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NALIP published Gloria Calderón Kellett Sees Comedy as First Step to Improved Latinx Depictions in News 2020-11-02 13:28:11 -0800
Gloria Calderón Kellett Sees Comedy as First Step to Improved Latinx Depictions
Gloria Calderón Kellett says her drive to create stories about the Hispanic community comes from wanting to provide more accurate representations of it in entertainment.
"The constant demonizing of our community made me a writer because we need more accuracy out there," she said during the Diverse Women In Media panel hosted by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers in Los Angeles on Thursday night.
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NALIP published Diverse Women in Media Forum offers hope mixed with practicality in News 2020-11-02 13:25:58 -0800
Diverse Women in Media Forum offers hope mixed with practicality
A West Hollywood hotel banquet room full of aspiring industry players got a day of encouragement – along with, crucially, some practical advice – at the Diverse Women in Media Forum Thursday.
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NALIP published "One Day At A Time" Star Isabella Gomez Speaks About Her Experience With Colorism at NALIP's Diverse Women in Media Forum in News 2020-11-02 13:15:45 -0800
"One Day At A Time" Star Isabella Gomez Speaks About Her Experience With Colorism at NALIP's Diverse Women in Media Forum
One Day At a Time is coming back for its fourth season in 2020 and fans are stoked! It would be an understatement to say how rare shows like ODAAT really are and how important it is for Latinx to be portrayed as full multifaceted people. One thing in particular that has made the sitcom so beloved is the progressive way it deals with everything from mental illness and gentrification to homophobia and racism.
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NALIP published Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights’ Trailer Celebrates Latinx Stories On The Big Screen in News 2020-11-02 13:05:12 -0800
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights’ Trailer Celebrates Latinx Stories On The Big Screen
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Read moreWith “In The Heights,” Miranda and the cast are taking a rare step in a predominantly white Hollywood by centering powerful and gripping Latinx stories on the silver screen.
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NALIP published Meet the creator of one of the nation’s first major Latino-owned film studios in News 2020-11-02 12:46:44 -0800
Meet the creator of one of the nation’s first major Latino-owned film studios
Growing up in Burbank as the son of Cuban immigrants, Ozzie Areu never dreamed of a career in Hollywood. The big film studios just a few miles away from his family’s modest home were remote walled-off compounds, so removed from the hustle and grind of his family’s day-to-day life that they felt like another world.
Read moreAreu wanted to be a cop. But as he likes to say, God had another plan. After taking on a job as a security guard at Warner Bros., he got the film bug.
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NALIP published LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Launches Plan to Double Latinx Representation in Hollywood by 2030 in News 2020-11-02 12:38:56 -0800
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Launches Plan to Double Latinx Representation in Hollywood by 2030
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Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday announced an initiative that will aim to connect Latinx talent, executives and creators with opportunities throughout the entertainment industry and double Latinx representation in Hollywood by 2030.
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NALIP published NALIP Featured in Variety's Ultimate Party Guide for 2020 Sundance! in News 2020-11-02 12:34:40 -0800
NALIP Featured in Variety's Ultimate Party Guide for 2020 Sundance!
Heading to Park City?
From intimate dinners and cocktail parties to late night bashes (that end just in time to head to brunch), there’s plenty to keep this year’s film festival attendees out of the cold between screenings.
Here is Variety’s ultimate party guide for Sundance 2020:
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NALIP published Inside the National Association of Latino Independent Producers Events at Sundance in News 2020-11-02 12:32:42 -0800
Inside the National Association of Latino Independent Producers Events at Sundance
As part of their mission to discover, promote, and inspire Latinx content creators and diverse voices across media platforms, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) hosted a series of events during Sundance 2020.
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NALIP Featured In HipLatina Article!
Last year Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in partnership with the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and Wise Entertainment released a report shining a light on the lack of Latinx representation in Hollywood. They found that only three percent of movies featured Latinx actors in lead roles from 2007 through 2018 in the 100 top-grossing films and J.Lo was the only Latinx actress over 45 to star in a film in the last 12 years.
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NALIP published Warner Bros. Hosts Next Generation of Filmmakers for WB Studio Day in News 2020-11-02 12:27:18 -0800
Warner Bros. Hosts Next Generation of Filmmakers for WB Studio Day
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This past weekend, nearly 200 high school students spent the day on Warner Bros.’ Burbank lot immersed in the company’s first-ever WB Studio Day. The gathering was an opportunity for those participating in the WB First Cut program and interested in production careers to engage more deeply with the studio and gain insight into various career pathways the entertainment industry has to offer. Through a partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District and nonprofit Ghetto Film School (GFS), WB First Cut provides filmmaking curriculum, skills and expanded industry opportunities to high school students. Now in its third season, the program first launched in 2018.
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NALIP published The Black List Opens Submissions For Inaugural Latinx TV List in News 2020-11-02 12:23:58 -0800
The Black List Opens Submissions For Inaugural Latinx TV List
The Black List is partnering with The Latin Tracking Board, NALIP, Remezcla and The Untitled Latinx Project for the inaugural Latinx TV List. Interested writers and creators who are interested can submit to blcklst.com between now and March 18.
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NALIP published Call for Submissions: ‘The 2020 Latinx TV List’ Hopes To Uplift Underrepresented Voices on TV in News 2020-11-02 12:20:14 -0800
Call for Submissions: ‘The 2020 Latinx TV List’ Hopes To Uplift Underrepresented Voices on TV
The issue of on-screen Latinx underrepresentation is, at this point, nothing new. Study after study — not to mention controversy after controversy — reminds us that Latinos are prized as audiences but not given the requisite opportunities to thrive in the entertainment industry. On July 2019, The Black List — the annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays that has since also become an online hub for aspiring screenwriters everywhere — partnered with The Latin Tracking Board, Mijente, NALIP, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Remezcla and UnidosUS to create the very first Latinx List for feature screenplays. That list ended up including recent Sundance film Blast Beat as well as three projects from up and coming Latina screenwriters.
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NALIP published NALIPsters Marvin Leemus and Linda Yvette Chavez Talk About the Creation of the New Netflix Original Gentefied in News 2020-11-02 12:14:54 -0800
NALIPsters Marvin Leemus and Linda Yvette Chavez Talk About the Creation of the New Netflix Original Gentefied
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Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez had never sold a TV script or even set foot in a writers’ room when they visited network after network three years ago, speaking in Spanglish about brown love, familia, and the show of their dreams. Ten times, in front of some of the industry’s biggest players, they pitched their dramedy, Gentefied.
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NALIP published The Latinx List From The Black List Dropped At 20th NALIP Media Summit in News 2020-10-31 01:04:57 -0700
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Graphic Design Internship
The National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) is seeking creative, motivated and hard-working Graphic Designers to join the Digital Production Department as part of the Graphic Design Team.
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NIA DACOSTA
Nia DaCosta is a writer and director based in New York City.
Her first feature film, “Little Woods”, starring Tessa Thompson and Lily James, had its theatrical release on April 19, 2019 through Neon Rated. She is directing her second feature film, the Jordan Peele written and produced, “Candyman”, this spring. The MGM film will be released June 12, 2020. Nia is as well working on her new project as a writer-director of a reboot “reimagining” of “Sleeping with the Enemy” for Fox Searchlight.
DaCosta has been supported by the Sundance Institute, New York Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Society and the Time Warner Foundation.
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MIGUEL ARTETA
Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles. His film, Beatriz at Dinner(2017), written by regular collaborator Mike White and starring Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton and Jay Duplass, was released by Roadside Attractions. He won an Independent Spirit Award for his first feature, Chuck & Buck (2000), written by Mike White. It premiered and found distribution at the Sundance Film Festival, as did Star Maps(1997) and The Good Girl (2002). Has also directed Youth in Revolt (2009), with Michael Cera; Cedar Rapids (2011), with Ed Helms and John C. Reilly; and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day(2014), with Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner. Arteta’s TV work includes Freaks and Geeks, The Office, Six Feet Under, Enlightened, New Girl, Nurse Jackie, The Big C, American Horror Story and Getting On. He studied film with Jeanine Basinger at the Wesleyan Film Program and has taught at the Sundance Institute’s Directors Labs and at the Middle Eastern Film Lab in Jordan. (Picture by Lacey Terrell.) His most recent films include Duck Butter(2018) and Like A Boss(2020).