Thursday, April 25, 2013

Crew Scene Series: The Mighty Green Vaqueros

   

                     
                                                       "Mighty Green Vaqueros Promo"



One of the reasons I started the The Crew Scene was to highlight  extraordinary creatives and the projects on which they work.  No matter what your specialty, production is about informing, sharing, and sometimes, when we are lucky - transforming.

Making a documentary film is a labor love.  Lower cost equipment, bold new funding models and online and mobile distributions have allowed greater engagement with larger audiences and more endearing and personal stories to be told. Stories like “The Mighty Green Vaqueros”...

This documentary tells the story of soccer coach Kyle Hagenburger, the dedication and love he has for San Diego’s King-Chavez community, and the unprecedented success of the high school soccer program.

Coach “H” was hired as a history teacher at the charter school called King-Chavez Community High School in downtown San Diego. The school's purpose was to help build up and breathe life into a neglected immigrant-based community. King-Chavez Neighborhood of Schools serves the special needs of the kids from Logan Heights, the poorest and most gang - and crime-infested neighborhood in San Diego. 

A situation that would be assumed to be an immeasurable challenge, turned into a massive success and changed lives of these students and the entire town of Logan Heights. Overcoming many adversities - lack of funding, being challenged by gangs and poverty being among the few  - these champions came to energize, uplift, and transform their community. 

Each month, we hope to provide updates, interviews and give readers an opportunity to follow the journey of this inspiring program and the production process through film making, funding and distribution. 

Telling this remarkable story of inspiration, dedication, strength and hope is the mission of filmmakers couple Kyle Hagenburger and Carmen Caserta of Hot Beverage Productions and their partners Thomas O'Hara and Chris Fung of Game Day Films. 

Stay tuned as we share their story !


 - Jessica 



For more about the Mighty Green Vaqueros, 

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www.facebook.com/themightygreenvaqueros

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@MGVaqueros

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Watch this NBC 7 story about Kyle and the program itself:

              



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