Take home Celia on DVD

Dear readers, it gives us incredible pride to announce that the ground-breaking, breathtaking artistry of Celia: The Queen, the documentary of Celia Cruz's life starring Celia, David Byrne, Quincy Jones, Willie Colon, Wyclef Jean and Gloria Estefan is now on DVD and available on Amazon.com , just click on the link for the page. Directed by ñ BFF's Joe Cardona & M. De Varona - (and associate produced by ñ's own billy teck. Ahem! Excuse me.) This is a source of joy, pride and damn it's a great movie. Get yours now by clicking on the pic. The toast of The Miami Film Fest (5 sold out shows!) it also appeared at the Tribeca film fest (3 sold out shows), Sao Paolo, Rio, Los Angeles, Madrid and Tokyo film fests. Below: A trailer

Fit for a Queen

The Miami Film Festival premiere of Celia: The Queen was celebrated by the flicks creators, the gang at KIE D, during it's record breaking 5, (FIVE!) Showings - making it the Miami films fests runaway hit! Here's our photo recap of the celebration. Including Co-Director Joe Cardona and his wife Millie, scenes from the Red Carpet featuring Mayor Robaina and his lovely wife, Cristina Saralegui with Melissa Hernandez, the ubiquitous Gallos of Salsa Hansel y Raul and various ñ style Celia celebration madness.

Celia The Queen Premiere at Tribeca Film Fest - NYC

Celia played on sat night and Sunday afternoon where it screened at the Tisch School where they film inside the Actor's studio. Here's some pics from the premiere from Getty Images. Below, The films producers Antonio Gijon & Gabriel C. Mena with Co-Director Joe Cardona - Mr. & Mrs Johnny Pacheco - Pacheco (The Coolest Man of All Time) and Celia Co-Director Joe Cardona share a laugh - American Idol star Christina Christian and Co-Director Mario de Varona, (Christian plays the young Celia in a Vignette).






Below: Jose Vazquez who was the director of photography on Celia and has shot most of KIE's films, (also the man responsible for me running shirtless in slo-mo in Bro) looking pretty dapper - - Narciso Rodriguez (who designed many of Celia's dresses) does the media line at Tribeca - Celia the Queen's directors Cardona & De Varona.





You can view the small pics of afterparty at Indochine and other thumbnails at Wireimages. Both Getty and Wired offer services for downloading these pics for print or web use for media professionals or the average peep.

Saturday Night - New York City.

Joe, Mario, Michelle's labor of love premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival. It's been a long time comin'. Props to G. Mena and Antonio Gijon as well. Here we go.

All people need a queen.

Thanks for telling her story.

ñ is proud of all of you.