Archive for the News Category
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I Curated a Film Fest and Survived!
by Angel Aviles-McClinton As most of you know, I was the Program Director for the 2009 Other Venice Film Festival. When Ruby De La Casas asked me to take over this position, I gladly acquiesced. After all, festival programmer is a film lovers dr
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Doc Film: Chicano Rock! The Sounds of East Los Angeles:
(Nancy and Jon Wilkman, Angel Aviles McClinton and Seidy Lopez, at the Don't Knock The Rock Film Festival.) Life is AWESOME isn't it? On Thursday I had the chance to enjoy some of my favorite things. I got together with some old friends, met
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Magu’s “Our Family Car” on TV
(photo by Gil Ortiz) Magu asked us to spread the news on his television highlight. Hello , The NBC television crew came out to my house and filmed my friend Gilbert "Magu" Lujan the artist and his creation "Our Family Car" along with a coup
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Film and Social Activism : A natural combination
Paul and I got to see a powerful movie last year. Made in L.A. follows three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles sweatshops as they embark on an odyssey to win basic labor protections from a trendy clothing retailer. No matter what your pers
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NALIP – Making Dreams Possible
(Ray Andrade and Kenny Ortega) The National Association of Latin Independent Producers (NALIP) held their celebratory 10th anniversary conference at the lush Island Hotel in Newport Beach. HBO Latino and The National Latino Media Council present
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At the NALIP Conference
Edwin Pagan and Angel Day 3 Ready for another exciting day, Angel and I rushed to the Press room to get our interview schedule for the day. Then rushed to room 1901, to set up our video equipment, but when we entered the room, we found Yareli a
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BF Cafe New Design
We are pleased to show our new web site design. It's been a learning process in creating the design but after numerous trails and errors, we are excited about our new blog format. With this new format we will be able to take advantage of many
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BF Cafe is Going to NALIP
See You at NALIP If you not familiar on who and what is NALIP, and you are interested in the entertainment industry, then we suggest you go to this web site immediately: www.nalip.org The good news is that NALIP sold out the conference th
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