XL Films recently completed an educational film for the Pinto America Growth Fund. The film was intended to help investors understand the opportunity afforded by their investment in La Michoacana Meat Market and Barri Remittance Corporation. La Michoacana is a chain of meat markets and grocery stores catering to the Hispanic market. Barri is a no-deposit bank, often located inside La Michocana locations, that facilitates money transfers from the U.S. to Mexico. The film can be viewed on the Reels page on this site.

XL Films recently worked with Rice University to create a film for their ongoing Centennial Campaign. Based upon the inaugural address of Rice’s first visionary president, Edgar Odell Lovett, the film is an emotional look back at 100 years of this remarkable institution. The film will debut at a major event in November and will be posted on this site soon after.

“Morning Sickness”, winner of the 2007 Houston 48 Hour Film Project screened at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May as part of the Short Film Corner. The film, made for the 48 Hour Film Project, (viewable on our Reels page) was made in only 48 hours by the XLAJ team, led by Adam White. After winning the Houston event, the film went on to compete against over 2000 other films internationally. The film screened at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose where it received the Best of Houston award and was then selected from among all the winning city films to screen at Cannes. At Cinequest, “Morning Sickness” was also nominated for Best Directing and Best Acting.

The 48 Hour Film Project is the world’s largest timed film competition, with a tour that goes to over 60 cities around the globe, including Paris, Mumbai and Singapore. In the 48HFP, participating teams are given a genre, a character, prop, and a line of dialogue that they must work into their piece. They are responsible for putting together a cast and crew, and getting equipment and anything else needed to make a film/video. For more information see the 48 Hour Project website.