Exclusive: Isabel Echeverry of Kontakto Reps and Erika Olmos of Olmos Management have joined forces to form Olmos Kontakto Entertainment, a new management firm focused on discovering and developing emerging Latino talent. Olmos Kontakto represents actors, writers, directors and other creatives and will also develop a slate of feature films, reality TV, and scripted TV that promote ethnic and cultural diversity. Advertising vet Echeverry has experience in the Us Hispanic market and a client roster via her commercials-focused Kontakto Reps that includes Believe Media, Carbo Films, Company 3, Beast Editorial, Boxer Films, Personal Music, Altered.La, Slim, Cherry Sundae and Nunchaku. Clients of Olmos include Jonathan Castellanos (Off the Map), Vannessa Vasquez (Sorrow), Maynor Alvarado (Chavez), and Bernardo Saracino (Bless me Ultima, 50 to 1). She has also produced a number of documentaries. Olmos Kontakto is currently repping feature film Asher, from writer-director Francisco Ordonez with Danny Glover, Mekhi Phiefer, Gina Rodriguez...
- 2/12/2014
- by JEN YAMATO
- Deadline TV
With filmmaker Millie Loredo’s serial killer revenge feature Sorrow having wrapped recently, we thought it time to give the Dread Central audience a first look at the blood-soaked independent flick. Read on!
Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Loredo, who also produces alongside John Benton, John Mastrangelo and Melanie DeMayo, Sorrow stars actress Vannessa Vasquez as "Mila Sweeney," a woman attacked by serial killers, who is taken to a decaying home where the torture and humiliation continue before she manages to escape. Seeking justice and exacting revenge on her aggressors, she refuses to surrender, even as local police are moving in closer.
Filmed on the Red Scarlet over the course of twenty-three days in Utah and Texas, Sorrow is set to make the international festival circuit once post-production is complete. Andrew Sensenig, Melissa Mars, Eric Martinez, Donny Boaz and Mary Etuk round out the cast.
Catching up with...
Written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Loredo, who also produces alongside John Benton, John Mastrangelo and Melanie DeMayo, Sorrow stars actress Vannessa Vasquez as "Mila Sweeney," a woman attacked by serial killers, who is taken to a decaying home where the torture and humiliation continue before she manages to escape. Seeking justice and exacting revenge on her aggressors, she refuses to surrender, even as local police are moving in closer.
Filmed on the Red Scarlet over the course of twenty-three days in Utah and Texas, Sorrow is set to make the international festival circuit once post-production is complete. Andrew Sensenig, Melissa Mars, Eric Martinez, Donny Boaz and Mary Etuk round out the cast.
Catching up with...
- 7/10/2013
- by Sean Decker
- DreadCentral.com
At Texas Frightmare Weekend 2012, I stumbled across a little movie called Jacob (review here), and it completely blew me away. For a completely independent picture made for extremely little money, it packed an emotional punch that few mainstream horror films can pull off.
Truth be told, I've paid to see movies in the theater that display less skill and power than Jacob, and that's a damn shame, but finally someone was wise enough to pick up this gem for distribution, and as of April 16th, Jacob is out on DVD and Blu-ray for your viewing pleasure courtesy of Kino Lorber's Horizon Movies.
Jacob had a return performance at this year's Texas Frightmare Weekend to celebrate its release, and I sat down with main man Larry Carrell to chat about writing, directing, and acting in the film.
Mr. Dark: Give us the background on yourself, and what you've done so far.
Truth be told, I've paid to see movies in the theater that display less skill and power than Jacob, and that's a damn shame, but finally someone was wise enough to pick up this gem for distribution, and as of April 16th, Jacob is out on DVD and Blu-ray for your viewing pleasure courtesy of Kino Lorber's Horizon Movies.
Jacob had a return performance at this year's Texas Frightmare Weekend to celebrate its release, and I sat down with main man Larry Carrell to chat about writing, directing, and acting in the film.
Mr. Dark: Give us the background on yourself, and what you've done so far.
- 5/8/2013
- by Mr. Dark
- DreadCentral.com
Broadcast's final album, atypical as it may be, serves as a reminder of what a remarkable band they were
When Broadcast's Trish Keenan died of pneumonia in January 2011, it brought a sudden and shocking end to one of Britain's most singular bands. They emerged in 1996, not so much the height of Britpop as the zenith of its prematurely wizened kid brother, dubbed "Noelrock" by NME: trudging bloke-rock fast-tracked into the charts by the patronage of the then-omnipotent elder Gallagher brother, a man whose music tastes gave every impression of running to "a Saturday night session on a pub jukebox", as John Harris waspishly noted in his book The Last Party. Here it seemed, was proof that what you once might have called indie music had succeeded in taking over the mainstream largely by narrowing its horizons.
By contrast, Broadcast's sound suggested a boundless world of hitherto-unexplored possibilities. Their starting point...
When Broadcast's Trish Keenan died of pneumonia in January 2011, it brought a sudden and shocking end to one of Britain's most singular bands. They emerged in 1996, not so much the height of Britpop as the zenith of its prematurely wizened kid brother, dubbed "Noelrock" by NME: trudging bloke-rock fast-tracked into the charts by the patronage of the then-omnipotent elder Gallagher brother, a man whose music tastes gave every impression of running to "a Saturday night session on a pub jukebox", as John Harris waspishly noted in his book The Last Party. Here it seemed, was proof that what you once might have called indie music had succeeded in taking over the mainstream largely by narrowing its horizons.
By contrast, Broadcast's sound suggested a boundless world of hitherto-unexplored possibilities. Their starting point...
- 1/4/2013
- by Alexis Petridis
- The Guardian - Film News
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