March 24, 2000
Media Arts Center San Diego is hosting a special screening of New Line Cinema's upcoming release, Price of Glory. This much anticipated new film featuring Jimmy Smits in his first starring role in a feature film following his departure from N.Y.P.D. Blue will take place this Thursday, March 23rd at 7:30 p.m. at CinemaStar Luxury Theaters located in the Chula Vista Shopping Center in Chula Vista (555 Broadway, Suite 2050).
Price of Glory is an emotionally charged film about one father's efforts to train his gifted sons to become championship boxers. Based on a play by award-winning for-mer New York Times sports columnist Phil Berger, the film follows Arturo Ortega (Jimmy Smits), a rising contender whose career is unexpectedly cut short. Years later, this determined father attempts to realize his broken dreams through his three young sons. Also starring in this film are Jon Seda, Maria Del Mar, Ernesto Hernandez, Paul Rodriguez and Ron Perl-man. Produced by Mocte-suma Esparza, Robert Katz, and Arthur S. Friedman, the film is directed by Carlos Avila.
"Price of Glory" opens in theaters across the country on March 31st. Support Latino film by going out to see the film on the FIRST WEEKEND. It is important that we support the hard work of Latino filmmakers such as director Carlos Avila and producer Moctezuma Esparza.
This Thursday's screening of Price of Glory is a production of Media Arts Center San Diego. Admission to this Thursday's sneak-preview of Price of Glory is FREE. However, space is limited. Entrance into the screening will be on a first-come first-serve basis.
Biographny:
Carlos Avila (Director of 'Price of Glory')
Director Carlos Avila makes his feature film directorial debut with Price of Glory. Avila caught the attention of the film community in 1991 with his short Distant Water, a coming-of-age story set in Los Angeles in 1943. The film won the Gran Prix at the inaugural Film Festival of International Cinema Students in Tokyo and went on to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Americas Film Festival in Washington D.C. and San Antonio's CineFestival.
In 1993, Avila wrote produced and directed the American Playhouse drama, La Carpa. Set in rural Southern California in 1938, the story follows a day in the life of a carpa, or tent theatre, as it prepares to entertain Chicano laborers and their families.
In 1997, Avila created a television series called Foto-Novelas, the four half-hour dramas were inspired by the Mexican and Latin-American pulp novel and comic book tradition. Avila wrote, directed and produced the highly acclaimed series.
Avila participated as a Directing Fellow at the 1995 Sundance Directors Laboratory and also received an Intercultural Media Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. Avila has also directed for Spanish-language television.
A graduate of the UCLA's School of Film and Television, Carlos grew up in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park, for which his production company, Echo Park Filmworks, is named.
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