UCLA's Chon Noriega Appointed to Prestigious National Independent Televisio

Chon Noriega, professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Independent Television Service (ITVS). Conceived by the independent producer community and then created by the United States Congress in the late 1980s, ITVS is the largest funder of independent production in public television.

ITVS supports television programs that take creative risks, advance issues and represent points of view not usually seen on the airwaves. The organization is committed to programming that addresses the needs of under-served audiences, particularly minorities and children.

A distinguished film, television and digital-media scholar, Noriega has written and edited numerous publications. Recent books include “The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlan,” 1970, 2000, (2001), “Shot in America: Television, the State and the Rise of Chicano Cinema” (2000), “Visible Nations: Latin American Cinema and Video” (2000), “The Future of Latino Independent Media” (2000) and “I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing Between Cultures” (2000).

Noriega is a leader in many initiatives that focus on Latino participation and representation in movies and television. In 1999 he co-founded the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, a 400-member group that provides networking, mentoring, workshops and advocacy on national and local levels (www.nalip.org/). He is a frequent lecturer and advocate for the inclusion of Chicano film in any broad discussion of American cinema. He edits the academic journal Aztlan, named for the ancestral homeland of the Aztec empire that ruled central Mexico, and serves as the associate director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.

Recently Noriega moderated the arts and entertainment summit at the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and was the co-principal investigator on a major study of Latino actors in the Screen Actors Guild.

Hispanic Business Inc. named him one of the 100 most influential Hispanics of 1999.

Noriega’s interest in the relationship between film and other arts has resulted in several projects with the Whitney Museum. He curated a recent UCLA Fowler Museum show, “Just Another Poster: Chicano Graphic Arts in California.” He has also served as curator of “East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous” at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and “From the West: Chicano Narrative Photography” at The Mexican Museum in San Francisco.

He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 1986 and went on to graduate studies at Stanford University, where he earned an M.A. (1988) and a Ph.D. (1991) in Modern Thought and Literature.

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