Storybored USA

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ABOUT THE FILM

Producer/Director/Writer: William D. Caballero

Genre: Digital Media

Program Length: 9 Episodes

Premiere Date: January 25, 2018 on WORLD Channel YouTube

Storybored USA is a new web series designed to empower diverse youth and millennials to tell their stories through creative arts and media. Hosted by a 3D printed figure of show creator/writer, William D. Caballero, and set in a scaled-down replica of his studio, each episode explores various aspects of the creative process through interviews with emerging and established artists who serve as creative coaches, offering personal and practical advice. Caballero also looks at the lives and work of legendary artists, from Frida Kahlo to Beethoven to Lin-Manuel Miranda, showing how they were able to persevere and reframe the narrative. Each of the ten episodes are designed to encourage all diverse people to add their creative voices to the American story – serving as a reminder that if they don’t tell their stories, someone else will.

Storybored USA is a co-production of William D. Caballero and Latino Public Broadcasting, and is a presentation of WORLD Channel, in association with KQED. Major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

William D. Caballero (Producer/Director/Writer)

William D. Caballero is an NYC/NJ-based filmmaker, composer, and multimedia storyteller. Born in Coney Island, New York and raised in North Carolina, Caballero earned the prestigious Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship, and returned to New York City where he graduated from Pratt Institute (BFA Digital Art, 2006) and New York University (MA The Arts and Humanities in Education, 2008).

One of Caballero’s first professional projects was American Dreams Deferred, a feature length autobiographical documentary about the health, financial, and social difficulties facing his Puerto Rican-American family. The film was selected for the NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) Latino Producers Academy, eventually receiving the first annual HBO-NALIP Documentary grant. Five years after its conception, it premiered on PBS on December 2012.

In 2010, the Apollo Theater commissioned Caballero to perform Speak! So The World Will Listen! Uganda, a multimedia advocacy concert. Shot on location, the project featured the audio testimony of Ugandan war orphans and gay rights advocates, blending music, visuals, and documentary, and premiered at the Apollo. In 2012, he completed Seed Story, a macro short film featuring a cast of hundreds of one-inch tall plastic hand-painted figures, which debuted the following year at the Slamdance Film Festival and later became a Vimeo Staff Pick. In 2013, Caballero was selected for the prestigious Aljira Emerge program (in partnership with Creative Capital), a strategic career management and exhibition platform for emerging artists. Later that year, he was invited to the Bill Gates Leadership Conferences in Washington, DC and San Jose, CA as an ‘alumni guest-of-honor,’ where he gave a keynote speech based on his experiences and successes in front of 1000 college students of color and fellow recipients of the Gates Scholarship.

Caballero’s recent achievements include Gran’pa Knows Best, an interstitial series based on his short film, How You Doin’, Boy?, which was licensed by HBO LATINO in 2015. Two seasons of the show are currently available on HBO GO, HBO NOW, and HBO ON DEMAND. In September 2016, Univision debuted his web series Dreamer Generation, which features the stories of members of the Dreamers’ Movement, shot using 3D scanned/printed miniatures. The Smallest Step premiered on public TV’s World Channel and his latest short film, Victor And Isolina, debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. You can see more at www.wilcab.com.