Fanaticos

Mylène Moreno

Director, Producer

Los Angeles - based filmmaker Mylene Moreno makes documentaries that reflect her diverse cultural interests.  She is currently following Mexican futbol Fanaticos in Los Angeles during the second season of Chivas USA.  Her last project is Recalling Orange County, a personal look at the orchestrated backlash against an immigrant rights leader that reveals fierce conflicts in California's Orange County over what it means to be American.  It will air during the inaugural season of the Latino Public Broadcasting series VOCES, in October 2006.  Mylene's last film, True-Hearted Vixens, featured female jocks pursuing dreams of professional athletic greatness in a startup tackle football league.  Produced in association with the Independent Television Service, Vixens aired during the 2001 season of P.O.V.  Previously, she worked in Austin on several PBS documentaries, producing the first episode of the landmark PBS series Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement.  She also produced a tongue-in-cheek documentary "search" for the brilliant and reclusive novelist Cormac McCarthy, Cormac's Trash, and directed Maribel; a short about an El Paso teen’s experience of motherhood, marriage and a second pregnancy.  Mylene is a graduate of Stanford University's Documentary Film Program.