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 Award-winning filmmaker Alex Muñoz supervises the FYI program. A native of San Jose, California, Muñoz received his MFA from the Graduate School of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California. He began directing television commercials while still a student. Interested in portraying the minority experience with honesty and insight, Muñoz made his first short film, Por Vida, which won several awards and was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival. He went on to direct Riot, a film about the LA Riots of 1992, for Showtime Networks. Riot premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, won the Jury Prize at the Geneva Film Festival and won the Best TV Movie award from the NY Daily News.
Muñoz' first feature film, Living The Life, won Best Domestic Feature film at the New York Latino Film Festival and was released in 2004. Muñoz just completed a short narrative film, Dilemma, which was funded by a grant from the Black Hollywood Education Resource Center as part of its Anti-Gang BHERC Fights Back Media Initiative. It has been shown at film festivals worldwide. His short, Lil Skrappy Boy won Best Short at the Urban World VIBE Film Festival. Muñoz was the recipient of a filmmaking grant from the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. He selected two FYI alumni, Marquise Calhoun and Louie Penalbar, to direct and produce a short film entitled Citizenship.
Staff and Advisory Committee
Leslie Ito
Program Officer
Arts at the California Community Foundation
Los Angeles, California
Nate Moore
Director of Development
Participant Productions
Beverly Hills, California
Jah’Shams Abdul-Mu’min
Chief Executive Officer
Success, A New Beginning
Los Angeles, California
Joseph A. Perez
Principal
New Heights Preparatory School
Northridge, California
Dr. Hollis M. Pierce
Regional Director for School Evaluations
KIPP Foundation
San Francisco, California
Angus John Roxburgh
Balance Vector Productions
Santa Monica, California
Elizabeth Stanley
Elizabeth Stanley Pictures/Next Stop Management
Los Angeles, California
Melissa Sweeney
Eumenides Entertainment
Santa Monica, California
Karin Williams
Multinesia Productions
Los Angeles, California
Maite Zabala-Alday
Co-founder
The Narra Group
Los Angeles, California
Staff
Ana Trinidad
FYI Program Manager
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