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Filmmaker Marco Castro-Bojorquez Among Nine LGBT Artists Honored At “White House Champions Of Change” Ceremony

ThinkstockPhotos-78723589Atwater Village filmmaker Marco Castro-Bojorquez will be among nine lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artists honored as “White House Champions of Change” at a ceremony today in Washington, D.C.

Castro-Bojorquez has produced several short films and documentaries. In 2013 he released the short film “Tres Gotas de Agua” (“Three Drops of Water”) about Latina immigrant mothers and the impact of their children’s coming out process.

Castro-Bojorquez’s documentary about Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBT children as they come out of the closet, “El Canto del Colibri” (“The Hummingbird’s Song”) premiered in June at San Francisco’s Frameline 39 film festival. It was recently shown at a festival in Ecuador.

Castro-Bojorquez is the community educator in Lambda Legal’s Western Regional Office in Los Angeles. He is responsible for the coordination and implementation of the various educational and advocacy efforts for the nation’s oldest and largest legal organization fighting on behalf of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV.

Senior Adviser to the President Valerie Jarrett and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro are scheduled to speak at the program at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which will also include screenings of the Amazon Studios comedy series “Transparent” and the film drama “The Danish Girl,” about one of the first sex-change operation, set to be released Friday.

The program will be streamed live at whitehouse.gov/live beginning at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. It comes three days after Transgender Remembrance Day.

The Champions of Change program was created by the Obama administration as an opportunity for the White House to feature individuals, businesses and organizations doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities.

 

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