Panel: Careers after festivals

What happens to filmmakers and actors after important film festivals? That is what a group of film talents will tackle at the panel "Latino Horizons: Sustaining Your Career After the Festivals” at Sundance. Sharing their experiences will be actors Elvis Nolasco (“American Crime”), Yareli Arizmendi (“Like Water for Chocolate”), both of whom star in two projects competing at Sundance. Nolasco appears in “Roxanne Roxanne,” a biopic about a young rapper from New York, and Arizmendi leads a webisode of “Gentefied,” a series about gentrification of a popular Latino barrio in Los Angeles.

THE NETWORK The event is among a few that deal with issues affecting Latino filmmakers, actors and projects in Hollywood. It is organized by the Latino Filmmakers Network and Hispanicize, a major annual, national event of Latino communicators.

'GENTIFIED' CREW Joining the panel will be “Gentefied” director Marvin Lemus and producer Mimi Valdés as well as Aaliyah Williams, vice president of digital content and production with MACRO, the production company behind “Gentified” and other projects at Sundance. NEEDED FORUMS The panel will be a recognition of the work by filmmakers whose works are screening at Sundance, according to a organizers. “The success of our event in the last two years’ was proof that what we’re doing is in demand and very important to Latino creators and talent,” said Maylen Calienes, founder of Latino Filmmakers. “With Hispanicize’s partnership we are once again in a strong position to host a networker that will significantly amplify Latinos presence at such a significant world gathering.”

The event is presented by the media workers union SAG-AFTRA and sponsored by MIB Insurance Services and Cafe Machu Picchu. For more information click here.