PRODUCTION CREDITSPhillip Rodriguez
Producer
Phillip Rodriguez is the founder of City Projects, an organization dedicated to creating sustainable programs that will both educate and entertain today’s broad and diverse audiences. Rodriguez is also a Senior Fellow for Documentary Filmmaking at the Institute for Justice and Journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication.
Rodriguez recently completed Brown is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Dream, a one-hour documentary for PBS on Hispanic marketing and media featuring comedian George Lopez. Brown is the New Green airs on PBS, September 12, 2007 and is the first-hour of a four-hour PBS documentary series, Latinos: Here & Now.
Rodriguez’ PBS documentary, Los Angeles Now (2004), investigates the “browning” of America’s second-largest city. Newsday said that the film, “reveals L.A. for what it really is: the most multicultural city in the world and, possibly, a blueprint for the future of the United States.” The film has been honored by New York Anthology Film Archives, Boston Fine Arts Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, INPUT 2005, Harvard Film Archives, MOCA Los Angeles and others.
Rodriguez’ other works include the critically acclaimed Mixed Feelings: San Diego/Tijuana (2002). This film uses the urban landscapes of neighboring cities to comment on contrasting conditions and attitudes in the U.S. and Mexico. The New York Times praised the film’s “snappy digital imagery”; The Los Angeles Times called it “transnational fun, with a point.”
Rodriguez’ film work include Manuel Ocampo: God is My Copilot, a reconsideration of multiculturalism in the contemporary art world. The film, which features Dennis Hopper, Julian Schnabel, and other notable art world figures, was celebrated at film festivals worldwide including the Los Angeles AFI International Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, the Biennale Internationale du film sur l’art at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Havana Film Festival. The Chicago Reader said the film “belongs with the best of the genre.
Pancho Villa & Other Stories won an award for best documentary at the 2000 San Antonio Cinefestival and has been honored at the Smithsonian National Gallery, The New York Latino Film and Video Festival, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival, San Francisco Cine Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, and the XV Festival de Cine Latino Americano, Trieste, Italy.
Rodriguez’ production company, City Projects, also conducted My City Now, an interactive media literacy program for high school students in U.S. cities impacted by high rates of immigration.
A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Rodriguez has an M.A. in Latin American Studies (Honors) and an M.F.A. in Film and Television from UCLA. He also studied Art History and Spanish Literature at Universidad Cumplutense de Madrid. He is a former Senior Research Fellow for The Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. Rodriguez received the first annual USA Broad Fellow Award. This annual award, made by United States Artists (USA), honors the country’s finest living artists.
Production Credits
Producer/Director
Phillip Rodriguez
Photography
Claudio Rocha
Edited by
Phillip Rodriguez
Claudio Rocha
Production Manager
Joaquin Mesa
Audio Design by
Jon Oh
Additional Editing by
Ricardo Braojos
Production Liason (Tijuana)
Luis Humberto Rosales
Music Consultant
Norma Jean Manzanares
Web & Logo Design by
Jacob Hernandez
Additional Design
Mirena Kim
Assistant Camera
Stewart Cavanagh
Sponsorship Coordinator
Danielle Kolich
Production Interns
Hilda Estrada
Jonathon Ketch
Post-Production Interns
Aurore Barry
Janet Ceja
Fiscal Sponsor
The Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University
The Film Arts Foundation
Latino Public Broadcasting
Aerial Photography Courtesy of
Lenska Aerial Images
Aerial Fotobank
Special Thanks to
Aeromexico
Grand Hotel Tijuana
Pueblo Amigo Hotel
Travelodge, Mission Valley
Museum of Contemporary Art,
La Jolla
San Diego Dialogue
Flowers on 56
Birns & Sawyer
Kino-Flo Inc.
Samy’s Camera
Union Bank of California
Southwestern College
University of San Diego
M W Steele Group, Inc.
Landgrant Development
Martinez & Cutri
Estudio Teddy Cruz
Torolab
Lawrence Herzog
Lupita Cacho
Richard Cacho
Edward C. Cazier, Jr.
Angelica Chavez
Bruce Coons
Adriana Cuellar
Danah Fayman
Maria Fernandez
Robert Hawk
Nicholas Ignacio Jr.
Robin Kramer
Adell Maroon
Natasha Martinez
Merv C. Mason
Teresa Matamoros
Magdalena Montenegro
Elias Nahmias
Chuck Nathanson
Beatriz Nava Rivera
Batar Perisiz
Jota Samper
Richard Salazar
Suzanne Weil
Suzanne Smith
Deborah Szekely
Delia Talamantez
Roger Talamantez
Sherri-Lyn Thompson
Victor Vilaplana
Jim Wiltgen
Michael Zapanta