The Obama ad actually scored the 91st percentile, out of 1100 ads that were submitted. Top tier. Not bad. I’m still hoping to submit the ad directly to the campaign so all my work can still get used.

Hey New Yorkers,

A redux version of my film “Mexico: Chasing the American Dream” is being shown at the New Filmmakers Latino Anthology Screening tomorrow night (wednesday May 7) at 6pm, at 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street (at a theater called Anthology Film Archives). See below.

I’d love to see all your faces and reconnect… and I’m still hunting for a one night stay on a couch

Much love,
Isabelle

Update: have scored a place to stay. Thanks for the offers!

NEWFILMMAKERS is America’s National Screening Series.
NEWFILMMAKERS NY screens Weekly at Anthology Film Archives, one of the leading theaters in New York City, located at 32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street.

Admission for the entire evening in New York and in Los Angeles is still only $5.

MAY 7TH
NewFilmmakers & NewLatino Filmmakers
Edwin Pagan, Series Director / Curator

6:00PM DOCUMENTARIES

THE GUARANI MBYA NOMADS OF THE ATLANTIC RAINFOREST
Marcia/Norbert Gomes deOliveira Suchanek, Writer, Directors

MEXICO: CHASING THE AMERICAN DREAM
Isabelle Carbonell, Director, Producer

SHIKASHIKA
Stephen Hyde, Director

7:00PM SHORT FILMS

RED PRINCESS BLUES: THE ANIMATED PREQUEL
Alex Ferrari, Creator, Writer, Director / Dean Cregan, Director, Producer

COOKIE
Francisco Ordonez, Writer, Director

OUTLOOK
Derek Velez Partridge, Writer - Director

8:00PM FIRST FEATURE

BUSCANDO A MIGUEL
Juan Fisher, Writer, Director
Miguel is a young Colombian politician blinded by his own privilege. Victim of a violent attack, he loses his memory and finds himself living in a very different world, a world inhabited precisely by the kind of people he had once.

9:45PM SECOND FEATURE

SALSA LESSONS
Antonio de la Cruz, Director
Two people meet by chance in New York City. Pedro is a salsa instructor and Rosa wants to learn how to dance.

Way to go Convergence magazine for publishing an awesome zine last month full of great poetry and my perhaps most obscure non-mainstream, non-photojournalism, non-eye-candy work. All photos shown in the zine are taken by yours truly. Sometimes magazines will email me and ask if they can use my photography. I always tell them to pick through my site as it’s usually a pretty good bet they’ll find what they’re looking to publish. It can be quite a surprise what they decide to pick sometimes. I’m pleased that this kind of work is getting out there - makes you feel like you don’t always have to sensationalize everything. Check out the zine here.