HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to "gossip." In this sense, we use it to mention HOLA members who are getting acting and performance gigs. The names of HOLA members are in boldface.

Barbara Bonilla, shown at left, booked a voiceover job for Con Edison when the casting director called her in after seeing her member profile on the HOLA online directory.

Ziad Tayeh just wrapped up shooting on the short film If Only, directed by Venky Jayaram.

Zulema Clares e-mailed us to tell us that the film Interactivo, la película (directed by Tané Martínez and written by Clares and Martínez), a documentary about the Cuban band Interactivo, and the launch of their new album, Cubans Around The World, will have a screening at the Cinema Maldà in Barcelona, Spain. The film will then premiere in Miami, Florida on July 15, 2011. For more information about the project, click here.

Luis Salgado e-mailed us to let us know that he is working on a new project, entitled Candela, Fuerza y Pasión. The musical, which he will direct and choreograph, will include Afro-Peruvian folkloric dance and premiere at the Zum theater in the University of Lima in Lima, Peru.

E3Outlaws Productions is presenting Dr. Abniel Marat's Tabú. Directed by Enmanuel García, the play is being presented in July as part of the V Festival De Teatro Internacional de La Casa De La Cultura De Navarrete at the Sala Don Ivan García Guerra in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood and features Piedad Castaño, Frank Francisco, Agar García, Ramón Hierro, Eduardo Leáñez, Fior Marte, Lissette Montolío, Alejandro Moscoso, Gloria Ospina, Diana Pou, Herna Rodríguez and Héctor Luis Rivera in the cast.

If you are an HOLA member and want to submit a bochinche item, send us an e-mail at holagram@hellohola.org. If you are not an HOLA member, why not join?