23 September 2011 :: Latino USA

The Latino List

Behind the Scenes

September 21, 2011

In time for Hispanic Heritage month, HBO’s documentary The Latino List offers an illuminating glimpse into the richness and diversity of the Latino life in the United States. Interviewed by Latino USA’s own Maria Hinojosa, along with Sandra Guzman, it features highly personal video portraits of accomplished and influential Latinos from the worlds of culture, politics, business, and sports – including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Eva Longoria, Pitbull, and more.

This week on Latino USA, Maria takes us behind the scenes of The Latino List with executive producers Catherine Pino and Ingrid Duran to talk about the inspiration of this ground-breaking documentary.

HBO’s Latino List is directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the acclaimed photographer and director of the three editions of HBO’s Black List. The Latino List premiers on Sept. 28th at 9pm on HBO Latino and Sept. 29th at 8pm on HBO.

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Choro: The New Popular Music Style from Brazil

The up-tempo music from Brazil called choro [shor’-oh] is finding a growing audience in the U.S. Independent producer Reese Erlich met up some choro players in Berkeley, California, who say it sounds a little like samba crossed with jazz.

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President Obama’s new bill – the American Jobs Act — has faced mixed reaction. Some people are happy with the President’s plan to create more jobs, others are very critical of it…but all Americans agree that more jobs are needed, especially Latinos, who face a much higher unemployment rate. To find out what exactly this bill would mean to Latinos, Maria Hinojosa talks to Tamara Drout, Vice President of Policy and Programs at DEMOS, a non-partisan public policy think tank.

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Ingrid Duran & Catherine Pino are the owners of D&P Creative Strategies, D&P is 100% minority and women-owned and is certified as an LGBT Business by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and as a women and minority owned business by WBENC. Collectively, they represent more than 40 years of experience in the core service areas of strategic philanthropy, public affairs, government relations, issue advocacy, political communications and community outreach. They offer innovative solutions that help their clients meet their business and program objectives – consistently, successfully and profitably. They employ a model of doing business that highlights partnership, shared benefits, and a commitment to advancing social justice goals.

Director, Producer and Photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ portraits are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum, The Whitney Museum and The National Portrait Gallery among others. Greenfield-Sanders is a contributing photographer at Vanity Fair magazine and has produced and directed five films, including HBO’s Black List Project.

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Reese Erlich is an award-winning author and freelance journalist based in Oakland, Calif. His latest book is called Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire.

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Tamara Draut is Vice President of Policy and Programs at Demos, overseeing the development and strategic direction of the organization’s core programs and communications. Previously, Tamara served for seven years as the Director of the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos. She is the author of Strapped: Why America’s 20- and 30-Somethings Can’t Get Ahead published by Doubleday in 2006.

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