MPAA makes run for the border

March 24, 2008 The MPAA is sponsoring a U.S.-Mexico Border States Conference at the University of Arizona in Tucson on Thursday and Friday to address bilateral issues related to filmmaking, economic development and intellectual property protection. Producer Frida Torresblanco, who heads up Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's Esperanto Films shingle, will give the keynote speech at the Student Union Memorial Center at noon Thursday. Industry guests slated to attend the workshop include Panamax Films production chief Ben Odell, MPAA president Bob Pisano, "Babel" still photographer Eniac Martinez and Carlos Gutierrez, co-founder of Latin American film distributor Cinema Tropical.

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