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...

For the first time in the festival's history the HollyShorts Film Festival, Hollywood, Los Angeles California, USA, will open with a feature film. SOLmont Events, the organizers behind HollyShorts announced today that festival alumni David Rodriguez' star-studded dramedy LAST I HEARD will receive its official Los Angeles premiere as the fests first-ever opening feature film with a special event screening on Thursday August 15, 2013 at the TCL Chinese Theatre. LAST I HEARD stars Paul Sorvino, Michael Rappaport, Renee Props, Andrea Nittoli, and Lev Gorn. The film notably features the first onscreen pairing of mafia movie legends Sorvino and Chazz Palminteri (The Usual Suspects).  Ranked 3 times as one of MovieMaker Magazine’s top 25 Festival’s Worth the Entry Fee, the 9th annual HollyShorts Film Festival runs August 15-22, 2013 in Hollywood and will feature over 300 short films in competition. International and local next generation filmmakers will transcend to Hollywoo...

Actors in LA! Are you looking for something different from the norm? Something that encompasses your aspirations and growing accomplishments as an actor in the film world, expanding into the filmmaking process.....with a view to the process, realities of actually making your own films.....lets not forget of course, actually doing the aforesaid, not just a dream of the future. Just the ticket is right here! For Actors by Actors (F.A.B.A) provides just that. www.ForActorsByActors.com   Friday 26th April's event is open to all to find out more about F.A.B.A and the Hollyshorts Film Festival http://hollyshorts.com/  , including a Red carpet reception at 6pm, open bar, and a evening of  film screenings created by members of F.A.B.A. Reserve your spot at  http://hollyshortsatshowbizapr26.eventbrite.com/ I was lucky enough to have a quick chat with Company Founder, Actor, Director Alex Feldman   http://foractorsbyactors.wordpress.com/our-faculty/alex-fe...

NEXT WEEKEND , Presented by Sundance Institute to Offer Film Screenings and Panels at Sundance Cinema in West Hollywood, LA. Screenings Around Los Angeles Co-Hosted with American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre, Cinefamily, Cinespia at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television NEXT WEEKEND , Presented by Sundance Institute will take place Aug. 8-11, 2013 at Sundance Cinema and additional venues throughout Los Angeles. The event is an extension of the popular NEXT <=> section at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, which showcases stylistically adventurous films that take a bold approach to storytelling. Consisting of 4 days of screenings, parties and artist programs that celebrate the renegade spirit of independent filmmaking. Over one summer weekend film fans will have the chance to choose from eight yet-to-be-released feature films. There will also be a pane...

Parallel Avenue sets out to describe Los Angeles in all its complexities and diversities, through conceptions, opinions, past experiences of  5 female characters : - http://vimeo.com/channels/parallelavenue Writer, director Leor Baum  puts to good use the stunning visual scenery that is an inborn part of Los Angeles for the backdrop of the film. The film sets out to communicate innermost thoughts, feelings and emotions about Los Angeles, so that any film audience could relate to on any level with their own experience of the city. This short film, screened and premiered as an Official Selection at the LA Shorts Fest 2012.   The segment from the film 'Sarah ' was a finalist in the  On Location, Los Angeles Video Project 2012  - http://www.newfilmmakersla.com/onlocation Writer, director Leor Baum, sought out the ideal Los Angeles locations for the film, and filmed the stunning visual scenes that best encompassed the varied...

Find out more about Louis Mandylor here Links http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541909/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mandylor

L.A, I TALIA ’S NEWEST AND HIGHEST HONOR WILL BE PRESENTED DURING THE FESTIVAL’S OPENING NIGHT CEREMONIES ON FEBRUARY 17TH  Chinese Theater, Hollywood, Los Angeles. Academy Award -winning actor Al Pacino will be the  recipient of the inaugural JACK VALENTI - L.A., ITALIA LEGEND AWARD,  by noted Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmuller, honorary chairman of the  Istituto Capri nel Mondo, the  governing body of the Los Angeles, Italia – Film, Fashion and Art Fest . Named in memory of longtime  MPAA president Jack Valenti, it is the festival’s highest honor and it will be given annually to an outstanding Italian-American who has made major contributions to the global motion picture industry. Valenti’s daughter Courtenay, executive vice president of production for WarnerBros. Pictures, will  present the award to Pacino on February 17 th  during the festival’s opening night ceremonies at the  ChineseTheatre in Hollywood...

The early bird catches the worm, or so to speak? Filmmakers take attention, note and take action now ! Early submissions to a great Film Festival.  Whether you are an established filmmaker looking to submit something different from the usual, or a budding filmmaker with aspirations, ambition and drive, look no further - below The organizers are now accepting submissions for the 9 th  annual  HollyShortsFilm Festival  (HSFF),which takes place on  August15-25  at the historic and newly renamed TCL Chinese Theatre (Formerly known as Grauman’s) in Hollywood.  Filmmakers can take advantage of Friday’s early bird submission deadline now by submitting their short film projects at:  www.hollyshorts.com  or at  https://www.withoutabox.com/login/4655 .  The announcement was made today by festival co-founders and co-directors Daniel Sol and Theo Dumont. Twice ranked by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the Top Fe...

Cast:-Valerie Azlynn (Tropic Thunder, Poseidon, Surrogates), Kevin Sorbo (Hercules and Xena, Kull the Conqueror), Alicia Leigh Willis (National Treasure, How High, American Heiress), Joel David Moore (Avatar, Dodgeball), Ving Rhames (Surrogates, Pulp Fiction, Mission Impossible).Courtney Rawls (debuts) Director: PJ Pettiette (The General, If I Die Before I Wake, Jennifer’s Shadow) Music composer: Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill-Movie & Video games, Rumble Roses) Interview with P.J Pettiette Director,Writer, Claudine Viguerie, Producer & Courtney Rawls Actress, Producer. Interview by Jasmina Nevada Two sisters devise a wicked game of cat and mouse after one is abducted on a blind internet date gone wrong. Julia (Valerie Azlynn) meets 'The Stranger ' on her third internet date. However all is not what it seems and is abducted by 'The Stranger' (Kevin Sorbo) and branded with an X. An action packed cat and mouse game ensues in var...