LOS ANGELES — “On The Red Carpet Storytellers Spotlight” is a dialog sequence produced by ABC7 Los Angeles that options the work of underrepresented numerous storytellers in tv, movie, theater and music. The sequence focuses on the storytellers’ backstory, sharing what impressed them to develop into storytellers, points they face within the leisure business, and social points they’re obsessed with.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month 2021, On the Red Carpet and the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival will highlight 7 totally different Latino movies together with unique interviews with the administrators. These inspiring filmmakers will share their journey and expertise to changing into filmmakers, the significance of numerous illustration within the leisure business and their physique of labor.
Click right here to look at the featured movies on LALIFF’s web site.
Zoé Salicrup Junco
Bio: Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Zoé Salicrup Junco is an award-profitable director, author, and producer with a ardour and dedication to inform tales about underrepresented communities, particularly Latinxs and ladies. Her quick movie “MARISOL,” a NYC-set drama following an undocumented mom who dangers exposing her pending standing by a trip-share app to be able to save her household, received the HuffPost Social Impact Award in 2020 and was acquired by HBO. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Zoé’s work has screened in high-tier movie festivals together with Tribeca, Palm Springs, and Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival.In2012, her movie “GABI,” an unfiltered portrayal of what it is wish to be an unconventional girl in a small city in Puerto Rico, garnered her high prizes just like the King Screenwriting Award, the Wasserman Directing Award, the National Board of Review Student Grant, and a spot in The Independent Magazine’s “Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch” checklist. Most just lately, her quick movie “MARÍA,” a psychological thriller shining a lightweight on the psychological well being deterioration underserved communities, like Puerto Rico, endure after pure disasters, aired on PBS Film Festival. Aside from her narrative work, Zoé additionally directs industrial content material for artists like Doja Cat and Raja Kumari, in addition to manufacturers like Sony, HBO, Herschel, and Bausch & Lomb. Zoé is a 2013Cinefestival/Sundance Latino Screenwriters Project Fellow, and a participant on the 2016 Sundance Women’s Financing Intensive and the 2019-2020 Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop for Artists. She’s additionally an lively member of the New York Women in Film & Television Organization and the NYC Women’s Filmmakers Group. To be taught extra about Zoé, go to her web site zoesj.com.
Film title: “María”
Synopsis: Several weeks after a devastating hurricane, a younger girl, María, returns dwelling to look after her father, who just lately tried to finish his personal life. While María waits for him to be discharged from the hospital, she struggles in opposition to an uncertainty that consumes her. With no entry to water, electrical energy, or meals she turns into obsessive about cleansing up each final hint of the tragedy. Following the aftermath of Hurricane María, this quick movie shines a lightweight on the psychological deterioration underserved communities, like Puerto Rico, endure after pure disasters.
Click right here to look at Zoé Salicrup Junco’s quick movie “María.”
Andrés Vázquez
Bio: Andrés Vázquez is a primary era U.S. Latine author-director primarily based in Los Angeles. As the seventh son of Mexican immigrants and descendant of the US-Mexico Bracero Program, Andrés’ filmmaking examines the connection between work and id and the dialectical course of of individuals making one thing out of what their scenario is making of them. His most up-to-date movies, Omolara and El Llano En Llamas, had been official choices of the Bronze Lens Film Festival, Urban World Film Festival, FRIEZE LA, and the HOLA Mexico Film Festival as a part of Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today offered by Warner Media and HFPA (2021). His script, Despierta, received the Sundance Co//ab Sound as Storytelling Challenge offered by the Dolby Institute (2020). Andrés was a Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow (2020) and was awarded the 2021 DB Frieze LA Film Award Fellowship, offered by Deutsche Bank, Frieze, and Ghetto Film School in partnership with Endeavor Content. Andrés is a recipient of the 2021 Kintsugi Spirit Artist Grant with the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC), below the steerage of artist Hirokazu Kosaka. His undertaking FREQUENCIES, a multimedia documentary that explores the significance of holding communal house for mourning and meditation, will likely be on digital exhibit in October 2021 with JACCC. Andrés is presently creating his first characteristic.
Film title: “Wilderness”
Synopsis: “Wilderness” tells the story of a father and son who ponder life and the cosmos whereas stargazing on their tenting journey. When the son is all of the sudden struck with a sense of homesickness, his father units out to consolation his son’s longing by re-imagining for him what dwelling actually means.
Click right here to look at Andrés Vázquez’s quick movie “Wilderness.”
Armando Sepulveda Mendoza
Bio: Armando Sepulveda Mendoza is an animation director and cease movement animator from Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. He now lives in Los Angeles, the place he immigrated as a child and has spent the vast majority of his life. Currently, Armando is pursuing an MFA in Animation and Digital Arts on the University of Southern California and persevering with to make quick movies whereas constructing the foundations for a profession the place he can proceed to make use of cease-movement and experiment in different inventive mediums to inform his tales by animation.
Film title: “Miguel”
Synopsis: Miguel should overcome the sensation of being an outcast on his first day of faculty in a brand new nation.
Click right here to look at Armando Sepulveda Mendoza’s quick movie “Miguel.”
Javier Colón Ríos, Ivonne Coll
Bio: Javier Colón Ríos holds a grasp’s diploma in movie route from the American Film Institute. After making a number of award-profitable quick movies, he wrote, produced and directed his first characteristic movie “I am a Director”, which was distributed by The Sundance Channel, Starz and Canal +. After the success of this primary movie, he co-wrote and directed “Yo Soy Un Político” which was offered to HBO and is now on Amazon Prime. After the success of his first two movies, Javier has shadowed on TV’s “Jane the Virgin” and “Good Trouble” and directed his third characteristic movie “Inside the Circle.”
Bio: Ivonne Coll is a theater, tv and movie award-profitable actress born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, the place as a baby she educated in classical ballet and flamenco dance with Walter Mercado. In 1967 she received the title of Ms. Puerto Rico to symbolize the island within the Miss Universe contest. Coll was a sequence common on the award-profitable present “Jane The Virgin” (CW). Other tv credit embrace “Switched at Birth” (ABC Family), “Teen Wolf” (MTV), “Glee” (Fox), “East Los High” (Hulu), “Nip Tuck” (FX), “An American Family” (PBS), “Six Feet Under” (HBO), “NYPD Blue” (Fox), “The Practice” (Fox), “ER” (NBC), “Heroes” (NBC), “Crossing Jordan” (NBC), “Judging Amy” (Fox), “Saturday Night Live” (NBC), “Cold Case” (CBS), “Joan of Arcadia” (CBS), LA Law (Fox), “Wings” (CBS), “Without a Trace” (CBS), “CSI” (CBS) and most just lately “One Day at a Time” (Netflix) and “Being There” (FX.) The award-profitable (Best Overall Romance Story, Rincon International Film Festival) “From Now On” marks her debut as a director, author and a producer.
Film title: “From Now On”
Synopsis: Two center-aged Latinas from the East Coast cease alongside the Malibu coast on their technique to Northern California. Both are from conservative households. They have achieved one thing momentous at present, defying cultural stereotypes imposed by their very own tradition. A cellphone message from a beloved younger nephew providing unconditional love, reveals to us, the life-altering resolution they’ve made.
Click right here to look at Javier Colón Ríos and Ivonne Coll’s quick movie “From Now On.”
Michael Flores
Bio: Michael is a LatinX author/director from Los Angeles, the place he grew up within the Watts and Harbor Gateway neighborhoods. His movies are characterised by: household & fantasy, magic & miracles. Michael’s first sequence of shorts are guerrilla-model movies in chilly warfare nations: Serbia, Belarus, and El Salvador. “Mi Tesoro” (produced in El Salvador) premiered on HBO following a powerful pageant run that included three Oscar Qualifying festivals. Michael is acknowledged in Remezcla Magazine’s Top 10 up-and-coming Latino administrators. In 2019, Michael and his workforce received the Icaro, Central America’s premiere movie award for his quick movie “The Bell”. Michael’s characteristic movie debut, “Love Doll” will premiere in 2021.
Film title: “The Bell/La Campana”
Synopsis: A younger girl in El Salvador needs to listen to the village bell earlier than she joins a caravan to the US, however the vintage bell hasn’t rung in 25 years and there is just one man left that may restore it: a drunkard that lives within the cemetery.
Click right here to look at Michael Flores’ quick movie “La Campana.”
Film title: “My Treasure/Mi Tesoro”
Synopsis: A cleansing girl steals a Salvadoran Civil War map and hunts for a treasure within the hopes of reuniting together with her son.
Click right here to look at Michael Flores’ quick movie “Mi Tesoro.”
Rosa Salazar
Bio: Born in Washington D.C. and raised in Greenbelt, Maryland, Rosa Salazar is an actor, author and director primarily based in Los Angeles. Salazar’s upcoming movie releases embrace “CHiPS” for Warner Bros., “MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE” for Twentieth Century Fox, and “ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL” for Twentieth Century Fox. Her previous movies embrace “MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS,” “THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT,” “SEARCH PARTY,” and “NIGHT OWLS.” In tv, she has appeared in “MAN SEEKING WOMAN”, “AMERICAN HORROR STORY” and “PARENTHOOD” amongst others. She made “GOOD CRAZY” out of her love for accountability/hate for idiocracy. This is her directorial debut.
Film title: “Good Crazy”
Synopsis: A posh chick offers with a vanilla beau, a sh*tty brunch and a useless coyote all in a Los Angeles day. There’s batsh*t loopy after which there’s good loopy…she matches someplace in between.
Click right here to look at Rosa Salazar’s quick movie “Good Crazy.”
All biographies and synopses had been offered by LALIFF.
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