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APPEARANCES
ON LOCAL & NATIONAL TV NEWS PROGRAMS &
LOCAL COMMUNITY TELEVISION PROGRAMS
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CBS-2
Los Angeles – “Women 2 Women”
ABC-7
Los Angeles – “Vista L.A”
NBC-4
Los Angeles - News, “Saturday Morning Review”
& “Sunday Family Theatre”
KTTV-11
Los Angeles – “Signs of the Time”
KCAL-9
Los Angeles - News
KESQ
Palm Springs - News & “Community Watch”
KQED
Public Radio – “The State Report on
Multiracial Californians”
UC
Opens Can of Worms with Proposed “Multiracial” Label
by
Alexandra Cohen
KHON-2
Honolulu, HI - “Que Pasa”
PBS-Washington D.C “To
The Contrary” – Latina Issues
Adelphia
Cable TV “Week In Review” - Latinas
in Politics
AT&T
Broadband Cable TV “One On One” - Latina
Community Leaders
NEWSPAPERS &
MAGAZINE FEATURES:
La
Opinion
Hispanic Magazine
L.A.
Times' “Nuestro Tiempo”
Hispanic Business Magazine
Daily
Breeze (Torrance)
Latina Style Magazine
UCLA
Alum Magazine
Vecinos del Valle (San Fernando)
Palms
Springs Desert News
Venice Magazine
Mija
Magazine “Emerging
Mijas”
Westside
Life Magazine Moderna
Magazine
IFP
West “Member Profile”
SuperOnda's “Real World”
Southwest
Airline's “Spirit” Magazine
AV
Video Multimedia Producer's Magazine
Kodak's
National Newsletter “In Camera”
Chi
Omega’s National Magazine “The Eleusis”
Leadership
America's “American Issues Forum”
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I wanted to
write a nice article that represents her company
well, until I saw her responses to my interview
questions and felt that it was best to change the
format to simple Q & A. Her responses are just
too good, I learned from her answers and I pray
you will too!
An award
winning writer, producer and director, Cheryl
Quintana Leader is founder and president of INDIVISION Productions. Her Latina-owned company
is dedicated to producing quality educational and
entertainment related projects depicting positive
multiracial images in English and Spanish.
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Since founding INDIVISION
in 1993, Quintana Leader has used her production
ability to create a series of educational films
that celebrate the Latino experience in America.
One such effort, Tanto Tiempo, won MCA/Universal
Television’s “Hispanic Film Project”
competition and later picked up a CINE Golden
Eagle Award as well.
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Though
Hispanics are gaining more prominent roles
in American life,
their representation in movies and television
hasn’t been keeping up with their growth. Giving
Hispanics a more active rile both in front of
and behind the camera is the goal of
Cheryl Quintana Leader, President of INDIVISION
Productions in Santa
Monica, California.
As the producer, director and writer of
projects created by her company, she’s been
successful at giving other Americans a taste
of the Hispanic point of view.
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A TRUE AMERICA
On the move in Culver City’s fertile
entertainment industry, Cheryl Quintana Leader
rises up with a new crop of writers, directors,
and producers whose point of view reflects an
America lush with diverse hues. As destiny would
have it, on my journey to discover what’s right
with the Westside, I was introduced to this rare
energy source at t a public speaking engagement
for Multicultural Americans of Southern
California. With
piercing blue eyes, and the high cheek bones of an
ancient Aztec goddess, Quintana Leader moved the
audience with the screening of her award-winning
short film, “Tanto
Tiempo” (So Much Time).
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Everybody’s anxious to
finish school and get out there in the ‘Real
World,’ where the chance exists to make all
those dreams come true!
Here’s the story of an
inspiring individual who’s working at making her
dream come true, in the Real World!
Growing up in the
ultra-conservative, suburban community of
Torrance, California, Cheryl Quintana Leader did
not have much of a chance to explore her cultural
heritage. Her mother, a native of Mexico, abided
by her non-Latino husband’s wishes by keeping
her family’s stories silent.
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Spanish no longer wins hands
down as the language of preference for U.S.
Hispanics, and those speaking primarily English
take the lead in entertainment spending.
The findings come from a
national survey focusing on language preference
and consumer expenditures among Hispanics.
Conducted by Hispanic InfoSource in Playa
Del Rey, California, and headed by demographer Leo
Estrada, the survey polled a representative sample
of 6,445 adult Hispanics. Results show 54 percent of respondents, when given a choice
of one of the other, prefer to speak in Spanish;
46 percent prefer English.
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Another
independent release, “Tanto
Tiempo,” winner of the Best Short Film
at the Chicago Latino Film Festival and the
Gold
Apple winner at the National Education Film
and Video Festival, tells the powerful story
of a
young girl, Mia (Carrie Barton/Mandy Avila),
who rediscovers the value of her Aztec heritage
and
brings it and her Mexican...
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Cheryl Quintana Leader,
President of INDIVISION in
California, recently developed a pilot in English
called, “Young Heart Diaries,”with an eleven-member cast that focuses on
Latino girls ages twelve to fourteen.
The show has a classroom setting, takes
place on Saturday afternoons, and the cast members
have a Latina Literature Club, where they learn
about stories and their culture.
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Many people think their life
stories should be made into movies, but few
actually do it.
Cheryl Quintana Leader is one
who did, and she did it with style.
Her short film, “Tanto
Tiempo,” tells the story of a young
Mexican-American woman and her Mexican mother who
abandon their heritage to adapt to an Anglo
lifestyle. Eventually
the daughter rediscovers the value of her Aztec
ancestry, bringing it and her mother back into her
life. The
film won MCA/Universal Television’s 1991-92
“Hispanic Film Project” competition.
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More
Latinas than ever before are working in Hollywood.
And talented women find that their tenacity
in overcoming double barriers pays off in creating
images of cultural truth.
An even younger generation of Latina filmmakers
includes Mylene Moreno, Ana Rosa Ramos, Paige
Martinez, and Cheryl Quintana Leader.
Moreno, a graduate of Harvard and the
documentary-film program at Stanford, has
co-produced two PBS shows, one on Pancho Villa and
a second on Latinos and politics for the 1992
elections. She
also co-produced the first episode of the PBS
series “Chicano!,” and
is now documenting the experiences of a sixteen-year-old
Latina wife and mother in El Paso
who is expecting her second child.
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1994
CHERYL QUINTANA LEADER
by
Mark Kirby
Chalchiuhtilicue,
the Aztec Goddess of the Fourth Sun, was chosen to
light and heat the world for 312 years.
Jealous of her position, Tezcatlipoca, the
Black God of Night, taunted and tease her,
claiming she burned so brightly in order to
prevent other gods from approaching her.
In her frustration at these false
accusations, she wept, and her tears put out her
light and ended her fortuitous reign. – from
“Tanto
Tiempo”
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En muy corto tiempo Cheryl
Quintana Leader ha logrado grandes triunfos con Tanto
Tiempo, su major produccion, hasta el momento.
Cuando la productora,
escritora y directora de Tanto
Tiempo habia de esta su obra se le ilumina el
rostro, especialmente ahora que esta programada
para ser presentada por NBC-TV Canal 4, con motivo
de la Semana Nacional de la Herencia Hispana, en
setiembre.
“Es la primera vez que
Universal tiene una produccion hispana en el aire
durante los ocho anos de historia de este programa,”
dice Quintana Leader con gran orgullo y alegria.
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Cheryl
Quintana Leader, hija de madre mexicana, crecio
sin escuchar
espanol en su casa.
“Mi padre nunca quiso que ella [mi madre]
nos ensenara,” ex;ico Quintana Leader.
Ahora la cineaste esta encontrando sus
raices en su pelicula “Tanto Tiempo,” “una
cinta autobiografica sobre el crecer y perder la
herencia propia,” segun Quintana Leader. La directora hizo la pelicula trasganar la competencia annual
del Hispanic Film Project.
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A group of Latinas in the entertainment industry
have recently focused on accomplished Latina women
producers, writers, directors and actresses.
Together, these Latinas are members of an
organized and support network of thirty-five
women.
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here to read more >
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