TUGGER (Feature Film), Online-editorial Director: Jeffrey James VarabCast: Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, James BelushiTUGGER is the inspiring tale of a Jeep® 4x4 , who, after being injured while serving his country during World War II, has his engine fan replaced by a real airplane propeller. From that day on, TUGGER is convinced that his destiny is to one day fly like a real airplane. After being sold as war surplus, Tugger spends his time towing airplanes at a local airfield, where he’s always in trouble with the Tower Chief and his crazy dog, Max.

TUGGER (Feature Film), Online-editorial

Director: Jeffrey James Varab
Cast: Scott ‘Carrot Top’ Thompson, James Belushi

TUGGER is the inspiring tale of a Jeep® 4x4 , who, after being injured while serving his country during World War II, has his engine fan replaced by a real airplane propeller. From that day on, TUGGER is convinced that his destiny is to one day fly like a real airplane. After being sold as war surplus, Tugger spends his time towing airplanes at a local airfield, where he’s always in trouble with the Tower Chief and his crazy dog, Max.

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Sí TV’s Pastport follows swimwear designer Nicole Di Rocco as she embarks on a journey to reconnect with her culture in a home left behind. Watch as this Cuban American trendsetter gets the opportunity of a lifetime—to travel with her parents to Cuba, a country they left almost 50 years ago. The Search for Nicolita captures her quest to find a model to represent her Cuba-inspired line, but the real discovery comes from a place she’s never been. Pastport unveils the mystery behind a country often misunderstood, and bridges the gap between family that left and those that stayed. The events that unfold are life changing. TV-SERIES  PROMO

Sí TV’s Pastport follows swimwear designer Nicole Di Rocco as she embarks on a journey to reconnect with her culture in a home left behind. Watch as this Cuban American trendsetter gets the opportunity of a lifetime—to travel with her parents to Cuba, a country they left almost 50 years ago. The Search for Nicolita captures her quest to find a model to represent her Cuba-inspired line, but the real discovery comes from a place she’s never been. Pastport unveils the mystery behind a country often misunderstood, and bridges the gap between family that left and those that stayed. The events that unfold are life changing.

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“Hacia la Vida” brings together two strangers, each looking for their own redemption. Soledad is a lonely woman who works as a professional funeral crier for hire.  While on the job, she comes across  Salvador, a young man who is there to mourn the death of a woman he never met… his own mother.

Featuring: Lupe Ontiveros, Alejandro Edda

Writer/Director: Fidel Arizmendi
Producer: Fidel Arizmendi, Fernando Ruiz
Editor: Jesus Silva

Awards, Short List:
Festival de Cine de Girona (SPAIN) (Best Actress)
Short List. Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Special Mention)

Awards:
Best short LOS CORTOS 2011 

Official Selection:
Festival International de cine de Morelia (FICM) 2010
New York International Latino Film Festival (NYILFF) 2010
Los Angeles Latino International Film festival (LALIFF) 2009
Chicago Film festival  2009

“THREE MINUTES is the story of a city in ruin and the urban dwellers that used to thrive in it. Emerging from the rubble of their war-ravaged city, they join together to celebrate the human spirit and the hope of a better tomorrow.”WATCH THE FILM at Vanity Fair online or Film-independent’s YOUTUBE. Showcased Internationally in all of the W Hotels. Writer/Director: Jenn GarrisonProducer: S.J. Main Editor: Jesus Silva Sponsors: Banana Republic, Vanity Fair, NBC/Universal, Film Independent, Moviola & Quixote Studios. Official Selection:Mix Film Festival-Milano, ItalyKashish International Film Festival - Mumbai, IndiaPink Apple- Zurich, SwitzerlandMardi Gras Film Festival Sydney, AustraliaMerlinka Festival - SerbiaImage+Nation-Montreal, CanadaMIX Festival - New York CityWOMEN IN THE ARTS - Desert Hot Springs, CAReeling - Chicago, ILSavannah ILGBT Film Festival- Savannah, GAaGLIFF Austin, TexasFrameline-San FranciscoNEWFEST - NYC Singapore International Film FestivalTampere Film FestivalMediaWave, Hungary

“THREE MINUTES is the story of a city in ruin and the urban dwellers that used to thrive in it. Emerging from the rubble of their war-ravaged city, they join together to celebrate the human spirit and the hope of a better tomorrow.”

WATCH THE FILM at Vanity Fair online or Film-independent’s YOUTUBE.
Showcased Internationally in all of the W Hotels.

Writer/Director: Jenn Garrison
Producer: S.J. Main
Editor: Jesus Silva

Sponsors: Banana Republic, Vanity Fair, NBC/Universal, Film Independent, Moviola & Quixote Studios.

Official Selection:
Mix Film Festival-Milano, Italy
Kashish International Film Festival - Mumbai, India
Pink Apple- Zurich, Switzerland
Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney, Australia
Merlinka Festival - Serbia
Image+Nation-Montreal, Canada
MIX Festival - New York City
WOMEN IN THE ARTS - Desert Hot Springs, CA
Reeling - Chicago, IL
Savannah ILGBT Film Festival- Savannah, GA
aGLIFF Austin, Texas
Frameline-San Francisco
NEWFEST - NYC
Singapore International Film Festival
Tampere Film Festival
MediaWave, Hungary

Futbol, or soccer, has long been a national obsession in South American countries like Brazil and Colombia. But it is another story for Ecuador, which took 68 years to qualify for the World Cup.

DREAMTOWN portrays the struggle three young men face as they individually compete for their place on Ecuador’s professional soccer team.
The dreams of a pro, a protégé, and a novice collide as these afro-Ecuadorians perform for community, national, and international audiences in hopes of bringing home more than just a medal.
The film is set in the impoverished backwater town of El Chota Valley, a place where the primary export is soccer talent and, prior to the 2002 World Cup, was invisible to the rest of the world. Today it serves as the local pipeline to the communities’ dreams.

Director: Betty Bastidas
Producer: Maia Monasterios
Editor: Jesus Silva

DREAMTOWN is the winner of the 2010 HBO/NALIP Grant and it is feature on PBS’s Frontline World.

Harvest of the Empire (Feature Documentary) Editorial, GFXWritten by award-winning journalist Juan Gonzalez, the Documentary details the political events, social conditions, and U.S. government policies that led millions of Latino families to leave their homelands, triggering an unprecedented migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape.

Harvest of the Empire (Feature Documentary) Editorial, GFX

Written by award-winning journalist Juan Gonzalez, the Documentary details the political events, social conditions, and U.S. government policies that led millions of Latino families to leave their homelands, triggering an unprecedented migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape.

NACO ES CHIDO (Feature Film), Editorial, GFXDirección: Sergio ArauProducción: Rossana ArauIn 1988, the members of the Rock band Botellita de Jerez, disappeared after a heated discussion also their last album vanished. Twenty years later the lost record is found in a junk yard. This is the beginning of this story on the search for the members and the discovery of a complot that twenty years before lead to their dissolve of the band and now threat to break them again.

NACO ES CHIDO (Feature Film), Editorial, GFX
Dirección: Sergio Arau
Producción: Rossana Arau
In 1988, the members of the Rock band Botellita de Jerez, disappeared after a heated discussion also their last album vanished. Twenty years later the lost record is found in a junk yard. This is the beginning of this story on the search for the members and the discovery of a complot that twenty years before lead to their dissolve of the band and now threat to break them again.