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Independent filmmaker JOSEPH VASQUEZ

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Published December 28, 1995 at 11:00 PM CST

Independent filmmaker JOSEPH VASQUEZ. His movie, "Hangin' With The Homeboys," was a semi-autobiographical movie about Vasquez' home neighborhood in the South Bronx. He won a 1991 Sundance Film Festival award for the screenplay, which he wrote in three days. VASQUEZ died earlier this week of complications related to the AIDS virus. He had recently finished work on a new film, "Manhattan Meringue." (REBROADCAST from 6/