Joseph L. Puente is the President & Founder of Utah FilmWorks and the Owner of Puente Media. He has had a lifelong interest in film,... more
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- What I would Change About the World: Teach people to know the difference between a film and a movie
- Current Gig: President & Founder, Utah FilmWorks
- Current Project: "The Anglə," "Section One TV"
- Influences/Heroes: P.T. Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick
- Organizations: Utah FilmWorks, Puente Media, Section One Entertainment
- Political Bent: Independent, Moderate
- Favorite Bands: U2, The Beatles, Evenescence, Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band, The Cranberries, Regina Spector, The Sundays, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Aerosmith, Billy Joel, Cake, Coldplay, The Crash Test Dummies, Blind Melon, The Doors, Santana, Tito Puente, Smashing Pumpkins, Sting, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Moldy Peaches, Rufus Wainwright, Talking Heads, Tom Jones, Tony Bennett
- Favorite Directors: P.T. Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick
- Favorite Movies: Magnolia, Fight Club, Good Will Hunting, My Life, Proof, The Color Purple, The World According to Garp, Night on Earth, Three Kings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Smoke, Punch Drunk Love, The Fisher King, Garden State, Smoke Signals
- Favorite TV Shows: Lost, Terminator TSCC, ER, The Office, My Name is Earl, Mythbusters, South Park, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Intervention, The Sopranos, Iron Chef, Good Eats
- Favorite Track: Natural Born Killers - Track 15 - Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
- Celebrity Crush: Kate Micucci
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- puente unlocked the Old-School badge 1 year ago
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- puente unlocked the Contributor I badge 1 year ago
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- puente posted The Anglə Follow-Up: "On Jason Chaffetz' YouTube Comments" 2 years ago
I might have caught the Congressman in another fib.
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- puente posted The Anglə "On Keeping Them Honest" 2 years ago
I guess you can call this my first attempt at investigative journalism (while clearly exercising my right to editorialize). My Congressman, Jason Chaffetz, is one of CNN.com's... more
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- puente posted The Anglə "On Dick Cheney and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies" 2 years ago
Dick Cheney has been criticizing the Obama Administration. But his choice of words could potentially have disastrous effects.
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- puente posted The Anglə On Assignment "Why the Moon? And Other Observations." 2 years ago
Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/joepuente http://www.nasa.gov/ Space Shuttle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle Sally Ride http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride... more
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- puente posted The Anglə "On Jason's 'Climate Tax' Pledge" 2 years ago
Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/joepuente Follow Jason Chaffetz' on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jasoninthehouse Jason's Signed "Climate Tax" pledge:... more
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- puente posted Section One TV 0801 "Jason Quinn" 2 years ago
A profile of Utah artist Jason Quinn
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- puente posted Section One TV 0803 "Hub City Days '07" 2 years ago
2007 Hub City Days photo montage.
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- puente posted Section One TV 0804 "Hospital Sled" 2 years ago
The great hospital bed/snow sled experiment
