Metropolitan New York’s only monthly series for
Latino multimedia-makers and actors
Join us for the "madre" of holiday parties
HOLIDAY FIESTA
at the
A support
network to advocate, promote & advance
mainstream & Latino projects in
English & Spanish.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from 6-10PM
Annual LOS PADRINOS Awards with Tío Louie
We can’t do it alone! At PRIME LATINO MEDIA we firmly believe in the power of networking and
forging working relationships to move projects forward and advance careers. We
also know the power of having a “Padrino” and “Madrina” (Godfather &
Godmother) in the industry. To that effect, we highlight Latinos who aside from
being powerhouses in the industry, believe in community and selflessly support
Latinos and their projects. No better way to celebrate our mantra for 2016 ~
¡Latinos Unidos!
8pm: TÍO
LOUIE Presenta 2015 PADRINO & MADRINA Awards
Luis Antonio Ramos, Elaine Del Valle, J.W. Cortés
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LUIS ANTONIO RAMOS @LuisARamosActor
A Puerto
Rican native who was raised in the Bronx, he is best known for his
scene-stealing role as Carlos “Víbora” Ruiz — a street-savvy drug dealer and
the leader of the Soldado Nation—on STARZ’s hit series "POWER". He has had lead roles on ABC’s "LUCKY 7", this year appeared as Venezuelan President Francisco
Suárez in the CBS hit series "MADAM
SECRETARY", and has performed on "CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION", "LAW
& ORDER", "BURN NOTICE", "NEW YORK UNDERCOVER", "CSI: MIAMI", and "NIP/TUCK", to name a few. He has performed in theater from roles in
the one-man show GROWING UP GONZALES
to several classics, including ROMEO AND
JULIET, RICHARD II, HENRY THE IV
and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. But it
is his commitment to the Latino independent filmmaking community that had him
render roles with the utmost respect in films ranging from THE MIRACLE OF SPANISH HARLEM to the recent, STOCKROOM. PRIME LATINO MEDIA Padrino 2015.
J.W. CORTÉS @jwcortes
J.W. Cortés is an award-winning actor,
Marine combat veteran, singer, filmmaker, philanthropist and serves New York
State’s Metropolitan Transit Authority Police Department (MTAPD) as an officer
based in Grand Central Terminal. A good 2015 in which he’s played roles
from Detective Carlos Álvarez on FOX’s hit prime-time series, "GOTHAM" to NBC's "THE BLACKLIST" and "THE
MYSTERIES OF LAURA". He also helps raise awareness and funding for
children’s charities, such as Autism
Speaks and for veterans through the Bob
Woodruff Foundation, to name a few. But when you least expect it, he’s at a
reading in the East Village for a rising Latina playwright to introducing a
docudrama on a Nuyorican female detective at the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival. PRIME LATINO
MEDIA Padrino 2015.
ELAINE DEL VALLE @brownsvillebred
This award-winning actor is a leading producer and casting director. Her
signature project is an autobiographical one-woman show that she wrote and
starred in, BROWNSVILLE BRED. On HBO
Latino she played "Tía” (aunt) in the English-language narrative film ELLIOT'S LOVE, where she also negotiated
a first of its kind deal for interstitial programming, GRAN'PA KNOWS BEST, a webseries she produces with director/creator,
William D. Caballero. For Comedy Central’s digital channel she cast "ALTERNATINO", the first Latino-centric
sketch. Elaine also wrote, cast and produced, "THE BODEGA SERIES", a pilot about gentrification in Brooklyn through
the eyes of the Rivera family who own a Bushwick bodega. This is a lady who
produces other Latinos' projects – from documentaries to webseries, as well as funding
some. Plus, as a casting maven, clients seek Elaine for her knowledge of the
Latino market and language, and over 50% of her castings are Latinos. PRIME LATINO MEDIA Madrina 2015.
LOUIS E. PEREGO MORENO (TÍO LOUIE) @tiolouie
Founder & Executive Producer of PRIME LATINO MEDIA, the largest network of Latino multimedia-makers and actors on the East Coast that hosts the PRIME LATINO MEDIA Salón, New York metropolitan area's only monthly network gathering in which over 60 narrative & documentary filmmakers, programmers, casting agents, TV & digital media producers and actors have been interviewed. An interactive content producer and educator who for the past 34 years has owned Skyline Features, a bilingual (English- and Spanish-language) multimedia and educational production company developing documentaries, television programming and advertising commercials featuring Latinos, Blacks, Women, Urban Youth and LGBT. Produced 70 documentary shorts with 1,500 Latino and Black Youth. Producer/Director/Writer of documentary feature, Latina Confessions (2010) and airing on PBS nationally was co-producer on American Dreams Deferred (2012-2014).
