I almost never watch LOGO anymore, because I am annoyed by all of the commercial advertising they must rely on, worse than prime time network commercial breaks. I just happened by accident to run across East Side Story when nothing interesting was on the movie channels, and I was randomly flipping through the basic channels. I really enjoyed East Side Story.
This looks like it may have been made with DV cameras instead of film, I'm no expert, but it has that crisp, low-budget appearance of digital recording, rather than a traditional film look. It didn't hurt the quality of the finished video movie at all. Another digital video movie I enjoyed was Paris, (2003), with openly Out actor "hottie" Chad Allen playing a detective investigating the sex slave trade, with supporting actress aspiring superstar Bai Ling as his tragic romance. Locations were shot in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the surrounding desert.
I also recommend another East L.A. Latin story with Out characters, and a male gringo couple from the "outside" moving into an Echo Park home, it's called Quinceañera which was also released in 2006, at the Sundance Film Festival. It's not necessarily a love story, but it's got sweet moments and tender coming of age themes, and people forced to make difficult choices with potentially huge consequences, and things about themselves and family members they cannot change and must choose to accept or not. Quinceañera reflects how in life, the ways we define the word "family" has taken on many new meanings. Here is it's IMDb summary: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451176/
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