News & Updates
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America By The Numbers | THE NEW MAD MEN
Posted by NALIP on November 19, 2014
With a collective purchasing power of $3 trillion, people of color are quickly becoming the nation’s most sought-after consumers. Iconic brands are re-examining their marketing strategies in order to stay competitive in the changing marketplace. Latinos, with a buying power of $1.2 trillion, are at the heart of this new consumer focus. We take an exclusive look inside LatinWorks, one of the most successful multicultural ad agencies in the country, and learn how they are speaking to the multicultural millennial market.
Airdate on WORLD: Thursday, 11/20/14
Airdate on PBS Weekend: Saturday, 11/22/14
Online Screening and Live Chat: Monday, 11/24/14, 7pm ET/4pm PT
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DGA Assistant Director Training Program
Posted by NALIP on November 19, 2014
The New York Assistant Director Training Program is designed to provide opportunities for a limited number of individuals to become Assistant Directors in Film, Film Television & Commercial production. This is a two year program consisting of up to 350 days of on-the-job training combined with seminars and special assignments. A rotation system places Trainees on the sets of various features, television series and commercials shooting primarily in the New York City vicinity. There they work under the supervision of DGA members - Second Assistant Directors, First Assistant Directors and Unit Production Managers until graduation. Upon completion of the program, graduates are qualified to join the DGA (Directors Guild of America) as Second Assistant Directors.
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30th Annual IDA Awards
Posted by NALIP on November 19, 2014
The IDA Documentary Awards is the foremost event dedicated to the art of documentary film, honoring individuals for outstanding achievements and contributions to the field, as well as the best documentary films and nonfiction series of the year.Winners of the 30th Annual IDA Documentary Awards will be announced on December 5, 2014 in Los Angeles at the Paramount Theater. Join the celebration of documentary filmmaking! Tickets available at documentary.org/awards. -
Yellow Robin Award Competition Call for Submissions
Posted by NALIP on November 19, 2014
The Curaçao International Film Festival Rotterdam, which takes place March 25-28 2015, is looking for submissions for its Yellow Robin Award Competition. Designed as a platform to launch exciting new filmmaker voices from the Caribbean region, the festival is looking for first and second feature length films, in the fiction or creative documentary genre, from primarily the island region as well as the Latin American mainland. The winner of the Yellow Robin Award will receive $10,000USD as well as priority access to one of the most important film festivals in the world, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, such as participating in the CineMart or a screening his/her film at the festival in 2016. The deadline to submit is January 1, 2015.
To submit screeners for consideration please contact Programmer Christine Davila at [email protected].
For last year’s participants and more information visit: http://www.curacaoiffr.com/Yellow-Robin-Info
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‘Cortes’ Drama From Martin Scorsese & Benicio Del Toro In Works At HBO
Posted by NALIP on November 19, 2014
by Nellie Andreeva | Deadline
HBO is taking on a pivotal moment in the history of the Americas with Cortes, a high-profile drama series in development. It is being written/executive produced byMississippi Burning scribe Chris Gerolmo, directed/executive produced by Martin Scorsese and executive produced by Benicio Del Toro who is interested in starring as the Aztec conqueror.
Cortes will tell the sweeping story of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who brought down the Aztec empire; Malinche, the Mayan girl who helped him do it; and Montezuma, the Aztec leader he befriended and finally put in chains.
The subject matter has the makings of a compelling drama as Cortés’ legacy is a complex one. On one hand, he won Mexico for Spain and extended the Spanish Empire. But from the indigenous’ point of view, he was a mass murderer who spearheaded the destruction of one of the greatest civilizations of that time.
In addition to Gerolmo and Oscar winners Scorsese and Del Toro, Cortes is executive produced by Laura Bickford, Del Toro’s producing partner on Che; Scorsese and Del Toro’s manager Rick Yorn; and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, president of production for Scorsese’s Sikelia Prods.
WME-repped Scorsese made his TV debut with the HBO period drama Boardwalk Empire, winning an Emmy for directing the pilot. He is directing his second HBO pilot, the untitled Rock ‘N’ Roll drama, a collaboration with Mick Jagger andBoardwalk Empire‘s Terence Winter, which explores the drug- and sex-fueled music business in 1970s New York.
In TV, Gerolmo previously co-created with Steven Bochco the FX Iraq drama seriesOver There and most recently worked on the network’s U.S.-Mexico-border dramaThe Bridge. He is repped by ICM Partners and Jackoway Tyerman.
This would be the latest Latin American historical figure portrayal for Del Toro who toplined Escobar: Paradise Lost and Steven Soderbergh’s Che. In addition toEscobar, CAA-repped Del Toro is coming off his role as The Collector in the summer blockbuster The Guardians Of The Galaxy.
Check this out at Deadline | Hollywood.
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6 Golden Age Films Starring Pedro Infante, Mexico’s Most Beloved Movie Star
Posted by NALIP · November 18, 2014
It’s no exaggeration to call Pedro Infante the idol of Mexico. But if you’re not ready to concede that fact, we can always use his other nickname: “El Inmortal.” His life was one of the ultimate rags-to-riches stories: born in humble Sinaloa, Infante became one of Mexico’s greatest actors. As one of los Tres Gallos Mexicanos (a trio that included on-screen rival Jorge Negrete), he was dubbed king of rancheras, though he was always more of a crooner than a crower. Infante’s dulcet tones and undeniable charisma earned him comparisons to such American contemporaries as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and even Humphrey Bogart. But he never forgot his roots, and the majority of his work examined class differences.
At the time of his death in a plane crash on April 15, 1957, Infante had starred in over 60 movies and recorded more than 300 songs. November 18, 2014, would have been his 97th birthday. So let us celebrate with this definitive list of Pedro Infante movies (you’ll offend my dad, his number one fan, if you disagree), which are all available online, a fact that would have suited Mexico’s working class hero just fine.
Also, check out Hulu’s collection of Películas de la Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano (films from Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema) that you can stream for free!
Read more at REMEZCLA.com
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NUVOtv Nu Point of View: Emerging Latino Filmmakers @ NewFilmmakers LA
Posted by NALIP · November 13, 2014
You're invited to join NUVOtv and NewFilmmakers Los Angeles for an exclusive preview of the NUVO Point of View: Emerging Latino Filmmakers Winter Selections!
The event will feature open bar, food, celebrity guests including SAG-AFTRA Board Member and Actor Jon Huertas and a screening of this seasons selected films followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers, moderated by USA Today film critic Claudia Puig.
NUVO Point of View is a ground-breaking new platform for aspiring American Latino filmmakers, giving talented writers, producers and directors the chance to showcase their works on a national stage. Hundreds submitted their independent passion projects and now the selected finalists will be profiled along with their inspirational stories.
NUVOtv is providing 75 pairs of all-night access passes to attend this exclusive screening event for the first 75 NALIP Members who RSVP.
AT&T Center | 1139 S. Olive St. LA CA 90015