A Break

Whoa...
today was definitely a day to remember...
Somebody, I know, knows someone else, and that person I know calls me that arrangements have been made... and just to let THAT person know that I'll be in Los Angeles...
And everything will be taken care of...
well we'll se about the "taken care of" part... but in the meantime, we'll be heading West towards Los Angeles with a shitload of DVD's and media kits...
We plan to stay there for a month and get to network and meet new friends and hopefully a lot more...
In dreamgirls, the girls are dissapointed that they lost this amateur contest and a guy tells them: Hey what's going on?
-We just lost this amateur contest...
-You lost the contest, because it's an amateur contest, and you don't need no contest to make it... what you need is a break, and I'm here to give it to you...

We'll be posting a whole bunch of stuff on our journey...
take care!
rik

Microsoft Surface (?)

I remember watching Minority report, blade runner, and all these futuristic movies, and thinking how cool it was, to see all those blinking lights and other weird stuff...
When I saw this new microsoft product, I couldn't believe my eyes... it's gotta be the coolest product to come out since the toaster...
:-D

Microsoft's plans to market this to the business world: hotels, banks, and it looks like city governments can use this as well...

It doesn't look useful in movies, but it would look cool as a prop...

Music from movies???

Here with one of the stars of EL ESCAPE and ASH WEDNESDAY... Lic. Rolando Tamayo and myself... jajajajajaja_______________
I haven't visited this new store in Eagle Pass... jajajajajjajaja it looks even funnier in person, when it's really dark.... jajajajjaja
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I am compiling a loooooooong list of my favorite songs from movies, and I need everyone's help!!!
I am compiling a playlist of great scores or just regular songs from films...
This is what I have so far (in NO particular order):

• Star wars theme
• Cancion del Mariachi played by Antonio Banderas in Desperado
• Damn it feels good to be a gangster (Office Space)
• Shipping up to Boston (The Departed)
• Vienna (Billy Joel) 13 going on 30
• Girl you'll be a woman soon (Pulp Fiction)
• Tango from Scent of a Woman
• Theme from "Love Actually"
• Lucha de Gigantes (amores perros)
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)
• Goofy Goober (Spongebob movie) jajajajajajaja
  

Post your favorite songs from movies as a comment for all to see...
I'll be updating the list...
Cool beans...

Before we go...

Here's some stills from the video Hechenme a los perros (Translated: Send me the dogs (?))... We shot at El Mercado Zaragoza and other cool places in Piedras Negras, Coah., MX... the video will be uploaded hopefully ny next week...

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I think that all the shit has finally hit the fan... in a good way... jajajjajajaja
We are gearing and getting everything for the film festival in New York... but that doesn't happen until the end of July!!!

Our plan is not to have our arms crossed and wait for some miracle to com from the 4th dimension...
So instead of being useless and flacid, we plan to take Ash Wednesday to Los Angeles and establish ourselves in the heart of the film industry.

Paco, Roger and myself would venture into the concrete jungle of California for the month of June, come back in July and prepare for the festival in NYC.

But before we go unto our little adventure we are making 2 music videos...
One for CHICOTE, for the song HECHENME A LOS PERROS, (which is almost finished)
AND the other for Patricia Vonne.

Both videos will be shot in Piedras Negras and will be finished just before the door slams our ass as we get out of here...

The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
--Don't... don't care?
It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime; so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
--I beg your pardon?
Eight bosses.
--Eight?
Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
Office Space (1991)

New York it is!

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World Premiere in New York. Check out the NYILFF's website at http://www.nylatinofilm.com/

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I am proud to announce that our latest film ASH WEDNESDAY: CAPITULO UNUS is going to have its world premiere at the New York International Latino Film Festival.

AGAIN.

I am proud to announce that our latest film ASH WEDNESDAY: CAPITULO UNUS is going to have its world premiere at the New York International Latino Film Festival.

Relief.

As a drought of news and an apparent lack of any information regarding ASH, I am relieved that finally someone "got it".
In the world of film festivals, we couldn't have asked for anything better.
It is exactly the kind of festival that would be proud of having Ash Wednesday as a Premiere event, rather than a sideshow freak.
My grandpa' always said, it's better to be at the head of the mouse, than the tail of the lion."

Thanks to EVERYONE that has supported us at every level.
This is just the beginning.

Basi from Chicote.
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PS: As I received the news from the film festival, we are currently in production of CHICOTE's new video Hechenme A Los Perros.
We started today in the morning in Piedras Negras, and the video is going to be incredible!
I can't wait to see it...
Special thanx to Basi "el Chicotudo"

We will be posting a lot of news in the coming days, so keep posted! jajajajajajaja

MAUC Gala Videos

This is one of the 5 videos produced for MAUC.
The rest of the videos are online at http://dws.blip.tv
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After months of shooting and post-produciton I have finally finished the videos that were displayed at the prestigious Mexican-American Unity Council's 40 anniversary gala in San Antonio, TX, this past May 8th.

The gala itself was a success, and the videos were an integral part in that success.

We saw first-hand, the struggles and the determination of the many organizations, but most importantly of the people who have been the at the forefront of making San Antonio the great city that is today.

The videos are online at http://dws.blip.tv, and are strictly for demonstration purposes only.

On Ash Wednesday: Capitulo Unus: the movie is slowly crawling around.
We will soon be featured on American Latino TV, which airs nationwide.
The segment on the show will focus on the new movie (Ash Wednesday) and will hopefully be very, very cool. (more on that soon)
We were interviewed in December 2006 by Renzo and Wilton.
AND, more exciting news is on the horizon, apparently there is a lot of excitement about the movie, but there has been no concrete commitments, but hopefully very soon someone will fall. :-D snf

NEW POSTER EXCLUSIVE!!!

Photo: This is it! The final and the second most important element in our marketing tools... THE POSTER! (the first is the trailer)
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I am very excited to present for the first time the finalized (for now:-) ASH poster, along with its new tagline:
THE COLD-BLOODED CRIME WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
oooooooooooohhhhh...
It makes me want to see the movie again!... maybe tomorrow...
ANYWAYS, this is all brought to you by my friend and our FREE-lance graphic designer Alexander Probst Pruneda.
Alex lives in Mazatlan, MX, but travels all over the place (you can read his blog here)
He was also the designer of our first ASH poster...

What I believe is special about the poster is that it faithfully represents the movie in all its glory. Even in the details of the blemishes that Alex put, and the color scheme and the contrast of our tale of stylized and shocking images...
It is unbelievable. I am very proud of this poster, and it looks like this is the final draft...

That sick brass boy day dreamin’
cry baby convict demon Hands so clean
A sympathetic cold blooded killing machine
How did you get so mean? - I want to know what it means…
Honest Goodbye (Brett Gurewitz)