SELECTED PROJECTS

STORY XPERIENTIAL - The Frida Witch

Production Date: Fall 2022

Storyboard | Runtime: 8:00 minutes

Story Xperiential is an online seminar that takes participants through the process that Pixar and other industry experts use to create storyreels (rough drafts of an animated film using drawings edited together in a sequence). This program is set up so people can go at their own pace over the course of nine weeks.

They learn from pros with videos and exercises related to participant’s weekly deliverables.
They create and upload their deliverables for feedback.
They discuss by giving and receiving feedback within a community gallery.

The storyreel for The Frida Witch was pitched and developed during the Fall 2022 seminar. The story follows a shy, furry black cat who chooses to practice magic, but hides it from her human poppas for fear that she may be rejected and unloved for practicing mystical arts. The Frida Witch is currently being developed into a short animation film and an accompanying multilingual children’s book.

For more information regarding Story Xperiential, please visit: https://www.xperiential.us/s5

To view the final storyreel for The Frida Witch, please visit: https://www.s4.storyxperiential.com/full-screen/0a980487-99d9-46ff-8f22-77823bf24979

KUMALICIOUS

Production Dates: July 2015 - Present

Funds Allocated: $2,000 of $6,200

KUMALICIOUS is a visual arts exhibition, a Creating Queer Community grant recipient and part of the 2016 National Queer Arts Festival lineup presented by San Francisco's Queer Cultural Center.

The artistic depictions selected for this exhibition will draw inspiration from Queer Japanese Manga, Bara, and Gei Comi genres made popular by artists such as Jiraiya, Gengoroh Tagame, and Seizoh Ebisubashi. These genres have had limited exposure to Western audiences, primarily on the internet through unauthorized translations and via homoerotic art communities. This exhibition will showcase sexuality that comes in all forms and highlight inspirations from these genres while embracing their approach to masculinity within a hyper-masculine and hyper-sexual context and beyond, including their ability to embrace bigger bodies and multi-ethnic identities as a source of desire and beauty.

For more information (including KUMALICIOUS grant proposal), please contact: salvador@eshcetera.com