LPB's Blog Posts Tagged 'PBS Arts Summer Festival' (4)

NALIP-NY and Tio Louie present a sneak preview of the LPB funded film John Leguizamo's Tales from a Ghetto Klown as part of Prime Latino Media Salon, a monthly series for Latino multimedia-makers & actors in the metro-New York…

The PBS Arts Summer Festival expands the scope and diversity of the arts on television, with a multi-part weekly series and new original online content that takes viewers across the country and around the world. The first stop was Zapata, Texas with the champion mariachi ensemble…

MARIACHI HIGH (directed by Ilana Trachtman and Kim Connell and produced by Kelly Sheehan and Carol DeVoe)  captures a year in the life of top-ranked student musicians in "Mariachi Halcon," the varsity-level championship ensemble at Zapata High School on the border of South Texas. The film follows the students as they move from school to stage in…

In a part of America that rarely makes headlines, there is a small town with a group of teenagers who will captivate your ears and warm your heart. Produced by Ilana Trachtman and Kim Connell, MARIACHI HIGH spends a year in the life of the champion mariachi ensemble at Zapata High School. As they compete and perform with astonishing musical virtuosity, these teens, and the music they make, will…