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Edwin Pagan is a New York-based filmmaker, cinematographer, screenwriter and cultural activist with a rare blend of creative and administrative experience, including over 16-years in community organizing, organizational capacity building and initiative-based/event programming, as well as extensive production experience in the documentary and narrative film sectors.
As a filmmaker he has produced such dramatic films as Derek Velez-Partridge's SANGRE/BLOOD, Andres Nicolini's RENDEZVOUS, Angel David's SCAR TISSUE, Julio A. Toro's REPENTANCE and line-produced Pepper Negron's / Franc Reyes' BEAUTY. As a Director of Photography (DP) he has lensed THE RECKONING, DECEPTIONG, BROTHER (RIPFest 6), FLITTER FLUTTER (RIPFest 8), SEEKING SOLACE, FOR THE RECORD: GUAM AND WORLD WAR II (for PBS), OUR WOMEN, OUR STRUGGLE (currently in production), and the documenatry, LATINA CONFESSIONS, among others.
In 2005 he worked as conference programmer for 27th IFP Market & Conference and was responsible for curating conference panels and speakers. He has also worked at the Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) as an artist grants coordinator and marketing manager at the Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA).
In 1990 Edwin Paganco-founded the Latino artist collective, PAX Theatre Community, as a means of expanding community-based arts participation in the South Bronx. He was a recipient of the 2000 BRIO Artist Fellowship Award in screenwriting for ANGELITO NEGRO (The Black Angel), and was awarded the 1998 Lo Mejor de Nuestra Comunidad (the best of our community) recognition by New York State Governor George E. Pataki and the Puerto Rican Heritage Month organizing committee (Comite Noviembre), for his work in the Puerto Rican/Latino community in the region.
He has served as a Board member (vice-chair) of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and is the former president of its New York chapter. He is Program Manager at the Black Filmmaker Foundation. He has served on numerous juries, selection and curatorial committees for such arts entities as the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), New York International Latino Film Festival and prestigious Tribeca Institutes' Tribeca All Access Connects initiative, and frequently speaks on panels related to filmmaking, particularly the expansion and integration of Latino filmmakers into the industry. In addition, he has also curated the NewLatino Filmmakers series at the renowned cinematheque, Anthology Film Archives, for the past six years. He is a representative member of the Media Coalition for Artist of Color.
His latest signature project (currently in production), BRONX BURNING (as writer/producer/director), is a long-form documentary that chronicles the rise, fall and resurrection of the South Bronx and explores the root causes of the arson-for-hire epidemic that swept the region. In development is CORROSION, an in-depth look at the links between the psychiatric industry and pharmaceutical corporations and how they have conspired to develop false mental illnesses and disorders to profit off the prescription drugs and related treatments. His production company, Pagan Images, is producing both films.
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IN STILLNES I LIE
2008
PURPLE
VELVET PRODUCTIONS / PAGAN IMAGES
Written by Pepper Negron & Corina Katt Ayala
Directed by: Pepper Negron
Produced by: Edwin Pagan / Pepper Negron
Cinematographer: Edwin Pagan
Edited by: TBD
Music composed by: Pepper Negron / Robert Espada
CAST:
Mercedes Lebron ~ Tatiana
PLOT: A poetic tale of a woman inside
an asylum... a tale that blends fantasy and reality with abstract
forms that derive from her own suffering and desperation for love.
Shooting May 4th.
Official Website:
http://www.myspace.com/instillnessilie
Page
on Pagan Images: Pending
Full IMDB
credits: Pending
PURPLE
VELVET PRODUCTIONS/ PAGAN IMAGES
Excecutive Producers: Vinnie Cuevas
Written / Directed by: Pepper Negron
Produced by:Edwin Pagan / Pepper Negron
Cinematographer: Edwin Pagan
Edited by: Julio Antonio Toro
Music composed by: Pepper Negron / Robert Espada
CAST:
Sara Moreno ~Madison
Vanessa Rodriguez ~Julie
Cassandra Espitia ~ Sarah
Kiko Delorenzo ~ Female Victim
Matthew Sanders ~ Male Victim
Lloyd Deleon ~ Hacksaw
Adel L. Morales ~ Cutter
Gabby Moreno ~ Dupe
Doneke Coombs ~ Mirror
PLOT: Three friends on a "girls-night-out"
take in a bit of entertainment that could lead to their lives being
"snuffed" out.
Official Website: www.myspace.com/soquietshort
Page
on Pagan Images: Pending
Full IMDB
credits: Pending
2008
REPENTANCE
2008
HOLLYHOOD PRODUCTIONS / PAGAN IMAGES
Written / Directed by: Julio Antonio Toro
Produced by: Adel L. Morales /Edwin Pagan
Cinematographer: Edwin Pagan
Edited by: Julio
Antonio Toro
Music composed by: Joe Basquez
CAST:
Jaime Velez ~ The Wanderer
Larry Swansen ~ Father Brennan
Matthew (Young Wanderer) ~ Isaiah Basora
Stu Richel ~ Father Burns
PLOT: A mysterious wanderer seeks the
confession of an old priest, whose ultimate secret turns out to
be his greatest sin.
Official
Website: www.hollyhoodproductions.com
Page on Pagan Images: www.pagan-images.com/repentance
Full
credits: Pending
ANGELROD
FILMS
Written / Directed by: Angel David
Excecutive Producers: Peter Rodriguez / Cindy May
Produced by: Edwin Pagan / Erica Susko
Cinematographer: John Grillo
Edited by: Marta A. Masferrer
Music composed by: David Lawson
CAST:
Romi Dias ~The Mother
Ed Trucco ~The Father
Alan Tavarez ~ Acid Man
Gianna Corvino ~ The Daughter
PLOT: How far would you go to keep your
child?
A mother makes a deal with a dangerous man to keep her husband from
taking her child during a custody battle. Then changes her mind.
But is it too late?"
Official Website: www.scartissuemovie.com
Page
on Pagan Images: www.pagan-images.com/scartissue
Full IMDB
credits: www.imdb.com/title/tt0869127
2006
SEEKING SOLACE
2006
VISTA
CLARA PRODUCTIONS / PAGAN IMAGES
Written / Directed by: Derek Velez Partridge
Produced by: Edwin Pagan / Derek Velez Partridge
Cinematographer: Edwin Pagan
Edited by: Derek Velez Partridge
Music composed by: Richard Martinez
CAST:
Guillermo Diaz ~ Guy
Julee Cerda ~ Courtesan
Lisa A. Hernandez ~ Nurse
Hilda
Maria Rivera-Medina ~ Wife
Nestor Seda ~ Man on Stairs
PLOT: Guy is a regular man who finds himself
in an unlikely circumstance of his own creation. "Seeking Solace"
follows one of those moments that define a person - when he makes
a life choice - but is glad no one he knows was there to witness
it.
Official Website:
www.vistaclaraproductions.com
Full
credits: www.imdb.com/title/tt0876285
HOLLYHOOD
PRODUCTIONS
Written by: Adel L. Morales / Julio Antonio Toro
Directed by: Julio Antonio Toro
Produced by: Adel L. Morales / Ernest L. Acosta
Cinematographer: Edwin Pagan
Edited
by: Julio Antonio Toro
Music composed by: Joe Basquez
CAST:
Monique Curnen ~Jessica
Jaime Velez ~ Sal
Tara Colon ~ Sonia
Rudy Valdez ~ Freddy
Frankie Villanueva ~ Cano
Derek Velez Partridge ~ Lugo
Lisa A. Hernandez ~ Librarian
PLOT: A desperate father, losing what
is left of his broken family, is forced to avenge his daughter's
rape by mistakenly committing the murder of an innocent man.
Official Website: www.hollyhoodproductions.com
Full
credits: www.imdb.com/title/tt0495405
2005
SANGRE/BLOOD
2005
VISTA
CLARA PRODUCTIONS
Written / Directed by: Derek Velez Partridge
Produced by: Edwin Pagan / Derek Velez Partridge
Cinematographer: Edwin Pagan
Edited by: Derek Velez Partridge
Music composed by: Richard Martinez
CAST:
David
Zayas ~ Nestor
Guillermo Diaz ~ Ricky
Gabita Miller ~ Mother
Edwin Pagan ~ Man
PLOT: A professional killer must make
a final hit in an attempt to sever the "bad blood" that threatens
his clan. But can his redemption save the lives of those he loves
most?
Official Website:
www.vistaclaraproductions.com
Full
credits: www.imdb.com/title/tt0469968
PURPLE
VELVET PRODUCTIONS
Written by: Franc. Reyes
Directed and Produced by: Pepper Negron
Executive Produced by: Corina Katt Ayala / Aldo Aguilar / William
Gonzalez
Line Produced by: Edwin Pagan
Cinematographer: Salvador Bolivar
Edited by: Carlos "After Dark" Berrios
Music composed by: David Shenton
CAST:
Lauren Martin ~Maritza Perez
Joseph Melendez ~ Hector Perez
Megan Corry ~ The Model
PLOT: A menage-a-trois gone wrong. An
extremely influenced by the unrealistic media-derived images of
women who is determined to convince his submissive wife into a threesome
-- with disastrous results.
Official Website: www.myspace.com/beautyshort
Full
credits: www.imdb.com/title/tt0458329
2005
RENDEZVOUS
2005
ANDRES
NICOLINI FILMS
Written / Directed by: Andres Nicolini
Based on "Bedtime Story" by: Jeffrey Whitmore
Produced by: Edwin Pagan
Cinematographer: Petr Hlinomaz
Edited by: Yasu Inoue
Music composed by: Joseph Julian Gonzalez
CAST:
Rod
Cameron ~ Husband
Hannah Lavan - Wife
Laine D'Souza ~ Mistress
PLOT: A philandering husband's secret
encounter with his mistress while his wife is away provides the
perfect alibi for "her" murder.
Official Website: www.andresnicolini.com
Full
credits: www.imdb.com/title/tt0476685