Marine, Public Servant, Kansan by Dennis Raphael Garcia, AWA

Other programs include the Latino Book & Family Festivals (68 have been held since 1997) The National Latino & American Indian Scholarship Directory (182,000 copies in distribution) and Education Begins in the Home (which has given away over 150,000+ books to underserved youth in just 5 years).

Empowering Latino Futures (ELF), formerly Latino Literacy Now, also produces the Int’l Latino Book Awards (3,194 authors honored since 1998) and oversees the Int’l Society of Latino Authors.

These winning books and scripts will be shared with key studios, networks, and production companies that have expressed an interest in increasing the diversity of the content they present. Our hard-working team of judges, professionals in many aspects of the film and television industry, are excited about the possibilities of these books and scripts becoming quality entertainment, especially on the television side of the industry. The books and scripts recognized with this year’s Latino Books into Movies Awards deserve attention from studios and production companies seeking to find quality projects by and about Latinos. One potential answer to help in the creation of movies and TV shows by and about Latinos. No group is more numerically underrepresented on television and in the movies here in the United States than Latinos.Ĭreating successful TV shows and movies starts with the script and because of that Empowering Latino Futures created in 2010 the Latino Books into Movies Awards. Movies and television are powerful tools for conveying ideas and culture to others that have not experienced those feelings and reinforcing those cultures for those who are a part of it. The subject of the book, “Ernie” is also a Garden City native. GARDEN CITY, KANSAS, UNITED STATES, Ap/ / - Garden City, Kansas native, Dennis Raphael Garcia, wins Second Place in the Biography Category at the The Latino Books Into Movies Awards for his book, Marine, Public Servant, Kansan: The Life of Ernest Garcia, published by University Press of Kansas. Valerie Mendoza, Lecturer in American Studies, University of Kansas

Marine, Public Servant, Kansan by Dennis Raphael Garcia, AWA