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LPMP 2012

What great pleasure we have in announcing not only that “Piolas, Paúl” (Dir. Adrián Macías) was in fact awarded the first prize in the Manabí Profundo Film Festival, but that the film’s lead, Iván Gilces, won the best actor award as well. This gives us renewed spirit as we invite a new group of American college students to participate in our 2012 project.

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Our Spring 2011 fundraiser, held at La Sombra Bar & Grill in Austin, TX, was a fun filled evening and by all accounts a great success. More than 100 people attended and we were fortunate enough to raise over $3,000, allowing us to purchase much needed equipment and to produce better quality films. In addition to La Sombra we would like to thank our sponsor Deep Eddy Sweet Tea Vodka; musicians DJ Stefi, Michael Shay and Javier Jara; and our numerous volunteers for helping us carry out the event.

Classroom

“One of the most rewarding aspects of this program is the 24/7 practically one-on-one relationship that we have with the instructors. Instead of sweating it out in a professor’s office hours we can ask questions across the dinner table while putting our Spanish skills to the test. Our conversation class often takes place in a market or around the community rather than in the pages of a textbook.” –Jettie Tromza

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“Initially, I thought the American students wouldn’t be doing much with the video classes, just assisting here and there. But we actually attend class and participate in note taking and class activities [...] In the classroom, all students are equal. It’s not like we’re some privileged students coming in and improving the lives of underprivileged kids, because they’re helping us just as much as we’re helping them.” –Maddie Saragusa

LPMP 2011

After six weeks and more than 120 hours of studying, drafting, redrafting, storyboarding, recording, editing, and more editing, the day finally came to screen the three new shorts that we produced this summer. The screening took place Wednesday, July 6, 2011 in the auditorium of the Museo de Bahía de Caráquez.