San Diego Latino Film Festival presence PREMIO CORAZON WINNERS FOR 2007 Media Arts Center San Diego’s 14th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival is proud to announce the following Premio Corazon Award winners for the 2007 festival. The San Diego Latino Film Festival announced the following winners.: Best Local Work "The Yardsale"
Fourteen Victims. Twelve Jurors. One Serial Killer! Jack Hamilton has been on trial for the brutal murders of fourteen people. When the judge turns the case ove...r to the jury for deliberations, eleven jurors are convinced Hamilton is guilty. The jury foreman, Mr. Griffith, is sure that an innocent man has been accused of crimes he didn¹t commit. Their differences with each other soon reach the point of direct confrontation, with devastating consequences for both. In this jury room, only one thing is for certain: nothing is what it seems.Genre: Thriller / Drama / MysteryTagline: Fourteen Victims. Twelve Jurors. One Dangerous Game.http://www.hotmoviesale.com/p61370/The-Last-Letter.html ?ec=1
Profile Edited by MPS MySpace Editor 2.0Profile Edited by MPS MySpace Editor 2.0Artivist Film Festival 2006 Nominated "PURPLE HEART" for best picture. _______________________Runaways theatrical trailer___________________________ STATISTICS AND INFORMATION ON RUNAWAYS1.3 million runaway and homeless youth live on the streets of America. Most of these kids (85%) fall between the ages of 14 and 17, and approximately 75% are female. Nearly 500,000 children and teens become runaways each year, with one out of seven children running away between the ages of 10 and 18. While a few return home quickly, many others never do. Sources cite that the average time a runaway is on the streets is 143 days. Most runaways living on the street find difficulty earning money to survive. Though they begin by panhandling for change, they usually turn to illegal activities such as prostitution, pornography, drugs, and stealing to survive. Every year approximately 5,000 runaway and homeless youth die from assault, illness and suicide.Quick intervention is a key, however, the police department is not able to do much more than file a missing person report. Sadly, America's cities, government and politicians are doing almost nothing to address this epidemic.Over 40% of all youths cited family dynamics as the reason they ran away, with domestic violence in the home being the #1 cause of runaways. Poverty, divorce trauma, physical and sexual abuse, gender identity or sexual orientation conflict, and alcohol and drug abuse problems are other factors contributing to young people fleeing their homes.National Children's Coalition and Streetcats Foundation created the website center "Street Kids and Runaway Youth." The site provides links on how to help runaways, where to get help if you are a runaway, groups that work with street kids all over the world, information and statistics on runaways and what to do if your child or friend is a runaway. (http://www.child.net/runaway.htm)Licensed investigative agency: Runaway Locate & Retrieval Service (888) 457-1168National Runaway Switchboard (800) -621-4000Links: Covenant House (U.S. Centers for Street Kids),Operation Go Home (Canadian)______________________________________________No Salida (1998) - At 25 minutes, this film is one of the most honest, stirring dramas in the genre. The story of two brothers who are locked in a timeless dance of interlocking destinies. The story effectively updates and makes relevant for today's audiences the Jean Paul Sartre theories referenced by the title. The two leads, Demetrius Navarro and Mark Adair Rios, turn in performances that are at times heart wrenching, or funny, or steely. Amy Vincent's cinematography is as beautiful as her work in Eve's Bayou, but much more appropriately gritty for this urban environment. Score by Michael Giacchino is fitting and foreshadows his later work. Script is tight the film is beautiful paced. A must see if you can find it.
This groundbreaking sitcom features the Cuban-American Beltran family and their pursuit of the "American dream". However, their "dream" suffers a minor setback when their only daughter marries a militant Chicano art student whose politics and career path are opposed to everything the politically conservative father, Manny Beltran, stands for. This light-hearted look at contemporary American life examines the clash of cultures and changing family values within the Latino experience.Aired on Telemundo Network. 52 episodes produced.
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