Straight Out Of Dogpatch!
After coming up out of the turmoils of street-life Junior began working with inner-city youth in Colorado and started striving towards education. He received a BS in Mass Communications with an emphasis in the New Media Studies program at Colorado State University-Pueblo.
Junior Is also a graduate with an MFA in cinema production from the University Of Southern California, School Of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles. He co-produced the documentary “Forged In Steel” while attending CSU-Pueblo and participated in the Shoot-Out Boulder 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival 2005 and 2006. Junior’s 1st-year USC short film “April 10th” was an official selection in the shorts program at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival 2008 (LALIFF). He also co-directed the documentary short “Lost Angels” with Liu Chang as part of USC’s exchange with students from Beijing, China.
Currently Junior is working on a short “Quetzalli” as well as doing research for a Wounded Knee project relating to Chican@s during the occupation of 1973. He is also workshopping and rewriting a feature screenplay, something he hopes to bring back home to Coloràdo.
Junior is the founder of Tiahui Picture Company and he resides in Southern Colorado.
University of Southern California
(2007-2012)
Colorado State University
(2007-2012)