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Paul Espinosa
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Independent Filmmaker, Espinosa Productions |
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Advisory Board Member |
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Paul Espinosa is an award-winning Filmmaker and Producer and currently a Professor of Chicano/a Studies at Arizona State University. He has been involved with producing films and documentaries for over 25 years. In 1997, he formed Espinosa Productions, a film and video company specializing in documentaries and dramatic films focused on U.S.-Mexico border topics. Espinosa has produced, directed, written and hosted numerous programs for public televisions stations as a Senior Producer and Executive Producer. His productions have been widely reviewed in national and regional publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and NPR's "All Things Considered."
Espinosa has shared his expertise, experience and social activism at many universities and community centers across the Americas. In 2000 he was named a Regents Lecturer at the University of California at San Diego. He formerly served on the Boards of the Media Arts Center of San Diego (as President and Co-Founder) and the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers National Board (as Treasurer). Espinosa previously served as a Board Member of the California Council for the Humanities and as a member of the Documentary Jury for the Ninth Annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, Cuba.
His work was commemorated at the Paul Espinosa Border Film Festival in El Paso, the Paul Espinosa Film Festival in Albuquerque, and the Paul Espinosa Film Festival in San Diego co-sponsored by the San Diego Unified School District. He has been nominated four times for a Rockerfeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship in the Documentary category. He has also been recognized by Union Bank of California and KPBS with a Local Hero Award. Additionally, the California Chicano News Media Association honored Espinosa with a Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists has inducted him into the NAHJ Hall of Fame. |
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