Music, recipes, poetry, art, cinema, theater and history make up the rich cornucopia of Latino culture showcased on www.Latinopia.com a new website set for launch in March.
The brainchild of veteran Los Angeles television director and documentary filmmaker Jesús Salvador Treviño, the video-driven website is designed as a one-stop web destination for all things Latino.
“As U.S. Latinos enter the digital age, we need a website that can offer videos about all aspects of our history culture and life,” explains Treviño.
“We’re starting with five-minute videos in seven subject areas—interviews, music performances, short films, theater plays and authors reading from their works,” Trevino explains. “We are excited that top Latino writers, artists and musicians from around the U.S. have seen the value of Latinopia.com and are enthusiastically sharing their time, stories and creativity.
A click on Latinopia’s Art section will take the visitor to video profiles of Chicano, Puerto Rican and Cuban American artists, painters and muralists as well as print interviews and special features.
The Literature section features a timeline on the emergence of Chicano, Puerto Rican and Cuban-American literature in the United States in addition to listings of Latino books. Video interviews of Latino writers with dramatic re-enactments and additional footage bring their works to life.
The website’s Theater section includes video interviews with Chicano, Puerto Rican and Cuban American playwrights, actors and stage directors and groups like Culture Clash as well as excerpts from plays written performed and directed by Latinos.
Interviews with leading Chicano, Puerto Rican and Cuban musicians are an attraction in the Music section.
In Cinema and Television many of the nation’s leading Latino actresses and actors discuss their work and making their way in Hollywood: Hector Elizondo, Lupe Ontiveros, Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, America Ferrera, Evelina Fernandez and are among those to be featured. Behind the camera talent will also be featured such as writer/producer Dennis Leoni (Resurrection Blvd), Director of Photography Rey Villalobos (Nine to Five, Urban Cowboy) and Director Leon Ichaso (El Cantante).
A visit to the History page will reveal videos of important historical events in Chicano and Latino life along with event timelines, biographies and documents.
Latinopia Food offers Latinopia’s recommendations on the best places to eat Mexican and Latino food along with “how-to” videos on making great Mexican food.