Articles by Marlo Custodio

Hmong-American and Filipino students speak out about responsibilities and challenges of being often over-looked communities on college campuses.

A Marlo Custodio mini-documentary of artist Kevin Alejandro Cornejo. As college students, Cornejo's parents journeyed from El Salvador during the Civil War in the 1980's and begun a new life in San Jose, California. His paintings of landscapes and narratives are motivated by memories of his family's experience and are homages to his family in El Salvador.

Adrian Hernandez is facing a four year prison sentence. But Adrian is more then the charges leveled against him -- he is a son and a brother. In this mini-doc Adrian's family shares why the courts should use their discretion to keep him close with his family, rather then sending him to prison.

Approaching the one year anniversary of her own heart transplant, Teena Abad Pastor is launching the Mad 2 Live: an initiative utilizing art and community to help save the life of a man in the Phillippines who needs the same transplant.

This is the first episode to the mini series, "Blind Birds" A vision created by Marlo Custodio a film student at University of California Santa Cruz. Stay tuned for the follow ups.

Danny Pina recounts his journey that started when he got is arm dislocated and nose cartilage broken by a San Jose Police officer in 2009, to the ultimate jury verdict win in federal court a couple years later.