In addition to the live ceremony, YouTube will offer expansive Oscars coverage, including red carpet arrivals, behind-the-scenes moments, Governors Ball access, and more. The platform will also enhance accessibility for the Academy’s growing global audience through features such as closed captioning and multilingual audio tracks. Beyond Oscar night, the partnership includes exclusive worldwide access to major Academy events and programs via the Oscars YouTube channel, including the Governors Awards, nominations announcements, Student Academy Awards, Scientific and Technical Awards, filmmaker interviews, podcasts, and film education initiatives.

The collaboration extends into film preservation and education through Google Arts & Culture, which will help digitize and provide global access to select Academy Museum exhibitions and portions of the Academy Collection—the world’s largest film-related archive, comprising more than 52 million items. Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Lynette Howell Taylor called the deal “the future home of the Oscars,” emphasizing its potential to expand global access, celebrate cinema, and inspire new generations of filmmakers. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan echoed that sentiment, describing the Oscars as a vital cultural institution poised to reach and inspire audiences worldwide.

The Academy’s current domestic broadcast partnership with Disney’s ABC will remain in place through the 100th Oscars in 2028, as will its international arrangement with Disney’s Buena Vista International.

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Eva Longoria attends Land of Women Red Carpet in New York

Actress/producer extraordinaire and USA Today Women of the Year, Eva Longoria was in New York City last week for the red carpet premiere of her Apple TV+ dramedy, Land of Women looking her usual fabulosa self.  She not only stars in the six episode Spanglish dramedy series, she is also an executive producer. 

Joining her on the red carpet were cast members Victoria Bazúa and Santiago Cabrera who plays the dreamy Amat. 

The series will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes on June 26, followed by a new episode every Wednesday through July 24.

 The cast is internationally stellar, with Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) playing Gala’s (Longoria) mom.  The Venezuelan born Cabrera (Big Little Lies) grew up in London, Romania and Madrid, while Bazúa, born in Mexico, makes her television debut.

Executive Produced By: Ramón Campos, Gema R. Neira, Carlos Sedes, Teresa Fernández-Valdés, Eva Longoria, Ben Spector and Sandra Condito.

Patricia Cardoso Joins the Prestigious AMPAS Board of Governors

 On June 1 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its newly elected 2024-2025 Board of Governors. Among the newly elected members was director Patricia Cardoso (Real Women Have Curves).  The Academy has 19 branches, each represented by three governors, Cardosa will be serving on the director branch.  The 55-person Board of Governors is responsible for the governance, corporate oversight, and strategic direction of the Academy. 

With these new additions, the 55-member Board now comprises 53% women and 27% belonging to an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.  

There are only two other Latinos on the Board of Governors, incumbents, director/producer Rodrigo Garcia, and costume designer Eduardo Castro.  Felicidades a todos!!

NHMC’s Impact Awards Among the Celebrated

A couple of weeks ago June 14th at the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Awards Gala celebrated NHMC and this year’s amazing honorees who are making a positive impact for the Latine community. Co-hosted by actress/producer and artivista Annie Gonzalez (Jenni, Flamin’ Hot) and actress, writer, and producer Mayan Lopez (Lopez vs. Lopez).

President and CEO, Brenda Victoria Castillo is pictured here with the 2024 Impact Awards Gala Honorees.

_{From left to right: Fede Alvarez, Samuel Harowitz, Harvey Guillén, Brenda Castillo, Larry Freedman, Emmy Raver-Lampman, David Castañeda, Issa López, Tatyana Ali, and Alonso Carrillo  (Photo Alberto Rodriguez, Getty Images)}

Artivist Representing at the International Labour Organization

This past week she invited Latina Artivists Annie Gonzalez (Flamin’ Hot), Maria Diana Riva (Dead to Me) (Grey’s Anatomy, The Baker & The Beauty) and Lisa Vidal  joined Monica Ramirez, Founder & President of Justice for Migrant Women at the 5-year anniversary of the International Labour Organization adopting the first ever international treaty to address gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work (C190).Monica Ramirez is a force. She is also co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, The Latinx House and Poderistas. She is dedicated to ending gender based violence in the workplace and achieving gender equity.

Gaytino! Made in America Screening at La Plaza de Cultura Y Artes in Los Angeles

Dan Guerrero’s documentary Gaytino! Made in America screened this past Saturday, we enjoyed a wonderful evening at the screening.

Dignitaries like labor activist Dolores Huerta, renowned artist Barbara Carrasco were in attendance, to celebrate the cultural history Guerrero shared through his very important and entertaining documentary.

Guerrero shared never-before-heard stories about his journey as a producer, screenwriter, theatrical agent and his path to self-acceptance as a gay Chicano.  Dan is a LatinoWood community treasure.

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AMPAS, with its 17 branches of on-camera and behind-the-scenes artists, is the governing body that oversees the selection of the Academy Awards.  Membership selection is based on professional qualifications by reviewed by their peer group.

Of this year’s 397 membership invites, thirty-six (36) Latinos have been invited to join the voting branches that decide who will receive the Oscar in their category.  

Enrique Castillo (Deja Vu, Blood In Blood Out) who became a member of AMPAS in 2016 knows too well what an honor it is to be asked to join AMPAS. We reached out to him for a quote.

“I congratulate this year’s Latino invitees to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. It’s a fitting recognition of your talent, hard work and perseverance. I look forward to joining you in being a voice and advocate for Latino artists in the entertainment industry and in the ranks of the Motion Picture Academy”.

The Short Films and Feature Animation branch had the most Latine membership invites with a total of eleven (11). They include Academy Award-winning producer Yvett Merino (Encanto, Wreck-It Ralph), Writer/Producer/Director K.D. Dávila (Please Hold, Emergency) and Effects Supervisor Erin Ramos  (Encanto, Frozen II)

Among the five actors invited are Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose, Olga Merediz  (In the Heights, Adrift), Golden Globe winner Anya Taylor-Joy  (The Northman, Last Night in Soho) and veteran actor Marco Rodriguez  (El Chicano, Unspeakable)

Here is the breakdown on the all Latine artists per AMPAS Branch by number of invitees:

SHORT FILMS & FEATURE ANIMATION: 11

Michael Arias – (Harmony, Tekkonkinkreet)

Enrico Casarosa  (Luca, La Luna)

Karla Castañeda (La Noria (The Waterwheel), Jacinta)

Hugo Covarrubias  (Bestia, The Night Upside Down)

K.D. Dávila (Please Hold, Emergency)

Joe Mateo (Blush, Big Hero 6)

Yvett Merino (Encanto, Wreck-It Ralph)

Jetzabel Moreno Hernández  (The Followers, Plums and Green Smoke)

Brian Pimental (Tarzan, A Goofy Movie)

Erin Ramos  (Encanto, Frozen II)

Leo Sanchez  (The Windshield Wiper, Over the Moon)

ACTING BRANCH: 6

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story, The Prom)

Robin de Jesús (tick, tick…BOOM!, The Boys in the Band)  

BarBara Luna  (The Concrete Jungle, Five Weeks in a Balloon)

Olga Merediz  (In the Heights, Adrift)

Marco Rodriguez  (El Chicano, Unspeakable)

Anya Taylor-Joy  (The Northman, Last Night in Soho)

DIRECTORS: 5 

Bruno Villela Barreto  (Four Days in September, The Kiss)

Mariano Barroso (Ants in the Mouth, Ecstasy)

Jeferson Rodrigues de Rezende (The Malê Revolt, Bróder!)

Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard, Monsters and Men)

Isabel Sandoval (Lingua Franca, Apparition)

PRODUCERS: 3

Cristina Gallego (Birds of Passage, Embrace of the Serpent)

Laetitia Gonzales  (Plot 35, Tournée)

Sara Silveira  (Good Manners, Vazante)

Marketing and Public Relations: 3

Chrissy Quesada

Jerry Rojas

Evelyn Santana

DOCUMENTARY: 2

Emílio Domingos  (Favela Is Fashion, L.A.P.A.)

Cristina Ibarra  (The Infiltrators, Las Marthas)

SOUND: 2

Ruth Hernandez – “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” “Brooklyn’s Finest”

Waldir Xavier – “From Afar,” “Central Station”

VISUAL EFFECTS: 2

Joe Ceballos  (Skyscraper, Thor: Ragnarok)

Marcos Fajardo Orellana (Thor,  Monster House)

COSTUME DESIGNERS: 1

Tatiana Hernández (The Japon, Lope)

MEMBERS AT LARGE: 1

Ilda Santiago

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The Los Angeles-based program will start in June and with 10 select participants who will learn how to navigate the entertainment industry and build awareness of the business skills required to get a film to the screen. 

“This partnership with the Academy marks another important step in ensuring that Hollywood truly represents the diversity and richness that the Latino community has to offer,” said Edward James Olmos, co-founder of LALIFF.  “We are honored to be able to support these talented filmmakers by offering them the right tools for the continuous growth in their careers.”

The cohort is composed of LALIFF award-winning filmmakers and Inclusion Fellowship recipients. The program is part of Aperture 2025, the Academy’s ongoing commitment to inclusion, representation and equity, and is supported by TelevisaUnivision’s new global streaming service, ViX.

“We are so grateful to LALIFF and ViX for playing a central role in our vision to invest in filmmakers from different communities, backgrounds and experiences,” said Shawn Finnie, the Academy’s Executive Vice President, Member Relations and Awards. 

The Accelerator will be led by the Academy’s VP of Impact and Operations Jeanell English and Associate Director, Member Relations and Awards Angelica Cervantes.  Through our Academy members and industry executives, this program will address the important, yet often overlooked, topic of the business of film.”

The participants will engage in a series of workshops and masterclasses centered around content distribution, facilitated by leaders across the film industry.  Topics will include creative pitching, marketing and promotions, production development, and more.  Participants will each receive exclusive networking opportunities, mentoring from Academy members, a $10,000 stipend to go towards all aspects of distributing and promoting their projects, or to offset living costs, and the opportunity to pitch current or future projects to industry leaders.

The participants who will be acknowledged at the LA Latino Film Festival during the June 1 – 5 dates are: 

Miguel Angel Caballero
Lorena Durán
Michael Flores
Justin Floyd
Gabriela Garcia Medina
Monica Moore-Suriyage
Gabriela Ortega
Kase Peña
Tamara Shogaolu
Maite Zubiaurre

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Sixteen films from Spanish, Portuguese and French-speaking Latin American countries, as well as Spain, are among 93 submissions eligible for consideration in the 2022 Oscar’s International Feature Film category, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

While some of the entries have not yet had their required qualifying release, the Academy’s list in the international category includes: Argentina’s The Intruder, Bolivia’s The Great Movement, Brazil’s Private Desert, Peru’s Powerful Chief, Chile’s White on White, Colombia’s Memoria, Costa Rica’s Clara Sola, Dominican Republic’s Holy Beasts, Ecuador’s Submersible, Haiti’s Freda, Mexico’s Prayers for the Stolen, Panama’s Plaza Catedral, Spain’s The Good Boss, Uruguay’s The Broken Glass Theory and Venezuela’s The Inner Glow.

All International Feature Film submissions must fulfill the release requirement and comply with all the category’s other qualifying rules to advance in the voting process of AMPAS, which presents the golden statuette. An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture–more than 40 minutes–produced outside the United States with a predominantly–more than 50 percent–non-English dialogue track.

Academy members from all branches are invited to opt in to participate in the preliminary round of voting and must meet a minimum viewing requirement to be eligible to vote in the category, according to the organization. The shortlist of 15 films will be announced on Tuesday, December 21, 2021.

The 94th Academy Awards ceremony is slated to take place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre in Hollywood in Los Angeles March 27.

Featured Photo: Actor Jesus Luque is Elisban in director Henry Vallejo’s ‘Powerful Chief’ (Manco Cápac), Peru’s official Oscar entry. (Photo: The Herrera Agency) 

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The Academy invited seven international artists to create custom Oscar statuette art inspired by the question “What do movies mean to you?” In addition to Villasana, the other artists are Temi Coker, Petra Eriksson, Magnus Voll Mathiassen, Michelle Robinson, Karan Singh, and Shawna X.

This year’s campaign features an expanded color palette, broadening the artists’ approach to reimagining the iconic statuette. The design ranges across illustration, motion design, painting, photography, and textile art. The inspiration for the design comes from the artists’ love of the 20s and ’30s theater and film.

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Villasana is a textile artist interested in history, culture, and how people relate to each other through their vulnerabilities in a fragmented and post-digital world. According to her biography, the dynamism in Villasana’s work stems from the way the thread is left uncut, far below the frame, giving a surreal and unfinished aesthetic that reflects on the importance of acceptance of change, imperfection, and the ephemerality of life. 

Villasana, who divides her home between Mexico and England, continues to explore her medium through installations, social projects, editorial and commercial work, collaborating with artists, brands, and galleries worldwide.  

Her entry is featured on the AMPAS social media (Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook).

This year’s Oscars will be held on Sunday, April 25, and will be televised live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET and 5 p.m. PT. The ceremony also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

Featured Top Photo: Victoria Villasana and her textile art that is part of the Oscars’ campaign art this year. Photo: AMPAS

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