Award-winning actor Esai Morales continues to lend his outstanding talents to television, theater and film. Since his feature film debut in "Bad Boys" with Sean Penn in 1983, Morales has been consistently recognized for giving performances that strongly resonate in the hearts and minds of diverse and international audiences. After graduating from New York's High School for the Performing Arts, Esai made his stage debut in "El Hermano." His other theater performance...

  by Marc Halperin We had lunch last Saturday with Michael Nash the director of Climate Refugees which has a free screening today at the LA film festival. The film focuses on Bangladesh, Chad, China, Kenya, Tuvalu, and the USA and promises to be a riveting 89 minutes. “Climate Refugees” is a term few people outside the U.S. military and U.N. circles are familiar with until now. This illuminating documentary takes the next step after An Inconvenient Truth and examines...

The first annual Coachella Valley Latino International Film Festival will be held on December 4-6, 2009 at the Indio Performing Arts Center in Indio, California  as a fundraiser to benefit the Non-Profit organization. International Latino films, Special Events with Latino filmmakers and entertainers will be a part of the first year’s 3-day event, with a Special Guest presenting the Audience Favorite Award on Sunday evening, the close of the film festival. Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack is the...