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APPEARANCES
ON LOCAL & NATIONAL TV NEWS PROGRAMS &
LOCAL COMMUNITY TELEVISION PROGRAMS
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The Purepecha: Poorest of the Poor
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 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," Mex;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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