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Mission Statement

We are an independent film company created to inform, entertain and inspire the world through stories that reveal the truth about special individuals and entities, strife's and triumphs, noble causes and casualties, and the events and movements that shape this individually unique, but humanly shared journey we call life.

About Us

We are a husband and wife team with different talents and skills, but with a common purpose. A journalist, a story teller, a business man, a poet, an entertainer, an activist, a mother, a father, and together we are film makers dedicated to bringing real stories to life.

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Former CBS11 News Anchor Maria Arita joined KTVT-TV in December 2003. A veteran broadcaster, Maria began her career in 1983 as a host/reporter for On the Beam a nationally syndicated show which helped pioneer black entertainment news. Maria won her first Lone Star Emmy in her first year in news and has been the recipient of other national awards such as the National Latina Communicators Award of Excellence and the National Religion Newswriters Award as well as two Press Club Katie Awards for Best Newscast in TX and Best Breaking News.
A third-generation American Latina, Maria was the first in her family to go to college. She attended a two-year college and with a 4.0 GPA received a full-tuition academic scholarship to Southern Methodist University, Dallas. She graduated cum laude in 1996 with a major in broadcast journalism and a minor in Latin American Studies while raising two children and mentoring immigrant children in literacy. Maria went on to explore many venues in television, including work as a general assignment reporter for NBC Dallas, fill-in host for E! News Daily, L.A., and national correspondent for Haven, hosted by Joy Philbin, New York. Other hosting roles included, American Digest, N.Y, and most notably Hispanics Today, N.Y/Washington the first nationally syndicated, all-English news magazine for Latinos ever to air on American television.

Arita helped Hispanics Today make it through its crucial two seasons debuting just one week after 9-11 in New York, interviewing such heads of state as Secretary Tommy Thompson, two White House Fellows under Colin Powell, and entertainers such as Chita Rivera and Edward James Olmos. Arita covered everything from politics and economics to entertainment and culture as they related to Hispanics.

As a native Honduran, after 25 years in television Maria Aritas most talked about and memorable interview has been her 4-part series Home to Honduras where she interviewed the First Lady of Honduras, Aguas Ocana Maduro, 2004. The series revisited not only the torture and politically-toned death of her father, but also the broken juvenile justice system in Honduras and related socio-economic issues between the U.S. and Honduras. It culminated with an inside look at a mission Maria Arita still vehemently supports, Manna Worldwide, a worldwide organization devoted to building orphanages and educational systems in oppressed countries.

Prior to doing television journalism, Arita was an accomplished general broadcast talent. She began in the hit CBS program Dallas in 1983 and went on to do everything from film to series television, industrials, voiceover work and hundreds of commercials. Maria would later make numerous appearances on Walker: Texas Ranger, play a mother on Wishbone and Dangerous Curves, Micheal Michelle TV Series. Arita would also grace the screen in principle roles in films such as: Universal Soldier II, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jailbirds, Amad Rashads TV wife, Hexed, and

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