Posted by Elena del Valle on March 7, 2008
Artist Victor Cartagena
Photos: Victor Cartagena
Galería de la Raza, a San Francisco art gallery, will present a large-scale installation by Salvadorian artist Victor Cartagena March 7 through May 16 about the spiritual, dramatic, and human dimensions of migration. Cartagena’s solo exhibition, The Invisible Nation, will include sculptural works, video and sound installations, and a 10 foot by 24 foot public digital mural to be displayed at the gallery’s Bryant Street billboard in the highly trafficked Mission District corridor. Scroll down to watch a video from The Invisible Nation exhibit.
As part of the show there will be an artist talk featuring Cartagena and Roberto Varea, director of El Teatro Jornalero and chair of the Performing Arts Program and Social Justice Center at the University of San Francisco.
Somos Nosotros, part of The Invisible Nation exhibit
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Cartagena’s installation will be based on video and photographic portraits of immigrant residents, as well as photos from the 1970s and 1980s from Latin American archives that the artist has collected over the years. The exhibition will explore the evocative power of the characteristic black and white passport photos frequently used in Latin America to identify individuals in official documents and obituaries.
Through his work Cartagena explores public health, labor, education, family history, cultural adjustment, displacement, language, memory, loss, and survival. Through these lenses, the artist hopes to explore and articulate visually multiple aspects of the immigrant experience, to lead the viewer to understand the harsh reality met by immigrants upon entering the United States. Cartagena’s installation seeks to counter the dehumanizing and reductive representations of immigrant issues in the media.
One of items of The Invisible Nation exhibition
In The Invisible Nation, the artist responds to the unresolved discussion on immigration policy and to the rising tide of an anti-immigrant sentiment across the country. Cartagena aims to prompt, through his installation and public art components, a discussion on the complexity of immigration.
The Invisible Nation is part of Picturing Immigration, a series of exhibitions and public events examining immigration from Latino perspectives, funded by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Founded by a group of local artists, Galería de la Raza emerged from the Chicano civil rights movement in 1970. The gallery’s mission is “to assertively self-define the evolving values, aesthetics, and history of Latino art and culture.” It supports Latino artists in the visual, literary, media and performing art fields seeking to explore new aesthetic possibilities for socially engaged art.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on March 3, 2008
Señor Flavio’s new album Supersaund 2012 cover
Photos, song: Nacional Records
Buenos Aires native Flavio Cianciarulo, known to his fans as Señor Flavio, will release his first solo album, the Supersaund 2012 album, March 4, 2008 in the United States. Cianciarulo is a bassist and songwriter and a founding member of Latin Rock band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. His album will showcase garage rock, psychobilly and punk as well as the reggae and ska that characterize Senor Flavio and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs music.
Señor Flavio
Señor Flavio and his band, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, are known for songs like “Matador,” “V Centenario,” “Mal Bicho” and “Vos Sabés.” The hit “Matador” was featured in the platinum-selling soundtrack to the film Grosse Point Blank.
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The Supersaund 2012 album songs are: “Malito,” “Ministra,” “Polaroid 66,” “El Apagon,” “Lo Mejor del Mundo,” “La Herida,” “Oportuna,” “Lucha Libre Lovers,” “Guamont,” “De Story of de Loko Univers-love,” “Tropicana 50,” “Cristina” and “Retirada Murguera Portena.” Argentina’s Grammy-Winning Los Fabulosos Cadillacs are a platinum selling rock band.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on February 29, 2008
“The Winged Man” poster
Photos: Theo Hand
Oscar-nominated screen writer Jose Rivera, known for his work on “The Motorcycle Diaries,” and producers Stephanie Bell and Camillia Sanes are releasing a new short film about a brief romance between a young girl and a dying angel. The national premier of “The Winged Man” will be March 3, 2008 in Los Angeles. A second screening is scheduled in May 2008 at the Gold Harmony Theatre in Hollywood.
Filmed on location in Los Angeles at The American Film Institute; Malibu Creek State Park Tapia Park, Griffith Park Bronson Caves and Echo Park, the 15-minute magic realism film features “Ugly Betty” star Ana Ortiz and “Heroes” star Shalim Ortiz (no relation). The producers are considering internet distribution options and hope to offer the film for purchase on DVD online.
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The film, which had a budget of $25,000, was funded from individual and in-kind donations, and a grant from the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women for their 2007 Class.
“Now in the age of the internet, we don’t buy into the mentality that a short-format film has to feel like a short,” said Sanes, known for her roles in from “Saving Grace,” “The Shield,” and “War of the Worlds.” “We are on the edge of a proliferation of new formats and new revenue streams. And, thus, the ability for a short to actually recoup its costs.”
With this project, veteran stage director, Marya Mazor, makes her film directing debut through AFI’s Directors Workshop for Women. The producers are donating a portion of the film’s financing to the Aspira Association, a non-profit organization devoted to the education of Latino youth.
Daysi (Marta McGonagle) discovers the Winged Man (Shalim Ortiz)
According to promotional materials, in “The Winged Man,” Daysi, a Latina high school girl, is pregnant. She believes she carries the son of a mystical winged man she discovered, wounded, in a cave. Her mother is convinced it’s the result of a one-night stand. The poetical film tries to examine beliefs and what it takes to let them go.
Daysi alternately describes the being as an angel and the last remaining member of an ancient race, while battling her mother’s and best friend’s doubts. As she gathers twigs for an enormous nest, and hides out in the treetops, the wind billowing in her hair, the girl’s sanity comes into question. Whether her visions of meeting the Winged Man are memories or fantasies remains a mystery for the audience to decide.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on February 28, 2008
“Marimar” DVD cover
Photo: Xenon Pictures
Xenon Pictures, Televisa Home Entertainment and Lionsgate Home Entertainment released “Marimar,” a 14-year old Spanish language telenovela, on DVD. “Marimar” is the second installation of the “Maria Trilogy.” In it, Mexican actress Thalia played dual roles as Marimar and Bella Perez. The three-disc DVD set with 10 hours of content, in Spanish with English subtitles, is available at major retail stores for $24.98.
Other actors in the program are Eduardo Capetillo (“Baila Conmigo,” “Alcanzar Una Estrella“) and Chantal Andere (“Destilando Amor,” “Amor Real“). There is an appearance by actor Fernando Colunga (“Alborada,” “Abrazame Muy Fuerte“). The telenovela is also the last one actor Tito Guizar, who played Marimar’s grandfather, appeared in before his passing.
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The telenovela, a Spanish language type of soap opera, originally aired on primetime in 1994. “Marimar” was filmed mainly in Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo in Mexico. It was written by Ines Rodena and directed by Beatriz Sheridan. After its release, the soap aired in the United States, Mexico, and Philippines.
The telenovela producers believe one of the reasons for Marimar’s popularity was that it explored family, relationships, love, passion and socio-economic class issues. “Marimar” is the story of a beautiful young, but poor, girl who lives by the sea with her elderly grandparents. She falls in love with Sergio, the spoiled son of the wealthy Santibanez family. Sergio’s parents are withholding half of his inheritance until he is married.
He decides to use Marimar to placate and shame them. By choosing Marimar he will receive his entire inheritance and humiliate his parents by making “the dirty girl from the beach” their daughter-in-law. Because of the abuse Marimar receives at the hands of her in-laws she runs away to the city, hoping to escape the pain of her sham marriage. In the meantime, her birth father, an extremely wealthy man, is searching for his long lost daughter.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on February 25, 2008
Todos Tus Muertos Greatest Hits album cover
Photos: National Records
Argentina punk reggae rock group Todos Tus Muertos released its latest album, Todos Tus Muertos Greatest Hits, in the United States February 19, 2008. Before that, their music had been out of print in the United States for almost 10 Years. The release makes the album available at digital outlets for the first time.
The Argentine rasta-punk band’s Greatest Hits album is described as a collection of the group’s classic tracks and several bonus songs. Highlights include “Dale Aborigen,” featuring Manu Chao as well as members of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Los Autenticos Decadentes.
Todos Tus Muertos
Todos Tus Muertos (“All Your Dead”) was established in 1985 with singer Pablo “Dronkit Master” Molina, guitarist Horacio “Gamexane” Villafañe, bassist Félix Gutiérrez, drummer Pablo Potenzoni and singer Fidel Nadal. The group named itself in honor of the tens of thousands of people killed by former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla. Todos Tus Muertos first became popular in the Buenos Aires music scene with its mixture of social messages and punk, ragga, reggae and raw mixes.
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Known for their explosive live shows, Buenos Aires based Todos Tus Muertos has toured across North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Previous albums include Dale Aborigen, Argentina Te Asesina – En Vivo, Subversiones, Todos Tus Muertos, El Camino Real, and Nena de Hiroshima.
Following is a list of the Greatest Hits 18 tracks: Andate, Rasta Vive, Sé Que No/Requebra, No Te La Vas A Acabar, Todo Lo Daría, Tu Alma Mía/Adelita, Mate, Asesinos Profesionales, Jah Lion, Mandela, Hijo Nuestro, Políticos, Dale Aborigen, Lehenbiziko Bala, Trece, Incomunicado, Mandela Dub, and No Más Apartheid.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on February 11, 2008
Abel Lopez and Gustavo Ott
A podcast interview with Abel Lopez, associate producing director of GALA (Grupo Artistas Latinoamericanos) Hispanic Theatre and playwright Gustavo Ott is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, they discuss issues affecting Latinos in contemporary society and “Your Molotov Kisses,” Gustavo’s play, with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Abel is president of the board of directors of the Helen Hayes Awards and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture; and vice president of Americans for the Arts and chair of the Creative Communities Initiative of the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region. He is chair-emeritus of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and immediate past president of Theater Communications Group, the national service organization for professional theaters, and the American Arts Alliance.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Abel also is a producer and frequent lecturer. His speaking engagements include panel appearances before the American Critics Association, American Bar Association, National Theatre Conference, National Association of Artists Organization, North Carolina Theater Conference, National Critics Institute, and many other organizations.
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Gustavo, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1963, holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. In 1993 he was a participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. The United States premier of “Your Molotov Kisses” is at the GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington, D.C.
Twenty two of Gustavo’s plays have been staged in Venezuela and 19 have been produced abroad in Spain, Italy, United States, Peru, England, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Denmark, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Gustavo’s plays have been translated into several languages, including Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, German, French, Czech, Russian, and Polish.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on February 7, 2008
Enrique Iglesias
Photos: Universal Music Latino
Last Friday, Pepsi, mun2 and Yahoo! Telemundo launched the two-hour premier of a new version of “Pepsi Música,” a bi-coastal multiplatform program highlighting select music, lifestyle and youth culture themes. Producers hoped to attract viewers to the show’s debut program with appearances by Enrique Iglesias and Jeremias, a Venezuelan singer-songwriter.
“Pepsi Música” will air Fridays from 5 to 7 pm EST. A bilingual host and a guest DJ will lead the audience through a top 20 video countdown, news segments, entertainment trivia, artist profiles, video premieres, and in-studio contests.
Alex Pels, general manager, mun2
“The bicultural youth space is at a tipping point, and mun2’s partnership with Pepsi and Yahoo! Telemundo on a show of this magnitude is a great indication of the potential of this marketplace and mun2’s ability to reach it in a culturally relevant way,” said Alex Pels, general manager, mun2.
The weekly two-hour show, produced live in front of a studio audience from mun2 studios in Miami and Los Angeles, will include live music, celebrity guests, user-generated content and a weekly video contest. To maximize the program’s reach organizers are cross promoting it on Telemundo, mun2 sister network, and online via Yahoo! Telemundo.
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Telemundo will air a customized “Pepsi Música” segment within Telemundo programs “Nitido” and “Cine Nuestro.” Show promoters hope viewers will also visit a related website to vote for their favorite videos and submit user-generated content via mobile devices and the Web.
The program’s website, set to launch January 30, 2008, will also feature the Pepsi Música video player with clips and music videos from the show and the Pepsi Música radio station with streaming play lists. Additional features include the Pepsi Música “Question of the Week” and the “Viewers Choice Web Poll.”
Pop singer Jeremias
“Pepsi Música is going to be bigger and even more exciting this year with the help of mun2 and Yahoo! Telemundo,” said Gustavo Perez, director of multicultural marketing, Pepsi-Cola North America. “This show is really for the fans and now there will be a number of opportunities for them to shape the look and feel of each episode.”
Launched in 2001, mun2 offers bilingual programming for young U.S. Latinos. The multi-platform youth entertainment network, available nationwide to 17 million viewers on cable and television, focuses on emerging trends among Latino youth and features music, movies, sports, fashion, and social activism. The network is part of Telemundo Cable Networks, a division of NBC Universal TV Networks Distribution.
New York-based Pepsi-Cola North America is the refreshment beverage unit of PepsiCo, Inc., in the United States and Canada. Yahoo! Telemundo is a commercial venture between Yahoo! Inc. and Telemundo Communications Group, Inc.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on February 4, 2008
Sergio “El Sensei” Barrientos, co-founder and chief creative officer, Latin3
Photo: Latin3
A podcast interview with Sergio “El Sensei” Barrientos, chief creative officer, Latin3, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses games as a media vehicle with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Sergio, known by many colleagues as “El Sensei,” has leveraged his target market strategies for Cingular, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Nextel, Pepsi, Reebok, Sony, TACA, Visa and Xerox by creating shopping environments for online stores. “El Sensei” is the recipient of Latino Marketing Awards, Web Awards, iNovas, PMA’s, and Reggies. Sergio and his team have also made the finals at Cannes Cyberlions.
Before working with Latin3, Sergio was creative director for other companies in Latin America, Spain and the United States for more than 14 years. Prior to joining Latin3, he managed corporate services for a Latin American communications and interactive group.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on January 29, 2008
Fabiola Trujillo, Rudy Lopez, Gonzalo Soaresgache, Sonia De Leon
and Lucina Rodriguez, grant recipients
Photo: National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
The San Antonio based National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) recently recognized 24 United States Latino artists and 26 Latino arts and culture organizations for their uniqueness, artistic significance and excellence. The NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) distributed $143,505 in grant funding to noteworthy individuals and organizations from across the nation.
Individual artists in nine states received grants ranging between $1,500 and 6,800. California and Texas each had six grant recipients. Among the recipients, there were also five New York artists, two artists from Massachusetts, and one each from Connecticut, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Organizations in 11 states including nine in California and four each in Texas and New York, received grants ranging from $2,000 to $4,500. Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Tennessee also had grant winners.
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“NALAC’s support of Latino artists and organizations ensures that the nation’s cultural life is enriched and made vital through the diverse artistic and cultural expressions of our artists. We are pleased to support the creative process of Latino artists and organizations across the country that are engaging communities, stimulating ideas and local economies, and building audiences for all of the nation’s arts,” said Abel Lopez, chair, NALAC Board.
Two multidisciplinary peer review panels examined eligible applications from among the 202 submissions using established criteria and made recommendations to the NALAC Board of Directors. The selection was made on the basis of artistic merit, funding impact, and capability. “In an effort to preserve the integrity of the peer review process” NALAC declined to identify individual judges and panel members.
According to an organization representative, NALAC is the only national Latino arts service organization in the United States. NALAC headquarters have been in San Antonio, Texas for almost 19 years. The NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA), a grant program to support Latino artists and cultural organizations, is the only national arts fund in the country that provides support specifically for Latino artists and arts organizations working in music, dance, performance art, theatre, visual arts, media and literary arts.
Since its inception in 2005, the Fund has provided 128 grants totaling more than $379,000 to Latino artists, ensembles and small and mid-size Latino arts and culture organizations throughout the U.S. The NALAC Fund for the Arts is made possible with funding from the Ford Foundation, the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Cultural Collaborative, Heineken and Southwest Airlines.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on January 25, 2008
“Shoot Down” poster
Photos, video: Rogues Harbor Studios
For three years film director Cristina Khuly and producer Douglas Eger, co-founders of Rogues Harbor Studios, worked on a documentary film that opened in theaters last week. They dedicated their financial resources and countless hours to researching, documenting, interviewing and creating “Shoot Down,” an 88-minute documentary film about the tragedy that befell four members of the Miami based Brothers to the Rescue volunteer group.
On February 24, 1996, the volunteers were shot and killed by two Cuban military fighter jets while flying, unarmed, over the area between Florida and Cuba, in international waters, in search of Cuban refugees. Scroll down to watch “Shoot Down” video clip.
Cristina Khuly, director of “Shoot Down”
Cristina’s uncle was Armando Alejandre Jr., one of the four American’s killed that day. The other three men were Carlos Costa, Mario De La Peña and Pablo Morales. As part of the production for the documentary the producers scoured government documents, transcripts and never-before seen news footage of Fidel Castro. According to promotional materials, the film features voice recordings from the MiG pilots and their controllers in Havana; and the cockpit recordings from the Cessna planes, edited to re-enact the moment when they were shot down.
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During the film, winner of the 2007 Sonoma Film Festival Award for Best Documentary, interview subjects speak English and Spanish. “Shoot Down” includes English subtitles for Spanish speakers. In some theaters, there will be Spanish subtitles for the English speakers. Residents of Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Raleigh, South Florida, and Washington, D.C. will be able to watch the film in a local theatre. Rogues Harbor Studios is expected to release the film on DVD following the theater showings.
Twenty people related to the deceased Brothers to the Rescue volunteers or involved in the case share their thoughts during the film including Miriam de la Peña, Eva Barbas and Mirta Costa Sr., mothers of a victim; Maggie Alejandre Khuly, Nancy Morales and Mirta Costa-Mendez, sisters of a victim; Marlene Alejandre-Triana, daughter of a victim; and Mario T. de la Peña, father of a victim.
Khuly co-founded Rogues Harbor Studios with Eger in 2005. Khuly, a former model and commercial actress, is an artist. Eger served as chairman and chief executive officer of Eger, Inc., a company that creates, builds, and manages high growth enterprises. Since 1997, Eger has served as president of Taconic Enterprises, Inc., a merchant bank that specializes in investing in and advising high growth companies.
