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Overview
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Favorite Movies
Un Chien Andalou, 400 Blows, Persona, Ordinary People, Beautiful Girls, Superstar, The Accidental Tourist, Running On Empty, Waitress, Lars and the Real Girl, Me & Jean Pierre, Rushmore, Pinmonkey, Friday Night Lights, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, Boys Don't Cry, Fools Rush In, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Rudy, Hoosiers, Edward Scissorhands, 8 Mile, The Endless Summer, Spiderman I & II, A History of Violence, The Machinist, The Limey, Do The Right Thing, Out of Sight, Dancer, Texas Pop. 49, Lost Highway, Mullholland Drive, Reality Bites, Lucas, Eat Drink Man and Woman, Gross Pointe Blank, Week End, The Boy Who Could Fly, Real Genius, Mi Vie En Rose, Better Off Dead, Disturbia, Rear Window, Psycho (original), It's A Wonderful Life, The Incredible True Adventures of Two Girls In Love, Private Parts, Pump Up The Volume, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, Fargo, Blood Simple, Stranger Than Fiction, The French Connection, Bound, D.E.B.S., True Stories, Mi Vida Loco, Central Station, Malcom X, Moonlight Mile, Dolores Claiborne, All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Battleship Potemkin, The Matrix, Gillery's Little Secret, The Lost Weekend, Thelma and Louise, Million Dollar Baby, Garden State, The Machinist, Seven, Fight Club, Chalk, Rocket Science, Crash, Kicking And Screaming (not Will Ferrell), The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Oh Paprika, The Guatamalan Handshake, Dog Day Afternoon, Winter Passing, George Washington, Undertow, Little Miss Sunshine, The Women of '77, Pariah....
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Favorite TV Shows
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pushing Dasies, Friday Night Lights, Damages, Smallville, Gossip Girl, Veronica Mars, Top Chef, Freaks and Geeks, The X Files, Greek, Monk, Entourage, October Road, Eli Stone, Everwood, Mad Men
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Favorite Books
The Outsiders, The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Nightime, Stoner & Spaz, Stargirl, Long Gone Daddy, Yo!, The Bingo Palace, Drown, Woman Hollering Creek, The House on Mango Street, Catcher In The Rye, Final Cut HD Manuals, Directing Actors - Judith Weston, Burger Wuss, Short Story Collection of Raymond Carver
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Favorite Quotes
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat..."
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Favorite Music
Robert Coltrane, Interpol, Janis Joplin, Pearl Jam, Snow Patrol, Ry Cooder, James Brown, Billie Holiday, Los Lobos, Selena, Beach Boys, Erin McKeown, Goddess & She, Dashboard Confessional, Matt Kearney, Eminem, Gross Pointe Blank Soundtrack, Rudy Soundtrack, Switchfoot, Johnny Cash, OMD, Mozart, Studio 54 Soundtrack, LP, Goo Goo Dolls, T-Rex, The Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, Ryan Adams, Toshi Regan, Feloni, The Reindeer Section, Death Cab For Cutie, Kiss, The Descendants, Gomez, The Ravonettes, Leonard Cohen, Cowboy Junkies, Jet, Travis, Sly & The Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, Green Day, Joan Jett, Fall Out Boy, Depeche Mode, Nada Surf, The Ramones, I-94, Defiance Ohio, Dolly Parton, Lil Wayne, Joan Jett, Bitch, Nicole Reynolds, Maroon Five, All American Rejects, James Blunt, REM, Clouseau, Mars Volta, Panic! At the Disco, Prince, Coldplay, Kanye West, Greenday
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Interests and Activities
Surfing, skateboarding, reading magazines in reverse and rocking the world!
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Bio
The skinny on me.
I'm from Mathis, Texas. It's a small South Texas town where we drove in circles around the Pizza Hut for fun on Friday nights after football games. Football in Texas, if you've seen the movie Friday Night Lights, is everything! So it has found its way into my films and my overall storytelling.
As a filmmaker, I've worked professionally with director Betty Thomas (John Tucker Must Die, The Brady Bunch Movie), Douglas McGrath (Infamous, Nicholas Nickleby ) and and Lucy Walker (The Devil's Playground). And some of my writing mentors have been Carolyn Coman (Many Stones, What Jamie Saw), Charles Smith (Puddn' Head Wilson, Knock Me A Kiss)and Vincent Cardinal (MTV's The State and Greenpoint). Okay, that was a helluva lot of name dropping.
And I'm stoked to have picked a few short film awards along the way. My most recent films about to hit the circuit are Vanessa Rising and Living Under Linda's Desk.
I'm an award-winning filmmaker and most recently a novelist after garnering the Delacorte Dell Yearling & Award in 2004 through Random House.
Since then, Prizefighter En Mi Casa picked up: the Parents' Choice Silver Honor, a Flamingnet Top Choice Award, became a National Council for the Social Studies Notable Book and made the NYC Public Library Teenage List.
My second novel, a YA titled Feels Like Home also made the New York Public Library Teenage List.
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Favorite Talent
Joss Whedon, Glenn Close, Natalie Portman, Wes Anderson, Patricia Clarkson Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Houston, Christian Bale, Ellen Page, Dakota Fanning, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ludicrious, America Ferrera, Larenz Tate, William Hurt, Charlize Theron, Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Javier Bardem
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Thoughts On This
As a filmmaker and a novelist, I've spent a lot of time working with off kilter stories, often in non-linear storytelling dealing with family unrest. It's great to to see lyrics like Don't Forget Sister. They lend themselves to the universality of family and have the room to approach the "story" of them in many unique ways.
Rock the word!
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Height
5' 9"
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Ethnicity
Latino/Hispanic
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Eye Color
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Hair Color
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Hair Length
Short
Credits
Director on Passing Through (2002)
Director on I Hate Muziak (2006)
Director on Reverb (2008)
Director on Vanessa Rising (2008)
Director on Living Under Linda's Desk (2008)
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Stats
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Member since
8/26/2008