Filmography of CineVeliz

Danny Ortega is imprisoned for a crime of justice at a very young age. After 17 years in prison, he returns to his town of Houston to find that crime and drugs have overturned what he once called home. When he attempts to rebuild his life, the lust for power overtakes him and launches him into the world that he always dreaded.

When his native town of Sabinas Hidalgo can no longer provide more than nightly beans and tortillas, Mexican peasant worker Macario finds himself uncontrollably drawn to thoughts of crossing the border to provide a better life for his family. His struggle worsens by the loss of his job as a ranch hand and he can no longer wait. Macario and his best friend set out on the dangerous journey north, guided by faith, determination and a watchful holy eye. The story was inspired by true events.

Alvaro Estevez is the proud owner of what used to be the most prominent Jewelry Store in downtown Los Angeles. Though Alvaro’s business was considerably profitable just a few years ago, the competition is threatening to put him out of business. Desperate and about to face financial ruin, Alvaro conceives of a plan that will save his business. Alvaro plans a heist against his own store! He will Hire a gang to rob his store, and then make a false claim to his insurance company. Alvaro believes all the pieces are in place to defraud the bank and make the biggest heist of his life. But his plans fall apart when the very own gang he hired takes his wife hostage. Alvaro must figure out a way to rescue his wife and escape with his life in the twisted Latino Heist Movie!

Pablo Véliz, director of the 2006 official Sundance selection, La Tragedia de Macario, creates his second feature film, Clemente, in honor of the continuous immigrant struggle in America. Clemente, an immigrant from Mexico, lives with his wife Lorena and daughter Dalia in San Antonio, Texas where he works as a mechanic, and as a luchador on the weekends. Lorena, an American from a Mexican family understands the complexities of her husband's legal status and tries to assist him in getting his green card. She visits her lawyer to see what progress has been made on her husband's case, only to find that his story is one among many and that it takes years to receive legal status. Clemente, a loving father and husband, struggles to keep his family united amidst poverty and the ever-present immigrant oppression they face daily. Despite all of his efforts, misfortune arrives when Clemente is deported, breaking up his family and launching him into a journey back home that challenges his life and faith.

Shortly after completion of the film, our mission for distribution began. We now have acquired representation by Ostrow and Company and are on our way to the Toronto Film Market in September and then to the American Film Market in Santa Monica this November.

We are now raising funds to pay for the marketing and promotion involved with selling the film to a potential distributor. The money will go to prints, ads, screeners, booths, etc. This is a great challenge, but with the backing from a producer's representative, good promotional material, and one last strong push, we are confident that we can get our film sold and distributed throughout the U.S. and beyond.

We ask that you please join us in this last effort no matter how big or small your contribution may be. Thanks for all the support from our San Antonio community and friends, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Our Project's page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1914519352/lets-take-cyn-to-toronto-and-afm

Pablo Veliz
Director and Writer

ABOUT THE FILM:
CARLA IS ONE OF MILLIONS OF YOUNG LATINAS who form the permanent U.S. sub- culture of the children of undocumented workers. Growing up in the U.S.—“the other side” in the common parlance of Mexico—she is “neither from here nor there,” her life enmeshed in an uneasy truce between mutually dependent peoples.

As a young child, Carla aspires to become a physician, hoping one day to cure her beloved but chronically ill grandfather. Her dream is encouraged by her family’s simple, powerful love as she moves from one academic victory to the next.

Yet her family’s legal status—and their hardscrabble efforts to eke out a meager existence—anchors Carla to a fading past even as she forges toward an expect- ant future. Full of fire and hope after college graduation, Carla faces full force the consequences of her legal status, and her vision of medical school is soon abandoned.

As Carla navigates these new and treacherous waters of disappointment, her story occasionally glances off that of Krupa, an Indian girl escaping a painful personal event. In the story’s climax, their very separate experiences fully inter- sect in a single moment of forgiveness and redemption.

These are the children of the DREAM Act. And it is for them that writer and director Pablo Veliz (director of La Trajedia de Macario, Sundance 2006 Official Selection) creates this timeless story of the immigrant’s relentless pursuit of dreams that seemingly lie just beyond reach.

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When a woman who survived a vicious gang attack suddenly finds herself the proud owner of $2.5 million in dirty money she makes a run for the border in this thriller starring Brenda Estella Rojas and Brent Bratton. Camilla is lucky to be alive. A street smart girl who somehow managed to survive a harrowing gang hit Camilla soon discovers a tidy sum of cash from a drug deal gone wrong. Now in order to keep the cash and stay one step ahead of the men who want it back Camilla will enlist the aid of mysterious cowboy Cain in navigating the back trails to Mexico. Should she get there fast enough she may be able to start a new life away from her many troubles back home. But this isn't going to be an easy trip and every moment that Camilla hesitates could be her last.