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Luis Valdez Remembers
César Chávez
and What the Future Holds - Nets Glendale Arizona Producer a 2008
Telly News Award
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(Glendale
Daily Planet) (Glendale AZ) Ed Sharpe director of CouryGraph Productions, who oversees The Glendale Daily Planet - KKAT Streaming TV, Glendale's homegrown Internet video news source, received
a 2008 Telly Award in recognition of news excellence for Luis
Valdez - Remembers César Chávez
and What the Future Holds
Sharpe received the Bronze Award for a 32 minute movie documenting
the Keynote Address
Luis
Valdez presented for the 4th annual César Chávez Breakfast event
held at the Glendale
Arizona Civic Center in the heart of downtown Glendale. The event
was held 7:30 a.m. Friday March 30, 2007.
Luis
Valdez Presented the keynote
address for the César Chávez Breakfast
held at the Glendale
Arizona Civic Center
The 29th annual Telly Awards received in excess of 14,000 entries
this year from 50 states and foreign countries.
"It is honor to receive a highly respected national award for work in
showcasing events that take place in our city,"
Sharpe said. "The Telly awards highlight the high standards of excellence we wish to achieve. In addition, it is our wish to provide our viewership with information they can trust and enjoy."
 Sharpe said,
"This is yet another event at our city's civic center that was not
only entertaining but also extremely educational. It was an honor to
attend this event celebrating César Chávez's life, and to hear Luis
Valdez speak about their trials and tribulations was awe inspiring."
Luis Valdez related to when he first
pitched the idea of El Teatro Campesino to farm-worker
champion César Chávez, who replied there was no money to fund it!
Valdez didn't let that stop him.
Ed Sharpe and Luis Valdez
Sharpe was on hand taping the segment for KKAT-IPTV / Glendale Daily
Planet
Luis Valdez
was also the writer and director of "La
Bamba: The Richie Valens Story" the legendary young Hispanic
composer of LA BAMBA and other popular songs. In
addition Valdez directed "ZOOT SUIT" a
movie mixing history with creative fiction about the Zoot Suit
Riots.
 The
Glendale Chamber Foundation, who sponsored the fourth-annual César
Chávez Breakfast
at the Glendale Civic Center ballroom. presented the Cesar Chavez
Foundation with a check for $5000 also that morning!
Martin
Samaniego (at left), Chairman of the Chamber Foundation Board said, "The Foundation is pleased to be able to support a number of
diversity educational efforts."
Samaniego remarked, "The
Foundation wishes to congratulate Ed Sharpe on winning a Telly Award.
We appreciate his coverage of local events and it is really an honor for
our Foundation event to be acknowledged with this award."
Other Accolades
for the CouryGraph César Chávez Breakfast Event Documentary efforts
The entire web
presentation with consisted of the webpage with text and still
photos and links and also this video won an Arizona Press Club
Award this year also.
See
the entire article
http://www.glendaledailyplanet.com/chavez_2007.htm
 Judges said,
“We picked the
Chávez
piece as the
only winner in this category because it made use of multiple media. There
was a video, photos, links to resources, historical text and a quiz. The
piece tried to tell the full story ofCésar
E. Chávez
and how Luis Valdez
was influenced by him. Online projects should always attempt to tell a
story in a manner that best suits the medium. The multiple media here were
used to their full advantage..."
See
AZ Press Club Award Article... http://www.glendaledailyplanet.com/arizona_press_club.htm
Valdez poised the question to the audience:
"To whom does the future belong?"
WATCH
THE VIDEO GET THE ANSWER!
Watch
a video of Luis Valdez's keynote address!
http://www.glendaledailyplanet.com/media/GLOBE%20VEGAS%20LUIS%20256.wmv
About CouryGraph Productions / Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV in Glendale, AZ
Glendale Daily Planet, the parent organization of KKAT-IPTV was started in 2004 as the first community journalism news site in Glendale and perhaps all of Arizona... Serving The Metro West Side of the Valley of the Sun, Glendale Daily Planet has witnessed, participated in and recorded the further rejuvenation of the downtown core, the meteoric rise of the 'Glendale Sports Empire' and the restoration of historic sections of the town.
One aspect Sharpe is most proud of is the ability to have a continuous 24/7 stream of archived footage in the player but yet, when a special event arises, have the ability to go live interrupting the pre-programmed content to cover the event. With the advent of higher speed EVDO radio cards and compact portable satellite terminals the options are limitless.
See at www.glendaledailyplanet.com
About Luis Valdez and El Teatro
Campesino
Luis Valdez was born in Delano, California, in
1940 in a migrant labor camp. Chávez's family moved in nearby a year
later. Valdez experienced firsthand the harsh life of migrant farm
laborers.
During the famous 1965 Grape Strike
strike in California, Valdez had joined Chávez
in his efforts to
organize the farm workers of Delano. It was there that Valdez
brought together farm workers and students to found El Teatro
Campesino (the Workers' Theater). Chávez's activism inspired Valdez
to go ahead with the theater group, which still operates today at
the historic Mission San Juan Bautista in California. They also have
an online shop if you would like to purchase some of Luis Valdez's works See: http://www.elteatrocampesino.com/
About Luis Valdez
and "La Bamba: The Richie Valens
Story" and other
achievement in the TV and film world see:
Luis Valdez on
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0883609/
About Glendale Chamber
Foundation
The Chamber
Foundation is a charitable 501(C)3 charitable corporation whose
purpose it is to promote diversity and tolerance education in
Glendale area businesses and schools. For further information see: http://glendaleazchamber.org/Chamber-Foundation.html
About the Telly Awards
Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest film and video productions, and groundbreaking web commercials, videos and films. Winners represent the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, and corporate video departments in the world.
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