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An In-Depth Look at NALIP 2012: Diverse Voices, Universal Content

By Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, for Documentary Online Magazine

"I came to hate my olive skin and curly hair," actress Rita Moreno candidly confessed. Moreno was recalling her early film career upon receiving NALIP's Lifetime Achievement Award during the National Association of Latino Independent Producers' annual conference that took place April 13-15 in Universal City, California. Moreno, who co-starred in the 1961 film West Side Story, could not have foreseen that five decades later Latinos would watch more television, buy more movie tickets and consume more media than any other ethnicity in the US, yet would comprise less than 1 percent of Hollywood executives. Or that olive-skinned young girls and boys in some parts of the US would still be having a hard time integrating in their country as they dealt with issues of color, language and identity.
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Univision Debuting Three Webnovelas

By Tim Molloy, TheWrap

You understand "telenovelas," and now it may be time to add the word "webnovela" to your vocabulary: Univision, the top network for Spanish-speaking viewers, announced Friday the launch of a new digital video network and three webnovels, a format already popular in much of Latin America. Two of Univision's new ones will star film and TV star Kate del Castillo (pictured), who will also direct installments.
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Call for Entries: DOK Leipzig

Submit your film to the 55th edition of DOK Leipzig, which will be held October 29 - November 4, 2012 in Leipzig, Germany. Under the motto of "The HeArt of Documentary," the DOK Festival is to facilitate the promotion and further distribution of international documentary and animated films, to create opportunities for filmmakers, producers, and distributors, and to meet and to exchange views with each other.
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Call for Entries: Urbanworld Film Festival

The Urbanworld Film Festival is a competitive film festival whose mission is to redefine and enhance the roles of multicultural constituents in contemporary cinema. The five-day festival includes features, documentaries, and short films, as well as panel discussions, live staged screenplay readings, and the 2nd Annual Urbanworld Digital, a 1-day Conference during the festival focused on digital and social media.
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INDUSTRY BUZZ

Dolores Huerta On Rosario Dawson Playing Her In Cesar Chavez Biopic
(CineMovie.tv) - Actor Diego Luna takes the director's chair to helm a Cesar Chavez biopic starring Michael Peña as the iconic activist and Rosario Dawson as his United Farm Workers co-founder. Dolores Huerta, now 82-years old, tells CineMovie she was surprised to hear the news that the tall and beautiful Rosario Dawson would be portraying her in "Chavez". READ MORE

Del Toro to Co-direct New 'Pinocchio' for The Jim Henson Company
(Entertainment Weekly) - One of Hollywood’s busiest directors is adding another title to his to-do list:  Guillermo del Toro is set to co-direct Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, a 3D stop-motion animated tale produced by The Jim Henson Company. READ MORE

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HOT JOBS & OPPORTUNITIES

Visit the NALIP Job Opportunities page for all the latest listings.

Animation Artist for Downtown Film Fest LA Commercial Spot
The Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles is currently looking for an animation artist to assist in the production of the official trailer to be screened through this year's film festival. We are interested in working with other mainstream content producers to create various commercial spots for our festival. ...
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Precious Knowledge Premiering on PBS's Independent Lens, May 17


The award winning feature documentary Precious Knowledge by NALIP 2012 Estela Award winners Eren Isabel McGinnis and Ari Luis Palos will premiere on PBS's Independent Lens on Thursday, May 17. Click here to find the channel and time it will be showing in your city.

Precious Knowledge reports from the frontlines of one of the most contentious battles in public education in recent memory - the fight over Mexican American studies programs in Arizona public schools.  The film interweaves the stories of several students enrolled in the Mexican American Studies Program at Tucson High School with interviews with teachers, parents and school officials and the lawmakers who wish to outlaw the classes.
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Noemi Figueroa Soulet's Doc The Borinqueneers Screening at GI Film Festival


NALIP member Noemi Figueroa Soulet's documentary The Borinqueneers has been selected to participate at the 6th Annual GI Film Festival in Washington DC, the first film festival in the nation to exclusively celebrate the successes and sacrifices of the service member through the medium of film.

The Borinqueneers will be screened on May 17th at 12:00 pm at the Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.
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