Anima Mundi 2009, Alameda Writers Group, Sacramento Film and Music Fest, Conference on the Arts in Society, Independent TV Festival, Highlight July Me

his feature film debut with The Strangers. will speak at the July 11 Alameda Writers Group Meeting, July 11 in Glendale, about breaking into Hollywood, the struggles of directing your own work, and how he’s built his career. The Urban Individualists, a multicultural network of collaborating individualists working under the direction of Helene Ruiz (ruizhelene@aol.com), will be present at a July 17 public reception in Williamsburg, Brooklyn featuring music and poetry, opening an exhibition of works that will “dissect and examine aspects concerning the heart, from the banal to the complex.” The Sacramento Film and Music Festival, running July 17-26 in Sacramento, likes to point to a track record of picking films that go on to win major awards and/or achieve distribution beyond the festival circuit. But they also puts on “Sac Music Seen”, an original program for the Festival