LOUIS E. PEREGO MORENO
Louis E. Perego Moreno is an
Interactive Content Producer. For the past 26 years Louis has been the
President of SKYLINE FEATURES, an English
and Spanish-language multimedia production and educational company focusing on
cross-cultural, multicultural and youth edutainment projects. His specialty is
developing documentary films and national television programming that feature
Latinos, Blacks, Urban Youth, Women, Gay & Lesbian Youth and Children with
Disabilities. Louis custom tailors his content to a variety of media: television, Internet, print, radio and public venues.
In 1993
Louis founded SKYLINE COMMUNITY; a
non-profit organization devoted to the issues of Black and Latino Youth and
Women. In seven years as the Executive Director, he produced 70 social
documentary shorts by training 1,500 youth in New York City, Newark and New
Brunswick, NJ. Many of these award-winning documentary shorts counter the
negative portrayals of ethnic communities and offer solutions to social, public
and mental health issues. Nine documentaries aired on HBO Family. He has
addressed through speaking engagements and workshops over 50,000 college,
secondary and junior high school students nationally.
Other
production work includes:
• Executive Producer of national
cable television series on foreign music & travel entitled, International
Music Video
• Producer of documentary on
incarcerated adolescents in Rikers Island with Edward James Olmos for WPIX-TV
(WB11-NY)
• Executive Producer of TV pilot celebrating
U.S. Black culture & music, Street Beat USA
• Executive Producer of youth talk
show featuring African-American OB/GYN, Body Talk
• Producer of Spanish-language educational
documentary on the New Math, Science & Technology Standards for the State
of NJ
• Director/Producer of documentary
for NYC Dept. of Education on vocational schools
• HBO Promotions Producer for
Academy-award nominated Spanish film about Cuban boatpeople entitled,
“Balseros” during the 2003 Sundance Film Festival
• Producer in Miami & NY for HBO on Jennifer Lopez’s 1st
documentary, “15”
• Producer on 2nd season’s
premiere episode of The Learning Channel (TLC) “What Not to Wear”
• Producer on The
Learning Channel (TLC) “Bridesmaids”
• Producer on “Moms Go
on Strike” for A&E.
• Producer of English and Spanish-language Ford national advertising campaign, Friend-to-Friend and Town-to-Town for television commercials, radio, print and New Media
• Executive Producer, Director, Producer & Writer of documentary feature,
LATINA CONFESSIONS
Fluently bilingual and bicultural,
Louis was born and raised in the South Bronx of Cuban-Argentine parentage and
raised within the Puerto Rican community. He is a member of National
Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and International Documentary
Association (IDA). He serves on the Board of
Advisors of the Center for Latino Arts & Culture at Rutgers University. He
has previously served on the Board of Directors of Northern Lights
Alternatives
(HIV/AIDS-infected children and their families), Women in Cable &
Telecommunications, National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications and Young Professional Latinos
for Community Empowerment. Louis was selected as one of five Latino documentary filmmakers
nationally and is a graduate of NALIP & UCLA’s “Latino Producers Academy” with Latina
Confessions.
Skyline’s work has been featured at and received awards from: The
National Association of Black Journalists, World Population Film Festival
Global Vision Award, Pinch Award for Hispanic Community Service and the
National Education Media Network Gold, Silver, and Bronze Awards, to name a
few. Skyline has been featured on NPR,
CBS, NBC, Fox TV, Univision, PBS, and other national radio and television
stations.
