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November 6, 2011
ADAMA Premieres on PBS World on November 6th
HUGO PEREZ writes: "I am proud to have Executive Produced the new documentary ADAMA for David Felix Sutcliffe and Su Kim. It premieres on PBS World today, November 6th. You can read the synopsis below. Check your local cable listings to see what channel you can find PBS World on." More Information available at:
http://www.itvs.org/films/adama
SYNOPSIS: On March 24th, 2005, Adama Bah, a 16-year-old Muslim girl, awoke at dawn to discover nearly a dozen armed government agents inside her family’s apartment in East Harlem. She was arrested and taken to a maximum-security juvenile detention center in Pennsylvania. An FBI document leaked to the press mysteriously identified Adama as a “potential” suicide bomber and an “imminent threat to the security of the United States.” After six weeks of public protest and media scrutiny, Adama was released with an ankle bracelet and a deportation order, but no terrorist charges. Still traumatized by the experience of her detention, Adama must drop out of high school and support her four younger siblings when her father is deported to Guinea, Africa. Using intimate verité footage, Adama captures the extreme pressures bearing down on this young Muslim girl and her desperate efforts to keep her family from unraveling.
"In addition to Executive Producing the film, I also edited THE NEW NORMAL, a short online companion piece shot by David Felix Sutcliffe that examines the impact the war on terror has had on civil liberties in the U.S. which you can watch via the embed below."
November 2, 2011
THE THORIUM DREAM to Premiere on Motherboard.TV
On November 9th
HUGO PEREZ writes: "I am very pleased to have indulged my enthusiasm for science and the hope that it embodies by co-producing THE THORIUM DREAM with Alex Pasternack for Motherboard.TV and Vice.com. It is a short documentary that profiles some of the leaders of the growing Thorium nuclear energy movement, and examines how the world got stuck with "problematic" nuclear technology and why we haven't been able to change it for forty years. The full documentary goes up on Wednesday, November 2nd but the trailer is up now."
November 1, 2011
National Endowment for the Humanities Invites
Hugo Perez to be Guest Speaker at
National Council on the Humanities Meeting
HUGO PEREZ writes: "The National Endowment for the Humanities has asked me to be the guest speaker at the next meeting of the National Council on the Humanities to give a presentation on my documentary NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC which received an NEH Chairman's Grant in 2010. The Council meets three times a year to review NEH grant applications, and invites a guest speaker to present on a project the NEH has previously supported. I am honored to follow in the footsteps of previous guest speakers Henry Louis Gates Jr, filmmaker David Grubin, and Stephen Ennis, Chief Librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The public meeting at which I will present will take place on November 18th at 9am at the NEH offices in Washington, DC: 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue in Room 09. If you are in DC, please come join me."
October 20th, 2011
Neither Memory Nor Magic Screens at
National Historic Preservation Trust
Annual Conference in Buffalo
HUGO PEREZ writes: "The NY Council for the Humanities and the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Museum are hosting a screening of NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC as part of the National Historic Preservation Trust annual conference being held in Buffalo this year. The film will screen at 8pm on October 20th at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Museum and is free and open to the public.
September 24th, 2011
Hugo Perez serves on 2011 Woodstock Film Festival
Documentary Shorts Jury
HUGO PEREZ writes: "I served on the documentary shorts jury this year with Lisa Gossels and Todd Wider, and can now publicly announce that we selected Katja Essen's Poetry of Resilience as this year's recipient of the Documentary Short Award."
July 26th, 2011
Hugo Perez Guest-Hosts Stranger Than Fiction
Summer Season films at IFC Center
HUGO PEREZ writes: "I am excited to sub for Thom Powers to guest-host the last three films of Stranger Than Fictions 2011 Summer Season at the IFC Center in NYC: Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega's BETTER THIS WORLD (July 26th) , Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte's SOUL POWER (August 2nd) , and Barbara Kopple's SHUT UP AND SING (August 9th)"
http://www.ifccenter.com/series/stranger-than-fiction/stf-summer-2011/
July 25th, 2011
Motherboard Meets Errol Morris
HUGO PEREZ writes: "I shot an interview with Errol Morris along with Alex Pasternack of Motherboard.TV which made use of the revolutionary interro-hat. The resulting interview speaks for itself."
http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/7/25/motherboard-tv-motherboard-meets-errol-morris
July 15th, 2011
"There Are Things I Want You To Know" About Stieg Larsson and Me
HUGO PEREZ writes: "I had a great time producing, shooting, and editing a profile vignette of Eva Gabrielsson whose memoir about her life with Stieg Larsson was just released by Seven Stories Press. All fans of The Millenium Trilogy and Lisbeth Salander will want to watch this."
April 12th, 2011
Neither Memory Nor Magic
Screens at Sage College in Albany
The Center for Documentary Studies and Opalka gallery at Sage College in Albany, NY will host a screening if NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC on April 12th. Tim Cahill discusses the film and interviews Director Hugo Perez at his blog:
http://documentaryarts.blogspot.com/2011/04/neither-memory-nor-magic-ii.html
February 24th and 25th, 2011
St. Lawrence University Hosts
Guest Artist Hugo Perez
HUGO PEREZ writes: "I am pleased to have been invited by St. Lawrence University to visit as Guest Artist and screen a number of my films over the course of a few days on campus. If you happen to be in Canton, NY come say hello."
http://www.stlawu.edu/artscollaborative/hugoperez.html
February 11, 2011
ZOMBIE AUTOPSIES 101
HUGO PEREZ writes: "It was a lot of fun to Produce, Direct, and Edit ZOMBIE AUTOPSIES 101 - a video vignette companion piece to Steve Schlozman's new book The Zombie Autopsies. If you are interested in the CSI of zombie brains, you have to watch this."
October 20th, 2010
Neither Memory Nor Magic Receives
NEH Chairman's Grant
M30A Films is pleased to announce that Neither Memory Nor Magic, directed by Hugo Perez, is the recipient of a Chairman's Grant given by the Chairman of the NEH to help with the final completion of the film. We are fundraising to secure the remaining funds necessary, and hope to be able to announce an official release date shortly.
NYC denizens should mark down November 14th on their calendars when Neither Memory Nor Magic screens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan. RADNOTI'S POETRY WILL BE READ BY SPECIAL GUESTS AS PART OF THE EVENT. Full program details HERE
October 18th, 2010
Futbolín: Foosball in Madrid goes Live at VBS
Hugo recently traveled to Madrid to hang out with the top guns of Spanish foosball at the local bars where they train for international competitions. The segment he produced for VBS/ Electronic Arts "We are 11" series on soccer culture just went live HERE or click on the embed above.
October 15
Hugo Perez Interview @ Motherboard.TV
Motherboard Editor In Chief Alex Paternack talks with Hugo about the making of his film SEED, science fiction, andwhat the future might hold for humanity. Read the full interview HERE
October 7
Hugo Perez Profile in Albany Times Union
Hugo returns to Albany on Friday, Octobr 8th to present his program "Portrait of the Cuban American Artist as a Young New York Filmmaker." The Albany Times Union writes about Hugo's career as a filmmaker, and his collaboration with the New York State Writers Institute. Read the article HERE
September 23
The Fascination of Old Denim
Hugo Interviews William Gibson @ Motherboard.TV
Hugo recently spoke with William Gibson about his new
novel Zero History, the impact of Neuromancer on the
generation that pioneered cyberspace,and the fascination of
denim. Chris King and Jennifer Cox animated audio from the
interview where Gibson talks about his earliest memories of
technology.
Read
the interview and watch the animation
HERE
September 21
SEED plays New Latino Filmmakers
@ Anthology Film Archives
Full program details HERE
August
13
Levis's and VBS.TV present THE OREGON FIRELINES
Hugo writes: "I spent a lot of the summer
editing short branded content docs for VBS.TV. Check out
THE OREGON FIRELINES, part of a series created by Levi's
and VBS.TV"
Watch
the whole thing
HERE
July
27
SEED @ 2010 NY Latino Film Festival
Hugo writes: "A fun time will be had by
all."
For
screening dates and times, go
HERE
July 26
NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC
Screens at Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo
Hugo writes: "The New York Council for
the Humanities and Buffalo's own Squeel Wheel Cinema bring
Neither Memory Nor Magic to Buffalo, providing me with a
reason to see Niagara Falls for the first time.
July
13
THE FUTURE ACCORDING TO HUGO PEREZ
ITVS Beyond the Box Interviews SEED Director
Hugo writes: "My friends at ITVS thought
I might have something clever to say about imagining the
future. Instead I compare making a film to shutting an
overpacked suitcase."
Click
HERE
for interview.
July
8
NEW WORKS/NEW VOICES: The Storytellers
Spotlights Writer/Director Hugo Perez
Hugo writes: "Time/Warner has put out a
small book of portraits of up and coming writers, and seen
fit to include me into the illustrious selection. You can
download the whole book as a PDF and see what we all look
like in black and white."
Download
the full PDF
HERE
April 5
PORTRAIT
OF THE CUBAN-AMERICAN ARTIST
AS A YOUNG NEW YORK FILMMAKER
Hugo Perez Goes on Tour
Hugo writes: "Calling all Programmers and
Curators in New York State (expecially the Hudson Valley).
I am going on Tour with my shorts program "Portrait of the
Cuban-American Artist as a Young New York Filmmaker. And we
are actively seeking venues and instititions to host
evenings starting in late April. It's a highly
interactive... program where I walk the audience through my
life as a Latino filmmaker with some of the short films I
have made. From Hemingway's Cuba to big butts in the Bronx,
the near future world of SEED to a sneak peak at my work in
progress Immaculate Conception, I'll take audiences on an
eclectic journey through my quirky career."
March 8th World Premiere of SEED
SEED
Written
and Directed by Hugo Perez
Produced by Katharyn Bond Márquez and Jason Tyrrell
Hugo
Perez’ latest film SEED will launch as part of
FutureStates, the Independent Television Services’
ground-breaking transmedia experiment that will bring you
visions of life in a future America. ITVS worked with over
20 of today’s best emerging indie filmmakers to
complete the 11 films that make up FUTURESTATES. In
addition to award-winning director Hugo Perez, contributors
include Ramin Bahrani, whose mini-feature entitled PLASTIC
BAG is narrated by the legendary Werner Hertzog, Greg Pak
‘s MISTER GREEN and Tze Chun’s SILVER SLING.
FUTURESTATES launches as a destination site on March
8th
at:
www.futurestates.tv
READ FULL PRESS RELEASE
HERE.
Feb 20, 2010
PORTRAIT
OF THE CUBAN-AMERICAN ARTIST
AS A YOUNG NEW YORK FILMMAKER
Hugo Perez Goes on Tour
Hugo writes: "Calling all Programmers and
Curators in New York State (expecially the Hudson Valley).
I am going on Tour with my shorts program "Portrait of the
Cuban-American Artist as a Young New York Filmmaker. And we
are actively seeking venues and instititions to host
evenings starting in late April. It's a highly
interactive... program where I walk the audience through my
life as a Latino filmmaker with some of the short films I
have made. From Hemingway's Cuba to big butts in the Bronx,
the near future world of SEED to a sneak peak at my work in
progress Immaculate Conception, I'll take audiences on an
eclectic journey through my quirky career."
Click through here for all the details: http://www.hvpg.org/events/hugo.htm
February 10, 2010
Hugo
Perez @ Yale in Hollywood Conference
Teaser
Video Produced by M30A Films/Hugo
Perez
Hugo is heading
to L.A. for the Yale in Hollywood Entertainment Conference
on March 12th
and
13th.
He’ll be moderating the panel: “Creating
Change: The Art of Social Justice in Films. Who says a
movie can’t change the world? Join these filmmakers
as they discuss their movies that have made a political and
social impact on our society and hear about the challenges
and triumphs in making movies deemed controversial by some
and life affirming by others.” On the panel are Bruce
Cohen, Producer MILK, Lisa Cortés, Ex. Producer, Precious:
Based on the novel "Push" by Saphire, and Ondi Timoner,
Director/Producer, DIG! and We Live in Public. For more
info visit:
http://hollywood.alumni.yale.edu/
November 4, 2009
JESSE'S
DIARY on ITVS Online
ITVS has just
posted JESSE'S DIARY, a short documentary companion piece
to SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON which focuses on Jesse DesRosier,
a 14 year old teenager on the Blackfeet Reservation. Jesse
talks about about his life growing up on the reservation,
going to a Blackfeet Language school, and shares some of
his dreams and ambitions. The short doc is based on video
diaries that Jesse himself shot. Jesse was a student of
Darrell Kipp, one of the main subjects of SUMMER SUN WINTER
MOON. For more information about the broadcast of SUMMER
SUN WINTER MOON go to:
http://www.summersunwintermoon.com
To further steep yourself in
SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON lore, you can read Hugo Perez blog
at ITVS telling the behind the scenes story of how the
collaboration in the film began:
http://beyondthebox.org/filmmaker-hugo-perez-recounts-unlikely-collaboration/
October 26, 2009
SUMMER
SUN WINTER MOON airs on PBS
Across the Nation in November
A Co-Production
between illume productions and ITVS, Hugo Perez documentary
SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON will broadcast on PBS stations
across the country in the month of November. Graced with
cinematography by Sundance Award-Winner Gary Griffin, and
edited by Academy Award Nominee Francisco Bello, the quirky
tale shreds your cookie cutter textbook version of history
with equal amounts of humor and serious introspection on
the part of the main characters.
Synopsis:
Blackfeet
poet Darrell Robes Kipp, a man striving to save the
Blackfeet language, unexpectedly joins the Lewis and Clark
Bicentennial Commission to make sure that the American
Indian side of history is told. Quirky classical composer
Rob Kapilow travels west from Lincoln Center to find
inspiration for a commissioned symphony about the Lewis and
Clark expedition. When Rob meets Darrell and asks him to
collaborate with him on words that will tell the Indian
side of history through the new symphony, their “odd
couple” collaboration creates a provocative piece of
music that connects the Blackfeet seat of Browning, Montana
to the rarefied air of symphony halls across the country.
Fore more information and airdates, go to:
www.summersunwintermoon.com
Trailer:
A clip from the documentary:
August
30, 2009
SEED
wraps Principal Photography;
M30A Films Turns Six
On the sixth
anniversary of the founding of M30A Films, director Hugo
Perez wrapped principal photography on the near future
science fiction short SEED whose cast included Sebastian
Villada (from Entre Nos) and Labyrinth Theatre Company
members Yul Vasquez and Julian Acosta. Production took
place in upstate New York with help from the Hudson Valley
Film Commission. SEED is being produced as one of eleven
short films that will be part of FutureStates, a narrative
online series created by ITVS which will launch in Spring
2010. Everything is hush hush at the moment but expect more
updates before the end of the year.
Photo of
Sebastian Villada as "Juan" by Ellie Diez.
May
5, 2009
IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION receives
Emerging Narrative Award Honorable Mention
at the
2009 Tribeca Film Institute Awards
Ceremony
On a glamorous
red-carpet evening at the Tribeca Film Festival, Hugo Perez
feature screenplay IMMACULATE CONCEPTION received honorable
mention in the Emerging Narrative category from a jury
which included Lance Reddick, Luis Guzman, and
others.
March 22, 2009
Writer/Director
Hugo Perez Selected for
2009 Tribeca All Access Program with
Feature Screenplay IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Director Hugo
Perez has been selected to participate in the prestigious
Tribeca All Access program at the 2009 Tribeca Film
Festival with his feature screenplay IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
as one of ten narrative projects.
MORE INFO ON 2009 TAA
March
15, 2009
NALIP names Hugo Perez Recipient of the
2009 Estela Award for Documentary Filmmaking
Director Hugo
Perez to be presented with the 2009 Estela Award for
Documentary Filmmaking at the NALIP 10th Anniversary
National Conference. Previous recipients of the Estela
Award include Rodrigo Garcia, Natalia Almada, and Marilyn
Agrelo. The McDonald's Corporation is the sponsor of the
award, and Hugo's words to them are: "I'm lovin'
it!" MORE DETAILS
March
1, 2009
NELSON ALGREN LIVE @ the Steppenwolf Theatre
Hugo Perez Directs Film Production
The Seven
Stories Institute in partnership with Steppenwolf Theatre
Company is pleased to announce a one-night only celebration
of Chicago’s Nelson Algren on the centenary of his
birth. “Nelson Algren Live: The 100th Birthday
Celebration” will feature dramatic readings of
previously unpublished Algren stories by novelists Russell
Banks, Barry Gifford and Don Delillo, Willem Dafoe,
Steppenwolf’s Martha Lavey, and Algren’s last
editor Dan Simon. Director Hugo Perez and M30A Films will
film the production. MORE DETAILS
February 1, 2008
NEITHER
MEMORY NOR MAGIC
@ 2009 MoMA Documentary Fortnight
Screening Date: February 22nd at 6pm
It is my
pleasure to start off the year with the New York City
Premiere of my documentary NEITHER MEMORY NOR
MAGIC at
the 2009 MoMA Documentary
Fortnight. Picasso,
Dali, and Hugo Perez will all be in the house on the
evening of Sunday, February 2nd
at 6:00pm in
MoMA’s Titus 1 Theatre. You are all invited to
purchase tickets and help me fill the 450 seats in the
theatre. If you’ve seen the film, see it again and
bring your friends.
On a more serious note, 2009 marks the Centennial of my
film’s subject Miklos Radnoti. As part of my Q and A
after the screening, I will be joined by some special
guests in reading a few of Radnoti’s poems to
commemorate the Centennial. I can guarantee it will be a
special evening you won’t want to miss.
January 25, 2009
SUMMER
SUN WINTER MOON
@ 2009 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
If you happen
to be in Montana on Valentine's Day you should come out for
Big Sky's screening of SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON on the
biggest screen in Montana on February 14th. For more
information go to: www.bigskyfilmfest.org
October 15, 2008
Introducing the new Chivas Man... Hugo Perez
Photo
Credit: Chuck Moss
A note from
Hugo: "I have always been partial to Chivas Regal, and so
it is with some pleasure that I can tell you that I'll be
featured as a success story in the Chivas Regal 18 'Spirit
of Success' advertising campaign in November and December.
In this month's issue of Hispanic Magazine, you'll be able
to read a full page 'advertorial' in which I reveal the 3
Keys to my success (and yes, following the samurai code is
one of them). I've also been told that I will be featured
on an Univision television spot tied to the campaign. Stay
tuned for more info on that. On the off chance you don't
immediately rush out to pick up a copy of Hispanic
Magazine, I have posted a PDF version of the
advertorial here for
download."
September 15, 2008
Two New Trailers from
PageTurner Films
In the midst of
a very hectic summer, PageTurner films produced two new
trailers for recent books from Tor/Forge: bestselling
writer F. Paul Wilson's JACK: SECRET HISTORIES and Isamu
Fukui's TRUANCY. Click through to our PageTurner Films page if you
would like to view them.
September
14, 2008
WHY ADAMA
@ 2008 Independent Film Week
"At the age of 16, Adama Bah was arrested by the FBI and
accused of being a “potential suicide bomber.”
After intense public protest and media scrutiny, she was
released without charges. Now the government wants to
deport her…"
M30A is pleased
to announce that Hugo Perez will be attending the 2008
Independent Film Week (formerly IFP Market) as Executive
Producer on WHY ADAMA, an intimate and poignant account of
the devastating impact the war on terror had on one girl's
family and life. Producer Su Kim and Hugo will be meeting
with industry throughout the week as part of the Spotlight
on Documentaries section. Read more about this powerful and
timely project here.
September
5, 2008
NYC Screenings in September
Summer is fast
coming to a close. (Has it come and gone already!) We are
pleased to announce that in September two M30A productions
will be screening in New York City.
On September 28th at 8pm, the Bowery Poetry Club will host
a sneak preview screening of NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC
as a benefit
for Bowery Arts and Science. We are very pleased to
collaborate with one of the leading poetry venues in the
country to bring you this screening. For more details,
go here.
On September 18th, Hugo Perez rarely screened short
documentary THE ECSTASY, about a religious pilgrim
satisfying a promise to San Lazaro, will screen as the
opening act for Pablo A. Medina's EL PLAY, an intimate look
at a young Dominican ballplayer who aspires to being signed
by the major leagues.
DETAILS for EL
PLAY screening:
The New School University
Thursday,
September 18
7
pm, Swayduck Auditorium
65
5th Ave (btw 13th & 14th St)
August
22, 2008
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
@ 2008 NALIP Latino Producer's Academy
Immaculate
Conception was one of four feature narrative projects
selected for the Director's Fellow track at the 2008 NALIP
Latino Producer's Academy. Over the last ten days, Hugo
workshopped his screenplay and was provided with SAG
talent, union crews, locations, and equipment to direct two
scenes from his feature. Longtime M30A collaborator Ana
Asensio was on hand to play the lead role, and rising
talent Felix Pire came in from L.A. to act opposite her.
M30A and Hugo Perez tip their hats to NALIP for this great
opportunity! The end result of the workshop will be
available for viewing online shortly.
August
3, 2008
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
@ 2008 Sundance Producer's Conference
Hugo writes,
"Just returned from the beautiful Sundance Lodge where I
participated in the 2008 Sundance Producer's Conference
with my screenplay Immaculate Concepion as one of 60
participants selected for the program. What a great event!
Great panels. Lots of networking opportunities. And an
evening of Karaoke I will not soon forget."
July
12, 2008
Sneak Preview:
SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON
screens
on Blackfeet Nation Reservation
Hugo writes,
"Today we joined with our subject Darrell Robes Kipp to
invite members of the Blackfeet Tribe to a Sneak Preview of
Summer Sun Winter Moon at the Piegan Institute in Browning,
Montana on the Blackfeet reservation. We screened in the
afternoon, right after the North American Indian Days
parade to an enthusiastic full house. We'd like to thank
the Blackfeet community for inviting us in and being so
generous over the course of our production. We highly
recommend visiting the Blackfeet Nation and the neighboring
Glacier National Park whose vistas made us wonder why we
would ever want to come back to the concrete valleys of
NewYork."
April
30,2008
The TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE/RENEW MEDIA Announce
Writer Director Hugo Perez is the Recipient of a
2008 Emerging Artist Award
In an awards
presentation hosted by Alan Berliner at the Tribeca Film
Festival on April 29th,
the Tribeca Film Institute/RENEW Media announced the
recipients of the prestigious Media Awards Fellowships for
2008 funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The awards
recognize the artistic excellence of 22 film, video, and
new media artists in the United States. New York
based filmmaker and writer Hugo Perez was the recipient of
a 2008 Emerging Artist Fellowship in support of IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION, a feature screenplay he is currently developing
as his narrative feature directorial debut. Since its
inception in 1988, RENEW Media has given Media Arts
Fellowships to film and video artists whose ranks include
Bruce Connor, Miranda July, Jem Cohen, Jonathan Caouette,
Kenneth Anger, Guillermo Arriaga, Chris Eyre, Jonas Mekas,
Ross McElwee, Charles Burnett, and over 300 others.
For more info about the Media Arts
Fellows program go to:
http://www.mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist
April 4, 2008
NEITHER MEMORY NOR
MAGIC
World Premiere @ 2008 Full Frame Documentary Festival
M30A Films is
proud to announce that Hugo Perez' directorial feature
documentary debut NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC has been invited
to World Premiere at the prestigious Full Frame Documentary
Festival in Durham, North Carolina on April 4, 2008. By
screening at Full Frame, NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC joins the
ranks of some of the most celebrated and successful
documentaries of the documentary boom of the last decade.
For more details visit the Full Frame Documentary Festival
site here.
April 1, 2008
CINEDULCE spotlights Hugo
Perez
Last year the
New York International Latino Film Festival launched
CineDulce.com to spotlight some of the best contemporary
films and filmmakers. On April 1st, CineDulce will profile
Hugo Perez in conversation with fellow filmmaker Victor
Cruz as the debut episode in their series of conversations
with Latino Filmmakers. Visit CineDulce.com on April
Fool's Day to see what Hugo has to say about the craft
of filmmaking as well as Reagan fetishes.
March
15, 2008
PageTurner Films
Launches
M30A Films and Director Hugo Perez are pleased
to announce the creation of PageTurner Films, a division of
M30A Films dedicated to producing high quality and
entertaining promotional films and videos for the
publishing industry in support of upcoming publications.
What a movie trailer does for major motion pictures, our
promotional films will do for your book. PageTurner Films
launches in March 2008 with the premiere of its promotional
film for THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX by MARY E. PEARSON, a
Spring 2008 Release from Henry Holt Books for Young
Readers. The promotional film can be seen on the Henry Holt
website at this link:
http://www.whoisjennafox.com/
Read
more about Pageturner Films here.
March
8, 2008
SUMMER SUN WINTER
MOON
Sneak
Preview @ 2008 Ashland Independent Film Festival
Darrell Robes Kipp in
Montana
Following on
the footsteps of two sold out screenings at the True False
Film Festival, SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON has additional Sneak
Preview screenings at the 2008 Ashland Independent Film
Festival. The festival unspools from April 3-7, 2008. For
more information visit the festival here.
March 1, 2008
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION @ 2008 Latino Media Market
Many of you
have asked when director Hugo Perez would follow up his
award-winning short comedies BETTY LA FLACA and JULIETA Y
RAMON with a feature film. The answer is as soon as
possible. His feature screenplay IMMACULATE CONCEPTION was
invited to participate as one of only eight projects
spotlighted in the Feature Development section of the 2008
Latino Media Market held in conjunction with the 2008 NALIP
National Conference.
February 28, 2008
NEITHER MEMORY NOR
MAGIC
Sneak Preview @ Hungarian Cultural Center of New York
Last night the
Hungarian Cultural Center of New York hosted a standing
room only screening of NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC at their
SoHo gallery space. It was the first time the film had
screened for an audience with a high concentration of
Hungarians, and the Q and A led to a lively discussion of
the film and its subject Miklos Radnoti. Photographer
Gabriella Gyorffy has posted her photos of the
evening here.
February
25, 2008
SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON
Sneak Preview @
2008 True/False Film
Festival
In the last
five years, the True False Film Festival in Columbia, MO
has earned a reputation as the "Telluride of documentary
film festivals" as well as one of the most filmmaker
friendly festivals on the circuit. As part of a program
that featured the best from Sundance and SXSW this year,
SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON sneak previewed a Work-In-Progress
cut to two sold out houses. The Columbia Daily Tribune
devoted the entire front page of their Sunday Arts section
to a feature article about the film. You can read
that here.
October
10, 2007
NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC
Sneak Preview @
2007 Woodstock Film
Festival
Patricia Clarkson and
Hugo Perez prior to the Woodstock screening of Neither
Memory Nor Magic.
Over the years,
the Woodstock Film Festival has been a great supporter of
our films and we were particularly pleased to participate
in the 2008 edition with the Sneak Preview of NEITHER
MEMORY NOR MAGIC. To make things even better, the lovely
Patricia Clarkson who graced the film with her narration
was on hand in Woodstock as a guest of honor and was able
to introduce the screening. (A big thank you goes out to
Patricia Clarkson for all of her generous support!) For
more info. about the 2007 Woodstock Film Festival (and more
photos) go to their website here.
September
14, 2007
SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON
@ 2008 IFP Market
For a second
year in a row filmmaker Hugo Perez has participated in the
IFP Market with a documentary work-in-progress. At this
time it can also be officially revealed that from a pool of
600 Open Call submissions, SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON has been
selected as one of 6 projects that it will be funded for
completion. Keep checking back for further updates about
PBS airdates.
M30A Celebrates 5th
Anniversary
August 12, 2007
Hola,
M30A Films celebrates it’s 5th
anniversary
this August with broadcasts of two of its most popular
productions.
For those of you who missed Julieta y Ramon’s
broadcast premiere on Showtime, you will have a second
chance to see it as part of the PBS curated independent
film series Reel New York, on August 23rd
at
10pm on PBS flagship station WNET/Channel 13. In cities
outside of New York, check your cable provider listings.
Starting next week, you will also be able to see Julieta y
Ramon in its entirety online as part of an online
competition where you get the chance to vote for the Reel
New York Audience Award. For more information and (starting
nect week) to vote for Julieta y Ramon, visit:
www.thirteen.org/reelny
Julieta y Ramon
is also currently playing online on the Latino film web
portal: www.cinedulce.com
August also brings you the return of Betty la Flaca on the
HBO family of channels with screenings on Cinemax and
HBO/Latino in August and September. Here are the currently
listed showtimes:
8/13 9:45 PM - WMAX - EAST
8/27 4:20 PM - WMAX - EAST
9/11 12:20 AM - HBO LATINO
9/20 9:15 AM - HBO LATINO
9/24 8:45 PM - HBO LATINO
Further good
news to share is the selection of my documentary
Summer Sun Winter Moon to
participate in the 2007 IFP Market in September. More
details will follow in September, but if you’ll be
participating in this year’s market drop me a line
so that I can invite you to our work-in-progress
screening.
caption: Darrell Robes Kipp,
Blackfeet Indian Writer, and subject of Summer Sun Winter
Moon
In my next
update, I’ll have some further good news to share
about Summer Sun Winter Moon as
well Neither Memory Nor
Magic, my
documentary on the Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti.
Stay tuned for further updates.
salud,
Hugo
RECENT NEWS:
July 12, 2007
Celebriosity.TV Launches with Harry Potter Shocker!
Hello Friends,
In collaboration with my co-Founder Kevin Keaveney and our
colleague
Art Drossindreck III, Esq., we have launched a new series
of
entertainment news segments under the CelebriosityTV banner
which
will plumb the depths of contemporary celebrity culture to
bring you
exclusive reports unavailable anywhere else. You
might think you are
used to celebrity news, but as our colleague Art often
says, "You
ain't seen nothing yet."
Feel free to pass the good word to your friends,
co-workers,
acquaintances, and yes, even your enemies.
HARRY POTTER SHOCKER, our first 3 minute segment,
chronicles the
vicious cycle of butter beer addiction and scandal into
which the
former boy wizard has fallen. Harry's excesses
are revealed in lurid
detail through exclusive video and photographs.
You can view the first Celebriosity segment here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTJ18lz-5o
or
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d99f356f2f
And don't forget to give us your rating!
Visit our temporary Celebriosity.TV website for Libra
Libre's
exclusive monthly horoscopes and to sign up for our
newsletter:
http://www.celebriosity.tv
Next month look for "Hollywood Gets Jiggy" our expose on
Hollywood's efforts to be more inclusive of minorities.
Remember: Celebrity + Curiosity = Celebriosity
yours truly,
Hugo Perez
Co-Founder, CelebriosityTV
www.celebriosity.tv
May 10, 2007
Julieta y Ramon selected for 12th Season of Reel New York
on PBS
Following a
successful run on Showtime, the short film comedy Julieta y
Ramon has been selected by the programmers of Reel New York
to air this summer as part of their celebrated series which
spotlights the work of leading independent filmmakers based
in New York or whose work explores New York in some way.
For more information about Julieta y Ramon click
HERE
May
1, 2007
Betty la Flaca - Encore screenings on HBO this Month
Many of you
have asked me how you can see Betty la Flaca. This month my
answer is tune in to HBO-Latino for an encore run of the
film. Here are the showtimes pulled from the HBO schedule.
So program your TIVOs and make yourself a recording you can
play over and over.
Schedule Airdates in May:
5/11 9:45 PM HBO LATINO
5/13 9:15 AM HBO LATINO
5/19 6:15 PM HBO LATINO
5/22 6:45 PM HBO LATINO
6/1 4:55 AM HBO LATINO
All
times are ET/PT.
April
17, 2007
Hugo Perez covers Full Frame Documentary Festival for
indiewire
Read all about
this years line-up of stellar documentaries at the Full
Frame Docmmentary Festival in Hugo's coverage for
indiewire. Click HERE
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