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Latino Media Accelerator

The Latino Media Accelerator is a project hub dedicated to episodic and 1st or 2nd feature film projects at an early and advanced stage of development. Nine creative teams (director/producer) are selected to take part in a month-long mentoring process and gain access to tailored opportunities, mentorship, and resources to bring their projects to life.

Thank you to the companies and coaches that met with the fellows!

3pas Objectively Good
Exile Content Unapologetic
Plan B Broken English
Tribeca Daniel Dreifuss
Luz Films Will Packer
Hyphenate Cindy Alverez
CAA Latino Corbin Pickett

 

For generations, the De Leon women have been cursed in love, resulting in one heartbreak after another. When the youngest daughter, Espe, gets engaged to a man they barely know, her mother, Gloria, enlists the help of every prima, tia, and abuela to break up the engagement before history inevitably repeats itself.

The moon falls from the sky in rural Belize, and Carmen (13) finds the body of a young girl killed by a Mayan monster–but when no one in the village believes her, she sets out on her own to solve the crime and stop the monster from killing again.

Reunited with her husband Abhi after nearly two years at his newly acquired motel, Nitya arrives in California only to discover dark secrets about their new life that threaten to destroy her marriage.

SONICA is an unapologetic, sci-fi comedy about Sonia, a Latina New Yorker who unexpectedly becomes the most powerful being in the universe and discovers Midland, a medieval realm, where she protects the villagers from giant monsters, and modernizes their society - while getting paid a shit ton of money.

Through her series of quirky adventures, Sonia gradually overcomes her apathy, to find new meaning in her life.

On a runaway trip to the Amazon, the aimless and pregnant Leo falls madly in love with Nadia, an aspiring musician. Their reckless romance leads to a miscarriage - a shared tragedy that forever binds them as they come together and separate over chapters of their lives, each time reconciling with their ideas of womanhood, motherhood, and nature.

A photographer drawn back to her former life as a lap dancer enters an intoxicating affair, upending her stable relationship in Park Slope.

In an alternate reality where “body shops” replace hospitals, Lupe’s body suffers an accident that forces her into the loaner frame of a white Anglo woman. Desperate to expedite the repairs, Lupe ventures to a rumored black market to source skin needed to finish the job so she can say goodbye to her ailing mother as her true self.

A young poet hits the road to claim her estranged father’s inheritance, while her mother sets off on a cross country chase to stop her from discovering a long held family secret.

A distrustful teen still reeling from the death of her mother sets out on a journey to keep a maniacal president from using her father’s climate saving invention to poison the air.