September 15, 2008
Two New Trailers from PageTurner Films
In the midst of a very hectic summer, PageTurner films produced two new trailers for recent books from Tor/Forge: bestselling writer F. Paul Wilson's JACK: SECRET HISTORIES and Isamu Fukui's TRUANCY. Click through to our PageTurner Films page if you would like to view them.
September 14, 2008
WHY ADAMA @ 2008 Independent Film Week
"At
the age of 16, Adama Bah was arrested by the FBI and
accused of being a “potential suicide bomber.”
After intense public protest and media scrutiny, she was
released without charges. Now the government wants to
deport her…"
M30A is pleased
to announce that Hugo Perez will be attending the 2008
Independent Film Week (formerly IFP Market) as Executive
Producer on WHY ADAMA, an intimate and poignant account of
the devastating impact the war on terror had on one girl's
family and life. Producer Su Kim and Hugo will be meeting
with industry throughout the week as part of the Spotlight
on Documentaries section. Read more about this powerful and
timely project here.
September
5, 2008
NYC Screenings in September
Summer is fast
coming to a close. (Has it come and gone already!) We are
pleased to announce that in September two M30A productions
will be screening in New York City.
On September 28th at 8pm, the Bowery Poetry Club will host
a sneak preview screening of NEITHER MEMORY NOR
MAGIC as a benefit
for Bowery Arts and Science. We are very pleased to
collaborate with one of the leading poetry venues in the
country to bring you this screening. For more details,
go here.
On September 18th, Hugo Perez rarely screened short
documentary THE ECSTASY, about a religious pilgrim
satisfying a promise to San Lazaro, will screen as the
opening act for Pablo A. Medina's EL PLAY, an intimate look
at a young Dominican ballplayer who aspires to being signed
by the major leagues.
DETAILS for EL
PLAY screening:
The New School University
Thursday,
September 18
7
pm, Swayduck Auditorium
65
5th Ave (btw 13th & 14th St)
August
22, 2008
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
@ 2008 NALIP Latino Producer's Academy
Immaculate
Conception was one of four feature narrative projects
selected for the Director's Fellow track at the 2008 NALIP
Latino Producer's Academy. Over the last ten days, Hugo
workshopped his screenplay and was provided with SAG
talent, union crews, locations, and equipment to direct two
scenes from his feature. Longtime M30A collaborator Ana
Asensio was on hand to play the lead role, and rising
talent Felix Pire came in from L.A. to act opposite her.
M30A and Hugo Perez tip their hats to NALIP for this great
opportunity! The end result of the workshop will be
available for viewing online shortly.
August
3, 2008
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
@ 2008 Sundance Producer's Conference
Hugo writes,
"Just returned from the beautiful Sundance Lodge where I
participated in the 2008 Sundance Producer's Conference
with my screenplay Immaculate Concepion as one of 60
participants selected for the program. What a great event!
Great panels. Lots of networking opportunities. And an
evening of Karaoke I will not soon forget."
July
12, 2008
Sneak Preview:
SUMMER SUN WINTER
MOON
screens
on Blackfeet Nation Reservation
Hugo writes,
"Today we joined with our subject Darrell Robes Kipp to
invite members of the Blackfeet Tribe to a Sneak Preview of
Summer Sun Winter Moon at the Piegan Institute in Browning,
Montana on the Blackfeet reservation. We screened in the
afternoon, right after the North American Indian Days
parade to an enthusiastic full house. We'd like to thank
the Blackfeet community for inviting us in and being so
generous over the course of our production. We highly
recommend visiting the Blackfeet Nation and the neighboring
Glacier National Park whose vistas made us wonder why we
would ever want to come back to the concrete valleys of
NewYork."
April
30,2008
The TRIBECA FILM INSTITUTE/RENEW MEDIA Announce
Writer Director Hugo Perez is the Recipient of a
2008 Emerging Artist Award
In an awards
presentation hosted by Alan Berliner at the Tribeca Film
Festival on April 29th,
the Tribeca Film Institute/RENEW Media announced the
recipients of the prestigious Media Awards Fellowships for
2008 funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The awards
recognize the artistic excellence of 22 film, video, and
new media artists in the United States. New York
based filmmaker and writer Hugo Perez was the recipient of
a 2008 Emerging Artist Fellowship in support of IMMACULATE
CONCEPTION, a feature screenplay he is currently developing
as his narrative feature directorial debut. Since its
inception in 1988, RENEW Media has given Media Arts
Fellowships to film and video artists whose ranks include
Bruce Connor, Miranda July, Jem Cohen, Jonathan Caouette,
Kenneth Anger, Guillermo Arriaga, Chris Eyre, Jonas Mekas,
Ross McElwee, Charles Burnett, and over 300 others.
For more info about the Media Arts
Fellows program go to:
http://www.mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist
April 4, 2008
NEITHER MEMORY NOR
MAGIC
World Premiere @ 2008 Full Frame Documentary Festival
M30A Films is
proud to announce that Hugo Perez' directorial feature
documentary debut NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC has been invited
to World Premiere at the prestigious Full Frame Documentary
Festival in Durham, North Carolina on April 4, 2008. By
screening at Full Frame, NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC joins the
ranks of some of the most celebrated and successful
documentaries of the documentary boom of the last decade.
For more details visit the Full Frame Documentary Festival
site here.
April 1, 2008
CINEDULCE spotlights Hugo
Perez
Last year the
New York International Latino Film Festival launched
CineDulce.com to spotlight some of the best contemporary
films and filmmakers. On April 1st, CineDulce will profile
Hugo Perez in conversation with fellow filmmaker Victor
Cruz as the debut episode in their series of conversations
with Latino Filmmakers. Visit CineDulce.com on April
Fool's Day to see what Hugo has to say about the craft
of filmmaking as well as Reagan fetishes.
March
15, 2008
PageTurner Films
Launches
M30A Films and Director Hugo Perez are pleased
to announce the creation of PageTurner Films, a division of
M30A Films dedicated to producing high quality and
entertaining promotional films and videos for the
publishing industry in support of upcoming publications.
What a movie trailer does for major motion pictures, our
promotional films will do for your book. PageTurner Films
launches in March 2008 with the premiere of its promotional
film for THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX by MARY E. PEARSON, a
Spring 2008 Release from Henry Holt Books for Young
Readers. The promotional film can be seen on the Henry Holt
website at this link:
http://www.whoisjennafox.com/
Read
more about Pageturner Films here.
March
8, 2008
SUMMER SUN WINTER
MOON
Sneak
Preview @ 2008 Ashland Independent Film Festival
Darrell Robes Kipp in
Montana
Following on
the footsteps of two sold out screenings at the True False
Film Festival, SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON has additional Sneak
Preview screenings at the 2008 Ashland Independent Film
Festival. The festival unspools from April 3-7, 2008. For
more information visit the festival here.
March 1, 2008
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION @ 2008 Latino Media Market
Many of you
have asked when director Hugo Perez would follow up his
award-winning short comedies BETTY LA FLACA and JULIETA Y
RAMON with a feature film. The answer is as soon as
possible. His feature screenplay IMMACULATE CONCEPTION was
invited to participate as one of only eight projects
spotlighted in the Feature Development section of the 2008
Latino Media Market held in conjunction with the 2008 NALIP
National Conference.
February 28, 2008
NEITHER MEMORY NOR
MAGIC
Sneak Preview @ Hungarian Cultural Center of New York
Last night the
Hungarian Cultural Center of New York hosted a standing
room only screening of NEITHER MEMORY NOR MAGIC at their
SoHo gallery space. It was the first time the film had
screened for an audience with a high concentration of
Hungarians, and the Q and A led to a lively discussion of
the film and its subject Miklos Radnoti. Photographer
Gabriella Gyorffy has posted her photos of the
evening here.
February
25, 2008
SUMMER SUN WINTER
MOON
Sneak Preview @
2008 True/False Film
Festival
In the last
five years, the True False Film Festival in Columbia, MO
has earned a reputation as the "Telluride of documentary
film festivals" as well as one of the most filmmaker
friendly festivals on the circuit. As part of a program
that featured the best from Sundance and SXSW this year,
SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON sneak previewed a Work-In-Progress
cut to two sold out houses. The Columbia Daily Tribune
devoted the entire front page of their Sunday Arts section
to a feature article about the film. You can read
that here.
October
10, 2007
NEITHER MEMORY NOR
MAGIC
Sneak Preview @
2007 Woodstock Film
Festival
Patricia Clarkson and
Hugo Perez prior to the Woodstock screening of Neither
Memory Nor Magic.
Over the years,
the Woodstock Film Festival has been a great supporter of
our films and we were particularly pleased to participate
in the 2008 edition with the Sneak Preview of NEITHER
MEMORY NOR MAGIC. To make things even better, the lovely
Patricia Clarkson who graced the film with her narration
was on hand in Woodstock as a guest of honor and was able
to introduce the screening. (A big thank you goes out to
Patricia Clarkson for all of her generous support!) For
more info. about the 2007 Woodstock Film Festival (and more
photos) go to their website here.
September
14, 2007
SUMMER SUN WINTER
MOON
@ 2008 IFP Market
For a second
year in a row filmmaker Hugo Perez has participated in the
IFP Market with a documentary work-in-progress. At this
time it can also be officially revealed that from a pool of
600 Open Call submissions, SUMMER SUN WINTER MOON has been
selected as one of 6 projects that it will be funded for
completion. Keep checking back for further updates about
PBS airdates.
M30A Celebrates 5th
Anniversary
August 12, 2007
Hola,
M30A Films celebrates it’s 5th
anniversary
this August with broadcasts of two of its most popular
productions.
For those of you who missed Julieta y Ramon’s
broadcast premiere on Showtime, you will have a second
chance to see it as part of the PBS curated independent
film series Reel New York, on August 23rd
at
10pm on PBS flagship station WNET/Channel 13. In cities
outside of New York, check your cable provider listings.
Starting next week, you will also be able to see Julieta y
Ramon in its entirety online as part of an online
competition where you get the chance to vote for the Reel
New York Audience Award. For more information and (starting
nect week) to vote for Julieta y Ramon, visit:
www.thirteen.org/reelny
Julieta y Ramon
is also currently playing online on the Latino film web
portal: www.cinedulce.com
August also brings you the return of Betty la Flaca on the
HBO family of channels with screenings on Cinemax and
HBO/Latino in August and September. Here are the currently
listed showtimes:
8/13 9:45 PM - WMAX - EAST
8/27 4:20 PM - WMAX - EAST
9/11 12:20 AM - HBO LATINO
9/20 9:15 AM - HBO LATINO
9/24 8:45 PM - HBO LATINO
Further good
news to share is the selection of my documentary
Summer Sun Winter
Moon to
participate in the 2007 IFP Market in September. More
details will follow in September, but if you’ll be
participating in this year’s market drop me a line
so that I can invite you to our work-in-progress
screening.
caption: Darrell Robes Kipp,
Blackfeet Indian Writer, and subject of Summer Sun Winter
Moon
In my next
update, I’ll have some further good news to share
about Summer Sun Winter
Moon as
well Neither Memory Nor
Magic, my
documentary on the Hungarian poet Miklos Radnoti.
Stay tuned for further updates.
salud,
Hugo
RECENT NEWS:
July 12, 2007
Celebriosity.TV Launches with Harry Potter Shocker!
Hello Friends,
In collaboration with my co-Founder Kevin Keaveney and our
colleague
Art Drossindreck III, Esq., we have launched a new series
of
entertainment news segments under the CelebriosityTV banner
which
will plumb the depths of contemporary celebrity culture to
bring you
exclusive reports unavailable anywhere else. You
might think you are
used to celebrity news, but as our colleague Art often
says, "You
ain't seen nothing yet."
Feel free to pass the good word to your friends,
co-workers,
acquaintances, and yes, even your enemies.
HARRY POTTER SHOCKER, our first 3 minute segment,
chronicles the
vicious cycle of butter beer addiction and scandal into
which the
former boy wizard has fallen. Harry's excesses
are revealed in lurid
detail through exclusive video and photographs.
You can view the first Celebriosity segment here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLTJ18lz-5o
or
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d99f356f2f
And don't forget to give us your rating!
Visit our temporary Celebriosity.TV website for Libra
Libre's
exclusive monthly horoscopes and to sign up for our
newsletter:
http://www.celebriosity.tv
Next month look for "Hollywood Gets Jiggy" our expose on
Hollywood's efforts to be more inclusive of minorities.
Remember: Celebrity + Curiosity = Celebriosity
yours truly,
Hugo Perez
Co-Founder, CelebriosityTV
www.celebriosity.tv
May 10, 2007
Julieta y Ramon selected for 12th Season of Reel New York
on PBS
Following a
successful run on Showtime, the short film comedy Julieta y
Ramon has been selected by the programmers of Reel New York
to air this summer as part of their celebrated series which
spotlights the work of leading independent filmmakers based
in New York or whose work explores New York in some way.
For more information about Julieta y Ramon click
HERE
May
1, 2007
Betty la Flaca - Encore screenings on HBO this Month
Many of you
have asked me how you can see Betty la Flaca. This month my
answer is tune in to HBO-Latino for an encore run of the
film. Here are the showtimes pulled from the HBO schedule.
So program your TIVOs and make yourself a recording you can
play over and over.
Schedule Airdates in May:
5/11 9:45 PM HBO LATINO
5/13 9:15 AM HBO LATINO
5/19 6:15 PM HBO LATINO
5/22 6:45 PM HBO LATINO
6/1 4:55 AM HBO LATINO
All
times are ET/PT.
April
17, 2007
Hugo Perez covers Full Frame Documentary Festival for
indiewire
Read all about
this years line-up of stellar documentaries at the Full
Frame Docmmentary Festival in Hugo's coverage for
indiewire. Click HERE
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