In this impassioned conversation with award-winning independent film Director Alex Muñoz, you’ll hear how Alex uses film to change the lives of incarcerated youth in Hawaii, LA and Guam. He then explains how, as an independent filmmaker, he is now no longer restricted in the way he can distribute his content globally through the proprietary software developed by Melbourne-based company, Spondo.

Guest Bio:

Alex Muñoz is an award-winning filmmaker and the Founder and Creative Director of FYI (Films by Youth Inside). The nonprofit organization empowers incarcerated youth via personal story telling and digital film making. Beginning in 2005 the production of short films by and with the wards led to the development of an ethnographic focus in Muñoz’s own films. In such films as “Dilemma” (Premiered at Torrino Film Festival), “Spout” (Premiered at Centre Pompidou in Paris) and the current “AYE FOO” webisode series, this focus can be found suspended between and traversing the formal repertories of documentary and fictional film. More recently, he has applied this focus into documentary projects in the professional sports genre, including a personal portrait of one of the most dynamic point guards playing in the NBA today, Derrick Rose.

Muñoz is a Sundance Fellow, a Rockefeller Foundation Nominee, and USA Artists Nominee.

His Awards Include:
• Best Movie Made-for-TV Movie: Riot (NY Daily News;)
• Best Short Doc: Lil Skrappy Boy (Urban World Film Festival)
• Best PSA: Anti Gang PSA (SHOOT Magazine)
• Best Urban Comedy Webidsode: Tryna Play Some Cards (Urban Media Film Festival)
• Best Domestic Feature Film: Living the Life (NY Latino Film Festival)
• Best Short Narrative Film: Born Fo Bang (UMFF)
• Best Film, Jury Prize: Riot (Geneva Festival)

In This Episode:
• Get ready to be motivated, inspired and driven to do something special with your gift
• Find out what Alex Muñoz, Janet Jackson and Prince have in common
• Don't do it their way... do it your way
• Find out what Alex did after the period of unrest following the Rodney King verdict
• What is Sony doing for FYI films?
• Discover how you can distribute your digital content globally, via a technology platform in Australia

How to find out more about Alex Muñoz:

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• Alex on Facebook | www.facebook.com/aleksmunoz
  
• Alex on Twitter | @aleksmunoz
  

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