Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tres! ¿Cuatro? Yes, there will be four whole seminars and workshops offered at the 2004 San Diego Latino Film Festival. These workshops are presented by Media Arts Center San Diego, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers and Association of Independent Video & Filmmakers. If you’re a local independent filmmaker wanting some insight into the filmmaking industry, or you’re simply bored, then you’re in luck.

The first seminar, “Producing for Television,” will be held on March 13. You get a panel of experts from the industry giving you the meat and potatoes of television production. You hear it from professionals such as supervising producer Barbara Martinez-Jitner (“American Family”), producer Carlos Portugal (“La Cenicienta” and “Frida Kahlo: Portrait of An Artist”), and executive producer Gregory Nava (“Selena”).

You’re dirt-poor but you’ve got a golden nugget of an independent film to produce? Don’t fret; big names in Latino film are here to give some useful tips on financial issues and the film industry in the workshop “Financing the Independent Feature Film” on March 14. Come and take note of the things you really need to hear about survival in the big, bad world of filmmaking. The workshop offers the great voices of director/producer Antonio Chavarrías (“Nicotina”), executive producer Sergio Aguero (“Y Tu Mama Tambien”) and producer Diana Lezmez (“Empire”).

The “Distributing and Marketing Your Film” workshop is on March 20. The marketplace is quite a jungle of competitive madness. Sometimes, as fabulous as it may be, your masterpiece may not have enough piquancy many films need to catch the public’s eye. This workshop gives the amateur filmmakers practical information on entering the marketplace and shimmying into the minds of major distribution companies. Hear information from the experiences of marketing expertise Ivette Rodriguez (“Once Upon a Time in Mexico”) and film division manager Julio Noriega (“Todo el Poder”).

You may have written the next Oscar-winning script, but sadly this is a commercialized industry with glitz, glam and all that nonsense. On March 21, the featured workshop “Selling Your Screenplay” will help you to sell a masterpiece. Hear screenwriter/actor Danny Mora (“Dharma and Greg” and “Laverne and Shirley”) speak from his own experience about the market for screenplays. With Mora’s words of wisdom, gain better insight into becoming more industry-savvy, and make a script suitable for the commercial market and maybe even snag an agent while you’re at it.