How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer film poster

Photos and video: Grupo Najera, Maya Releasing 

On May 16, 2008 Maya Releasing will release How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, a story of three generations of Mexican American women in one family who experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer, in theatres across the country. Scroll down to watch movie video clip.

The 128-minute feature was written, produced and directed by Georgina Garcia Riedel who was inspired by her 70-year old grandmother’s desire to buy a car. It stars Rick Najera, America Ferrera, Steven Bauer and Elizabeth Peña.

Actor Rick Najera

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer was originally screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The film has also been screened in festivals in Sao Paulo, Austria, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Stockholm and Sydney. 

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Improve your outreach programs by understanding
how Latinos see themselves - listen to  

“Latino Identity and Situational Latinidad ” audio recording

 

Presenters Diana Rios and Ph.D., Federico Subervi, Ph.D.

Find out

• Who is Latino
• Assimilation, acculturation and pluralism
• Hispanic culture dynamics affecting Latino
• Role of Latino identity
• Three factors that contribute to Latino identity

Click here for information on Latino Identity and Situational Latinidad

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As sweltering summer stretches over an Arizona border town, Doña Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), the Garcia family matriarch, buys a car even though she doesn’t know how to drive. She recruits Don Pedro to teach her to drive and sparks begin to fly. Her daughter, Lolita (Elizabeth Peña), also enters into a romantic sizzle at the butcher shop
where she works. At the same time, Lolita’s teenage daughter, Blanca (America Ferrera) is experiencing her own awakening.Maya Releasing is owned by Maya Entertainment, which was created by producer Moctesuma Esparza. The vertically integrated production, distribution and exhibition company also owns Maya Cinemas and Maya Pictures and targets the growing United States Latino market.

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Photo: starMedia 

French owned starMedia continues to reach out to Latinos in the Americas. It recently launched starMedia EntertaiNEWS, the first of three new channels it plans for this year. The new portal is an online channel designed to bring Spanish-speakers in the United States global entertainment news and programming. Developed with C3 Entertainment, the portal recaps the week’s most important entertainment news and lists information about concerts, movies, theater and other cultural events.

Juan José Nuñez, COO, starMedia

“As a subsidiary of one of the world’s leading media organizations, starMedia accesses an extraordinary variety of content. That allows us to continue developing and introducing a new generation of services and resources for our users and advertisers,” said Juan José Nuñez, chief operating officer, starMedia. “StarMedia EntertaiNEWS is the first of a series of new offerings we look forward to launching over the next few months. StarMedia continues to affirm its market leadership position by introducing diverse and relevant content for its U.S. Hispanic audience. We’re totally committed to empowering our users with information and entertainment they value.”

Visitors to the new website can also watch movie previews and other video clips; peruse celebrity photos of the week; and receive entertainment reports. StarMedia plans a weekly a headliner show, a humorous five-minute news Webisodio or webcast sponsored by Toyota. A video capsule features popular entertainers, box office trailers, interviews and celebrity news and gossip.

StarMedia.com is a free-to-web service connecting three million Spanish-speakers online in the United States and 24 million overall. StarMedia has local operations in Mexico, Spain and the United States (Los Angeles, Miami and New York). Orange, starMedia’s parent company, is a subsidiary of the France Telecom Group. C3 is a privately-held entertainment company founded in 1959.

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Find out what multicultural kids across America think
Listen to Michele Valdovinos, SVP, Phoenix Multicultural in

“Marketing to Multicultural Kids” audio recording

Michele Valdovinos gives a presentation and participates in an extended Q&A discussion about multicultural children based on a Phoenix Multicultural and Nickelodeon study of 1,300 multicultural children in 16 United States markets.

Find out about

• The Phoenix Multicultural Kids Study
• Relationship between children and their context
• Issues relating to family, technology and media, diversity, buying power, relationships in household, self perception, values, acculturation, cultural heritage, frequency of media activity, income and spending, brand preferences, the American Dream
• How many billions of dollars buying power multicultural kids children have
• Children’s spending attitudes, habits by ethnicity
• How much money a year Hispanic kids have available to spend
• Types of products Hispanic kids buy

Click here for information on “Marketing to Multicultural Kids”

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Hispanic Heritage CD cover

Photos: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Although 98 percent of Encyclopaedia Britannica products are in English, in 2004 the company began offering a limited selection of CD-ROM products for United States Latinos. The products, available online and through special promotions, are Hispanic Heritage in English; Britannica Junior Visual Dictionary in English, French and Spanish; Enciclopedia Compacta Britannica in Spanish; and Merriam-Webster’s Spanish English Dictionary. 

Steve Gilberg, director of Promotions and Licensing, Encyclopaedia Britannica

“We offer highly-relevant CD-ROM premiums for Hispanic marketing campaigns.  They’re affordable, flat and postal-friendly,” said Steve Gilberg, director of Promotions and Licensing, Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Hispanic Heritage, for example, outlines people, history, places, events, and traditions the company’s editors believe shape Hispanic culture in South, Central, and North America. The CD includes biographies of notable figures including Simón Bolívar, Fidel Castro, Roberto Clemente, Oscar de la Renta, Plácido Domingo, José Ferrer, Vicente Fox, Alberto Gonzales, Che Guevara, Frida Kahlo, Jennifer Lopez, Eva Perón, Juan Ponce de León, Saint Martín de Porres, Carlos Santana, and Sammy Sosa.

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Find out what multicultural kids across America think
Listen to Michele Valdovinos, SVP, Phoenix Multicultural in

“Marketing to Multicultural Kids” audio recording

Michele Valdovinos gives a presentation and participates in an extended Q&A discussion about multicultural children based on a Phoenix Multicultural and Nickelodeon study of 1,300 multicultural children in 16 United States markets.

Find out about

• The Phoenix Multicultural Kids Study
• Relationship between children and their context
• Issues relating to family, technology and media, diversity, buying power, relationships in household, self perception, values, acculturation, cultural heritage, frequency of media activity, income and spending, brand preferences, the American Dream
• How many billions of dollars buying power multicultural kids children have
• Children’s spending attitudes, habits by ethnicity
• How much money a year Hispanic kids have available to spend
• Types of products Hispanic kids buy

Click here for information on “Marketing to Multicultural Kids”

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There is information about individual countries and World Heritage sites like Cuzco in the Peruvian Andes, Quito, and Mexico City; as well as the history and culture of Hispanics and their impact on the world; the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; the Panama Canal; the Spanish-American War; the Bay of Pigs invasion; Latin American literature, and Latin music.

Britannica Junior Visual Dictionary cover

There are also speeches, writings, and historical documents such as a letter from the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes describing Mexico City to Emperor Charles V, king of Spain; the Nobel Prize lecture of writer Octavio Paz. There are multimedia items on Mayan ruins, the voyages of Christopher Columbus, and Argentine gauchos at work.

The retail price for each of these CDs is $19.95 (Jr. Visual Dictionary is $29.95). Promotional pricing depends on quantity ordered and the exact type of packaging. Annual sales average about 10,000 each of the Hispanic Heritage (English-language) and Enciclopedia Compacta Britannica (Spanish-language) CDs. The products are available at the Britannica eStore.

Enciclopedia Compacta Britannica cover

Some of the software is also sold in school fund-raising catalogs like Scholastic and Reader’s Digest/QSP. They can also be found as part of promotional give-aways, or premiums, to support the ethnic marketing or Back-to-School marketing campaigns of third parties like Kellogg and General Mills who distribute them as a premium in in-pack, near-pack, and mail-in formats.

Encyclopaedia Britannica also owns Merriam-Webster, Inc., the dictionary publisher. Those products, including a handful in Spanish, are also available for online purchase. Although Encyclopaedia Britannica representatives don’t know who exactly is buying them, according to Gilberg, they sell “pretty well.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is a leading provider of learning and knowledge products.

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Click here to buy Encyclopedia Britannica Hispanic Heritage 

and

Enciclopedia Compacta Britannica

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America’s population growth by racial and ethnic groups - click on image to enlarge

According to the latest Census Bureau updates, more than one third of Americans is from racial and ethnic minorities. Hispanics continue to grow faster than any other group, exceeding 15 percent of the overall population for the first time last year. At the same time, children of racial and ethnic minorities continue to exhibit significant growth. Hawaii was the only state where the share of non Hispanic white children rose.

High fertility and immigration are prompting the growth of Asian American and Hispanic populations. This is most evident in youth markets.  In two of the fastest growing states, Florida and Nevada, the majority of children are from ethnic minority groups. Among children five and younger, ethnic and racial minority children are already the majority across the country.

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Target Latinos effectively by anticipating changes in the market with

“Hispanic Projections with 2007-08 update” audio recording

Presenter Roger Selbert, Ph.D.

Find out

• About Latino buying power growth in the future
• How Latino market growth compares with other markets in the U.S.
• What drives the rise of Latino economic clout
• Who should target the Latino market
• What is the size of the Hispanic affluent market
• If the luxury Latino market is growing

Stay ahead of your competion with “Hispanic Projections”

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An example of the growth patterns sweeping the country is Florida. The Sunshine State had been the top state in non Hispanic white population increases in the past 30 years. In 2005, its non Hispanic white population mushroomed by 123,000; in 2006 the same segment grew by 67,000. In 2007, there were only 4,000 new non Hispanic whites in the state.

At the national level, between 2006 and 2007 the Hispanic population grew 3.3 percent; while the Asian population grew by 2.9 percent; the black population grew 1.3 percent; and growth among non Hispanic whites was only 0.3 percent. At the same time, minorities concentrated in certain parts of the country. Almost one third of America’s minorities live in California and Texas. Texas gained the greatest number of Hispanic residents between 2006 and 2007.

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Listen to Cesar Melgoza discuss 

“Changing Latino Landscape” audio recording

Presenter Cesar Melgoza, managing director, Latin Force Group

Find out about

• How demographic, social, political and economic factors affect Latinos
• Number of Hispanics in U.S.
• Hispanics as a percent of the mainstream population
• Number of Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico
• Hispanics, including Puerto Rico, as a percent of U.S. mainstream
• Number of Asians and African Americans
• Estimated size of Hispanic market by 2012
• Percentage growth of new Hispanics per year
• Number of counties where Latinos are majority
• Areas of significant Latino growth
• Area of U.S. with a 950 percent Latino growth
• Role of acculturation
• Hispanicity segmentation

Click here for information on the Changing Latino Landscape

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Katie Delahaye Paine, founder, KDPaine & Partners LLC

Photo: KDPaine & Partners LLC

A podcast interview with Katie Delahaye Paine, founder of KDPaine & Partners LLC, is available in the Podcast Section of Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations, HispanicMPR.com. During the podcast, Katie discusses moving beyond traditional media measurement and measuring conversations and social media and addressing Hispanic market issues with Elena del Valle, host of the HispanicMPR.com podcast.

Katie is the founder of KDPaine & Partners LLC and publisher of the first blog and the first newsletters for marketing and communications professionals dedicated entirely to measurement and accountability. Her book, Measuring Public Relationships, the Data-Driven Communicator’s Guide to Success , was published in December of 2007. She writes KDPaine’s Measurement Blog and publishes The Measurement Standard. Prior to launching KDPaine & Partners in 2002, Katie was the founder and president of The Delahaye Group, which she sold to Medialink in 1999.

She works with, among others, Raytheon, Allstate, Facebook, and Southwest Airlines. Most recently, her endeavors have been focused on social media measurement as well as providing cost effective measurement programs for non-profits, small businesses and government agencies.

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Click here to buy Measuring Public Relationships

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Katie was named the 2007 New Hampshire Woman Business Owner of the Year by the Small Business Administration. In 2006, she was named the Entrepreneurial Venture Creator Person of the Year by the University of New Hampshire and won the Business Excellence Award for Excellence in Media & Marketing from New Hampshire Business Review. 

A Cum Laude graduate of Connecticut College’s class of 1974, Katie majored in history and Asian studies. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from New Hampshire College in May 1996. She is an Athena award winner and a board member of the New Hampshire Political Library. 

To listen to the interview, scroll down until you see “Podcast” on the right hand side, then select “HMPR Katie Delahaye Paine,” click on the play button below or download the MP3 file to your iPod or MP3 player to listen on the go, in your car or at home. To download it, click on the arrow of the recording you wish to copy and save to disk. The podcast will remain listed in the May 2008 section of the podcast archive.

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“Moving Beyond Traditional Media Measurement: measuring conversations and social media” audio recording

Presenter Katie Delahaye Paine, founder,  KDPaine & Partners

Find out about

• Issues affecting online public relationships today
• Testing relationships as part of a survey
• Measuring ethnic group relationships 
• Measuring foreign language communications in a similar ways to English
• Biggest challenges measuring conversations and social media
• Measuring online relationships with little or no money

Click here for information on “Moving Beyond Traditional Media Measurement”

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David Beckham: Life of an Icon DVD cover

Photos, video: Liberation Entertainment/Anchor Bay Entertainment

A new film, David Beckham: Life of an Icon, an unauthorized biography of the well known soccer player, is scheduled for release to the public on DVD May 6 for $19.97. Spotted by sports scouts in a working class neighborhood at the age of 11 he was signed up to play soccer at 14 by Sir Alex Ferguson and went on to become world famous.

The film shares insights on his life from his early days; his meteoric rise in sports and fame, including some moments of Beckham’s life with his famous wife, the birth of his son, and the family’s relocation to the United States. Scroll down to watch promotional videos in English and Spanish for the DVD.

“Soccer is the biggest sport in the Spanish-speaking world and Beckham is its biggest star,” said Matt Kennedy, director of marketing for Liberation Entertainment, the DVD’s distributor. “An estimated 50 percent of the Galaxy’s fans are Hispanic and have been there from day one. They love Beckham, which was evidenced by the fact that more than a quarter million jerseys were purchased before he even played his first Los Angeles game. To them, it’s not whether he came from Guadalajara or East London, it’s that he’s a great soccer player.”

The 77-minute film includes footage from his most important games, as well as family photos supplied by David’s father. The video also features some of Beckham’s greatest moments, commentary from players and journalists as well as pictures and footage. Distributors produced promotional materials in English and Spanish. In addition to the usual mass outreach to media in print, broadcast and online, they also approached Latino media representatives.

David Beckham

David Beckham’s first taste of the U.S. came with a distinctly Latin flavor. At 13 (in 1989), Beckham flew to Texas to compete in the Dallas Cup, a top youth tournament.

“I remember meeting one of the nicest families. When we went there, each player got sort of drafted out to a house with a family and I went to this Mexican-American family,” said Beckham of his experience. “It was amazing; the experience of being part of a real Mexican-American family that loved soccer.” 

That home belonged to Sam and Christine Alcala. Beckham roomed with Mike, Sam and Christine’s son. Every morning Sam would drive them to practice after breakfast. In the evenings, they ate rice, beans and tacos.  

There are five extended interviews in the film: “Brand Beckham,” “The Beckham Phenomenon,” “The Kofi Annan Story,” “Beckham in America,” and “Why Beckham?” with Sir Bobby Charlton, Ellis Cashmore, Andrew Milligan, Jimmy Burns, Steve Bunce and Sasha Pasulka. 

The DVD is divided into the following chapters: Life of an Icon; Style and Fashion; World Cup 1998; The Comeback Kid; World Cup 2002 – Revenge; Worldwide Appeal Brand Beckham; Fallout With Alex Ferguson; Move to Madrid; World Cup 2006; Return to Madrid; and Move Towards Hollywood and Future.

Beckham grew from a modest life as a young boy in his early soccer days to a media star and style icon into a jet-set life. He recently moved with his rock star wife Posh Spice to Hollywood, California. 

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Click here to buy David Beckham: Life Of An Icon

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Limon y Sal clothing 

Photos: Orange Clothing Co. 

Beginning in May 2008, Kmart stores are expected to carry Limon y Sal, a new apparel brand designed for Hispanics. The line is distinctive because it’s designed for young Latinos and the packaging, hang tags, labels, stickers and graphics are in Spanish. The Limon y Sal line includes Spanish one liner tees with graphic designs and seasonal garments.

Sample lines include: “Por eso es que estoy caliente” and “No vine por ustedes vine por ellas y la cerveza.” In addition to the graphic tees, there are screen-printed woven shirts and polo shirts, hoodies, pants and shorts.

“We have a large number of our stores that are centered in the Latino community and we have a strong bond with the Latino community,” said Mike Sablowski, vice president, Menswear, Kmart. “We haven’t offered them apparel. We really think there’s a need for that.”

Limon y Sal Clothing

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Improve your outreach programs by understanding
how Latinos see themselves - listen to  

“Latino Identity and Situational Latinidad ” audio recording

 

Presenters Diana Rios and Ph.D., Federico Subervi, Ph.D.

Find out

• Who is Latino
• Assimilation, acculturation and pluralism
• Hispanic culture dynamics affecting Latino
• Role of Latino identity
• Three factors that contribute to Latino identity

Click here for information on Latino Identity and Situational Latinidad

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The new line will be available in Kmart stores in 154 cities in 19 states and Puerto Rico. The items, made of cotton and cotton polyester blends, are manufactured in Asia and Latin America and priced between $13 and $25. Nestor Camacho, an employee of Orange Clothing and head designer of the Limon y Sal line, and his team designed the clothes.

Founded in 1999, Orange Clothing Co. is a Miami based private label importer, marketer, designer and distributor of clothes for young Latino men. Labels include Revolucion, Gallo Rojo, Red 1996, and Limon y Sal. The company has offices in China and Bangladesh.

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“Emotional Branding: How to capture the heart and mind of the Hispanic consumer” audio recording

 Receive a free downloadable copy.

Click here for your free copy of Emotional Branding

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Welcome to the HispanicMPR Job Ads page!

If you’re looking for a job, scroll down to see job ads. If you want to place an ad, see the next parragraph.

How to place an ad (if you’ve visited this page before June 4, 2007, please read this again as the instructions have changed)

Ads must list an employment opportunity or employment search related to Hispanic marketing, communication, public relations, media, events planning or related fields.

Cost: $100

The first 50 words will appear on the Job Ads main page. If your ad has more than 50 words, the words “click here for more” will appear at the bottom of the ad with a hyperlink to the remaining text.

Add your logo. Want extra visibility? Do you have your company logo in a jpg file (maximum size 100 x 100)? Add your logo for only $50 more.

Cost Job Ad with jpg Logo: only $150

For you convenience you can pay online.

Step One Pay for the ad using the hyperlink below

Step Two After you submit payment using the hyperlink, send the ad by email to sales@hispanicmpr.com . If you’re submitting a Job Ad with jpg Logo submit the job ad and graphic jpg logo at the same time.

Please submit copy in regular fonts with standard capitalization. Note: all caps underline and extra bold are not accepted. Ads are published in black.

Ads will be published within a week (usually much sooner) in the job bank section of our website.

Click here to place a Job Ad $100

Click here to place Job Ad with jpg Logo $150

Thank you!

Job Title: Director of Media Relations and Public Relations

Location: Philadelphia, PA

To Apply: For a complete job description, go to www.AFSC.org/jobs and click on “Current Openings”.  Then, click on the job title for this position.  Submit your resume using the online system.  Contact jobs@afsc.org with questions.

Click here for the full text of Director of Media Relations and Public Relations

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Photo: SBS, MySpace Latino

In an effort to extend their reach MySpace Latino and Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) television and radio properties are partnering to launch a creative campaign they hope will draw one million Spanish speaking Hispanics to MySpace Latino. Plans are to promote “Queremos Un Millón de Amigos” (“We Want a Million Friends”), as the project has been dubbed by marketing staff, on SBS television and radio stations and their websites.

MySpace Latino will provide community, video, instant messaging (IM) platforms and hosting capabilities to SBS, while promoting SBS shows and artists on MySpace Latino. MySpace Latino is expected to add direct links to some SBS shows which company executives hope will create lasting online relationships with its audience.

The Entérate community will be included in the partnership between SBS and MySpace Latino, allowing MySpace Latino users access to entertainment news, fashion, videos, and interviews through LaMusica.com, the SBS portal. The day we visited the website it listed 526 friends.

Cynthia Hudson Fernandez, CCO and EVP, SBS

“This strategic alliance will continue to strengthen our online presence and enhance the user experience of our growing audience,” said Cynthia Hudson Fernandez, chief creative officer and executive vice president for SBS and managing director of Mega TV and SBS Interactive. “We believe that this exciting partnership will help us to better integrate our media properties, enabling us to interact even more with our audience and fans.”

Victor Kong, VP and managing director, MySpace Latino

“Once a week, ‘Especiales MySpace’ or ‘Musica Channel’ will feature SBS shows, artists and DJs”, said Victor Kong, vice president and managing director MySpace Latino. “The show, artist or DJ being featured in MySpace will also have a profile within the site so users can add them to their friends list and be kept up to date with all that’s happening. We’re confident that this interaction will help to drive users to the respective show on the radio and on Mega TV.”

“MySpace Latino will create show specials where users can interact with Mega TV’s talents and personalities through posting comments and questions on their profiles that will be answered either online or on the show. MySpace Latino will also offer users the chance to participate in different contests and know in advance the different topics that will be presented on SBS‘ TV and radio shows.”

MySpace Latino is a Spanish language website designed for Hispanics. Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. is one of the largest publicly traded Hispanic-controlled media and entertainment companies in the United States. SBS owns and operates Mega TV in Miami as well as 20 radio stations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco and Puerto Rico.

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Reach Hispanics online today with

“Marketing to Hispanics Online” audio recording

Identifying and characterizing the booming Hispanic online market

Joel Bary, Alex Carvallo and Matias Perel

Find out about

• The 16 million Latino online users
• Latino online users by gender
• What they do online
• Their language preferences
• How to reach Hispanic urban youth online
• What affects their online behavior
• What influences their purchases

Click here for information about “Marketing to Hispanics Online”

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