Brea Grant talks with Rosa Karo, director of The Italian Key, which has won over 15 festival awards including Best…
About Brea Grant
Brea Grant is a writer/director/actress best known for acting in “Heroes” and “Dexter” and for writing/directing the apocalyptic feature, “Best Friends Forever”. She is currently a producer on the Emmy-nominated Netflix series “EastSiders”. Her other writing/producing credits include the series “The Real Housewives of Horror” for Nerdist and several comic books including “We Will Bury You”, a 1920s zombie series, and “The Suicide Girls”, based on the popular website. She recently directed the short “Feminist Campfire Stories” which won the Audience Favorite Award at the Women in Comedy Film Festival. She just completed shooting a feature she wrote, produced and starred in called “I Can’t Be Trusted with Time Travel”. In her free time, she enjoys reading science fiction books and badminton, and is the co-host of the “Reading Glasses Podcast”.
THE RESEARCH: There are over 100,000 actors living in Los Angeles, and that does not include non-union actors. Of the…
About Kat Castaneda
After four years of service in the Marine Corps, where she booked her first acting job in a commercial, Kat Castaneda moved to NYC in pursuit of an acting career. She booked a few roles, garnered her first lead in a feature, and obtained her SAG card before moving to Los Angeles. Since in LA, Kat has discovered her true calling in creating content. Her talents as a fiction writer helped her transition into screenwriting, having two works produced in two years. She has just completed her first feature script, which, thus far, garnered her a spot in HBO/Nalip’s Latino Writing Lab earlier this year. A true creative spirit, she also started directing, completing her first film, “Regret”, and writing and directing the Indiegogo video for the web series, “Newlywed and Broke” she is currently creating with her Fiance. Stay tuned for this up and coming Latina powerhouse!
If you strive to be in front of the camera (or if you’re worried about your appearance for other reasons),…
About Brianne Grebil
Brianne is a natural skin care expert offering skin care services in the Pasadena, CA area. She is also the creator of Nabele, an all natural skin care line. Her goal is to provide women with simple, gentle products to improve their skin from the outside, while educating and mentoring on how to achieve a healthy glow from the inside. To schedule a skin care appointment or to view the Nabele product line, visit www.nabele.com.
“She’s so lucky.” We’ve all thought it. A dash of vinegar, before we quickly attempt to turn it sweet. But…
About Samara Bay
Samara's all about collaborating to tell stories that are good for the world or good for a laugh or both. She edits books, copy, and scripts in Hollywood and contributes culture and tech/innovation content to various publications, including Wired: Insider and the Huffington Post. She's a frequent moderator at Silicon Beach conferences and was recently on the leadership council for the United Nations’ first ever summit on the role of media in promoting social causes. She's an Ambassador of coworking space WeWork, an Advocate for artworxLA, an Al Gore-trained Climate Reality Leader, and a member of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. As a speech and communication gal, she dialect coaches on TV and film sets (most recently Captain America: The Winter Soldier, X-men: Days of Future Past, The Lone Ranger, pilots) and works one-on-one with professionals in the creative, science, and business arenas to improve their ability to convey their message and connect. Follow her on Twitter and IG @samarabay and check out her website, www.samara-bay.com, for more.
Tis the season!! Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la! Taxes! No? … Not feeling the warm fuzzies of tax season? No kidding. Doing taxes…
About Alex Santori
Alex Santori grew up in the mid-west as the youngest child in a wonderful family. She now lives in Los Angeles working part time as an actress, singer, writer, and blogger. She also works full time as a spy in the International Secret Service. Tell no one.
Hello- Hope this month has treated you all well. Welcome back. If you read my post last month, you’ll recall…
About Stacey Ann Shevlin
Stacey Ann Shevlin is a Philadelphia native and currently loves living and working in the much sunnier Los Angeles. She grew up as a competitive figure skater, and all free time not spent on the ice was spent acting and dancing. After studying production and obtaining a business degree in college, she made the logical choice to return to acting. Last year she worked on the feature The Mine in Russia with award-winning director Nurbek Egan. Stacey had the privilege to work on three other films, Paddy Lincoln Gang, Road To Sundance and Awaken, all of which have been selected for several Film Festivals. When she's not in front of the camera, Stacey writes music, travels to places even more exotic than Russia, and drinks craft beer on her back porch while indulging in her latest organic meal creation.
10 years ago, an actress would graduate high school with the wide eye dreams of becoming a star. She would…
About Vicky Ayala
Vicky is a digital strategist and personal brand coach who works with multi-passionate soloprepreneurs and teaches them how to build a thriving online business. She muses on the entrepreneurial journey and uses storytelling as a vehicle for showing others how to design a lifestyle that’s on purpose and by design. She is also founder of The Brand Asylum, a virtual training academy for solopreneurs who want to leverage and launch their way to success.
All my life I’ve written stories. I don’t know how to not have ideas and try to turn them into…
About Lee Hulme
You’ll mostly find Lee hiding out in whichever fictional world they’re writing about or playing games in. They’ll usually be hopped up on caffeine and talking at twice the normal speed of most humans. When not tied to the computer, they’ll be walking, reading, probably not far from coffee or alcohol, and often chatting to total strangers just because they can. At any given moment they’ll be working on at least one new book and/or short stories, producing fun things with 8 Sided Films, learning about the indie film industry that they somehow fell into entirely by accident, diving headfirst into any other fun projects they get the chance to do and occasionally remembering to have a social life. Their reputation for never sleeping is often well-deserved, but they do need to recharge their energy source every so often by only doing 2 things at once, instead of 5.
