NATIONAL LATINO COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
The National Latino Communications Center (NLCC) is a non-profit media
arts and production center whose mission is to:
- Provide quality Latino programs to the national public television audience-
programs that illuminate the depth and diversity of the Latino experience
through expressions of the Latino community's arts, cultures and histories;
- provide professional assistance to nurture Latino media artists whose
creative visions will draw on the Latino experience to create compelling
images of people; and
- provide a sustained institutional framework for utilizing the broadcast
media to empower
Latinos.
The NLCC is the largest single provider of grant funds to producers of
Latino programs suitable for national public television broadcast- including
works in drama, cultural affairs, public affairs, current affairs,
documentaries and performance. Funds are available for research and
development, scripting, post-production, completion, and packaging and
outreach. Funds are also available for acquisition of programs which have
already been completed.
Grants to Filmakers
Three types of grants are available:
- Grants for research and development, which muxt be submitted by a
specified deadline and are awarded annually through a peer review panel
process;
- Discretionary grants, which must meet other funding commitments
requirements; and
- Seed grants to assist emerging artists with proposal development.
In 1991, the NLCC funded more than 25 projects, with grant amounts ranging
from $1,500 to $30,000.
Programming
The NLCC also is the nation's largest single supplier of Latino public
television programming. Over the last 18 years, the NLCC has packaged and
distributed more than 400 hours of Latino programs to PBS stations. Its
offerings have been distributed through two series, !PRESENTE! and VISTAS and
have included works by critically-acclaimed and award-winning producers,
directors and writers.
Its national PBS broadcast credits include P.O.V. presentations of
!Teatro!, Plena and Maria's Story. In addition, the NLCC has
provided funding assistance for the presentation of Break of Dawn
through AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE, Los Mineros through THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
and Stories from El Salvador, a PBS special. Most recently, two projects
to which the NLCC provided funding support were broadcast on GREAT
PERFORMANCES: Luis Valdez' La Pastorela and Culture Clashe's A Bowl
of Beings.
In the works
The NLCC's future plans call for extending its presence as a pre-eminent
producer and distributor of quality programming for international as national
public television, and is actively pursuing opportunities in international
markets.
NLCC Board of Directors and Staff
The NLCC is governed by a Board of Directors whose expertise
encompasses commercial and public broadcasting, independent production, media
law, education, community relations and buisness communications. Its Executive
Director is Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jose Luis Ruiz. Peabody Award winner
Luis Torres is Staff Producer.
For more information:
NLCC
3171 Los Feliz Boulevard, Suite 201
Los Angeles, CA 90039
Phone: (213) 663-8294
Fax: (213) 663-5606