this year will also serve as the jury to select the best film of Hola Mexico Film Festival, TFT Award.
The application to Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today is now available at:
For more information and to access the application visit:
The deadline to submit an application is April 14th. 

 

More Information at http://holamexicoff.com/tomorrows-filmmakers/

The Rise and Fall of Brown Buffalo Premiered March 23rd

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BROWN BUFFALO is a fresh and genre-defying film about the life of radical Chicano lawyer, author and countercultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta — the basis for the character Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, written by his friend, legendary journalist-provocateur Hunter S. Thompson. Filmmaker Phillip Rodriguez brings Acosta to life by employing a cinematic style as unorthodox as his subject: weaving archival footage and images with dramatized portrayals of Acosta, Thompson, and other key figures and moments of the era. The script is culled from Acosta and Thompson’s writings and interviews, as well as letters, journalistic and personal accounts. The resulting film brings narrative style to documentary filmmaking and paints a portrait of a fascinating, complex and enigmatic man. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BROWN BUFFALO premiered Friday, March 23, 2018, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) as a VOCES special on PBS.

About the Filmmaker

Phillip Rodriguez (Director/Producer/Writer) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and veteran content provider for PBS. His films bring to light the complexities of Latino culture, history, and identity at a time when our nation’s demographics reflect unprecedented growth in the Latino community and the concomitant demand for relevant storytelling. Rodriguez’s investigative documentary Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle explores the life and mysterious death of the pioneering journalist and won Best Documentary at the 2014 San Antonio CineFestival and the 2014 Denver XicanIndie Festival. RACE 2012: A conversation About Race and Politics in America was awarded a 2013 CINE Golden Eagle Award in the Best Televised News Division – Informational/Current Issue category. Latinos ’08 received a 2009 CINE Golden Eagle Award for Best News Analysis. Brown is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Dream was awarded the 2008 Imagen Award for Best TV Documentary. Rodriguez’s   other critically acclaimed films include Los Angeles Now, Mixed Feelings: San Diego/Tijuana, Manuel Ocampo: God is My Copilot, and Pancho Villa & Other Stories. In 2006, Rodriguez received the first annual United States Artists Broad Fellow Award. This annual award honors the country’s most accomplished and innovative artists. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, he has an M.A. in Latin American Studies (Honors) and an M.F.A. in Film and Television from UCLA. His fellowships have included Senior Fellow at The Dorothy Leavy Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University, Fellow for Documentary Filmmaking at the Institute for Justice and Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Check your local listings here: http://www.pbssocal.org/schedule/