PRIME LATINO MEDIA SALÓN: The Power of Latinos in Media & Entertainment – IPRHFF Kickoff (November 2015)

Metropolitan New York’s only monthly series for 
Latino multimedia-makers & actors

Join us for a Pre-Thanksgiving gathering kicking off the

INTERNATIONAL PUERTO RICAN HERITAGE FILM FESTIVAL at the

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from 6-10pm

A support network to advocate, promote & advance 
mainstream & Latino projects in English & Spanish.

THE POWER OF LATINOS IN MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

We celebrate a Nuyorican woman in the NYC police department who rose up the ranks becoming a First Grade detective featured on national TV, as well as filmmakers who expose the lives of discarded youth normally omitted from mainstream media. Welcome to this year’s Festival that feature some of our best in front of the camera and those unafraid to explore the underbelly of society. In celebrating Latino cultural talent, join us at our monthly gathering for inspiration and partake in networking, conversation, drink and food with community.

6-8pm: Networking

8-9pm: TÍO LOUIE Reporta: Interviews with Actor/Producers & Musician
9-9:30pm: Musical Interview & acoustic performance, “Salón Unplugged”
9:30-10pm: Networking

•   Moderator: TÍO LOUIE/Louis E. Perego Moreno, President, Skyline Features

•      Interview #1: Retired Detective Irma Rivera is "MS. HOMICIDE" from Lifetime Movie Networks, premiering at International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival

•     Interview #2: Cati and Mike González of Cati and Mike González Films, Mike: Prod/Editor & Cati Writer/Dir/Prod/DP/Editor for EKAJ, NY premiere at International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival

•     Interview #3: David Fernández, Musical Director, Arranger, Keyboards, Latin percussion, Coro

FREE ADMISSION & CASH BAR/FOOD – RSVP: https://poweriprhff.eventbrite.com 

Location: Lima’s Taste (Peruvian Restaurant & Bar), 122 Christopher Street, corner of Bedford Street in Manhattan's West Village (1 train to Christopher Street or A/B/C/D/E/F/M trains to West 4th Street) http://www.limastaste.com/

Next PRIME LATINO MEDIA Salón: 
Holiday Party, Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Padrino Awards

IRMA RIVERA

Born in the projects of the Lower East Side, she followed her lifelong dream joining the NYC police department in 1982 at the age of 20. Premiering at the IPRHFF is Lifetime Movie Network’s TV episode entitled "MS. HOMICIDE" following legendary NYPD homicide detective, Irma Rivera, through her most fascinating murder cases during an extraordinary twenty-six year career. The film features two of New York’s most infamous cases: the murder of Lisa Steinberg and the conviction of her adoptive father that brought worldwide attention to child abuse; and the murder of filmmaker Adrienne Shelly – originally thought to a be suicide. Now retired she mentors her niece, Lelia who is a Harvard law student about being street smart and when dealing with human lives, interpreting the law has grey-line matter, because everything is not black and white.

CATI AND MIKE GONZÁLEZ

Premiering at the IPRHFF is their film, EKAJ about a runaway, homeless youth who thinks he will become the lover of a rich man and be taken care of for life, but eventually finds his dreams shattered. He makes some money as a prostitute, yet learns he is disposable, replaceable and lacking what it takes to survive in the City. Mike and Cati have been partners for over 20 years. Mike experienced his mother dying of AIDS in the early eighties and then being tossed on the street at 13 years of age. Cati is a first-time Director with an all male cast of non-actors. She was born in Spain, a photographer whose work has been seen in Spin, Vogue, Vibe, Interview, Liberatiòn, El Pais, Mademoiselle and New York magazines photographing Russell Simmons to Pharrell Williams and The Ramones to David Byrne.

DAVID N. FERNÁNDEZ

Multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, musical director and arranger, he has performed with the likes of Marc Anthony to the Joe Cuba Sextet. His arrangements can be heard over the hit children's show, "Dora The Explorer". Born into a musical family in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, David and family relocated to Youngstown, Ohio. In NY, he studied jazz piano, later learning salsa piano and music production.
Fernandéz redefined the"jíbaro" bongo style of playing during his time with Pedro Guzmán's Jíbaro Jazz while defining the salsa style of percussion on congas and timbales.
He led a 10-piece orchestra playing Latin music. Fernandéz returns to his native New York hometown where he is the  musical director for Zon del Barrio and Brenda K. Starr.

LOUIS E. PEREGO MORENO 
(TÍO LOUIE)

Founder & Executive Producer of PRIME LATINO MEDIA, the largest network on the East Coast of bilingual Latino multimedia-makers and actors that hosts the PRIME LATINO MEDIA Salón, metro-New York's only monthly network gathering in which over 60 narrative & documentary filmmakers, programmers, casting agents, TV & digital media producers, actors and journalists-authors have been interviewed. An interactive content producer and educator who for the past 34 years has owned Skyline Features, a bilingual (English- and Spanish-language) multimedia and educational production company developing documentaries, television programming and advertising commercials featuring Latinos, Blacks, Women, Urban Youth and LGBT. Created a non-profit video training program that over the course of ten years produced 70 documentary shorts with 1,500 Latino and Black Youth. Producer/Director/Writer of documentary feature, Latina Confessions (What does it mean to be Latina in the USA?) and on the PBS documentary feature as co-producer of American Dreams Deferred.

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