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On February 19-21, 2025, On Air Fest returns to Brooklyn for its biggest year yet: three days, four nights and six locations, presenting 80+ live performances and podcast tapings, exhibitions and multi-sensory experiences, intimate talks and interactive workshops to level up skills and more. Thousands of creators and creative professionals working in audio, visual and new media will all come together as part of the annual event's most dramatically expanded line up to date, and today, On Air Fest announces its next wave of featured talent.

From artists to industry leaders to the influential voices defining the medium, each session will be focused on the ways in which audio is being used to shift culture, build brands, and shape the future of storytelling, social media and self-expression. Taking over multiple floors at its returning headquarters of the Wythe Hotel, as well as first-time locations like the 15,000 square-foot Creator Hall at Xxv, iHeartPodcasts' Official Party at 74 Wythe,...

In two strategic appointments as co-production becomes the order of the day, Secuoya Studios has launched a new European Sales and Global Co-Production Division, overseen by Brendan Fitzgerald, ex Sony Pictures Entertainment senior exec who joined Secuoya Studios as its CEO at the beginning of the year.

The Division’s first director will be María García-Castrillón, who has been named its Head of International Co-Productions. Former Grupo Boomerang TV’s Camino de Valcárcel has joined the division as an executive.

Announced on the eve of Conecta Fiction, the Europe-Americas co-production forum, the new division launch and first appointments come as the TV industry as a whole is turning to co-production to not only counteract spiralling production costs but also to retain IP ownership, building company asset value.

The new appointees’ brief is broad. “We are happy to be able to announce the incorporation of María García and Camino de Valcárcel to the Studios team.

Mexico’s Teresa Sánchez, winner of a 2022 Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for acting in Juan Pablo González’s “Dos Estaciones,” is set to star in the follow-up, his sophomore outing “Warm Water.”

Co-directed with Ana Isabel Fernández, co-writer of “Dos Estaciones,” “Warm Water” will also star Rafaela Fuentes, who played opposite Sánchez in “Dos Estaciones.”

Set up at Mexico’s Sin Sitio Cine, whose partners are González, Ilana Coleman, Makena Buchanan and Jamie Gonçalves, “Warm Water,” produced by Bruna Haddad and Gonçalves, will be brought onto the market at the San Sebastian Europe-Latin American Co-Production Forum, where it ranks as one of its highest-profile projects.

In development and scheduled to shoot in fall 2024, “Warm Water” turns on Ana María, a renowned actress who, after a devastating break-up, reluctantly travels to the rural countryside in Mexico to lead an acting workshop.

When an enthusiastic participant with whom she...

Thanks in part to a strong co-production drive, 13 Mexican-nationality movies play at San Sebastian this year, a major presence.

Perlak frames Alejandro G. Iñarritu Venice player “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” Much of the heat, in industry terms at least, will come from the the premieres and sneak peeks.

In one highlight, Natalia Beristáin will world premiere “Noise” (“Ruido”), before its Netflix November bow. In possibly another, Mexico’s Laura Pancarte (“Non-Western”) unveils “Sueño Mexicano” as a pic-in-post.

Eyes will also be turned to Mexico’s latest generation of auteurs. One director is suddenly very well known: Longtime editor Natalia López Gallardo, a Berlin Jury Prize winner for “Robe of Gems.”

Others are bubbling under: Juan Pablo González whose “Dos Estaciones” impressed at Sundance, Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson, director of “Summer White,” another Sundance title, and Bruno Santamaría, a Gold Hugo best doc winner at the 2020 Chicago Festival...

"My father started it. But I've expanded it." The Cinema Guild has unveiled the US trailer for the Mexican indie drama titled Dos Estaciones, which translates to Two Seasons - it's also the name of the tequila in this film. This initially premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and it also played at New Directors/New Films. 50-year-old María García is the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory struggling to stay afloat and the final hold-over from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco; the rest have all folded to foreign corporations. When a persistent plague and an unexpected flood cause irreversible damage and put the factory's financial situation in grave danger, María is forced to do everything she can to save her community's pride. Starring Teresa Sánchez as María, with Rafaela Fuentes, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Tatín Vera. This looks stunning -...

Juan Pablo González’s background as a documentarian and a cinematographer are in evidence in his fiction feature debut in both the measured approach and careful framing he takes to his story. His slow-build character study is as enjoyable for its small but frequent visual pleasures as it is for its gradually unfolding plot. We don’t meet businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez) straight away, instead being introduced to her tequila business by the hard work that is going on in her fields, harvesting agave plants. The physical exertion and skill needed to chop the leaves off each one as they are cut from the land is evident in every move the workers make. There’s talk of a ‘plague’ on another farm, the first hint of an environment that is shifting and a nod to the minor key in which the rest of the story will unfold.

García herself may be fully.

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The laidback yet lively sound of “Baila Esta Cumbia,” one of Tejano queen Selena’s beloved hits, echoed throughout the Dolby Family Terrace on the top floor of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Sunday. The song was playing as part of a singalong – and sign-along – led by Deaf West Theatre in English, Spanish and American Sign Language as a pregame for 25th anniversary screenings of the biopic Selena, a centerpiece of the museum’s 2nd annual Community Celebration event.

As part of its founding commitment to accessibility and inclusion, the museum held a day of free food, drinks and activities that emphasized art and culture by and for the people of Los Angeles. While the celebration was available to all visitors on Sunday, the museum worked with a dozen community partners to invite their constituents to enjoy complimentary admission.

“We could...

Reviewed by Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com

“Horror of the Zombies” (1974)

Directed By: Amando de Ossorio

Written By: Amando de Ossorio

Starring: Maria Perschy (Lillian), Jack Taylor (Howard Tucker), Barbara Rey (Noemi), Carlos Lemos (Professor Gruber), Manuel de Blas (Sergio), Blanca Estrada (Kathy)

Oh the horror I experienced watching Horror of the Zombies though not as bad as I expected it to be. This movie is similar to other movies released around this time. The movie is commonly known under the name “Blind Dead.” It has also been released under the title “The Ghost Galleon” and in Spain under its original title “El buque maldito.” The other Blind Dead movies are seemingly better as this one has 1970s cheesiness woven into it. The other three movies in this set are “Tombs of the Blind Dead”, “Return of the Blind Dead”, and “Night of the Seagulls.” It was originally released in the...

On Twitter, Blake Shelton tweeted about swerving to run over a turtle in Oklahoma. NPR's Barbara King questioned the star, as did some fans. Then things got ugly. Shelton eventually admitted he wasn't even in Oklahoma and it was a joke. But some of his fans are still threatening turtles to "defend" the star against "liberals," showing the danger of a careless joke, on any subject.

Over at Huffington Post, Conor Gaughan has a great Chick-Fil-a essay titled We Are Not Arguing Over Chicken. The whole thing is a great read, but I feel I, like everyone else, must call out this great passage. "When gays get so angry about a chicken sandwich, it is because Chick-fil-a has given around $5 million to fight to discriminate against us. When we praise brave Eagle Scouts who give up their badges in protest of the Boy Scouts of America's prejudice, it's not about...

L.A. Local Color

“2006 Southern California Special Olympics” (CBS2/KCAL9)

Bobby Matthews, Producer

Garry Ashton, Producer

Russell Kodani, Producer

Brian Singer, Producer

Jeff Proctor, Executive Producer

Steve Rangel, Executive Producer

Public, Municipal And Operator Produced Cable

“Every 15 Minutes – Hoover High School” (GTV6)

Roger Johnstone, Producer

Brian Halloran, Associate Producer

Robert Townsend, Associate Producer

Hanry Safarian, Associate Producer

Jessica Houston, Associate Producer

Sabrina Thomas, Associate Producer

Tor Johansen, Associate Producer

Sherri Servillo, Associate Producer

Arts And Culture/History

“Behind The Lyrics” (Khiz)

A.J. Lewis, Producer

Garrett Law, Executive Producer

Peter White, Executive Producer

Richard Janes, Co-Producer

Entertainment Programming

“Ski Switzerland (Travel Cafe)” (NBC4)

Chuck Henry, Executive Producer/Host

Kristin Arntz, Producer

Children/Youth Programming

“Dwp 2006 Science Bowl” (La Cityview35)

Tony Ighani, Executive Producer/Producer

David Goldsmith, Producer

Walter Zeisl, Producer

News Special“Forgotten Footprints: The Children Of Uganda” (Fox11)

Cristy Fajardo, Producer/Host

Elizabeth Espinosa, Producer/Host

Sports Special

“Fred Roggin...