Posted by Elena del Valle on November 18, 2024
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Sarah Schoellkopf, producer, Norita
Melissa Daniels, producer, Norita
Photos: Sarah Schoellkopf, Melissa Daniels, Norita Film
A podcast interview with Sarah Schoellkopf and Melissa Daniels, producers, Norita is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing and Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, they discuss Norita with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
In addition to her work as a producer Sarah is an academic whose research focuses on human rights and gender. Her doctorate investigated the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo and included field research with the group in the 1990s and 2000s. Sarah co-produced the 2021 documentary Ferguson Rising, which premiered at Tribeca. She founded DoctoraStories in 2022 to connect with creative voices and give voice to marginalized stories. She is a champion of Spanish language education in California and president of the Eileen & Fred Family Schoellkopf Foundation.
Melissa, with over 15 years in journalism and film production, is the founder and executive producer of Tidetivity Studios. According to her bio she is passionate about diverse narratives and creates commercial and original films merging social justice and authentic community representations. Notable projects include NatGeo’s 2023 release The Mission, Hulu’s Venus as a Boy (2021), winner of a Tribeca International Film Festival audience award, and AppleMusic’s 2018 documentary Rainbow: The Film on pop music superstar Kesha.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on November 13, 2024
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Tito, Margot and Me
Image: IndiePix Films
Tito, Margot and Me, a 92-minute 2021 documentary, in Spanish and English with English subtitles (the screener version provided was in Spanish and English without subtitles), is Panama’s official Oscar Submission for Best International Film. It attempts to paint a picture behind the romance between Margot Fonteyn, a well known ballerina, and Roberto “Tito” Arias, a Panamanian diplomat, who was married and had three children at the time he approached her to propose marriage. According to a public relations spokesperson no one was available to be interviewed. The film “will be available exclusively on IndiePix Unlimited on Amazon Channels” starting November 15, 2024.
Narrated by Mercedes Arias, the couple’s niece who only met them once, the film is made up of family album photos, archival and current videos, interviews and current day images as well as ballet segments performed for the film. While Fonteyn continued to dance until her retirement a shooter left Arias quadriplegic. The film interviews appear to have taken place in Panama, United Kingdom and United States. Two of the interviewees have passed away since they were interviewed. Tito, Margot and Me was winner of the Ibermedia Fund 2019 and the Panama Film Fund.
The documentary was co-directed by Arias and Delfina Vidal, the founder of Betesda Films who works as a director and producer of independent documentaries. She has received two grants from the Panamanian Film Authority to carry out these projects. An example is Case in point: Box 25, a documentary about the construction of the Panama Canal, told through first-person accounts from the men who excavated the Canal in the early 20th century.
Vidal is a director and screenwriter with more than 20 years of experience in film and television production specialized in documentary filmmaking. She directed and produced, with her partner Arias, the documentaries Case in point: Box 25, A Different Day, and Out, la salida está en tu mente. As a university professor, she has taught at the University of Panama, Santa Maria La Antigua University, and the University of the Isthmus.
Posted by Elena del Valle on November 4, 2024
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Mario D’Aquila, MBA, COO, Assisted Living Services, Inc.
Photo: Assisted Living Services, Inc.
A podcast interview with Mario D’Aquila, M.B.A., chief operating officer, Assisted Living Services, Inc., is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing and Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses navigating care options for seniors with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Mario is also co-owner of Assisted Living Services, Inc. in Connecticut, senior vice president of subsidiary Assisted Living Technologies, Inc., and managing member of My Guardian Angel PRS, LLC. He also serves as Chairman of the DSS Medicaid Committee for Home Care Association of America, Connecticut Chapter as well as serves on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home.
Mario is responsible for helping Assisted Living Services, Inc. and all affiliated companies look for new ways to grow and to have a positive impact on each company’s long-term future. He has experience with business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, as well as company formation and is responsible for spearheading growth initiatives that placed ALS on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies. Mario has previous experience working in project management for mid and large construction companies in Connecticut.
To listen to the interview, scroll down and click on the play button below. It is also possible to listen by looking for “Podcast” then select “HMPR Mario DAquila, MBA” and download the MP3 file to your audio player. You can also find it on the RSS feed. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the November 2024 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on October 21, 2024
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Paul Hargreaves, CEO, Cotswold Fayre
Photo: Cotswold Fayre
A podcast interview with Paul Hargreaves, CEO, Cotswold Fayre, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing and Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses beyond B Corp with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Paul is a speaker, author, and B Corp ambassador. He is one of the leading voices in the UK encouraging and inspiring businesses to make a positive impact on the world, strongly believing that businesses should be a Force for Good, which is the title of his first book.
Paul believes that to bring the radical and systemic change required to reverse climate change and the growing inequality in the world a new compassionate, loving and servant-hearted leadership is required. This is what he calls The Fourth Bottom Line, the title of his second book.
To listen to the interview, scroll down and click on the play button below. It is also possible to listen by looking for “Podcast” then selecting “HMPR Paul Hargreaves” and downloading the MP3 file to your audio player. You can also find it on the RSS feed. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the October 2024 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on October 7, 2024
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Maria Alejandra Requena, news anchor, Canela News
Photo: Canela Media
A podcast interview with Maria Alejandra Requena, news anchor, Canela News, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing and Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses Canela News with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Maria Alejandra is also known as Mariale. She is a communicator with more than 25 years of experience in television, 10 of them on CNN en Español. She was a news anchor for Cafe CNN, the morning show, and Panorama Mundial in Prime Time for an estimated audience of more than 35.1 million people from Argentina to the United States. She received two National Emmy Awards.
Mariale was widowed after 26 years with her first husband. She authored I Choose to Be Happy and Learn to Live Despite Grief hoping to inspire people through her story.
To listen to the interview, scroll down and click on the play button below. It is also possible to listen by looking for “Podcast,” selecting “HMPR Mariale Requena” and downloading the MP3 file to your audio player. You can also find it on the RSS feed. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the October 2024 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on September 25, 2024
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Dusty and Stones
Photo: First Run Features
Thanks to funding from HBO New True Stories Funding Initiative, the Gotham Documentary Feature Lab, Film Independent’s Fast Track, Durban FilmMart, and the XTR Film Society filmmakers followed two struggling country singers from the African Kingdom of Swaziland (now the Kingdom of Eswatini) on a journey from their home country to the United States. The result is Dusty & Stones, an 84-minute First Run Features 2023 documentary release, scheduled to open in theaters in Los Angeles October 11 and Atlanta October 18.
The film centers on cousins Gazi “Dusty” Simelane and Linda “Stones” Msibi in Swaziland and their 10-day road journey to a recording studio in Nashville and a small town in Texas for a country music event. According to the film website Dusty is a high school English teacher at Swaziland’s National High School, and Stones is a construction project manager.
Dusty and Stones was directed and produced by Jesse Rudoy, produced by Melissa Adeyemo, executive produced by Sam Bisbee and Cody Ryder of Ominira Film in association with Park Pictures.
Per his biography Rudoy is a filmmaker, musician, and born-again country fan based in New York City. He was most recently an editor on Season 2 of HBO’s The Jinx. Per her biography Adeyemo is a Nigerian-American producer and the founder of Ominira Studios, a New York-based production company. Her first feature, Eyimofe, premiered at the 2020 Berlinale and was acquired by Janus Films.
Posted by Elena del Valle on August 19, 2024
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Clement Feng, vice president of Product Management, Briggs & Stratton Energy Solutions
Photo: Briggs & Stratton
A podcast interview with Clement Feng, vice president of Product Management, Briggs & Stratton Energy Solutions, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing and Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, he discusses backup power options with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
Clement is an experienced executive with expertise in residential and commercial backup power, clean energy and home improvement products. For more than two decades, he has helped educate homeowners and business owners to pursue energy independence and improve resilience in managing power outages.
To listen to the interview, scroll down and click on the play button below. It is also possible to listen by looking for “Podcast” then select “HMPR Clement Feng” and download the MP3 file to your audio player. You can also find it on the RSS feed. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the August 2024 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on July 29, 2024
Maria Rodriguez, owner, Vanguard Communications
Photo: Ana Isabel Photography
A podcast interview with Maria Rodriguez, owner, Vanguard Communications, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing and Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, she discusses paid internships funded by her company for Comunicadores for the Future internship program, an initiative of the Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute at George Washington University, with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.
To listen to the interview click on the play button below. It is possible to listen by looking for “Podcast” then selecting “HMPR Maria Rodriguez” and downloading the MP3 file to your audio player. You can also find it on the RSS feed. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save it to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the July 2024 section of the podcast archive.
Posted by Elena del Valle on July 17, 2024
Modernism, Inc. poster
Photo (and screener): First Run Features
Using archival footage and interviews Jason Cohn explores post-war design and Eliot Noyes, one of the leading figures of the modern design movement, in Modernism, Inc., a 79-minute documentary from Bread & Butter Films and First Run Features. The documentary was made possible by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, IBM Corporation, The Better Angels Society, Jeannine and Jonathan Lavine (through the Library of Congress) and the Noyes Family. His adult children are among those interviewed.
The film, narrated by Sebastian Roché, is scheduled to open in New York on July 19, 2024 at IFC Center and in Los Angeles on August 9, 2024 at Laemmle’s Royal. Cohn plans to appear in person at both openings.
Per the film Noyes, an architect born in 1910, was one of the leading pioneers of modern design during the mid-century, post-war boom in the United States. Educated by Walter Gropius at Harvard, Noyes, according the the film, “did more than anyone to align the Modernist design ethos to the needs of ascendant corporate America.”
The film follows his impact on residential architectural design as well as on companies like IBM and Mobil Oil, and the International Design conference. That influence, the film proposes, reached many in the business community open to the up and coming ideas about the role and importance of design. Some pointed out that he also became the symbol of design’s close ties with corporate America and its excesses. Noyes passed away in 1977.
Cohn was writer, director and editor for the film. Camille Servan-Schreiber was producer. Kevin Jones also edited. Steven Emerson was the music composer.
Posted by Elena del Valle on July 10, 2024
Cinco Lobitos poster
Photo (and screener): Outsider Pictures
Outsider Pictures and Latido Films to release Lullaby (Cinco Lobitos), an emotionally charged 104-minute film in Spanish and Basque with English subtitles, in the United States. It is scheduled to open as part of Outsider Pictures showcase of Latin and Spanish films that can be viewed either individually or as a group of five films screened at Cannes, San Sebastian, and Berlin.
According to promotional materials the films will be screened individually in rotation each day of the week, and can be seen separately or by purchasing a pass to attend all films. This collection is scheduled to open at the Cinema Village in New York on July 19, and the Laemmle Royal in Los Angeles on July 26.
In Lullaby new mother Amaia appears overwhelmed with her maternal role. After a false alarm while her partner is away for several weeks for work, she goes to her parents’ house in a coastal village in the Basque Country. They help her with the baby and she in turn is forced to assume added responsibilities when unexpectedly the situation changes.
The 2022 film stars Laia Costa (Amaia), Susi Sanchez (Begoña), Ramon Barea (Koldo), and Mikel Bustamante (Javi). According to promotional materials Lullaby, written and directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azua, was nominated for 10 Goyas. Filming appears to have taken place in Madrid, Bilbao, Bakio and Mundaka.
