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Jim Mendiola (born in San Antonio, Texas, United States) is a Los Angeles based writer/director. His award-winning film Pretty Vacant (33 min., 16mm, 1996), about a Sex Pistols obsessed Chicana punk rocker, has screened in numerous film festivals, museums, and colleges in the United States and Mexico, including South By Southwest (Best ...
Writer and director Jim Mendiola divides his time between his native San Antonio, Texas and San Francisco, California. A man of many talents, he served as the first Media Arts Curator at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and he served as Director of the San Antonio CineFestival.
Sep 11, 1997 · The last words in this energetic, low-budget, 33-minute film by Jim Mendiola, spoken by its narrator, Molly (Mariana Vasquez)–a 21-year-old Chicana who drums for an all-girl punk band and is...
Nov 8, 2001 · Jim Mendiola is a filmmaker and fourth-generation Mexican-American who explores regional history and culture from a Latino perspective. For his ArtPace residency, he collaborated with Rubén Ortiz-Torres on a project about the Alamo, a symbol of Texas's independence from Mexico.
Jim Mendiola is a Los Angeles based writer/director who has made films about punk rock, Chicano culture, and 3-D technology. He is a Screenwriting Lab alum and a contributor to the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Pretty Vacant. “The movie’s all told in voice-over–it’s cheaper that way.”. The last words in this energetic, low-budget, 33-minute film by Jim Mendiola, spoken by its narrator, Molly (Mariana Vasquez)–a 21-year-old Chicana who drums for an all-girl punk band and is working on the fifth issue of her zine, this one in Super-8–are a ...
Jim Mendiola is an independent filmmaker, curator, and writer based in Texas. A Rockefeller Intercultural Media Fellow, Mendiola's films have screened in numerous film festivals, museums, and colleges in the U.S., Mexico and Europe, public television and cable TV.
