We
are a production collective, who show and distributes documentaries, focusing
in social, political, gender, sexual orientation and human rights Issues,
and ones in a while we produce drama to relax about the injustice.
Our mission is to give the information that Television and “official”
Media do Not give. We try to get our cameras everywhere to show you real
news and real documentaries.
We
also work as a freelance producers for other organizations and news media,
magazines, newspapers etc...
Keep supporting our work by buying our documentaries and footage.
Somos
un equipo de production que produce, exhibe y distribuye documentales
en video, con temas y enfoques diferentes de la televisión comercial.
Nosotras producimos la verdad, las realidades de nuestro planeta tierra,
hablamos de Derechos Humanos, Derechos de Genero, de Orientacion Sexual,
Cultura, Politica y una que otra Novela.
Nuestra mision es tambien dar a conocer lo que NO se dice en los medios
oficiales y a travez de los lentes de las camaras te trataremos de llevar
la informacion oculta.
Tambien
trabajamos como productores independientes para periodicos, revistas,
organizaciones o canales de television.
Con la venta de estos documentales podemos seguir produciendo y enseñando
la injusticia social.
Las Perlas del Mar
info@lasperlasdelmarfilms.com
Directora
Artistica
Artisic Director
Alex Flores
A
Latin American Eco-feminist and social justice activist to the core is
an independent visual artist and Film-maker, born in Mexico. Alex has
worked in a variety of mediums: Acrylics, Wood, mosaics, and recyclable
objects, she Graduated as a teacher in 1988, in Mexico City.
Alex moved to San Francisco California in 1989, where she learn carpentry,
her furniture design has been showing in different galleries in Texas,
San Francisco and Mexico city. Alex moved to Toronto Canada in the spring
of 2001 and in 2003 she created Las Perlas del Mar Films Collective, a
group of Hispanics that teach & produce films based on social and
cultural issues. She is the Artisitic Director of Las Perlas del Mar Films,
she writes, directs and edit in the present time, Alex also teaches workshops
in how produce a movie from start to finish.
Alex paintings has been show in different galleries in Toronto and magazine’s
front pages.
Alex film & videos has been show in several Interantional Film Ferstivals
in Toronto, United States, Europe, Mexico and Asia.
alex@lasperlasdelmarfilms.com
www.alexarte.com
Silvia
Méndez
Free-lance Journalist
Silvia
Méndez is a Mexican Journalist and Communications Analyst.
She was formerly Director of Media and Public Relations for Grupo
MPI, and Editor-in Chief of 4 publications for Editorial Campus Tierra,
in Mexico City. Now she is CEO of Tandem Media & Communications Ltd.,
a Communications and Public Relations agency, and Spanish Translator-in
Chief at Esprit International, in Toronto.
As a Journalist and Correspondent, she writes for periodical publications
in Canada, United States, Mexico and Spain, and is the Editor-in Chief
of Living Fashion Magazine.
Silvia has interviewed personalities such as Juan Carlos, King of Spain, Stephen Harper, Paul Martin, Rigoberta Menchú, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Carlos Fuentes, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Alan García, Vicente Fox, Shakira, Britney Spears, Nicolas Cage, Pierce Brosnan and Sandra Bullock, among others.
silvia@lasperlasdelmarfilms.com
Gricel
Severino
Filmmaker
Gricel Severino, is a Latin From Venezuela. Writer, actress, theatre director,
video maker, and drag king performer.
Her video PAPI was screening at A Space gallery, Inside out film festival
as well many different films festival in Canada and abroad.
As an actor and theatre director she has been done several plays, in Canada
and Venezuela.
As a Drag king she has been performing for various solidarity events,
as well the queer bars around Toronto, Sexing Change Conference, Pride
2004, 2002, 2001 at Love Garden stage, Mayworks Festival, Power Femme
Cabaret and US in the second International Drag King Extravaganza Ohio.