By Abdul-Haleem Muhsin Explica Media — Explica Media Managing Director Oscar Corral sat down with PFunk Media’s Pabla Ayala at Klangbox Radio yesterday morning to speak on his upcoming film Exotic Invaders: Pythons in the Everglades. The film airs August 26, 2015 on WPBT 2 at 7 pm. Corral spoke on his experience while shooting the documentary recalling the adventure…

When Obama announced in December, 2014, that he was normalizing diplomatic relations with Cuba, the Los Angeles Times reached out to me to write an article about Miami’s reaction. Here’s the story they ran at the top of their website, along with the video we produced for them on a tight, 6 pm deadline. Miami reacts to Obama’s Cuba move:…

SEE THE FILM TRAILER HERE   BY OSCAR CORRAL ocorral@explicamedia.com   Like New York in 1900, Miami is a city bustling with foreigners, where most people are from another country. Immigrants from lower income backgrounds crowd into Hialeah casitas, take jobs at cafes and construction sites, and squeak out a hardscrabble living. Newcomers of higher means scoop up condos on Brickell…

We met with Tom Rahill, the founder of Swamp Apes, in the campus of Florida Atlantic University on Tuesday afternoon. Tom devises his own snake snares for catching pythons, and is one of the few hunters in Florida allowed by his “letter of authorization” to hunt pythons in Everglades National Park. His organization takes veterans who have returned from active…

By Oscar Corral Two years ago Blake Russ and Devin Bellison made an unlikely discovery about each other: their mutual fascination with catching snakes. Not just any slithery fellow. They have a penchant for hunting massive, deadly Burmese pythons, with their bare hands. At night. How two young mormons came together later in life to become front line soldiers in…

Mark Harris leads a workshop Saturday at The LAB Miami on storytelling across platforms: film, theater, writing, social media and web. As we begin principal photography on our nexy documentary project, we’re looking for innovative ways to engage audiences and tell our story. We’re delving into a great topic: invasive pythons and other animal species in the Everglades. So much…