raquel cepeda

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<p>Raquel Cepeda is an award-winning editor, multi-media journalist, and filmmaker.<br /> <p><br /> Cepeda wrote/director “Bling: A Planet Rock,” an 87 minute documentary about American hip-hop culture’s obsession with diamonds—“blinging”—and all its social trappings, and how this infatuation correlated with the ten-year conflict in Sierra Leone, West Africa. She co-produced the documentary with a19, VH1, and the United Nations Development Programme. A modified version for television of “Bling…” premiered under the title “Bling’d: Blood, Diamonds and Hip-Hop” on VH1 on February 22, 2007 (3.3 million viewers).</p> <p> <p>Distributed by Image, “Bling&#8230;” is available at Walmart, <span class="caps">FYE</span>, Circuit City, and Amazon.</p> <p> <p>Currently, Cepeda is in production on “BLOW US UP!,” a wartime concert documentary starring platinum selling rapper Paul Wall and TV Johnny who will journey into the past to see the future—in Iraq and Johnny’s homeland, Vietnam.</p> <p> <p>Following in the tradition of the highly acclaimed “Bling: A Planet Rock,” “BLOW US UP!” uses the medium of hip-hop to engage a new audience in the history of two American wars, a generation and musical genre apart from each other.</p>

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