Date registered: March 7, 2012
Jun 11
Carmen Margarita Zapata, born in New York in 1927 to a Mexican father and an Argentine mother, has distinguished herself as an actress, teacher, activist, and leader of Latino Hollywood for more than sixty years. Carmen began entertaining on the musical stage, making her Broadway debut in the chorus of Oklahoma in 1946, and continuing …
Jun 11
Pepe Serna, a constant whirlwind of activity and enthusiasm, has been one of the backbones of Latino Hollywood for decades, and one of its most recognizable faces. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1944, Serna was initially discovered in Roger Corman’s film Student Nurses in 1970, and soon thereafter appeared in the Hal Wallis-produced film …
Apr 22
The Reel Rasquache co-director and publisher of Se Fija! Angela María Ortíz S. and RRAFF13 producing consultant, Juan Escobedo, director of Tela Sofa, were on the Pocho Hour with Lalo Alcaraz on Friday, April 19. They Talked about the big fundraiser coming up on Saturday, April 27 at Self Help Graphics in Boyle Heights. If …
Mar 15
Trailers of some of the films that were seen at RRAFF13. Bryan Ramirez’ Mission Park (drama)
Feb 07
Independent writer/producer/director Kenneth Castillo has built an impressive portfolio over the last decade or more. In 2000 he and his now-wife Karla Ojeda formed a film production company called Valor Productions; their first project was The Misadventures of Cholo Chaplin, a re-framing of the Charlie Chaplin silent shorts of the 1920’s and 30’s set in …
Jan 28
Juan Solis is an artist whose passion for his art takes him to the outer limits of his imagination, to capture his own reality of life and through his art and to demonstrate the beauty of his community. As a struggling artist Solis, who began painting when he was 12, never gave up hope that …
Jan 07
Originally published at sefijaonline.com …the short that was so scary, he had to make it into a movie On January 11, Guillermo del Toro—working as a producer this time, as he has so often in the last few years–will be premieringMama, a horror film about two young orphan girls adopted by a nearly unrecognizable Jessica Chastain…who seem to bring …
Jan 07
Originally published at sefijaonline.com Given her stellar career in music and her great work in romantic comedy, it’s easy to forget that Jennifer Lopez had some of her first big successes in thrillers and action pictures, notably Steven Soderberg’s Out of Sight with up-and-comer George Clooney and the still-cult-classic Anaconda. Now she’s returning to her sexy-action roots in Taylor Hackford’s (Officer and a Gentleman, Proof of Life) …
Jan 07
Originally published at sefijaonline.com Very very quietly, a taut and revealing environmental thriller starring Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, and Forrest Whitaker has appeared, RITER/Director Damian Lee’s A Dark Truth opened in a few theaters on Friday January 4, but it’s already available here and elsewhere on Video on Demand. In it, Garcia plays a former CIA operative turned political talk show host who is hired …
Dec 18
There are more than a few Latino actors, producers, writers, and hyphenates at work in Hollywood these days, from Eva Longoria andJennifer Lopez to Roberto Orci and Salma Hayek…but Guillermo del Toro has to be right up there at the top. New footage from his giant monster/giant robot epic Pacific Rim has been leaking out recently, and all agree: it looks awesome. Word has also escaped that …
