FINDING YOUR STORY
Date: March 12, 2018
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Mi Centro
Instructors: Kase Pena, Henry Alberto, and Abel Soto
Do you have great ideas and stories but don't know to translate them into a film? How do you harness your personal journey, to something you can share on the small or big screen? In this workshop, Latinx filmmakers Kase Pena, Henry Alberto and Abel Soto will show you how they do just that in their own work. As a class, you will participate in writing exercises that ins...
FINDING YOUR STORY
Date: March 12, 2018
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Mi Centro
Instructors: Kase Pena, Henry Alberto, and Abel Soto
Do you have great ideas and stories but don't know to translate them into a film? How do you harness your personal journey, to something you can share on the small or big screen? In this workshop, Latinx filmmakers Kase Pena, Henry Alberto and Abel Soto will show you how they do just that in their own work. As a class, you will participate in writing exercises that inspire the imagination and will help you brainstorm story possibilities.
Kase Pena was born, bred and educated in New York City. She is a Latina Transgender woman who hails from the Bronx. A graduate of the CCNY film program, Kase is mostly interested in relating human stories; the kind that tug-at-the-heart and have long-lasting staying power. Her evocative feature-length screenplay, I Love Hate, was selected into the 2017 Outfest Screenwriting Lab, one of the most prestigious LGBT writing labs in the nation. At the moment, and under the guidance of distinguished showrunner Glenn Mazzara, Kase is developing Lipstick, a Latinx original pilot about a single Mexican-American mother who raises a Transgender daughter in Boyle Heights.
Writer/Director, Henry Alberto is a recipient of a prestigious Skowhegan Artist Residency. Most recently, Henry received a renowned Yaddo fellowship and a Latino Screenwriting Project fellowship in association with the Sundance Institute. He is an alumnus of the Outfest Screenwriting Lab, and mentor of Outset: The Young Filmmakers Project by Outfest. Presently, Henry is working on the film adaptation of the award-winning young adult novel "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Sáenz.
Abel Soto is an actor turned producer/director, from Boyle Heights. He has been featured in numerous television series, films, and commercials. He studied theatre at Los Angeles City College and went off to follow his dreams of working in showbiz. He recently started producing and directing his own projects including music videos, and now his first feature film. He is a Hollywood HS alumni and plans to start his own production company. His most recent endeavors include becoming a writer for his very own web series, and a screenplay that he plans to star in about a serial killer from LA.