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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

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                                                                  "Union Square"                                                                                                                          Official Selection 2022 Tournadeau Music and Film Festival 
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                                      "Los Abandonados" and "On the Boulevard"                                                                       2022 Official selection DraftOut Screenwriting Contest

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                  "On The Boulevard" Official Selection 2022 Scriptify Film Festival
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                                      "Los Hermanos Dela Cruz" & "Instruments of Darkness"                                                                                   Official Selection 2021 Culver City Film Festival

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                                                                "Los Hermanos Dela Cruz"
​                                 Official Selection 2021 Rome Independent Prisma Awards
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                                                                                      "Los Hermanos Dela Cruz"                                                                                            Official Selection 2021 LIFFT India Filmotsav & Awards-World Cine Fest
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                                                              "Yazmin & Malik" and "Lester Collins"                                                                                              Official Selection 2021 FFTG awards
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                  Official Selection Screenplay Competition, Los Hermanos Dela Cruz
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                                                 "Los Hermanos Dela Cruz" & "Impact"
             Honorable Mention 2021 6th annual Sanctuary International Film Festival
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                                                                            "Los Hermanos Dela Cruz"
                    Official Selection International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival

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                                                                         "Los Hermanos dela Cruz"                                                                                               2021 Finalist Wales International Film Festival
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                                                                            "Lester Collins"                                                                                     2021 Official Selection for KinoDrome: International Motion Picture & Screenplay Festival.
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"On the Boulevard" selected as a finalist  and "Impact" selected as Quarter finalist for The 2021 Creative World Awards

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             Los Hermanos Dela Cruz - 2021 Official Selection Wales International Film Festival

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Lester Collins - 2021  semi-finalist  Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards

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                               IMPACT - Official Selection 2021 Marina Del Rey Film Festival
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                  Yazmin & Malik  - 2021 Official Selection Freedom Festival International 
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       Lester Collins - 2021 Official Selection Arkadia Studio Screenwriting Contest
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                                      IMPACT - 2021 Nominated Best Feature Script
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                                                                LESTER COLLINS - 2021 Best Short Script

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               Official Selection Best feature script - "IMPACT"  Best short script - "Lester Collins"

​"Impact" - 2021 Best Screenplay  and AI Award for Screenplay Ouchy Film Awards
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                           "Impact"  - Official Selection 2021 Ouchy Film Awards

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                                                                                    "Impact"
2021 - Official Selection/Honorable mention Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival
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                                                                  "On The Boulevard"
                        2021 Quarter Finalist Atlanta International Screenplay Awards
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                     2021 Finalist "On The Boulevard"  &  2021 Semi-Finalist "Impact"
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                                      "Between a Hotdog and a Hard Place" and "Impact"                                                         2022 Official Selection/Honorable mention London International Monthly Film Festival
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                                                                On The Boulevard                                                                                       2020 Quarter Finalist American Zoetrope Screenplay competition

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                                                               On The Boulevard
             2021 Semi-Finalist Hollywood  International Diversity Film Festival
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​                                          Official 2021 selection Hollywood Art & Film Awards
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                                      "Impact"  2020 TIFF Critics Choice award Feature Script
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                                                            "On The Boulevard" & "Impact"                                                                                                   Official selections 2020 Indo Global International Film Festival
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       Impact - 2020 Feature Script Outstanding Achievement award  World Carnival-Singapore
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                           "Impact" Official Selection 2020 Tagore International Film Festival
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                          "Impact" 2020 Official Selection World Film Carnival-Singapore
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                "On The Boulevard" Winner L'Age d'Or International Art House Film Festival
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                                              "Impact" Official Selection 2021 Kalakari Film Festival

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         "Impact"  and "Yazmin & Malik" Semi-Finalist 2020 International Moving Film Festival ​

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                                                          "On The Boulevard", "Impact", "Yazmin & Malik"   
                                        2020 - Official Selection Uruvatti international Film festiva
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                                                                                       On The Boulevard                                                                                                                      2020 Certificate of Achievement Best television/Pilot Script/Screenplay                                                                       Point Blair International Film Festival 
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                  IMPACT - 2020 Certificate of Excellence Buddha International Film Festival
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"On The Boulevard" Official Selection L'Age d'Or International Arthouse Film Festival
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                                                                                     "On The Boulevard"                                                                                                        Official Selection L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF)
                       2020 Winner Short Script Critics Choice award "Yazmin & Malik"
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                    2020 TIFF winner Outstanding Achievement award "On The Boulevard"
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          IMPACT - Official selection LIFFT India Filmotsav - World Cine Fest 2020
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                     IMPACT- Official selection 2020 The Buddha International Film Festival

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                                                                 On The Boulevard                                                                                                 Official selection 2020 Port Blair International Film Festival

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                                                   "On The Boulevard" & "Yazmin & Malik"                                                                                               Official Selection 2020 Tagore International Film Festival

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                                                                  On The Boulevard                                                                                             Official selection 2020 Rome Independent film PRISMA awards

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                                                                On The Boulevard                                                                                                       2020 Semi-Finalist HollyShorts Screenplay competition
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On The Boulevard - 2020 quarter finalist  Los Angeles International  Screenplay Awards
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                                                                 On The Boulevard                                                                                            2020 Semi-Finalist HollyShorts Film Festival screenplay competition
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          Excerpt reading of pilot script, ON THE BOULEVARD Written by Mel Nieves

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The Tank Theatre - The Pilot Program

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                                       Nosotros Los Latinos - written and directed by Sebastian Equiarte
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2017 The Children of Hip Hop, 107th Street Productions
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"The Children of Hip Hop" written and directed by Antonio Dela Cruz, 107th Street Productions, 2013  Queens World Film Festival, 2017

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"The Children of Hip Hop" 107th Street Productions

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"The Children of Hip Hop" 107th Street Productions 
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"The Children of Hip Hop" 107th Street Productions
written and directed by Antonio Dela Cruz

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"The Children of Hip Hop" 107th Street Productions
written and directed by Antonio Dela Cruz

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"The Children of Hip Hop" 107th Street Productions
written and directed by Antonio Dela Cruz

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MATARE  107th Street Productions - Cast and Crew

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Max Art (short) 
Z Films Productions (written and directed by Zao Wang)

Official Selection: LA Shorts Fest, Palm Springs International Film Festival,
Asian-American International Film Festival
Winner, Best Thriller - International Student Film Festival
   
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Conciliation (short)
written and directed by David & Francisco Salazar
Official Selection: Long Island International Film Expo
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Isolated Incident - written by Mel Nieves
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Still from film "Isolated Incident" directed by Daniel S.W. Park and written by Mel Nieves
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Still from "Isolated Incident", directed by Daniel S.W. Park and written by Mel Nieves
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2015 - "Isolated Incident" directed by Daniel S.W. Park and written by Mel Nieves
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A Northern Star, 2016 Barefoot Studio Films, written and directed by Frank Solorzano

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MATARE  107th Street Productions
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MATARE  107th Street Productions
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                                   Scarfaced written and directed by J. Anthony Roman
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 Urban: Three stories "Leo Dan" "Until I Met You in NYC" and "Television Star" are interconnected in a neighborhood in NYC.
Written and Directed by Antonio Dela Cruz/107th Street Productions

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                                                    Production photos from the film, "Urban"                                                                                      Written and Directed by Antonio Dela Cruz Film/107th Street Productions

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         URBAN consist of Three stories "Leo Dan" "Until I Met You in NYC" and "Television Star"
                                       which are  all  interconnected in a neighborhood in NYC.                                                                  
Written and directed by Antonio  Dela Cruz/107th Street Productions
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