Insights by Jasmina Nevada

A blog post would not be complete without a little about the blogger, past endeavours which led me to the path of my present ones. I freelanced as film media in Hollywood and beyond. Interviewed film talent at prestigious film festivals on red carpets in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Dublin, London, Cannes & Latin America including events at the Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood amongst other locations. Film festivals such as Sundance, Hollywood, AFI, Cannes, Dublin, Screamfest, MIPTV, MIPCOM, as well as the Independent Spirit Awards and Indie Film festivals and many others. Talent interviewed including Richard Gere, James D'Arcy, Rob Lowe, Tim Roth and many more. Trained in Hollywood as an actress, filmmaker and voice over, with small parts in music videos, reality TV shows, & films.  Known as 'the Venezuelan-English girl' courtesy of an Intro spot on the Late, Late show with Craig Ferguson in LA. Studied acting, improvisation, film making and voice over with...

Academy Award® nominated actor Edward James Olmos today announced the program that will be featured at the 2019 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) which runs Wednesday, July 31 through Sunday, August 4 at the TCL Chinese Theatres.  As the largest Latinx film festival to be hosted in Los Angeles, this year the festival will shine a spotlight on US-born Latinx filmmakers. This year’s program includes 15 features, 17 shorts, five episodics, two special events and two Latinx podcasts live from the festival. This year’s program will open with Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera’s The Infiltrators, which won the Audience Award: NEXT and The NEXT Innovator Prize at Sundance earlier this year.  The film, a mixture of documentary and narrative, focuses on a real-life rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – that get deliberately detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center. The film is a suspenseful telling of...

The Mexican Dueña is based on a true story. Two señoritas impressed by a tropical location on their travels, decide to return a few years later, to embark on a new beginning in the sun. However all does not go to plan, as they face the wrath of landlords and landowners (dueñas), and they face events they could not have envisaged in theory search for paradise. But wait I hear you ask. The blogger, interviewer, freelance media, actress etc.. writing about her professional endeavours!? Yes, you read correctly. The reason I took this route, was that a true story had been written as a screenplay, with intentions for a film, but was placed on my virtual shelf for a few years. A discussion here a negotiation there, only spanners in the works, no film or prospect of such.. So the mind boggles.. And one day.. I decided self publishing was the route and journey I took to get the story out worldwide and be seen. But it is not as simple as 1, 2, 3. I suddenly realised that I wo...

AFI FEST 2014  presented by Audi, a program of the American Film Institute, announced the films that will be  featured during this years Film Festival which takes place November 6th to 13th November 2013 in the categories of New Auteurs, Shorts and American Independents.  The New Auteurs and Shorts sections both showcase filmmakers from around the world; the New  Auteurs section highlights first and second-time feature film directors and the Shorts selections  represent diverse and varied international perspectives. The Shorts program this year features a full  program of animated films in addition to a program of midnight shorts.  Both sections are juried and  are available for the Grand Jury Awards. This year's New Auteurs jury features Alonso Duralde  (The Wrap and The Advocate), Tim Grierson (Screen International), Eric Kohn (IndieWire) and  Anne Thompson (Thompson on Hollywood). The Shorts jury features Kahlil Joseph (film...

Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute's Board of Trustees, announced the Board's decision to honor Steve Martin with the 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film, known to be Americas highest honor within the industry. The award will be presented to Martin at a gala tribute in Los Angeles, CA on June 4, 2015. The 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award tribute special will return for its third year on TNT when it airs in June 2015, followed by encore presentations on sister network Turner Classic Movies (TCM). "Steve Martin is an American original," said Stringer. "From a wild and crazy stand-up comic to one who stands tall among the great figures in this American art form, he is a multi-layered creative force bound by neither convention nor caution. His work is defined by him alone, for he is the author – and a national treasure whose work has stuck with us like an arrow in the head. AFI is proud to present...