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Preparing Pitch Materials to Secure Financing for Your Feature Script

  Preparing Pitch Materials to Secure Financing for Your Feature Script By: Grace Santos September 6, 2024   Whether you’re a seasoned filmmaker or just starting out, creating the right pitch materials is crucial to securing financing for your feature film.    With over 14 years of experience in the industry, working for finance companies,…

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Guest on Influence Women

  Thank you Kathleen Cook for having me as a guest speak on the Influence Women Podcast. http://InfluenceWomen.org Influence Women’s Vision is to empower global women who are engaged in media, entertainment, music, leadership, and all areas of the arts whose foundations are based on a Biblical worldview to collaborate, flourish, and create a radical cultural…

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My mom’s obituary

On August 11, 2022, Cristina Santos, loving wife, mother, and Lola, passed away.  Cristina was born on March 9, 1946, in Atlag, Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines, to Eduardo and Evangelina Silva-netto. One of two girls and five boys, she moved with her parents to Valenzuela, Philippines at age 16. It was there, at Caloocan Unida Church…

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Filtered, a feature film musical

Thank you for this review, Mike Haberfelner! “One just can’t but love the concept of this movie, it’s social satire/commentary with some pretty dark moments, packed into a musical, with all the superficial wholesomeness tthat genre suggests – and that “superficial wholesomeness” fits the story rather perfectly, too, as the artificiality of the vlog-verse is…

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Producers Guild Power of Diversity

I’m thankful to be part of this program. Producers Guild Of America Unveils Participants For 16th Annual Power Of Diversity Master Workshop Producers Guild Of America Unveils Participants For 16th Annual Power Of Diversity Master Workshop By Dino-Ray Ramos June 16, 2020   The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has revealed the 14 participants for its 16th…

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PGA Diversity Workshop

2020 has been a tough year so far. But I did receive some good news.  I’ll be part of the 2020 Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity Master Workshop! I’m very thankful for Elesha Barnette.  We met at the 2011 UCLA Professional Program in Producing.  She’s not only a producer, but also a wonderful…

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Election Night, an award winning dramedy

A politician’s family waits in the green room on election eve – will the speech be a celebration or a concession? The last 350 votes have yet to come in, and the nerves rattle the family into a comic whirlwind of wild theories, long-held secrets, and a revelation that nobody saw coming.    ELECTION NIGHT…

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BFFfestival2016

I hope you have as much fun watching our videos at the 2016 Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) as we had attending / working at the fest. Xo, GS (1/2 of Grace Squared) Disclaimer:  Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer (or past employers or future employers)    What is BFF? The…

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Odessa

LOGLINE A desperate mother is forced to make a perilous border crossing to save her child’s life. About the photos in this post: Some are screen grabs from “Odessa” film: copyright Ethos Pictures. Some are behind the scenes photos by Michael Rushton www.RushtonImages.com : copyright Ethos Pictures. And photo editing by our writer/producer Doug Johnson.…

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A Tricky Treat, an award winning horror comedy

“A Tricky Treat” was the first horror comedy I produced and it had a wonderful year run in film festivals. SHORT SYNOPSIS: Vividly gory and uncomfortably playful, the film revels in the shocking fate of a man kidnapped by a very strange family, and his fate is held in the hands of two kids. REVIEWS:…

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