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J.B. Gorsiraweg #1, Willemstad, Curaao, Netherlands AntillesTel: 461-3066 Fax: 461-6489

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 3, 2014Contact: W.J. Remie Phone: 461-3066 ext. 2240

American Consulate and CIFFR Organize Filmmaking Workshops for

Schools

The U.S. Consulate General Curacao, in cooperation with the organizers of the CuracaoInternational Film Festival Rotterdam (CIFFR), is organizing a series of workshops February 5-11, 2014. The workshops will focus on showing students how they can become filmmakersthemselves.

The U.S. Consulate has invited Carmen Marron, a successful Mexican-American filmmakerand the founder of Sparkhope Productions, to direct the workshops. Sparkhope is dedicated tocreating films that bring awareness to womens issues and support cultural diversity. Ms.Marron is also a popular motivational speaker and experienced youth counselor.

Ms. Marron will lead various workshops, classroom presentations and screenings together withstudents and teachers at Albert Schweitzer Havo\VWO, Skuchami, Maria Immaculata Lyceum,St. Paulus VSBO, The International School of Curacao, and the U.S. Consulate.

Carmen Marron grew up in the inner-city of Chicago as one of ten children of immigrantparents from Mexico. She earned a Bachelors in Business Administration from DePaulUniversity and a Masters in Educational Psychology from the University of Arizona. Carmenbegan her filmmaking aspirations in Arizona while she was a guidance counselor for high-riskelementary school children in South Phoenix. It was then that she began writing thescreenplay, GO FOR IT! as a response to the disparity in role models for minorities and their

reverence for violence on TV and in film. GO FOR IT! represents the reality of socio-economically disadvantaged youth and addresses the societal issues they face whileintegrating the cool underground world of street dance.

After completing her screenplay, she moved to Los Angeles and worked relentlessly on turningher script into a feature film. She wrote, directed and produced the feature in Chicago and Los

Angeles. Completing her goal in 2010, GO FOR IT! is now doing the festival circuit and hasrecently won two Audience Awards.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307926/

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