Paola Mendoza
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Short Film: Broken Tail Light, by Paola Mendoza
A minor traffic stop is a life-changing experience in Paola Mendoza’s short film, Broken Tail Light which stars Jamie-Lynn Sigler and, as her daughter, Heaven King. After viewing, Mendoza, one of Filmmaker‘s 25 New Faces in 2009, points us towards Immigrant Heritage Month.
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 26, 2014 -
FILMAID MUSIC VIDEO: “A HEAVY ABACUS,” DIRECTED BY PAOLA MENDOZA AND TOPAZ ADIZES
Filmmaker Paola Mendoza (Entre Nos, and one of our 25 New Faces) just forwarded this video she directed with filmmaker Topaz Adizes for FilmAid. It’s the organization’s first video, in support of World Refugee Day on June 20, and the music is The Joy Formidable’s “A Heavy Abacus.” While volunteering as Visiting Teaching Artists for FilmAid, Mendoza and Adizes shot this piece featuring Sudanese refugees in the Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya. It was shot with a Canon 7D using two bounce boards and an iPhone as a monitor for the kids to lip sync to. For more information […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 6, 2012 -
TAXI RIDERS: PAOLA MENDOZA
If you’ve taken a ride in the back of a New York City taxi cab these last two weeks, you may have heard the stories of seven of New York’s most distinctive independent filmmakers of the moment. In partnership with Royal Bank of Canada and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, the IFP has produced six spots that are playing not only in cabs but on NYC Life. Jamie Stuart directed, T. Griffin scored and I produced these pieces, and each one, in addition to profiling a person, highlights a different aspect of the independent filmmaker’s current creative, production […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 13, 2011
