This Boy’s Vida: Made in America has been awarded the Top Prize for Dramatic Pilot Writing (Joseph Castillo-Midyett) and the prestigious Caz Matthews Award at their recent SeriesFest world premiere.
Jury Statement: For the detailed and empathetic portrait of a boy in a world seldom depicted on television, the script that touched our hearts and made us want to see the next chapter in this boy’s life, the writing prize goes to Joseph Castillo-Midyett.
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This Boy’s Vida: Made in America Series’s Logline: With the help of his imaginary future self, an American Latino boy who dreams of being an actor turns “Robin Hood” to feed his starving sisters, until the system catches up with him and forces him to choose between his family or dreams.
The Caz Matthews Award, which includes a one-time financial donation from the Caz Matthews Fund, honors “independent filmmakers who have important stories to tell and have the desire to both create work as well as find distribution opportunities that further promote tolerance, acceptance and understanding of all cultures and persons in the general population.”
“I want to thank SeriesFest and Caz Matthews for being true allies,” says Joseph Castillo-Midyett. “This is the story of SO many Americans TODAY.”
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