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Bel Hernandez
Mar 30, 20215 min read
How Writer/Producer Elaine Del Valle Sold Her 1st TV Series
Celebrating Extraordinary Latinas During International Women’s Month By Julio Martinez Andrea Navedo as Xo in Jane The Virgin (Photo:...
Bel Hernandez
Mar 4, 20212 min read
Latinos Stand Out Among Sundance Screenwriters Fellows
By Cesar Arredondo Up-and-coming filmmakers Jessica Mendez Siqueiros and Brian Robau have done a little bit of short writing in addition...
Bel Hernandez
Jan 15, 20214 min read
American Masters: Life/Career Of Legendary Actress Rita Moreno
Cesar Arredondo Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It, the documentary that looks at the career of the legendary actress and...
Bel Hernandez
Dec 28, 20202 min read
Venezuelan Doc to Stream on First Look Media
Once Upon a Time in Venezuela Screened at Sundance in 2020 Latin Heat News Services The documentary Once Upon a Time in Venezuela, that...
Bel Hernandez
Dec 21, 20205 min read
Latino Film Stand Outs At 2021 Sundance
By Cesar Arredondo Movies about a pair of estranged twin sisters, an ailing horse jockey, a traumatized monarch butterfly scientist, and...
Bel Hernandez
Apr 4, 20172 min read
Sundance Story Lab and YouTube New Voices Lab
Deadline: April 10, 2017 The Sundance Institute Episodic Story Lab offers 10 writers (or co-writing teams) an opportunity to develop...
Bel Hernandez
May 1, 20136 min read
WTF is Latino at the Los Angeles Film Fest?
But I’m not here to comb and recycle through the ‘high profile’ films that come armed with buzz. As always I’m spotlighting U.S. films in...
Bel Hernandez
Mar 12, 20133 min read
Filly Brown: The Soundtrack of Their Minds
(Left to Right): Lisa “Khool Aid” Rios, Baby Bash, Gina Rodriguez, Edward “E-Dub” Rios and Mico Olmos. Photo: Silent Giant Entertainment....
Bel Hernandez
Feb 14, 20132 min read
CineFestival Teams With Sundance
The 35th CineFestival, which takes place in San Antonio Feb. 23 – Mar 2, has unveiled the launch of The Latino Screenwriters Project, a...
Bel Hernandez
Apr 18, 20122 min read
NALIP 2012 – Empowering our Multi-Cultural Creative Identity
NALIP finds itself in a bit of a transition following Kathryn Galan’s departure as Executive Director who spent almost eleven years at...
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