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“El Espíritu de mi Mamá” screening @ CSUN – November 19 at 2:30pm

L.A. Garifuna Film Project Week #7

Jimmy Cacho gets it organized.

L.A. Garifuna Film Project Week #6

Some script readings to see how dialogue flowed.

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L.A. Garifuna Film Project Week #5

Bootsy Rankin has written out a short story (copied twice by hand) about a Wanaragua dancer in Belize.  Minerva Delgado has offered a scenario about a woman who becomes ill when she disrespected her ancestors by not offering them cake. 

L.A. Garifuna Film Project Week #3

Tonight we screened a portion of my film El Espíritu de mi Mamá for those unfamiliar with my work.  I took the opportunity to describe the smallness of my filmmaking process for El Espíritu, how I had shot it mostly with a crew of 2, myself on camera and one other person on sound.  I [...]

L.A. Garifuna Film Project Week #2

At tonight’s meeting we reviewed the topics discussed earlier and voted on what topics were most interesting to us.  This is a mind map I created illustrating the topics we discussed as possibilities for a film.  The center blue and green topics were voted most interesting to us at our 2nd meeting, and other threads were placed [...]

El Espíritu Vive Otra Vez

My film El Espiritu de mi Mama (which I shot, directed and edited on 16mm) screens at 2PM on April 25, 2009 at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center as part of the Seattle International Latino Film Festival. Information (206) 774-8373 or (206) 326.1088.
Watch the trailer!