HOLA Member Bochinche

Bochinche refers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mention HOLA members or Friends of HOLA who are getting acting, performance or similarly artistic gigs and/or recognition in the media. The names of HOLA members and Friends of HOLA are listed below in boldface. To see what other HOLA members are doing currently, click here.

The next incarnation of the Sueño Pop concert series (created by José Sepúlveda and SepLo Productions) was featured in El Blog de Pablo (written by Pablo García Gámez) and in Broadway World. Titled "Baila", the concert will feature music direction by Carlos Escalona and be presented on Saturday, August 8, 2015 at Drom, located in Manhattan's East Village. The performers for the "Baila" concert include Sepúlveda, Mauricio Pita (also see below), and Luis Salgado. To read the article in El Blog de Pablo (which is in Spanish), click here. To read the Broadway World article, click here. For more information, click here and here. [Clockwise from the bottom left, on the photo above right: Salgado, Pita, Sepúlveda.]

The feature film Medardo (written by 2015 HOLA Awards recipient Julio Ortega and directed by HOLA Awards recipient Nitsy Grau, respectively), was profiled in the Ecuadorian daily newspaper El Universo, where its Special Citation from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors for the 2015 HOLA Awards was mentioned. The film, which was filmed in and is currently playingin movie theaters in Ecuador, stars Ortega, Edna Lee Figueroa, Edison Carrera, Inma Heredia, and Juan Villarreal. To read the article, which is in Spanish, and to see a trailer for the movie, click here. [Shown above left, from left to right: Ortega, Figueroa.]

The Francisco Lupini Basagoiti short film Tú. Yo. Baño. Sexo. Ahora. (starring Francisco Fuertes and Mauricio Pita, also see above) continues its journey on the film festival circuit, this time hitting the Long Beach QFilm Festival in September in Long Beach, California. For more information, click here.

Modesto Lacén, shown at right, was interviewed by Amary Santiago Torres of the Puerto Rican daily newspaper Primera Hora, where he talked about playing Pedro Knight, Celia Cruz's husband in the Fox Telecolombia limited television series titled "Celia", based on the life of Celia Cruz, known as the Queen of Salsa and Guarachera de Cuba. (The series has been picked up for the U.S. by the Telemundo network.) For more information, click here (note that the website is in Spanish).

If you are an HOLA member or a Friend of HOLA and want to submit a bochinche item, send us an e-mail. If you live in the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLA member, why not join? If you live outside the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLA member, you can find out more information on how to do so, by clicking here. If you are not a Friend of HOLA, why not become one?