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More Than a Movie

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S2: On this season of More Than a Movie, host Alex Fumero takes us through some of our favorite films that have impacted Latino Cinema. From Andy Garcia’s 1990 breakout role in Godfather III to Natalie Morales’s 2021 double directorial debut with Plan B and Language Lessons, this podcast looks at the story behind the story of Latino movies over the last several decades. Every episode will reveal something about the movie you didn’t know, feature interviews with the biggest actors, directors, ...
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Game Development Philippines

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The Game Development Philippines podcast publishes current and in-depth conversations with game dev industry leaders from the Philippines. The podcast covers topics such as setting up a game development studio, building successful mobile games, as well as supporting live ops and gamer care with external service providers and mobile game monetization. The podcast is funded under the Arise+ Philippines project, implemented by the UN International Trade Centre (ITC) in close collaboration with ...
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In this episode, I discuss the origins of skateboarding and its connections to surfing, the evolution of hardcore punk into skate punk and pop punk, significant skate videos and games, the intersection of hip-hop and skating, and the rise of skate and streetwear brands. Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2z2cnwiBCW6L2uGVtXg0c2?si=7…
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“These boys were mine and now I give them to you.” For the season finale of More Than a Movie, we sat down with friend of the pod Aitch Alberto to dive deep on her feature filmmaking debut. We discussed everything from adapting a beloved YA novel and convincing the author to give her the rights, to taking over directing duties from Miguel Arteta, a…
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“We won Sundance! What the fuck?” If you’re an outsider, the film industry can be seemingly impossible to penetrate. It’s even more difficult to tell your story - and have it seen - when it’s a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about a queer Latina and her alcoholic father set in a small town in New Mexico. That story became the indie filmma…
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“He did it for $7,000.” Before Machete, before Spy Kids, before From Dusk till Dawn, there was El Mariachi. Eager to make a name for himself in the world of film, but with no industry connections whatsoever, Robert Rodriguez went and directed a movie on his own - guerilla style - in Mexico, with a production budget of only $7,000. Producer Elizabet…
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In this episode, we’ll be looking at the development of electronic music, from the first computer to play music to the AI vocoders creating their own songs. We’ll look at production, instruments and recording methods, and the ethos of DIY and remixing that runs throughout. We’ll also be looking at streaming, internet music genres, and virtual bands…
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Throughout music, the symbol of Satan has been used for artistic expression, rebellion, genuine spiritual belief, irony, and shock value. In this episode we’ll discuss the satanic panic, the evolution of heavy metal, the unsettling incidents of murders and church burnings within the black metal scene, and the emergence of more contemporary pop cult…
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In this episode we’re looking at the origins of surf music, its entanglement with punk, and its many revivals over the years. Spotify playlist of the songs played, and more: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/64TyeBXMFej021suh31aMW?si=e0956c66300c459e
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In the second episode of Soundpit we’re exploring desert blues, a style of music that originated in the Tuareg and West African communities of the Sahara. Spotify playlist of songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4I6fx5foO7pOxpm4T401qD?si=2f426360b6ce4a48
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“Let’s just shoot the play.” If you’ve listened to the first season of More Than a Movie, you may remember the one property that kept getting mentioned over and over - Zoot Suit - the play, and later film, that linked a generation of Latino actors and became a foundational text for the Chicano arts movement. Even many of our guests this season - fr…
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“I was filming Plan B in the fall and editing Language Lessons on the weekend.” Everybody in Hollywood will tell you, it’s incredibly difficult to get a film made. Making a movie during a global pandemic? Even more difficult. Directing two movies during lockdown, in your first-ever attempt at feature filmmaking? Seemingly impossible. But not for Na…
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“What if it’s Miles Morales?” We’ve seen Spider-Man on screen before. In fact, we’ve seen him in three different live-action iterations over the last 22 years. And yet somehow, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse feels startlingly fresh, a major shock to the system. We had never experienced anything like it in the world of superhero films, live-actio…
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“The idea of Spy Kids, just like boom, hit him.” Coming off a string of successful Hard-R genre movies, Robert Rodriguez decided to make a surprising pivot into the world of family films. Enter the Spy Kids: a wildly popular franchise that now spans five films and has grossed over $550 million at the box office. We sat down with Robert’s wife and p…
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“You need to help me cast the Vatos Locos.” Season one of More Than a Movie offered a deep dive on American Me - Edward James Olmos’ notorious directorial debut about the formation of a real-life Mexican prison gang. In this episode, we take a look at the film that came just one year later - allegedly delayed in part because of the release of and r…
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In this session, King Montecillo, Managing Director of FizzBuzz Inc., brings their A-game and gives us some hard advice on creating project scopes and employing good project management skills to ensure project success and client satisfaction - all while keeping your team happy. Creating a Bible: The importance of documentation to protect all partie…
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Weng Bagadion, CEO and founder of WBagadion joins us in this episode to talk about how gamification can be used as a tool for efficient learning and recall as well as the best practices for applying gamification in different projects In this episode, we cover: What gamification is and how it has found its way into the corporate setting How gamifica…
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“I walked out of the play.” Fresh off winning a Student Academy Award, Colombian filmmaker Patricia Cardoso was looking for her next film project. After some initial hesitation, she decided to adapt the much-beloved (but somewhat problematic) stage play Real Women Have Curves into what would become a major Sundance sensation. We sat down with Patri…
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In this episode, Ben Banta, CEO of Ranida Games joins us to take a trip down memory lane from when the era of flash games paved the way for a lot of solo game developers.. We then fast-forward to the current industry of games that continues to evolve with where Ben has grown from being a solo dev getting scouted by brands, to someone who is now alw…
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What does it take to make a video game come to life? Coby Chan and Walter de Torres, co-founders of Pixel Mafia join us in this episode to give us a sneak peek of what the backstage of game development looks like, how the industry has evolved and created specific and special roles, and what it takes to bring a Triple-A game to life. Key insights in…
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"There’s a whole audience you’re missing.” On this episode of More Than a Movie, we met with the producer of La Bamba, Academy Award winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford, and explored how a white kid from Santa Barbara ended up becoming the driving force behind a film about a Mexican-American rock star. We talked everything from obtaining life rights …
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This time, we dive into another perspective inside game development as we talk to Carlos Valdes, Senior writer for YangYang Mobile. He joins the show to give us an insight into a writer's thought process behind weaving worlds and creating memorable characters for visual novel games. In this episode, we tackle: What differentiates visual novel games…
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Ranulf Goss, founder and CEO of Startrace Studios OPC joins us in this episode to talk about what it takes for your game to be pitch-ready to publishers and how does one exactly do that. The key insights in this episode are: What role does a game publisher play in the game development cycle and why is it beneficial to have one for your game? Self P…
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“I didn’t think I had a shot at Richie.” Nearly 40 years after its release, La Bamba remains a cinematic landmark for representation and one of the highest-grossing Latino films of all time. We interviewed the star of the movie, Lou Diamond Phillips, about landing his big break, inhabiting the role of Chicano music icon Richie Valens, and bonding w…
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From their humble beginnings to their now viral and addictive mobile games, Solon Chen, the Co-Founder and Studio Manager of Kooapps Philipines joins us to talk about what it takes to create a successful mobile game from conception, development, launch, and monetization. This episode's key insights: Understanding which ideas you can act on and exec…
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In this episode, we feature Andro Baluyut, Founder and CEO of GameOps, to talk about the importance of finding a player support partner for video games that specializes in providing support for games. In this feature, we discuss: What's the difference between Customer Support VS Player Support? Understanding the impact of the kinds of issues games …
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“I remember saying to myself, ‘that’s my part.’” For the season two premiere of More Than a Movie, we sat down with Andy Garcia to discuss the path to his legendary acting career, navigating Hollywood as a Latino, and manifesting his role as the successor to the most notorious crime boss in film history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info…
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On this season of More Than a Movie, host Alex Fumero takes us through some of our favorite films that have impacted Latino Cinema. From Andy Garcia’s 1990 breakout role in Godfather III to Natalie Morales’s 2021 double directorial debut with Plan B and Language Lessons, this podcast looks at the story behind the story of Latino movies over the las…
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In More Than A Movie, host Alex Fumero dissects a cultural phenomenon and looks at its impact on different communities. EXILE Content Studio’s latest podcast Shoot the Messenger: Espionage, Murder, & Pegasus Software (subscribe here) is a deep dive into one of the hottest phenomenons today - cybersecurity and spyware. We all use our phones daily, a…
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We recap what we've learned, especially the whirlwind final months when we got to the bottom of what happened here. We set out to find out what happened during and after the production of the movie American Me. It took six months, but we think we've determined who did what, and why they did it. Instead of fuzzy memories and street rumors, we finall…
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A former member of the Mexican Mafia who was in the criminal syndicate at the time of the movie, explains how it all went down. A former member of the Mexican Mafia explains the process of extorting Edward James Olmos and the fallout on the street after the release of the movie, including the reasons for the killings of people who participated. He …
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Danny Haro was Edward James Olmos' right-hand man during his extortion and the production of the movie Danny Haro worked with Edward James Olmos throughout his career and was instrumental as the link between the filmmaker and the Mexican Mafia. He coordinated the delivery of the script to the prison and served as the go-between for Olmos and the Me…
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Antoinette Levine was one of the best-known location managers in Hollywood when Edward James Olmos asked her to get him into a prison. Antoinette Levine was one of the premier Hollywood location managers in the early 1990s, with a talent for finding gritty Los Angeles backdrops for directors like Tony Scott. When she pitched Edward James Olmos on h…
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While American Me was being filmed, a documentary was being shot behind the scenes following the real-life gangsters who were working on the movie. Filmmakers Susan Todd and Andy Young join the podcast to talk about "Lives In Hazard" the documentary they made behind the scenes about the neighborhood gang members and the inmates at Folsom who were i…
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Writer Erick Galindo grew up with American Me and remembers vividly the impact it had on the streets of L.A. Podcaster and writer Erick Galindo doesn't hold back in the recounting of his childhood in East and Southeast LA in the 1990s. And in those days, the movie that every kid in the barrio knew backwards and forwards was American Me. Erick says …
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Milton Grimes represented a Mexican Mafia leader who sued the production of American Me for stealing his life story. Milton Grimes represented Rodney King after his beating by the LAPD. He has served as a defense attorney in nine death penalty cases in 56 jury trials, and once got the call to represent notorious gang leader Joe “Peg Leg“ Morgan in …
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Actor Sal Lopez spent months close to Edward James Olmos on the set of American Me and remembers the day he was told that people from the movie were dying. Sal Lopez trained as a dancer, but his real breakout was when he went to his first casting call. Sal was part of the first wave of Mexican American actors to break into the mainstream, and Ameri…
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The actors who played Puppet and Little Puppet, Danny de la Paz and Daniel Villarreal, share their experiences on-set and in the aftermath. Danny de la Paz (Puppet) and Daniel Villarreal (Little Puppet) weren't just actors cast in American Me — they were part of a family of actors and filmmakers assembled by Edward James Olmos over the years that c…
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Actor Jacob Vargas shares his experience on and off screen with gangs, movies and American Me. Jacob Vargas caught a big break when at the age of 20 he was tapped to play Paulito in American Me. Since then he's had a career most actors would envy and continues starring in TV and film even today. How has he thrived as a Latino in Hollywood? What was…
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Edward James Olmos is one of the most decorated and respected actors alive, especially in the Latino community. Who is the man responsible for American Me, and why did he make it? Most of us know Edward James Olmos as a legendary actor, but he's also an activist who for decades has worked on behalf of Latino causes from Hollywood to Washington D.C.…
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American Me was supposed to help end gang violence — instead, it may have led to the murders of at least three people. Host Alex Fumero unpacks the story of American Me, a film directed by legendary Latino actor Edward James Olmos, and his choice to base the film on a real-life gang called the Mexican Mafia or La Eme. Did Olmos' decision to fiction…
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