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Queridos amigos,

This weekend was a busy one for us. We spent a lot of time packing your rewards. YEAH!

If your reward was a 11x17 original photograph from Queretaro or a basket of natural products, you should be getting it this week or next week.  Here are some pictures of how we prepared the rewards. We hope you like it!

well, let me know, when your reward arrives.  Thank you so much.

Here is Melanie our intern working hard.  She is doing a great job... She has been an awesome help.   Gracias Melanie!

My friends, I wanted to share the fantastic news with you that we have an editor, Yes! 

Her name is Paula Heredia, and she is awesome.

Here is Paula’s background:

Paula Heredia is an award winning director and editor working in film, television and radio. A native of El Salvador, Paula has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with an Emmy® for her work in the HBO documentary In Memoriam, NYC 9/11/01. She has also been the recipient of the ACE Eddie Award® for the acclaimed documentary Unzipped, and the Hispanic Creative Award for her film Teniendo Un Bebe.

Paula served as Editorial Supervisor for HBO’s national health campaigns: The Addiction Project, winner of the prestigious Emmy® Governors Award in 2007, The Alzheimer’s Project, winner of the 2009 Television Critics Award and of two Emmy® awards, and The Weight of the Nation a multi- part, multiplatform series addressing obesity which has received an Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Nonfiction Series in 2012. Her other editorial work includes: The Art of Failure - Chuck Connelly Not For Sale a film by Jeff Stimmel, The Pact a film by Andrea Kalin, Life After life a film by Lisa Jackson, Modulations – Cinema for the Ear, a film by Iara Lee, and Free Tibet a film by Adam Yauch.

Paula’s film directorial work includes the documentaries: George Plimpton and the Paris Review, Ralph Gibson-Photographer, and The Couple in the Cage. Her short fiction film La Pájara Pinta, was shot on location in the mountains of El Salvador, and premiered at the Lincoln Center Film Society LatinBeat Film Festival. Her documentary Africa Rising, Paula received the “Best Woman Director Award” at the International Documentary Film Festival in Soria, Spain and was picked up for distribution by Women Make Movies. Most recently she finished the documentary film Slavery and the Law, a film executive produced by DA Charles Hynes.

Paula heads the international committee of New York Women in Film and Television,serves on the board of advisors of Robert DeNiro Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access, and serves on the board of directors of Clementina, Inc.Paula’s creative work is featured in the book: The Art of the Documentaryby Megan Cunningham.

My dear backers and supporters, we are moving forward.  Thank You for your support!

I’ll keep you posted of any updates.

And your rewards are coming, don’t think we forgot about you.

Thank you again,

MG

Hi my friends, I wanted to give you an update where we are & share some of the stories, which have been in the media during the last weeks.  Thank you so much again for supporting us!  

We are getting ready to edit our rough cut.  Now we are talking to couple of editors to see who could be the one to work with us.  I will keep you posted.  I am so excited!!

And as I mentioned above, there has been some media attention surrounding our project.  Here are some of the interviews and places I was invited as a guest to talk about this film:

TELEVISION

Telemundo 47

RADIO

92.7FM La Que Buena con El Pacha y La Nena --Live interview [Regional Mexican Radio station, below a picture of me with El Pacha y La Nena, great peeps!!] 

96.3FM The Luis Jimenez Radio Show –nationally syndicated Univision radio morning show.

1280AM-- WADO Live –Live interview morning show on local Univision radio station.

Print news

Siempre Mujer

“Los niños detrás del muro”: documental

http://siempremujer.com/cultura/los-ninos-detras-del-muro-documental/39173/ 

Impacto Latin News

Productora Dominicana Denuncia Grave Problema Infantil

http://impactony.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=VXWXXRT1MBP 

Queens Chronicle

Two documentarians make a splash in Queens

http://www.qchron.com/editions/western/two-documentarians-make-a-splash-in- queens/article_b31bf669-0053-5cdc-b9e0-46340dabe583.html

Thank you to you we've made it!

I am so overwhelmed at this point, I don't have any words that can describe how I feel.

thank you for pledging and believing in this project.

YES TOGETHER WE CAN, WE MADE IT!!!

Ahora a trabajar, now to work, moving forward.

I will keep you posted!

mil gracias,

LOGRAMOS!!!!

marisol

Dear friends,

just 25 hours left to reach our goal, THANK YOU  so much for your support.  We need you to spread the word (if you haven't), and send the link to 5 to 10 friends, colleagues, classmates, etc and ask them to pledge now:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/235898060/children-behind-the-wall-working-title

Mil gracias! I know we can do this.

Well, I am really excited because Carlos Valeras has given us permission to use one of his songs, yes, "UNA PALABRA".  Some of you went to our event last March and had the opportunity to see our trailer with his song in it.  I contacted his manager and they have agreed to let me use this song in the film.  Yes!!!

please see the re-cut trailer with his song "Una Palabra"

thank you!!!

Together we can do this, I know we can!

let's spread the word, RADIO BEMBA IN ACTION.

Marisol