Filmmakers
Pablo Miralles – Producer/Director

In late 2011 Pablo Miralles' first feature film under the Arroyo Seco banner, "Gringos at the Gate - Soccer and the US Mexico Divide" will be released. The film examines the history and passion surrounding the national soccer rivalry of the two nations and the special issues of cultural identity and loyalty within the Mexican-American community. 


In 1997 Pablo served as Production Coordinator on Cedar Grove Productions' ACADEMY AWARD winning short film “VISAS AND VIRTUE” and Co-Producer on their EMMY NOMINATED short film, “DAY OF INDEPENDENCE”.

 

Other professional experience has included motion picture and television projects at Mess Media, UBU, CBS, Neo Motion Pictures, Triangle Productions, Commercial Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures. Independently, he has produced, written and directed several DV short-shorts, educational shorts and on-line interactive marketing materials for such clients as AIG Insurance, Zenalta and Intomotion. In 2006 Pablo traveled to Germany and produced several short features on the World Cup for local Los Angeles television. He attended the UCLA Graduate Film Program where he won both the UCLA "Spotlight" and MPAA Student Filmmaker awards as a producer/writer/director for his short “THE HAMMER”. His UCLA thesis work, “POSESIÓN”, won Best Short Subject award at the Charlestown International Film Festival. As a writer, Pablo was runner-up for the 1998 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Production Grant and he was finalist for the first annual Nickelodeon Writer's Fellowship. (pablo@arroyosecofilms.com)



Nancy Young – Producer/Writer


Nancy Young studied filmmaking at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia in 2006.  Between 1999 and 2006, she was instrumental in the creation and operations of a $1.2 million film and creative arts incubator in Queensland, Australia. For more than 25 years, Nancy was a consultant in business planning, public policy research, cultural facility and funding development for government, foundation and private clients in Australia and the US.  She was a program officer for the Walter & Elise Haas Foundation in San Francisco, and development professional for several organizations including the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Marymount College and SF Chamber of Commerce. She has taught Business and Arts Administration at Central Queensland University, Golden Gate University and SF State University.  She has a BA in English from UC Berkeley, Cert. in Public Policy Analysis and Management from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, an MIA from Columbia University, and MA in Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii as an East West Center Fellow. She is a published writer, artist, and 1981 graduate of JMHS.  (nancy@arroyosecofilms.com)



Tanya Brum  Da Silveira – Production Coordinator


Tanya Brum Da Silveira is an independent film producer based in Los Angeles. Originally born and raised in Spain, Tanya attended Universidad Complutense de Madrid in the year 2002 to study media studies. It was there she was awarded a scholarship to finish her studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. With a desire to improve her knowledge of film and immerse herself in New York's growing film industry, she enrolled in the New York Film Academy's 1‐year Film Production Program. Here she produced several short films including "SOLE SURVIVORS", a documentary and on the underground hype of sneaker addiction. Having gained experience as production assistant on several feature films, coordinated music videos and worked close to one of the top independent film producers in NYC Josh Zeman (Mysterious Skin, The Station Agent), Dolly Hall, Karin Chien and Jamin O'Brien, Tanya decided to begin working on her own projects. With several projects in development, Tanya has re‐located to Los Angeles where she continues to pursue her career as a producer and her passion for film. (tanya@arroyosecofilms.com)

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