Pan Left Productions

Over the weekend of May 24, Pan Left members and others assembled as Team Fun to create a short film as contestants in the Tucson 48 Hour Film Shootout. We spent all day Saturday filming, and all day Sunday in post-production, finishing the editing with about 10 minutes to spare and then driving like a bat out of hell to the Loft Theater to turn in our disc.
Here's the results, in all it's hasty and messy glory.

At the end of February I was supposed to perform live audio and video under my pseudonym, Charismatic Megafauna, at the Dry River experimental art festival, FLOOD. However, I was so busy that I didn't have time to prepare, so instead I showed a slide show with narration that humorously "explained" why I wasn't able to perform, then played a previously made video piece. For y'alls entertainment, this is that slide show turned into a video.

producer / director / editor: JM Aragón

Official Selection of 2008 Nuestras Raices Film Festival
Official Selection and Finalist of 2008 Arizona International Film Festival
Official Selection and Finalist of 2008 SXSWclick Festival

UPDATE: PALESTINE EN SOLIDARIDAD IN THE SXSWclick FESTIVAL! WATCH AND VOTE!
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VOTING ENDS JULY 27!!!
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This is the 10th and final installment in the podcast serialization of the documentary "On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez". This week's segment is the conclusion of the film, titled "What Can Be Done?".

This is the 9th installment in the podcast serialization of the "On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez". This week's segment is about violence against women. Next Monday the series will conclude with the final segment, titled "What Can Be Done?".

On January 25, 2008, the Pima County Republican Women's Club invited to speak at their luncheon the Sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe is the self-described "toughest sheriff in the nation" and is widely known for his controversial enforcement strategies that have cost Maricopa County over 41 million dollars in lawsuits for civil rights violations, as well as his hard line against undocumented migrants.

This video depicts that morning when Tucson activists came out to let Arpaio and the Women's Club know that he was not welcome in Tucson, and neither are his policies.

This is the 8th installment in the podcast serialization of the "On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez". This week's segment is about free trade. Next monday the series will continue with a segment about violence against women.

This is the 7th installment in the podcast serialization of the "On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez". This week's segment is about migration and the border. Next monday the series will continue with a segment about free trade.

This is the 6th installment in the podcast serialization of the "On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez". This week's segment is about narcotrafficking. Next monday the series will continue with a segment about the border and migration.

This is the fifth installment of the podcast consisting of the different sections of "On The Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez", a documentary film I finished in 2006. Every Monday for the next several weeks I will post another section of the film. (To subscribe to the podcast, click here.)

This section is about the corruption of police and other officials, at all levels of government and both sides of the border. The next section, available next week, concerns drug trafficking and the drug war.