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Ari Luis Palos,
a Mexican-American filmmaker, started Dos Vatos Productions; a film
and video production company dedicated to bringing the voice of
Mexicanos to a nationwide audience. Palos's credits in cross cultural
productions include a recently completed public television documentary,
At
Leisure's Edge directed by Boyd Shearer, on historically-segregated
African-American parks in Kentucky. Palos was also an integral part
of the production team of the ITVS-KET
funded documentary, Tobacco Blues, serving as Director of Photography
of the Second Unit. Another documentary collaboration had Palos
shooting digital and 16mm footage for Hill
Stomp Hollar, which profiles the music and life of African-American
bluesman and Fat Possum Records artist, R.L. Burnside. Hill Stomp
Hollar was screened at the 1999 South by Southwest Film Festival,
where it was named runner-up for the Best Documentary Feature. Palos
also served as Cinematographer on Okie
Noodling, named Audience Favorite at the 2001 South
by Southwest Film Festival.
Due to the high percentage of Mexicans who live and work in the
area illegally, building trust with the community was crucial to
the success of Beyond The Border. Palos, has spent the last year,
living and working on his next project in Oaxaca, Mexico. This project
has its focus on the haunting music, as well as, the sensuality
and power of the women, of the Isthmus of Oaxaca.
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Eren Isabel McGinnis,
a Mexican-American filmmaker, has been producing award winning documentaries
for PBS for several years. She
is one of the co-founders of Café Sisters Productions, an all-woman
film and video production company dedicated to bringing a feminist
edge to television programming. The Southern Sex, a campy critique
of stereotypical notions of womanhood, screened at The Museum of
Modern Art in New York City and The American Film Institute in Los
Angeles. Mother Love, a documentary examining the complexities of
the mother and daughter relationship, continues to air on PBS member
stations on Mother's Day. Tobacco
Blues, an ITVS
co-production, was broadcast as part of POV's
11th season and was screened by President Clinton while en route
to Kentucky, aboard Air Force One. McGinnis has also produced programming
for the Playboy Channel. One program was about gay-erotic artist,
Louis Bickett, who covers nude men and women with mud to create
living sculptures. With Ari Palos, McGinnis created The Beauty Salon,
a Super 8mm narrative short that employs philosopher Judith Butler's
concept of performativity to undermined preconceived notions of
masculinity. Café Sisters Productions most recent effort is The
Girl Next Door, which documents the life of porn star, Stacy
Valentine. The Girl Next Door premiered at the Slamdance
Film Festival and opened for a nationwide theatrical release
at New York's Screening Room. Their website, www.gndmovie.com,
has a complete list of screening venues and reviews. McGinnis received
a Bachelor's degree in anthropology from San Diego State University,
and holds a certificate in Film and Video Theory and Production
from the University College Dublin, in Ireland.
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Jacob Bricca
is a Los Angeles-based film director and editor. His directing credits
include three award-winning documentaries and a variety of experimental
shorts. As an editor, he has worked on several independent feaures
and shorts, including What
A Girl Wants, a documentary about the media's impact on girls'
self-image, and Max, 13, a narrative feature that has played at
film festivals worldwide. He has degrees in filmmaking from Wesleyan
University and the American Film
Institute, and is currently editing a feature-length documentary
about Terry Gilliam.
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Oaxacan guitarist
and bassist José Gil Sánchez began his music study
at age 10 in "La Casa de Cultura" in Oaxaca where he studied
classical guitar. His performances as a guitarist began at the Casa
de Cultura and the Oaxacan Museum of Contemporary Art and others.
In 1986, he began playing trova and popular music, and formed the
trova group "Guitars and Song". In 1998 he joined the
group "Yulinehui"(All my Song). Sanchez has also accompanied
Mexican/American singer Lila Downs. Together with José Hinijosa,
he produced Susana Harp's "Xquenda". Sánchez has
performed in a duo with Tláloc Guerrero. Sánchez has
also presented music performances at the Macedonia Alcala Theatre,
the Alvaro Carrillo Theatre, La Plaza de Danza, The Oaxacan Festival
of Contemporary Trova, The River Festival of Juchitán, Oaxaca,
and the cultural event "Together with the Victims of Hurricane
Paula".
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