World Premiere Info:

The schedule and other info is up on the Festival's website.
Click here to go directly to links to ASH WEDNESDAY.

The screenings will take place at the following:

World Premiere Screening:
Thursday July 26
10:30pm at The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street (Between 3rd & 2nd Avenues)
BUY TICKETS HERE

AND
Saturday July 28
6:15pm at Tinker Auditorium
55 E. 59th St. (Between Park & Madison Avenues)
BUY TICKETS HERE

Check out the festival's myspace here:
www.myspace.com/NYILFF

Update on NY Premiere

Here's the TV spot for the festival
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Tickets for the festival were supposed to be sold yesterday, but apparently the bad weather is not only hitting Texas, but NYC as well, as they are having power outages... so I will keep everyone posted on this, so you can get your tickets early...
Tickets: www.nylatinofilm.com

The roller coaster is still going, but it seems like it's going faster and scarier... but just like a roller coaster it's always a fun ride...
Yesterday, we got a "not interested" phone call from a shocked and appalled producer in Beverly Hills... He was very polite, but he seemed disturbed by what he experienced, he said, it didn't go with the "philosophy" of the company, but the doors remained open in case I wanted to submit anything else...
TWO positive things stood out:

1. The film's goal is to incite a reaction (which it did). A mediocre film will cause indifference. And that is worse reaction.
   
2. I was asked about a specific scene, that was so shocking I had to return the call to tell him that what he saw wasn't real, and it was all movie magic, fake, make-believe... This point attests that our film is so realistically and well produced that even a hollywood producer had no doubt that what he saw was real... I thought this was hilarious...

I also received several crucial emails for the continuation of DWS...

T : What are we then?
N : ...Consumers?...
T: Right. We are consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty. These things don't concern me. What concerns me, are celebrity magazines. Television with 500 channels. Some guy's name on my underwear. Rogain. Viagra. Olestra.
N: Martha Stewart.
T: F*ck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic. It's all goin' down, man. So F*ck off with your sofa units and string green stripe patterns. I say, never be complete. I say stop being perfect. I say let the...let's evolve. Chips fall where they may. But that's just me, I could be wrong, maybe it's a terrible tragedy.
N: No...it's just...just stuff.
T: Well you did lose a lot of versatile solutions to modern living.
N: F*ck you're right. ... My insurance is probably gonna cover it.
pause
What?
T: The things you own, end up owning you.

FIGHT CLUB (1999)

Everything starts...

Well,
this is a quick entry into my little journal to mark this day...
:-D
more to come tomorrow...

Back Home!

"HEY, PETER MAN... CHECK OUT CHANNEL 9..." Lawrence (Office Space) | The fridge


Opportunities come once in a lifetime... you better lose yourself... jajajajaja... Barco dropping off ASH DVD... Determination...


The lady at the library is a masterpice photograph... always be ready with a camera, you never know what memories you wish to treasure forever... | Barco and Leo at Manhattan Beach


Cruz Arellano, Roger, Luis Arellano, Paco and myself... L.I.S.
Special thanks to the Arellano's for giving us a place to stay, while we were escorted out of agencies, production companies, bars, beaches and gay pride parades... Thanks guys!

After three weeks out in the western part of the US, specifically in Los Angeles County, and after a long 24 hour drive, we are finally back in Texas...
The first thing we did was to go to Piedras Negras and buy 2 cases of Indio and get some of the best tacos in the world...
I'm tired, but we have to get ready for the World Premiere at the festival in New York...
more to come, this gets more interesting every day...

"Lumbergh represents everything that is soulless and wrong"
Peter to Joanne (Office Space)

Rollercoaster (as usual)...

Two minutes left on the meter... just in time...
Barco and Leo and myself... hitting the non-mean-streets of hollywood...
Barco and Leo reenacting scenes from brokeback mountain in Manhattan beach (notice the factory in tha back and the lack of people... there was a warning sign that said there was increased levels of bacteria... but we didn't care... jajajajajaj)
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I don't even remember the last time I posted...
Internet access has been unaccessible and scarce...
Luis and Cruz have been incredible... We've been staying in this small room, clean and nice, yet small... we barely fit our inflatable mattresses...
We spread them out to watch movies and sleep...
We've seen a lot of movies because the weekends are boring...
Also we've been visiting Manhattan beach... It is cool, I mean really cold... I just grab the sun and read... (A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl)
The first 2 weeks here we were as I expected... just facing rejection after rejection, between cold-calling and name dropping, and just plain dropping by... jajajjaja It's been funny in a satirical way of thinking...
Kind of like when Homer says: Tragedy is funny when it happens to other people, except it was happening to us... jajajajaj HOWEVER, our incredible sense of humor has kept us from becoming unhappy...
We even had a point system for our jokes... I know, it sounds stupid, but maybe that kept us humane...
We survived rejections and patronizing assholes, that think they are above everyone else, just because they have been involved with movies... oh wow... who cares...
In our eyes, these people have lost touch with the world, and only care about $$$$, or maybe they receive so much really bad movies from aspiring actors, directors, etc., that it's necessary for them to reject everyone... We just want to scream LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE GOT!

HOWEVER everything can change with ONE phone call... and it did.
We were set to returning to our beloved homeland yesterday (Saturday) I'd already missed my 10th year anniversary (Gaby I love you), the spurs championship (YAY!!!) and father's day...
On friday I got someone at a high level production company returned my phone call, and was interested in seeing the movie... we dropped it off excitedly, and this individual seemed enthused to view it...

Apart from that we had even more luck... We were about to be reffered by one of the best film directors in the world to one of the best agents in the world...
I honestly do not know what is going to happen from now on... but if even if nothing comes of this, we are at least in the game, and people know that we exist... I am just incredibly ready and prepared for anything... we'll see...
to be continued...

Happy belated Birthdays to:
Luana (my sis) June 4 (one of the saddest days of my life... jajajaja just kidding sis' love you...)
Chicken- June 11... he was living the real hollywood life, driniking with the spurs 36mafia and eva mendez... yeeeeeeaaaaahhhh....

"You get busy living or you get busy dying"
-Red

New York Premiere Schedule!

We were pleasantly surprised to find out that the nice people from the New York International Latino Film Festival has scheduled TWO screenings of ASH WEDNESDAY: CAPITULO UNUS...
This is great news!
We are thrilled to have the film premiere in New York! I really cannot think of a better place... Given the film's raw aspect, I honestly believe that New York audiences will "get" and enjoy Ash Wednesday... It's going to be a blast!
The screenings will take place at the following:

World Premiere Screening:
Thursday July 26
10:30pm at The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street (Between 3rd & 2nd Avenues)

AND
Saturday July 28
6:15pm at Tinker Auditorium
55 E. 59th St. (Between Park & Madison Avenues)

The festival itself will present some very interesting films with George Lopez, Jennifer Lopez, Kevin Kline, among others...

Check out the festivals myspace here:
www.myspace.com/NYILFF

Of course the producers and myself will be attending both screenings and we hope to see everyone there supporting our film...

We are still in Los Angeles making some very great progress planting the seeds everywhere...
more details to come...
:-D

Los Angeles

lots of coffee, lots of music kept us awake...


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After a looooong trip, Paco, Roger and myself arrived here in LA, and we are ready for anything...
I cannot find wifi here... it's nuts... I tethered my cell phone to my PC, and it is slooooow.. but it's there...
We spent all friggin' day searching for wifi... finally we stopped at a mcdonalds and got it there for 3 bucks per 2 hours... not bad, but not free... :-D
We're crashing with Gaby's really cool cousins Cruz and Luis...
They live in Southgate, which is really close to where we're going...
more to come...