Our new promotional teaser for our upcoming new film!

The film’s website is also open for business at: theheartoftrevino.com

We’ve been working on this project since mid-2008; thanks to all our friends who have helped us make this promotional teaser, thanks to you we are one step closer for this film to be in theaters worldwide.

Jesse Treviño has been an inspiration to all of us and we are humbled and excited that he has put his life’s story in our hands, and naturally we won’t disappoint.

In no particular order we’d like to thank the following folks whom have helped us along the way in this project, and will continue to support us:

• Jesse Treviño (of course)
• Jesse’s family
• Felix Padron- Office of Cultural Affairs
• George Cortez and the Cortez family
• Bert Cecconi
• Gabriel Q. Velasquez
• Robert Price & Luisa Wheeler
• Robert G. Rodriguez
• Frank J. Garza
• Rosemary Kowalski
• Juan & Terry Vasquez
• Ricardo Romo
• Arturo Almeida
• Lionel Sosa
• Frank Herrera
• Elizabeth Rodriguez
• Alicia Treviño
• Alex & Jesse Villarreal

I also want to appreciate the following, on the making of this promo:

• Paco Flores
• Roger De Los Santos
• Hector Hernandez
• Rolando Garza (Piano on “Pintando las calles…”)
• Oscar Ortiz LBASi (Score for The Heart of Treviño promo teaser)
• Alexander Probst (Logo design)
• Gaby, Rickito Mendoza and Marcus Moncada
• And me, for my hard work (ha-ha)

There’s also many artists working behind the scenes that we’d also like to thank: Patricia Vonne, Lorenzo “Chacho” Saldaña, Alonzo Avila, Jacqueline Martinez, Alfredo “Huesos” and many others that have pledged their support!

This film is under development!
We will be posting news and updates right here on this blog, but you may also want to add us on twitter: www.twitter.com/heartoftrevino

It’s been more than 5 years (2004) since we started filming our first movie EL ESCAPE DE LOS SANTOS, AND 3 years since its release (2006)…

It’s been 3 years (2006) since filming ASH WEDNESDAY: CAPITULO UNUS and it is still unreleased…

It has also been more than a year (April 2008) since the idea for our third film was conceived…

That being said, since April 2008 we’ve been slowly climbing this steep mountain.

We have achieved so many “mini” goals, and I have been privately updating this journal (without publishing)… which I hate because there’s so much material that could be so useful and entertaining (especially with the characters we’ve been meeting with)…

We have fought so damn hard for this new movie… just to get the permissions has been a challenge, to get the support, the writing has been very challenging, the research has been extensive and intensive, every single wall that has gotten in our way we have destroyed it with our bare hands…

we are bloody and we are hungry…

It has been quite a journey and the coolest (or saddest) fact is that we are in the very early stages of pre-production… So there’s still A LOT more that needs to be done…

What’s also cool (at least in my little world) is that we are building all this from the ground up.

We have learned from our mistakes and this time around we are energizing and building an infrastructure way, WAY before we start shooting… It is imperative and of the utmost importance that we attain the support of as much people as we can.

If you are a fan of San Antonio, we need you… If you are a fan of Eagle Pass, we need you! If you’re a fan of Monterrey or Piedras Negras, we need you!

If you are a fan of Art, Love and Life, we need you!

If you want to be inspired by this incredible true story, we need you!

In October (2009) we will be releasing a teaser and a full fledged website that will announce to the world our very precious and ambitious project…

Lots of stuff is happening and for now please help us by subscribing to our blog or to our twitter thing-a-majig…

twitter.com/dworkstudios

ALSO, special thanks to everyone that has lent a helping hand to some humble independent filmmakers (us).

Thank you for helping us make our past two films [sad isn’t it? two films since 2004! Ha!] and we hope you can join us into the dark and treacherous path of our next motion picture.

This week we will head on to even more encounters (or meetings, as the upper class call them) with a bunch of individuals that are crucial for the continuation of our illustrious path.

Before I go, I’ll leave with one of those “inspirational” quotes from a guy that looked like the penguin in Batman:

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”-Sir Winston Churchill

PS: if you are one of the privileged few that have a netflix account, pretty-please-with-sugar-on-top, take 5 minutes of your time and post a review of EL ESCAPE DE LOS SANTOS… thanks!

On Tuesday, September 16 my grandpa Juan Manuel Wheeler passed away.
He was bigger than life in many ways, and he lived life to the fullest AND had a huge impact in all of our lives.
He was a poor kid from Mexico who became a giant in his field and in the region of Coahuila and Texas, he started as a radio personality and later he created a TV station on which he was the owner and the main anchor for the news.
This was the most trusted man, way before the internet, and when TV ruled the world.
He was my hero.
He cursed worse than a sailor, and his daily mission was to make everyone around him laugh.
He wore very cleancut suits with a crazy tie and had a huge mustache. His pride was his voice and his voice was his life.
His voice was very commanding and deep, and when broadcasting he sounded like a Mexican version of Walter Cronkite.
Naturally, he had a way with words.
As a kid he never finished elementary school, he had to work to support his Mom and the rest of the family.
He taught me many lessons that I will never forget. He was always there for me and he inadvertently did things that changed my life forever.
He was a great mentor and a great friend.

You were a fighter, and even though it hurts losing you, I still laugh at all the insane things that you did every day.

That’s all I could write.

I Love you.

Also to the people who have worked endlessly and unselfishly, to the producers and associate producers of ASH, the ones who make it happen… in no specific order: Paco, Chicken, Roger, Hector and Alonso… Because of these people, I don’t even know if I make a film because I want to be with these guys or because of filmmaking itself… my family is also a huge contributor to all of our projects, so a HUGE thanks as well…

And to all the people who have helped us along the way (musicians, car dealers, restraunts, bars, temp crew, etc….)… again there’s tooooooooooo many to mention but trust me, the list is on the credits of ASH and EL ESCAPE…

Thanks again to everyone!

PS: There are several scripts being written right now, so we hopefully plan to start shooting a new film in spring 2008 (?) … Nothing is set in stone, but we are anxious to film.