Most wins at last night’s Mexican Film Ariel Awards: Dias de Gracia by Everardo Gout

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• #LAFF2013 Diversity Speaks – People Like Us

  My header above; “People Like Us”  comes to mind and becomes a play on words at the same time.  At a couple LA Film Festival panels I heard both actor Gina Rodriguez (Filly Brown) and filmmaker Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale), hit on the personal impact of seeing stories embodied by and created by ‘people like us’ […]

• #LAFF2013 – Floored by the vision of Grace Lee Boggs

  Watch the amazing Grace at the premiere of her documentary American Revolutionary talking about our responsibility to converse, reflect and self transform so we may continue to evolve as a human race and galvanize the revolution beyond us. I’ve no doubt that yesterday at the full-house world premiere of American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace […]

• #HotSec Fridays – web series American Nobodies episode Antonio by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck

  In honor of their very first feature Forty Years From Yesterday debuting at the LA Film Festival this week I want to share this particular mini-doc portrait made by the filmmakers Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck.  In distinct auteur meets D2F fashion, American Nobodies is an original web series in which they film and introduce us to “Average […]

• NALIP 2013 recap – After All is Said, We Must (continue) to Do

  The theme of this year’s NALIP 2013 conference was “Spotlight on the Trillion $ Latino Market”,  but it seems the only tangible currency the Latino community shares is the ‘trillion’ perspectives on the subject.  Pushed to pierce through the brown and loud cacophony overheard this weekend, I’ve come up with; On one side there is […]

• NICOLE GOMEZ FISHER WINS BEST DIRECTOR AT BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL

  Tonight the Brooklyn Film Festival drew to a close and I’m so thrilled to hear the news that Nicole Gomez Fisher was awarded BEST DIRECTOR for her debut feature, Sleeping with the Fishes starring Gina Rodriguez!  In case you missed it you can ready the interview I did with Nicole last week here. Festival wins for […]