CREATIVE ARTISTS AGENCY

SPONSORS ICF STUDENTS TO ATTEND

THE 2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

CAA | 2016 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

or the 16th year in a row, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is sponsoring Inner-City Filmmakers (ICF) students to
attend the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Fred Heinrich, ICF Founder, and Mike Boggio, Mentor, and an ICF 1993 Alumnus, will lead a team of seven select
students from January 22 27, 2016. They will be seeing three or more films a day, meeting stars, filmmakers, and
industry executives, which will inspire, inform and empower our diverse filmmakers.
This year, Cesar Cervantes, an ICF 2010 alumnus, is attending Sundance as one of 12 artists selected for the Sundance
Writers Lab. He is the first recipient of the Sundance Institutes Feature Film Program Latino Fellowship.
Justin Floyd, an ICF 2012 alumnus, is attending Sundance as one of the 5 winners selected for the Sundance Ignite
Fellows program, supported by Adobe through its project 1324.
Familiarize yourself with what the Sundance Film Festival is all about. Visit: www.sundance.org
On behalf of all our students we thank CAA for their ongoing friendship and generous support.
We welcome your support, too! Visit: www.innercityfilmmakers.com

FRED HEINRICH | STEPHANIA LIPNER

Inner-City Filmmakers, Founders

FRED HEINRICH - is a graduate of the School of Cinema at USC. Born to immigrant parents, by age 22 he was a

leading editor. Freds work earned two Clio Awards. In 1973, Fred started one of the first independent commercial
editorial companies, Wildwood Films. Over thirty years he has worked on thousands of high quality commercial projects.
He has also produced ad campaigns with multi-million dollar budgets, difficult clients, and complex logistics on
distant locations.
In 1992, the Los Angeles Riots swept Southern California leaving chaos and devastation in its wake. It also left an indelible
mark on Fred and his producer wife, Stephania Lipner. Shortly thereafter, they established Inner-City Filmmakers to
educate, empower, and find employment for diverse low income youth. Fred has been recognized by news service
agencies that include: ABC-Television Network, CBS-Television, Directors Guild of America magazine, Producers Guild
of America magazine, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, The Hollywood Reporter, KTLA, Los Angeles Times,
NBC-TV, Newsweek magazine, Reuters News Agency, Shoot Magazine, Time Magazine, Variety, and VIBE Magazine.
In 2009, Fred was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE),
an international association representing independent creative editorial companies and their editors. In 2015, Fred was
selected as a CNN Hero!

STEPHANIA LIPNER - is a producer of TV commercials, documentaries and live theatre. Originally from New York

City, at age 15 she became the youngest dancer ever to be discovered and accepted into the American Ballet Theatre
by Lucia Chase, ballet director and co-founder. Traveling the world with ABT and later the Joffrey Ballet, Stephania
advanced to principal roles. During hiatus, she appeared as a dancer in the original films, BYE BYE BIRDIE and
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, which is where she became interested in production.
Stephania moved into advertising, became a producer, and at age 26, promoted to Vice President, Head of Broadcast
Production for McCann-Erickson, one of the worlds premier advertising agencies, where she won Clio and Belding
Awards for her work. She later produced an ABC-Television Network Special, THE MYSTERIOUS POWERS OF MAN,
before becoming Vice President of Development for Telepictures, an American television and film production company,
currently operating as a label of Warner Bros. Television. As a producer of live theatre in Los Angeles, Stephania has
worked with many Hollywood notables including Jack Lemmon in David Mamets, LIFE IN THE THEATER.
Since 1992, Stephania has shared the vision and worked tirelessly side-by-side with her husband, Fred Heinrich, to build
Inner-City Filmmakers into the successful organization that it is today. Her motivation, determination, energy and work
ethic are infused in Inner-City Filmmakers students.

PAULA AGUILAR
PAULA
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Cinematographer
Cinematographer

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Sundance Film Festival; it means the world to me. I promise that I will continue to work hard to make you all proud. Thank you!

VALENTINA ARGUETA
Cinematographer

As long as I can remember, I have always lived with seven or eight people in a small two room house. I have always had to share
a room with my mother and brother, so the only privacy I would get is when no one was home. I guess you can say, its a Hispanic
thingto live within a large family. It can be fun at times, but sometimes you just want to have your own space.
My family emigrated from El Salvador in pursuit of a better life and to be able to provide for those who stayed behind. My father
was part of the military during the Salvadorian Civil War in the 80s, after losing his left index finger and recovering from battle
wounds, he left his home country. My mother followed her older brother to the U.S. leaving her younger sisters and brothers behind
with my grandparents; all to get a shot at getting her family out of poverty back home. When I was eight, my parents separated.
I was really close to my dad; so that impacted my life a lot, I closed up. I did not want to go to school and I just threw tantrums.
But after a while, and a few therapy sessions, I learned how to cope; I used my creative side to help my emotional side. Drawing,
listening to music, and reading books were what really helped. My moms strength to overcome obstacles has made her my role
model. Her perseverance to come out of tough situations is amazing; stubbornness and toughness is something I admire. She has
never stopped working a day in her life since she moved to America.
I currently attend CSULA after graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School and Inner-City Filmmakers in 2015. School is the
only thing that I have had to worry about. My mom never really wanted to put other pressures on me and my brother. She just
wanted us to get a higher education than she did and to become something more. My older brother and I share a love for art, though
Im more into the realistic type of drawings whereas hes into graffiti. Hes supportive and gives me advice.
My short term goals are to graduate college, travel to different countries, and develop my filmmaking | cinematography skills.
Inner-City Filmmakers is a great way to learn professional filmmaking skills and how to network with people who can help me.
I know I also have to get out on my own and continue to meet people. In the long run, I want to be able to give back to my high
school and Inner-City Filmmakers; to the people who have helped me and motivated me to keep pursuing my dreams. I want to
inspire people to never give up on their creative and artistic pursuits. I want to tell them that anything is possible as long as you
are doing what you truly love. I want to be able to become something big for my mom, to show her that her hard work didnt go
unappreciated. I want to be working in the film industry and be involved in creating features that make an impact on peoples lives.
I want to be able to do what I want whenever I want without restrictions because of my gender or ethnic background.
Inner-City Filmmakers Summer Program helped me mature a lot. Having to create, direct and edit my own short film and work in
various crew positions on four other team member films at the same time, had me face real industry situations; like working with actors,
making sure theyre pleased, and making sure the crew is doing everything you need and on time. Losing footage, and losing a location
at the last minute, was hectic, but in a sense it was a test. It was helping me see if I could actually handle this and make smart and fast
critical decisions. It helped me understand that filmmaking is serious work and not as easy as people think. Inner-City Filmmakers
made me picture myself really working in the industry, and I enjoyed every second of it.
The Sundance Film Festival will help me expand my network of people in the industry and learn from and about their experiences.
I feel that Inner-City Filmmakers has given me a great deal of knowledge and self-confidence, which will enable me to communicate
with the filmmakers at the festival. Being present and watching the quality of the films will help me keep in mind what I have to do
in order to get my films screened at the festival one day. I will also be making myself known as a Hispanic woman taking an interest
in film and showing that more people like me can also have a future in this industry.
The opportunity to attend the 2016 Sundance Film Festival is beyond what I could have ever imagined. I am truly grateful! I want
to thank Creative Artists Agency for their generous support and for working together with Inner-City Filmmakers to help young
diverse filmmakers get a shot at being something in this industry. You are little by little helping create change; change that one day
will help impact the entire world. Thank you for believing in us so much, your genuine hard work is very much appreciated.

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MIKE
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MIKE
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Mentor
Mentor

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HANSON ESCOBAR
Writer | Director

Born in the small town of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, I had big dreams; but no means to achieving them. With the help of
Inner-City Filmmakers and Creative Artists Agency, I now feel that I have a chance! I am extremely grateful!

When I was born, both my parents left me for reasons still unknown. My grandparents in Guatemala raised me for the first six years
of my life, and as far as I was concerned, they were my parents. They gave me everything I needed to be happy as a child, which in
a way was both a good and bad thing. I became a little spoiled, but I was happy, and thats all they wanted. However, at the start of
2003, my mother showed up, unannounced. She was there to take me with her, to the United States. All this confused me, especially
when I saw her arguing with my grandparents. The next thing I knew, Im on a plane, leaving everything behind; all my friends,
family, everything I loved was left in Guatemala. It was my mother and me on a plane. I was truly frightened, but awed as I felt
this was the start of a new adventure.

The thing was, I wasnt really on a plane to California. My mother wasnt a citizen; she was an immigrant, which meant that in order
for me to reach California, where my mothers family lived, we had to cross the border. It felt straight out of a movie: waking up at
dawn, sneaking around under highways, moving only when it was dark, and hitching a ride on the back of a pickup truck alongside
many other faceless people. Nobody knew one another, but we were all in the same boat - or pick-up truck to be precise - scared
of being caught and separated from our families. I remember staying in many different places, many people opening the doors of
their home to us so we could continue our journey. All was going smoothly until one fateful day. The person who was guiding us,
known as the coyote, suddenly left us under a highway. Lost, we wandered under the thick trees until we accidentally came faceto-face with immigration. Soon, we were split up. I was put in an orphanage/detention center while my mother was whisked away.
Those days in the detention center were definitely the worst. For starters, the crying of all the other kids was incessant. Im not much
of a crier, but even I broke down once. Then there were the showers. They, meaning the workers there, would stuff 20 of us kids
into the shower, spray us with cold water, then passed around a bar of soap, telling us to lather ourselves and pass it on. Then came
another douse of cold water. It was the same routine every day. Days and days passed in a blur, and we encountered many other
hardships. After months of planning, I was able to come to America. My first few months that I lived in the U.S. were the hardest.
I did not speak a single word of English. I was a loner at school. I felt every kid was making fun of me. Kids are cruel! My only
friends were my teachers who told me that they saw something special in me. I believe that it was this positive reinforcement early
on that led me to overcome those few early obstacles at school. Outside of school, I didnt have friends, only books and toys. This
is where my love for storytelling started; I would re-enact scenes from my books with my action figures. I wasnt allowed to play
video games or watch TV, so books were my only escape. I fell in love with books. Nights were filled with books under my covers
and a flashlight in my hand. I would wake up early in the morning just to continue reading. I was alone, but I had my books to keep
me company and to me that was enough to make life happy.

In 2006, I met one of the loves of my life: my little brother, Alan. I still love him, more than ever, and I was truly happy to be a big
brother. In 2009, I received news that made that happiness revisited. My mother was pregnant, again. That feeling was short-lived
this time around, as my mother had a miscarriage. That has been the hardest time in my entire life. However, around this time is
where I learned about my love for movies. They were the only things that consoled me because they provided the hope I needed to
believe that things were going to get better. From then on, I knew what I wanted to do with my life. Time heals all wounds, and it
sure did in 2012 when Iker, my youngest brother was born.

So why am I telling you all of this? What does my life have to do with anything? Well, its because I want to show you that I have
stories to tell. I enjoy not only hearing, but also telling a good story, especially if that story is told through film. Many of us live
hardships, and I feel that film is a great way to escape, to go on someone elses journey and forget about yours for a moment. Film
gives us heroes to root for and role models to look up to; it opens our imagination. I have a massive debt to Inner-City Filmmakers
and Creative Artists Agency - they have given me so much, that there is almost no way to repay them. Through knowledge and
hands-on experience, they have made me feel confident that I am competent enough to work in the industry. This trip to the
Sundance Film Festival will further help me. Thank you!

ROGELIO RONNIE GONZALEZ

Photographer | Cinematographer

My parents came to the United States not knowing how to speak English. They came to this country with a dream, to help their
families by sending money back to their homeland in Oaxaca, Mexico. They faced countless struggles such as jobs that paid less
than minimum wage and adjusting to a new culture with a new language. However, that did not stop them from accomplishing what
they came for, to make a better life for themselves and their children.
My mother and father work in the dry cleaning business as pressers. Two of my older brothers Abraham and Osvaldo both graduated
from Cal State LA University. Abraham works as a telemarketer and Osvaldo works as a music teacher. My little sister Priscilla
and I are still in college.
At the age of 9, I was introduced to my first instrument, the trumpet, and continued to pick up other instruments such as the guitar,
drums, and piano. Music has been a big part of life especially growing up in a family with pure musicians. My father Wilfrido and
mother Elena were both singers. My two older brothers Abraham and Osvaldo play instruments such as the clarinet, saxophone,
and guitar. My little sister Priscilla also played the saxophone. I knew that music was going to be a great passion of mine once
I fell in love in creating it.
I graduated from Hamilton High School. When I started my second year at Los Angeles City College, I took a few art and business
classes but they were not keeping me interested. Luckily, I stumble upon a photographers blog by the name of Van Styles and got
into photography after I started to see and admire the creativity of these photographers.
With the money I had saved up, I bought a camera and learned how to take photographs. I learned by trial and error. As my work
progressed, I got interested in making videos after saw videos on YouTube channels such as, Hypebeast, The Hundreds, Vice,
and Audiotree. What I love about these channels is the creativity and differences that these channels had towards each other such
as the mechanics in how they were filmed and the story behind it.
In 2015, I was accepted into Inner-City Filmmakers; it was an honor and a life-changer. I met so many people and learned so many
things and skills about filmmaking. Nothing in this line of work is impossible unless I make myself think that it is. My short-term
goal is to finish LACC and get a job as a full-time photographer or cinematographer. My long-term goal is to make my own feature
films and create a film production company that can help up and coming businesses, artists, and musicians to grow and get the right
recognition that they deserve. The step that Im taking to get closer to my goal is putting in all my effort and creativity into every
film project that I am involved in.
Being chosen to attend the Sundance Film Festival, as a young filmmaker, I will be able to learn and experience new fundamentals
of filmmaking and build new connections at the same time. I hope to learn new techniques and other ways of telling great stories
through visuals by other filmmakers at this festival. Going to this festival means to me that I will have the privilege to be up-close
and personal with new film directors and their expertise.
I really appreciate all the love and support that Creative Artists Agency and Inner-City Filmmakers has given me throughout the
year including this great opportunity to attend Sundance to meet other passionate filmmakers like me.
Thank you everyone for your support!

DANIEL
HENRIQUEZ
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Sound
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JONATHAN HURTADO
Writer | Director

I am a dreamer! Ever since I was a child, I had grand ideas for my future, whether it was planning a large business corporation that
stemmed off the idea of selling candy and chips at school, or designing my future house with ridiculous, over the top designs that
included a movie theatre and a room dedicated to video games. I have since outgrown most of these ideas, but I havent outgrown
being a dreamer. In my junior year at San Gabriel High School, I saw a movie called, Rushmore, and in that moment I fell in love
with cinema. I saved up, bought some equipment, went out and began shooting. I havent stopped!
I live in Alhambra with my mother and two sisters. My mother is an anxiety attack on legs and my sisters are the reason. Alina, 15 and
angry, is constantly bickering with Giselle, 9 and naive, over the most insignificant things. Before my parents split up, my father
was the dictator. He was always in control of the house and he kept order. With the big man on campus gone, my mother, is a push
over and no match for the girls. It is a world of estrogen and chaos.
My mother works in Matriculation at ELAC (East Los Angeles College) and my father is a manager at Case Parts Company. I work
at McDonalds. The legacy lives on! I know I should be thankful that I have a job, as there are many individuals out there who cant
seem to find one, but I cant stand it. Obviously, I am only working there for a bi-monthly paycheck.
I will be attending Santa Monica College starting in February. In the meantime, I have been doing a lot of writing and shooting,
but others see it as a hobby. A hobby is something you do for fun, but they dont understand. Filmmaking IS my career!
My short term goals are - to write; enter many short film festivals; write and continue to shoot short films; write and apply for
internships; and write. My long term goal is to write and direct full-length features. In addition, I also like to: write and produce
a play; write and produce a live action television show; write and produce a cartoon; start a record label and find unsigned talent;
and write a novel. I plan to reach these goals by being persistent and to NEVER stop writing.
Inner-City Filmmakers gave me the courage to follow my passion. I may be scared, but I am NOT willing to settle for an occupation
or a life that is only tolerable. I want to make movies and it doesnt matter to me that I will have to work hard, struggle, work hard
and have patience, and work hard, to get to where I want to be. Id just like to thank Inner-City Filmmakers for bringing out the
courage in me and encouraging me to live the life I wantand was meant to live.
I appreciate the opportunity to attend the Sundance Film Festival where I can watch and analyze new films, communicate with
filmmakers and others in the business, and more importantly, expand my knowledge. As much as I love the art of filmmaking,
I have to keep in mind that it is also a business. This trip will be one of the greatest learning opportunities, and I am very grateful
to have been selected.
I would like to thank Creative Artists Agency for caring about us, diverse young adults trying to make it in the film industry. Thank you
for collaborating with Inner-City Filmmakers. I will soak in every moment of this trip. It will change my life forever!

CESAR CERVANTES

Writer | Director
2016 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Winner
Sundance Institute Selects 12 Projects for 2016 January Screenwriters Lab. Artists Will Be Supported From Script Development
to Distribution Through Year-Round Customized System of Labs, Granting and Mentorship.
The Screenwriters Lab is an immersive five-day writers workshop at the Sundance Resort in Utah, January 15-20. The lab is one of
25 residency Labs the Institute hosts each year for independent artists in theatre, film, new media and episodic content. Participating
independent screenwriters will have the opportunity to develop their feature film scripts with the support of accomplished writers in
an environment that encourages creative risk-taking and original storytelling. The filmmakers reflect a broad and diverse spectrum
of independent storytelling from the U.S. and around the world, all bringing a personal and distinctive voice and aesthetic to the
projects selected.
Cesar Cervantes, an Inner-City Filmmakers 2010 alumnus, is one of the twelve winners selected and the first recipient of the
Sundance Institutes Feature Film Program Latino Fellowship.
Hot Clip (U.S.A.) / Csar Cervantes (Writer/Director) A week after their best friends fatal confrontation with a cop, three
Southeast Los Angeles skaters spend 24 hours chasing dreams, making trouble and trying to survive in a community on the verge
of exploding. This project is the recipient of the Feature Film Program Latino Fellowship.
Csar Cervantes is a first-generation Chicano filmmaker from Maywood, California. His skateboarding do-it-yourself background
and whatever-it-takes approach to filmmaking got him into the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival, led
him to create an after-school film program for inner-city youth with the help of CAA, and put him on tour with the Grammy-winning
band La Santa Cecilia as their lead videographer. A Vassar College graduate, Cervantes will make his feature debut with Hot Clip.
I am a 2010 Inner-City Filmmakers (ICF) alumnus, and I couldnt be more grateful. I was born and raised in Los Angeles along
with two younger sisters. My parents migrated from Mexico to the United States in hopes of providing their children with a better
life. I grew up in a tough neighborhood where going down the wrong path was a common route but participation in the arts and
academia kept me out of trouble.
I was introduced to filmmaking by Roy Lansdown, a teacher at Bell High School, and immediately fell in love with it. Since then,
I have continued to pursue my passion for film by graduating from Inner-City Filmmakers in 2010 and taking film classes from
2010 to 2014 while attending Vassar College.
Inner-City Filmmakers taught me the skills and habits necessary to move ahead in the professional world. My goal is to be a writer
| director and start my own production company. ICF continues to help me reach my goals, and I decided to show my appreciation
and share my new knowledge by being a Team Captain in 2011. Inner-City Filmmakers then matched me to an internship at
Foundation Content where I worked on TV commercials and music videos.
In 2012, I spent a year abroad as an international student at FAMU, in the Czech Republic, the oldest and most respected film
academy in Eastern Europe. Upon my return, Inner-City Filmmakers matched me to a production assistant job at NBCUniversal,
Mun 2, where I rose to second unit camera operator during my short time at Mun 2 and shot for a national cable broadcast program.
I owe Inner-City Filmmakers a lot for who I am today!

JUSTIN FLOYD

Writer | Director | Cinematographer | Editor

2016 Sundance Ignite Fellow Winner
Sundance Institute Announces New Program to Support Next Generation of Independent Filmmakers and Audiences.
The Sundance Ignite program, with support from Adobe through its Project 1324 initiative, hosted an online short film challenge
for 18-24 year old filmmakers, and five winners will attend the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Entries were evaluated for technical
excellence, creative interpretation of the challenge, and demonstration of an original voice, innovative storytelling and strong
character or subject development. Winners receive - travel, lodging, stipend for meal and tickets to screenings, as well as special
opportunities to connect with Institute staff and alumni who will mentor the winners throughout the year.
Justin Floyd, an Inner-City Filmmakers 2013 alumnus, is one of the five winners selected as a Sundance Ignite Fellow.
I was born in Bellflower, CA, raised by a single hard-working mom who rarely had time to spend with me and my three sisters.
As a child, I traveled in and around Los Angeles a lot, out of necessity. Ive lived in over 10 different cities. I first thought
about filmmaking when I was six years old. I had a crazy personality as a child. I wanted to be an actor. I was very inspired by
Eddie Murphy. He made me laugh.
In middle school, I made my first short film with the action figures in my closet. I was in sixth grade, and I remember grabbing
my mothers camcorder and recording these toys on a VHS in Stop Motion. I still have those tapes. After this short film, I started
getting into what was really happening behind-the-camera, what made movies, cartoons, and shows happen. I grabbed a couple of
friends and with no idea about what I was doing, just began filming, and filming, and filming. Of course, technology caught up to
me, and I did my best to learn and grow with it. Finally, in my senior year at La Serna High School, I sat down and really thought
about who I was and my motivation. I wanted to succeed. I wanted to BE somebody! After that moment, I really began my journey
in the film industry and took it very seriously.
My best friend, Quetzal Guerra, is a 2012 graduate of Inner-City Filmmakers (ICF). He introduced me to Inner-City Filmmakers
and I applied. However, I learned you needed to be a high school graduate. A year later I applied, again, and was accepted into the
Class of 2013. I learned a lot and met a lot of people. I was proud of myself and thankful to be heading down the right path.
Through Inner-City Filmmakers, I was matched to an internship at Blumhouse Productions in their postproduction department,
which led to a full-time job with the horror specialized picture house. I worked closely with team members on various shows,
which included the intense, inspiring, and award winning, WHIPLASH; SINISTER 2; STRETCH, and other films.
I am a filmmaker with three award winning short films. During Inner-City Filmmakers Class of 2013 Summer Program, my short
film DECEIVED, was the 1st Place winner of the Friars Charitable Foundation Martin Roth Student Screenwriting Scholarship.
During Inner-City Filmmakers 48 Hr. Halloween Film Festival, in their Fall | Winter Session - my short film SHEPHERD,
won the 1st Place Award from both the industry and audience voters in 2013, and in 2015, SOLITUDE won 1st Place Audience Award.
I am also an AMPAS 2015 TEAM OSCAR winner! One of six chosen from thousands of entries, to be on stage during the
Academy Awards handing Oscar statuettes to stars who presented them to the Oscar winners; all because of a short 1-minute film
I created, which was chosen by Actor, Channing Tatum and Oscar Producers, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.
My goal is to keep making films. To inspire people!! Thank you to CAA, the Sundance Film Institute, Inner-City Filmmakers and
all of our supporters who inspired me. Thank you for believing in me and my fellow ICF alumni.
Thank you for believing that WE MATTER!

Established in 1993, Inner-City Filmmakers is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.

OUR MISSION: to provide free year-round high quality education, pre-professional training, and access to career building jobs
for diverse disadvantaged youth who are high school graduates (ages 17 22) from Los Angeles County. They must be talented,
passionate, dependable, determined, and appreciative.

OUR GOAL: to guide diverse disadvantaged youth towards college, provide ongoing support, and to match the most dedicated and

qualified to behind-the-scenes jobs in the entertainment industry where they aspire to build careers, which are normally unavailable
to them. We reshape their lives and change their futures becauseTHEY MATTER!
Inner-City Filmmakers has 600 alumni; 98% overall attend college. (The national average is 68.3 %.) ICF alumni are in community
colleges in California and universities (on full scholarships) around the country and the world that include, but are not limited to:
Art Center, UC Berkeley, Brooks Institute, Cornell College in Iowa, UC Davis, Otis School of Art & Design, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA,
and USC as well as NYU, Vassar, University of Vermont, Western Kentucky, Williams College in MA, FAMU in the Czech Republic,
and Regents University in London.
100% of our alumni are working. (The national average of college students employed is 47%.) We have successfully matched over
60% of our alumni to industry jobs where they are respected, rehired and building careers. Our alumni are working on content
in all media platforms: A-list films at every major motion picture studio, Scripted and Reality TV, Webisodes, Documentaries,
Indie Films, Music Videos and TV Commercials. They are members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Cinematographers Guild,
Casting, Costumers, Props, Grip, Studio Electrical Lighting Technicians unions, the Writers Guild, and the Directors Guild of
America. They are EMMY AWARD winners and ACADEMY AWARD nominees.

RICHARD MOLINA (ICF 93), is a member of the Motion Picture Editors Guild and 1st Assistant Editor on THE REVENANT,
starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Richard also hired two other ICF alumni to work in postproduction on this film; Joshua Johnson (ICF 06)
and Gladys Garcia (ICF 09). Richard has numerous feature film credits to his name, which include - 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE;
THE HUNGER GAMES; PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN; WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS; and 2012...just to name a few.

GIL KENAN (ICF 94), is a 2007 Academy Award Nominee for Best Director of an Animated Feature Film, MONSTER HOUSE,

executive produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. Gil directed CITY OF EMBER, with Walden Media and Playtone
Partners, Gary Goetzman and Tom Hanks as executive producers. Gil directed POLTERGEIST 3D which was released in 2015.
He hired Estefany Zendejas (ICF 08) as his personal assistant. Legendary filmmaker, Sam Raimi, produced.

SAL ALVAREZ (ICF 95), is a member of the Cinematographers Guild (Local 600). He has a long list of credits, which includes second
assistant camera: a camera, on the Ang Lee film, BILLY LYNNS LONG HALFTIME WALK. Sal is currently working on a TV series and
hired Luigi Ventura (ICF 06) and Enrique Garcia (ICF 12) as part of the camera crew on AQUARIUS, starring David Duchovny.

TRINH TRAN (ICF 00), is Creative Executive at Marvel Entertainment responsible for CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER

SOLDIER, which had a record breaking opening weekend in 2014. She is currently working on CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR,
starring Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. Trinh was promoted to Associate Producer on this film.

CHRISKO MORALES (ICF 07), is a 2012 EMMY Award Winner for 3D Camera with his technical team from Cameron-Pace

Group, the innovator of 3D technology. He helped build special 3D RED Epic rigs for James Camerons record breaking Mariana
Trench solo sub dive. In 2013, Chrisko went to Russia to film the Mariinsky Ballet in 3D. He worked with the camera crew on
THE WALKING DEAD, SOUTHPAW and CONCUSSION.
Inner-City Filmmakers alumni are also MBAs, Lawyers, Clinical Social Workers, Law Enforcement Officers, Accountants, Professors,
Film Restorer for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, AMPAS Theater Staff members, AMPAS Museum Office Manager,
Talent and Literary Managers, IT Specialists, Graphic Designers, Welfare Administrators, Web Designers, Picture Vehicle Technicians,
Set Dressers, Writers Assistants, Location Scouts, Colorists, Compositing Artists, Director of Creative Services at IMAX, Manager of
Education and New Film Programs at Panavision, as well as business owners. They are job providers and ICF donors becauseWE MATTER!

THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

Diamond Sponsor
The Angell Foundation
Mike Boggio

Platinum Sponsors
The Ahmanson Foundation
Johnny Carson Foundation
Creative Artists Agency Foundation
Friars Charitable Foundation
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
S. Mark Taper Foundation

Gold Sponsors
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Anonymous
Drake Family Trust
Joseph Drown Foundation
Evolution Media Capital
The Green Foundation
The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation

Silver Sponsors
Casey Family Foundation
Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation

Supporters
British Academy of Film & Television Arts, Los Angeles
Scott & Michelle Greenberg
FOXGives
Motion Picture Editors Guild
Pergo Foundation
Linda & Jay Sandrich
Seidman Family Foundation

In-kind Donations
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
American Cinema Editors
Avid Technology
Russell Carpenter, ASC
Deen Design
designory, inc.
Maine Media Workshop
NBCUniversal
Panavision
PromaxBDA
Promo Pathways program
Sony Pictures Studios
Stella Adler Academy of Acting, Los Angeles
Sundance Ignite Fellows program
Universal Studios Sound Department
Warner Bros. Studios
Wild Mind Film Camp
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