Juan escovedo biography
Juan Escovedo (born March 13, , Alameda County, CA) is an American musician who plays bongos, congas, trap drums, timbales, percussion.
Juan Escovedo tours, writes, and records as a solo artist and with his family – father, Pete Escovedo, brother Peter Michael, and sister, Sheila E. They have a....
Juan Escobedo
American actor
Juan Escobedo is an actor, director and photographer who was born and raised in San Diego, California, US.
Film
In 2007 Escobedo portrayed and directed a troubled war veteran in the short film Soy Soldado de Irak. The film generated numerous awards including the Swiss Cultural Program's Best Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival (2008), and the Cinema of Conscience Award from the Sonoma Valley Film Festival (2008).[1] It was most recently nominated for the prestigious Imagen Award (2009), which honors positive portrayals of Latinos in film and television.
His other directorial work include Ruby, a film for Current TV. In 2018, Escobedo's other film Marisol, a short film that deals with the horrors of domestic violence and child abuse won the Best Dramatic Short at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and Best Actress Awards for both leading Actresses at the Women's Independent Film Festival and the Playhouse West Film