05/29/2025
🎬🔥 Major Creative Surge Alert! 🔥🎸
This summer is coming in HOT for DB Media— on all fronts.
🎥 First up, the DB Players are officially competing in the 48 Hour Film Project the week before we begin production on our upcoming short, Veil of the Unknown. Back-to-back storytelling challenges? Let’s just say, we don’t sleep, we create.
🎶 Meanwhile, The Groover — our screenplay chronicling the musical legacy of the one and only Doug Sahm — continues to make waves. I’m thrilled to share that I’m in talks with the Festival Angaelica organizers to lead a panel on "Music in Film", using The Groover as the centerpiece. This is an invitation only festival running over the past 17-years in Southern California, so we are extremely honored to be included this year.
Even more exciting — we’re inviting some of Doug’s legendary collaborators, including the incredible Louie Ortega of Louie and the Lovers (a band Doug himself helped found), to join the panel and possibly perform. It’s shaping up to be a beautiful tribute and deep-dive into how music moves a story forward — both onscreen and off.
🎸 And on the music front: in a shift I didn’t expect to happen so fast, I’ve stepped fully into the musical creative role once filled by my former partner. While I continue to champion Doug’s legacy, I’ve also begun building an entirely new rock-focused project with bassist Rick G., whose gritty musical background perfectly aligns with my own. This is original, hard-hitting, and totally us — and I’m here for it.
Between filmmaking, panels, performance, and pushing boundaries in music — we’re firing on every cylinder, and it feels electric.
Let’s groove. Let’s make art. Let’s bring it all home.
— D.R. Pedraza
