BOOK
I, Latina?: My Year of Tripping Through My Ancestral DNA, Running the Fuku Down, and Making Peace With My Dad Along the Way
Raquel Cepeda's I, LATINA?: My Year of Tripping Through my Ancestral DNA, Running The Fuku Down, and Making Peace with my Dad along the Way, a chronicle of her year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry through the science of DNA testing, and looking at what it means to be Latina in a "post-racial" America, was sold to Atria Books/Simon & Schuster. October, 2010.
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FILM
Before I Deconstruct
Before I Deconstruct (Latino in America DNA Project) is a feature documentary project exploring issues of race and identity in the community through the science of DNA testing and the lore of first- and second-generation migration stories. By using genetic analysis of prominent and ordinary Latino-Americans across the nation, the film will take an unlikely and innovative approach in exploring identity and grappling with deeper issues and nu- ances within the Latino community. Told from a personal point of view, director and producer Raquel Cepeda drives the project and participates in her own genetic adventure beginning in New York City via the Dominican Republic, Morocco, Guinea-Bissau, and Southern Spain. Coproduced with Steve Zeitlin (From Mambo to Hip-Hop) for City Lore, and Henry Chalfant (Style Wars, From Mambo to Hip-Hop, Flying Cut Sleeves).
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Morocco Trip: Production Photos
PHOTOS BY LISA LEONE
Blow Us Up!
blow us up!, a feature documentary in where Texas diamond entrepreneur and hip-hop star Paul Wall examines the legacy of war as he reaches out to U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians poisoned by Agent Orange and wonders if uranium used in weapons in this Iraqi war and the first one could be a lasting reminder of this generation's war. As his social consciousness deepens, he finds the future in the past. Co-produced by Libby Handros and John Kirby for Means of Production.
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