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Young Americans and Such A narrative film about a Chicano writer/actor and his one-man show about photography, old girlfriends, Robert Frank and the infamous Rolling Stones movie. Selected Works Film Speeder Kills (2002)
Come and Take It Day (2001) Pretty Vacant (1996) Silenced Voice (Where Stories End) (1993) Puro Party: Celebrating a Genocide (1992) Accomplishments Contributor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, to present
Art Pace Residency, 2001 Sundance Filmmakers Lab, 2000 ITVS American Stories Production Fund, 1999 Festival Director, San Antonio CineFestival, Guadeloupe Cultural Arts Center, 1995 and 1996 Education 1983-1986 Photojournalism, Department of Communication, University of Texas, Austin, TX News January, February, March 2007 Jim Mendiola will be funded by Latino
Public Broadcasting for a
documentary he is producing. Making Viva Max
will look at a
controversial Hollywood production that invaded and permanently
affected San Antonio. 2003 Year-End Update Jim Mendiola's feature Speeder Kills screened at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco in September. The film follows the adventures of a San Antonio video artist on the run from massive debts. Pretty Vacant, a 1996 short about a young Tex-Mex punk rocker conflict between her ties to her family and her love of the Sex Pistols, screened at the Argos Festival in Belgium. Late Fall 2003 Jim Mendiola's feature Speeder Kills screened at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco in September. The film follows the adventures of a San Antonio video artist on the run from massive debts. Pretty Vacant, a 1996 short about a young Tex-Mex punk rocker conflict between her ties to her family and her love of the Sex Pistols, screened at the Argos Festival in Belgium. Interview What is your greatest fear when you face a project? That it's been done before. And better. Or that no one will like it. Or that the ideas are irrelevant. |
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