Latino multimedia-makers & actors
Join us at the
Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 6-10pm
A support network to advocate, promote & advance
mainstream & Latino projects in English & Spanish.
mainstream & Latino projects in English & Spanish.
DREAMERS
Everyone has a dream. How can a child brought to the USA without papers who grows up loving their country, like any counterpart born here, risk being deported to a land they know not because of a lack in legal immigration status? Meet two filmmakers taking the issue of immigration dividing the nation and through narrative filmmaking successfully shine the spotlight on the painful ramifications experienced within their Latino community. As our community of Latino multimedia-makers and actors long for that hit film, TV series, webisodes or role, learn the road taken by these individuals in realizing projects within the world of independent production and prove that, with a strategic plan, dreams do come true.
6-8pm: Networking
8-9pm: TÍO LOUIEReporta/Chat: Interviews with Actor/Multimedia-maker
9-10pm: Networking
8-9pm: TÍO LOUIEReporta/Chat: Interviews with Actor/Multimedia-maker
9-10pm: Networking
· Moderator:TÍO LOUIE/Louis E. Perego Moreno, President, Skyline Features
· Interview #1: Paola Mendoza, actor, director, screenwriter & author named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film
· Interview #2: Javier Aguirre, Producer on narrative feature, The Inquisition of Camilo Sanz
PRIME LATINO MEDIA FESTIVAL, October 5-12, 2014
1) Showcase: English- & Spanish-language films, TV & Digital Media
2) Conference: workshops, panels & Master Classes
3) Collective: connecting multimedia-makers with funders & distributors
FREE ADMISSION & CASH BAR/FOOD – RSVP at following: http://vivadreamers.eventbrite.com
Location:Meridian 23,161 West 23rd Street, between 6th & 7th avenues, NYC. Music bar in Chelsea & street food tapas http://meridian23.com
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Location:Meridian 23,161 West 23rd Street, between 6th & 7th avenues, NYC. Music bar in Chelsea & street food tapas http://meridian23.com
Paola Mendoza
She has directed both short and feature length films– Entre nos, Half of Her, Autumn's Eyes and La Toma– that have been embraced by film festivals around the world: Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, Tribeca Film Festival, Full Frame, South by Southwest. She has starred in many critically acclaimed films, Sangre de mi sangre (Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival), Entre nos (Honorable Mention, Tribeca Film Festival), and On The Outs (Toronto FIlm Festival). She has recently finished writing her first novel, entitled The Ones Who Don't Stay, which was published by Penguin Books in the summer of 2013.
She has directed both short and feature length films– Entre nos, Half of Her, Autumn's Eyes and La Toma– that have been embraced by film festivals around the world: Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, Tribeca Film Festival, Full Frame, South by Southwest. She has starred in many critically acclaimed films, Sangre de mi sangre (Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival), Entre nos (Honorable Mention, Tribeca Film Festival), and On The Outs (Toronto FIlm Festival). She has recently finished writing her first novel, entitled The Ones Who Don't Stay, which was published by Penguin Books in the summer of 2013.
Javier Aguirre
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A freelance filmmaker, since 2007 he has worked on both short and long form documentary films. Currently, he is a post-producer/editor on various short form projects both on TV and the web. He studied film production and media theory at the University of Buffalo where he holds a B.A. He recently produced for LPZ Media the feature film The Inquisition of Camilo Sanzabout a young wall street professional who was brought to the U.S. as an undocumented baby from Colombia, is turned in by a disgruntled ex-girlfriend, then receives a deportation letter from INS turning to an illegitimate marriage for self preservation. The feature film is based on the short film, Butterflies.
An interactive content producer and educator who for the past 32 years has owned Skyline Features, a bilingual (English- and Spanish-language) multimedia and educational production company developing documentaries, television programming and advertising commercials featuring Latinos, Blacks, Women, Urban Youth and LGBT. Produced 70 documentary shorts with 1,500 Latino and Black Youth. Producer/Director/Writer of documentary feature, Latina Confessions (2010) and airing on PBS nationally was co-producer on American Dreams Deferred(2012-2014). Executive Producer of PRIME LATINO MEDIA SALÓN, metro-New York's only monthly gathering of Latino multimedia-makers and actors in which over 60 narrative & documentary filmmakers, programmers, casting agents, digital media producers and actors have been interviewed.
Stay tuned… next monthly PRIME LATINO MEDIA SALÓN: September 2014
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Join the following Professional Networking Groups:
· Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) www.hellohola.org
· United Latino Professionals (ULP) http://www.ulpnetwork.com