FILM AND MEDIA

A guide to resources for Latinos breaking in the film and television industry. This guide covers Latino writers, directors, actors and production programs. It also includes networking tips.

The Sacramento Film and Music Festival, running July 17-26 in Sacramento, likes to point to a track record of picking films that go on to win major awards and/or achieve distribution beyond the festival circuit.

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The Screen Actors Guild will honor outstanding performances from both film and television stunt ensembles on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 before the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award ceremonies air live.

The MUSEXPO 2008 conference opens April 27 in West Hollywood with a video documentary on "How to Fix The Music Business" and is followed by a wine tasting and cocktail reception on the rooftop of The Hyatt West Hollywood.

Nightly red-carpet gala premieres and other cause celebre are part of the annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards happening in Beverly Hills, from October 17-22.

This essay discusses the stereotypes of African American women that proliferated with the introduction of television and film. Three specific images are described: the "Jezebel", the "Sapphire", and the "Mammy".

Coming in early 2007 is the only free and complete
production suite designed for the film, animation &
music industry-Babya Production Suite

News and Networking Events Covering the Media and Show Business Industry for this Month from The Actor's Checklist News & Events page at http://www.actorschecklist.com/news.html or through RSS/XML feed http://actorschecklist.com/showbiznews.rss.

The New York International Children's Film Festival and Banff Mountain Film Festival both kick off movie events in NYC from March 2-8, 2012.

In Governor John Hickenlooper’s “State of the State” speech January 12, 2012, he plugged support for attracting film production to Colorado. Colorado Senate President, Brandon Shaffer also expressed support for the plan in response to the speech.

An examination of Cold War iconography and imagery in government programs and popular culture; Civil Defense, pulp fiction, magazines, film, and video games.

Hollywood based Ur Network Alliance at http://www.urnetworkalliance.com/3.html will begin weekly networking and support group meetings featuring film and show business industry guests.