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- Past Honorees
- Reel Rasquache provides a forum to acknowledge the contributions of Latinos in the entertainment industry.
- Past Festival honorees include:
- The Innovator Award:
Miguel Arteta (Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) 
- Career Achiever Award:
Lupe Ontiveros (Desperate Housewives, Real Women Have Curves, As Good As It Gets) 
- The Pioneer Award: Evelina Fernandez (Luminarias)
- 2007 Honorees
- Pioneer Award: Tony Plana
- Zoot Suit (1981), El Norte (1983), Salvador (1986), Born in East L.A. (1987), Break of Dawn (1988), Romero (1989), JFK (1991), A Million to Juan (1994), 500 Nations (1995), Lone Star (1996), The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997), The Princess and the Barrio Boy (2000), Resurrection Boulevard (2001), El Muerto (2005), Ugly Betty (2006-2007) and many others.
- Trailblazer Award: Wilmer Valderrama
- Summer Catch (2001), Party Monster (2003), Beauty Shop (2005), and Fast Food Nation (2006); La Torcedura (2004) and Longtime Listener (2006)
2008 Reel Rasquache Honoree
Pioneer Award
Sylvia Morales
The Reel Rasquache Film Festival honors Sylvia Morales with the 2008 Pioneer Award for her exceptional contributions in the fields of U.S. film and television. The Pioneer Award honors one whose achievements in film and television have historically contributed new and challenging experiences of U.S. Latino perspectives and representations. Her record of achievements in television and film spans the spectrum from director, writer, editor, and producer.
In 1979, her film Chicana, though short in duration, proved long in significance, enduring the past thirty years as a classic of Third Cinema, a watershed work in Chicano Cinema, and a most important contribution to the world canon of feminist film. In a 1991 interview with UCLA’s Chon Noriega, she spoke of the movimiento inspirations that forged her filmmaking sensibilities. She set aside her artistic “desire to make personal films in order to make ones which reflected our communities.” And in the intervening years, her commitment to our communities has sustained in passion and insight. Her vision has helped illuminate the turning points of Chicano cultural experience – her voice was crucially present when as script supervisor on Seguín (1982) the doors were opened to feature-length Chicano public television and soon thereafter theatrical film historical dramas. In 1988, while the nation wrestled with anxieties, fears, and hatreds around AIDS, she marshaled our communities to face the challenge with honesty, knowledge, and compassion through her groundbreaking documentary, SIDA Is AIDS, which she wrote, produced and edited. In 1992, the film Faith Even to the Fire, which she co-wrote, co-produced, edited and narrated, cast timely inquiry upon institutional Church challenges visited upon three Catholic nuns for their social service to poor and marginalized persons within their communities. When in 1996, the unprecedented public television documentary series, Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement was green lit, her voice was there as segment producer of Part 2 – “The Struggle in the Fields.” And in 2002, her six episode contributions to the landmark cable series, Resurrection Blvd. took up head on, the tragedies of homophobia and intolerance suffered in our communities. The profile of her filmmaking career maps significant high points of intelligence, challenge, and vision in film and television of the past thirty years. By her vision and dedication, Ms. Morales has been and continues to be an inspiration and role model of tremendous proportions.
2008 Reel Rasquache Honoree
Trailblazer Award
Franc. Reyes
The Reel Rasquache Film Festival celebrates Franc. Reyes' meteoric rise and honor his stellar contributions in the fields of U.S. choreography, music, and film by presenting him the 2008 Tailblazer Award. The Reel Rasquache Trailblazer Award honors one whose achievements in the entertainment industies advance new practices and challenging understandings of U.S. Latino perspectives and representations.
Franc.Reyes began his career as a dancer and choreographer. In 1984, he made his screen debut in the hip-hop classic Beat Street, produced by Harry Belafonte and David V. Picker. While continuing his dance career and becoming a top New York choreographer, staging shows for leading dance music artists of the time, Reyes wrote his first script, The Headliners. In 1990, Reyes turned to song writing and by 1992 had written two top ten singles. He established King Reyes Music and signed a partnership deal with E.M.I Publishing. In 1993, Reyes returned to film when he was asked to stage the club sequences for Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way. The experience inspired him to pursue screenwriting. He then wrote a succession of screenplays including In the Deep South, which was produced as a 35mm short. Reyes directed this story of political corruption in the South Bronx, which starred Jon Seda (Selena, Price of Glory) and Lauren Velez (I Like It Like That, New York Undercover). In 1998 Franc wrote the script for what would become his first feature film, Empire, attracting the talents of John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabella Rosselini, Denise Richards, and Brazilian superstar Sonia Braga. Shot independently in New York in 2000, Empire went on to become the highest grossing film out of the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. In summer 2007, he completed filming Illegal Tender, which he also wrote and directed on location in Puerto Rico and New York and was produced by Oscar nominated John Singleton. Scheduled for release in summer 2008, Franc.Reyes wrote, directed and produced his new film, The Ministers, a slick, classy action thriller about revenge, family and the complexities of the quest for justice, starring John Leguizamo and Harvey Keitel.
- In 2005, Moctesuma Esparza (Selena, Walkout) received the Career Achiever Award for his pioneering career as one of Hollywood’s most prolific producers.
- In 2006, award-winning Chicana documentary filmmaker Lourdes Portillo (After the Earthquake/Despues del Terremoto, Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo/The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, The Devil Never Sleeps/EI Diablo Nunca Duerme, Señorita Extraviada/Missing Young Woman) received the Pioneer Award.
- Classic Hollywood Era film star Lupita Tovar received the Career Achiever Award for her work in Spanish and English language film beginning in the 1930's, most well known for the Spanish version of Universal’s Dracula.
- Also in 2006, Reel Rasquache was honored to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Emmy Award-winning director Jesús Treviño's landmark film Raíces de Sangre (1976) with a special Opening Night Screening.
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