LOUIS E. PEREGO MORENO An Interactive Content Producer and Educator for the past 27 years, Louis is the President of SKYLINE FEATURES, an English and Spanish-language multimedia production and educational company focusing on trans-cultural, multicultural and youth edutainment projects, which feature Latinos, Blacks, Urban Youth, Women, LGBTQ Youth and Children with Disabilities. Louis custom tailors his content to a variety of media: television, Internet, print, radio and public venues. In 1993 Louis founded SKYLINE COMMUNITY; a non-profit organization devoted to the issues of Latino and Black Youth and Women. Over the course of ten years he trained 1,500 youth in the metro New York area to produce 70 social documentary shorts, many that won awards at international film festivals. Nine premiered on HBO Family, and additional ones aired on PBS and other networks. As TIO LOUIE, he has addressed through speaking engagements and workshops over 50,000 college, secondary and junior high school students nationally. Previously, Louis was the Executive Producer and host of International Music Video, a national cable television series that aired for four years featuring foreign music & travel. He has produced for WPIX-TV (WB11-NY) a 30-minute documentary on incarcerated adolescents in Rikers Island featuring Edward James Olmos addressing his documentary, Lives in Hazard. Television pilots produced have included a Spanish-language one for Spain on the U.S. stock market entitled, Wall Street; a show celebrating Black culture & music, Street Beat USA; and a youth talk show featuring an African-American OB/GYN, Body Talk. In the area of education, he produced a Spanish-language documentary on the New Math, Science & Technology Standards for the State of N.J. and for the NYC Dept. of Education he was the Director/Producer of a documentary on the vocational school system. At the 2003 Sundance Film Festival he served HBO as the Bilingual Promotions Producer for Balseros, the Academy-award nominated Spanish film about Cuban boatpeople. Louis has also been the Casting Producer at HBO for 15, Jennifer Lopez’s first documentary; What Not to Wear for its 2nd season premiere episode on The Learning Channel (TLC); Bridesmaids on The Learning Channel (TLC); and Moms Go on Strike for A&E, as well as its Producer and a DP. He is the Executive Producer, Director, Producer & Writer of the documentary feature, Latina Confessions. Most recently, he was Producer of an English and Spanish-language Ford national advertising campaign, Friend-to-Friend and Town-to-Town for television commercials, radio, print and New Media. Fluently bilingual and bicultural, Louis was born and raised in the South Bronx of Cuban-Argentine parentage and raised within the Puerto Rican community. He is a member of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and International Documentary Association (IDA). He serves on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Latino Arts & Culture at Rutgers University. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of Northern Lights Alternatives (HIV/AIDS-infected children and their families), NY Women in Cable & Telecommunications, National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications in NY and was one of the founders of Young Professional Latinos for Community Empowerment. Louis was selected as one of five Latino documentary filmmakers nationally and is a graduate of NALIP & UCLA’s “Latino Producers Academy” with Latina Confessions. Skyline’s work has been featured at and received awards from: The National Association of Black Journalists, World Population Film Festival Global Vision Award, Pinch Award for Hispanic Community Service and the National Education Media Network Gold and Silver Awards, to name a few. Skyline has been featured on NPR, CBS, NBC, Fox TV, Univision, PBS, and other national radio and television stations.