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SAG-AFTRA
has reached a tentative three-year successor deal with the recording
industry, covering session singers, royalty artists, announcers, actors,
comedians, narrators and sound effects artists. The deal covers work by performers for Sony Music Entertainment,
affiliates of Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Capitol Records
LLC and Hollywood Records for recordings in all new and traditional
media and all music formats, along with audiobooks, comedy albums and
cast albums. The deal now goes to SAG-AFTRA members for ratification. The new deal includes a payment formula for online streaming and
non-permanent digital downloads for revenues generated outside the
United States through platforms such as Spotify, Tidal and Rdio. It’s
the first time that the labels have included revenue generated outside
the U.S. in any payment streams under the union’s contract. The agreement is the first new contract covering sound recordings since
the 2012 merger of SAG and AFTRA and will be known as the SAG-AFTRA
National Code of Fair Practice for Sound Recordings. The previous
agreement expired December 31, 2015 and the new contract is retroactive to January 1, 2015 and runs through December 31, 2017. For more information, click here.
Bochincherefers to “gossip”. In this sense, we use it to mentionHOLAmembers 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.
2015 HOLAAwards recipient Sebastian Stimman, shown at right, will be playing Romeo in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: In Concert. A concert version of the play featuring ballet music by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, it will be produced by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), adapted and directed by Edward Berkeley and conducted by BSO musical director Marin Alsop. The performances will take place in October at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Music Center of Strathmore in Bethesda, Marlyland. For more information, click here. Francisco Fuertesis co-starring in and co-produced the short film Tú.Yo.Baño. Sexo. Ahora. (You. Me. Bathroom. Sex. Now.) Written and directed by Francisco Lupini Basagoiti, the film has been hitting the film festival hard, winning several awards along the way. Its next stop will be in August at the Reel Affirmations Film Festival, where it will screen at the Tivoli Theatre in Washington, District of Columbia. For more information, click here or here.
Luis Salgado, shown at left, was profiled in Broadway World Mexico, where he talked of his life and career as an actor-singer-dancer-choreographer-director-producer, and of his recent directing project (the Puerto Rico premiere of David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow, known as Jala-la-pala in Spanish), and his upcoming role in the upcoming musical On Your Feet!: The Story of Gloria & Emilio Estefan, written by 2015 HOLA Awards honoree Alexander Dinelaris with music by Gloria and Emilio Estefan. To read the article, which is in Spanish, click here. Carlo Lorenzo García's comedy webseries "Under Covers", which he produces, co-writes, and in which he stars as Detective Jimmy Cortez, is now an official selection for the San José International Short Film Festival (scheduled to take place in August in San José, California), and the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards (in Los Angeles, California). For more information, click here or here. Maite Uzal will be performing in American Gumbo. A showcase, presented by Rebel Theater Company, it is produced by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj and Adam Mace and will perform in August at Ripley-Grier Studios, located in the fashion district of midtown Manhattan. For more information, click here. If you are an HOLA member or a Friend of HOLAand 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 HOLAmember, why not join? If you live outside the New York metropolitan area and want to be an HOLAmember, 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?
Metropolitan New York’s only monthly series for Latino multimedia-makers and actors
Join usat the
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 • 6-10pm
Asupport network to advocate, promote & advance
mainstream & Latino projects in English & Spanish.
Hispanic Heritage: Celebrating Our Roots
Where we come from– the U.S., Latin America and Spain. It
shapes our music, content and the passions we champion. Join us for a monthly
network interviewing proven Latino multimedia-makers and actors, as well as
indulging in conversation, drink, food and music with community. Interviews
feature three artists who share their strategic plan for sustained success
while aiming for greater heights. But more importantly, come for an earthy
exchange and to be inspired– that’s Hispanic Heritage.
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NextPRIME LATINO MEDIA Salón: October 2015 (Hispanic Heritage Month
Part II)
Elaine Del Valle @brownsvillebred
The award-winning actor is a leading
producer and casting director. Propelling her career was an autobiographical
one-woman show that she wrote and starred in, Brownsville Bred. No stranger to HBO Latino, having played a “tía”
(aunt) in the English-language narrative film Elliot Loves, she negotiated a first of its kind deal for
interstitial programming with HBO Latino, "Gran’pa
Knows Best", a webseries she produces with director-creator, William D.
Caballero. She recently cast Comedy Central’s "Alternatino", the first Latino-centric sketch for their digital
channel. She 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. Be the first to see
the HBO Latino premiere episode, as well as a sneak preview of "The Bodega
Series", only at PRIME LATINO MEDIASalón.
Arian Blanco
Born and bred
in New Jersey, he is a Penn State University graduate from where he earned a B.S. in Business Management and a B.A. in Theatre Arts. For the last 16 years he has worked for the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) as a Program Director benefitting
culture and artists in 62 counties. Arian co-founded the Hudson Exploited
Theater Company (HExTC) in 1990 and serves as its Artistic Producing Director, enhancing
theater on both sides of the Hudson in New York and New Jersey. He directed a film short, Reigniting
Hope, and made another short, Mo(u)rning (an excerpt), as well
as a film short that he wrote and directed, Winter Guayabera. Due to relationships developed in theater over
decades he has drawn some of the most seasoned talent (i.e., "The Sopranos", "OZ", "Weeds", "House of Cards") to create a TV pilot, "West of the City".
He is a
master at fusing rumba, flamenco, jazz, bolero, R&B, bossa nova and a whole
lot of rhythm as singer, songwriter, composer, guitarist and percussionist. In
2013 Edwin released his debut album Faith,
dedicated to his father, the gifted bolero artist Roberto Vázquez. Throughout
his career he has played and recorded with Paul Simon; Marc Anthony; Tony Vega; and Tito Puente, Jr.; and has shared the stage with Willie Colón, George Lamond,
Judy Torres, and Frankie Negrón. He was selected as Artist of the Week by Best Buy.
Edwin recently opened up for the legendary merenguero Johnny Ventura. Watch
Edwin’s captivating music video, "Bailarina".
Louis Perego Moreno (Tío Louie) @tiolouie
Founder & Executive Producer of PRIME LATINO MEDIA, the largest network on the East Coast of bilingual Latino multimedia-makers and actors that hosts the PRIME LATINO MEDIA SALÓN, metropolitan New York's only monthly network gathering in which over 60 narrative & documentary filmmakers, programmers, casting agents, TV & digital media producers, actors and journalist/authors 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. Created a non-profit video training program that over the course of ten years produced 70 documentary shorts with 1,500 Latino and Black Youth. Producer/Director/Writer of documentary feature, "Latina Confessions (What does it mean to be Latina in the USA?)" and on the PBS documentary feature as co-producer of American Dreams Deferred.
