Actress/Director Paola Mendoza of the upcoming film ENTRE NOS makes a passionate plea for immigration reform and control act. With this immigration reform update, immigrants are provided with rights that previous immigrants did not have when entering the Unites States. Thus, …
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Times are a changing
The last time I was in Cuba was almost ten years ago and what I remember from my time there is so different that what I am experiencing now. Ten years ago I saw the Cuba of my dreams. I …
Viva la Revolucion!
This Sunday I will be leaving to Cuba! Excited does not give justice to my feelings of going to Cuba. The last time I was there was almost ten years ago with one of the most amazing projects I have …
Lali
Today is our last day in the Dominican Republic and it has been a wonderful festival. I have only been to one other film festival in Latin America (the AMAZING Cartagena Film Festival) and what I love about festivals here …
Call to prayer…
I didn’t keep my word…I didn’t write a thing while I was in Turkey…not because I didn’t want to but because I just couldn’t find the right time to sit down and put my thoughts down. It was a whirl …
Hello Turkey and I ain’t talking about Thanksgiving
In thirty minutes I am off to the airport for a ten hour flight to Turkey! I am super excited because ENTRE NOS is opening the festival, an honor which we have never had! Friday night we will walk down …
Those kids!
My English professor told me one day, if you ever feel there are no words to describe something, find them! I am doing just that as I so desperately want to share this weekend in Fort Lauderdale. There is so …
Korea
Gloria and I will be leaving for our second round of travel this weekend. But before we go I wanted to share with you some of our highlights from Korea. It was an amazing expierence to be in Korea and …
How is it that you say ‘hello’ again?
Being in Korea and attending Asia’s largest annual film festival was at times conflicting in terms of the age old question, what to do? what to do?… On the one hand you have access to so many new and exciting …
Chillin in Tokyo
I have a four hour lay over before I land in Chicago and then finally arrive at Indianapolis….making my trip a total of about 27 hours. I am a long way from home! why Indy, you ask? Well, you guessed …