Mr. Juan J. Frausto is the oldest of his parents seven children. As a young boy he remembers his father taking the family to the show and watch Mexican films and especially all the Bruce Lee's movies ever made. What caught his attention to storytelling were two films by filmmaker Felipe Cazal's Canoa and El Apando. The gripping reality of those films left a mature impression on him at the tender age of seven. At the age of eleven he became interested in filmmaking after watching the making of Star Wars and from that point he knew he wanted to be part of this fascinating collaborative process of making movies. Upon graduating from Curie High School in 1987 where his major was music, Frausto studied filmmaking and screenwriting at Columbia College Chicago. He left after two years and jumped on working as a freelance production assistant all the way up to assistant director on numerous music videos and independent films in Chicago and Houston, Texas. In 1993, he received a $5,000 Community Film Workshop grant to finish his first feature film, Change. The story of three Mexican families whom finds themselves struggling to find a balance between their Mexican heritage and the American influences on them. The emotional drama premiered at the Chicago Latino Film Festival in April of '94, and many universities and cultural centers across the country. He was recognized as being the first Latino filmmaker to produce a feature film in Chicago. The ultra-low budget film took three years to complete and cost $25,000 to produce. Frausto has written five feature length screenplays to date that he hopes to produce in the near future. They are Rock The House, Blood Brothers, The Other Side and Groovy Money. He just finished, La Migra, that should be out early 2005 and will be producing Jaime Mariscal's debut film, Welcome Back To The Barrio, in the fall of 2004. He now resides in Los Angeles, California.