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Lawmakers Unveil Overhaul of California’s Film and TV Tax Credit Lottery

August 18, 2014, 9:44 am
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California State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León,
at left, with California Governor Jerry Brown.
Photo credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
Check out Ted Johnson's article in Variety to read about the planned overhaul of the film and television tax credit lottery California legislators plan to enact by clicking here.
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Not Much of a Latino Presence in Hollywood Films (Despite Being The Fastest Growing Minority in the United States of America)

August 18, 2014, 9:56 am
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Study: Latina Women Most Likely to Be Naked On Screen

August 18, 2014, 10:09 am
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Academy Award-nominated actress
and producer Salma Hayek.
Hispanics are dramatically underrepresented and hypersexualized.  In contrast to the representative numbers on black and Asian characters, only 4.9% of speaking characters in the years surveyed were Hispanic. Compare that to the 16.3% of the U.S. population that is Hispanic -- and the fact that Latino moviegoers buy 25% of all theater tickets -- and the numbers are appalling.

Drama Desk- and BAFTA-nominated
actress Cameron Díaz and Academy
Award-winning actress Penélope Cruz.
Check out Inkoo Kang's blog in Indiewire regarding the Annenberg School/University of Southern California (USC) study that "confirms what we already know: Hollywood sucks at portraying racial diversity" by clicking here.

To read a comparable story in Spanish, check out the El Especial article "Hollywood prefiere latinas sexys y con poca ropa" by clicking here.
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Lights, Camera, Struggle? Hollywood Latinos Speak Out

August 18, 2014, 12:13 pm
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Elaine Del Valle.
Check out (former HOLA member) Raúl A. Reyes' article in NBC News on the struggle for diverse visibility for Latinos in the media by clicking here. 

In the article, he speaks with former HOLA member Patricia Rae, Rick Nájera, current HOLA member Elaine Del Valle, and Esaí Morales.
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HOLA Member Bochinche

August 18, 2014, 3:15 pm
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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.

Ana Grosse, shown at right, is starring in Saviana Stănescu’s Useless. Directed by José Zayas, the play also stars Andy Phelan and Steven Rishard and is being presented at the IRT Theater in Manhattan’s West Village. For more information, click here or here.
 
Lisann Valentín and Mauricio Pita are acting in the play I Like To Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This Is A Mango. A series of play written by Camilo Almonacid; Jenny Lyn Bader; J. Stephen Brantley; Ed Cardona, Jr.; Les Hunter; Melisa Tien; and Joy Tomasko, it is directed by Ari Laura Kreith as part of the Theater: Village Festival of New American Plays, presented in September by Theatre 167 at the New Ohio Theatre, located in Manhattan’s West Village. For more information, click here or here. 

Patrick Michael Valley, shown at left, is acting in the play The Revolving Door. Written and directed by Tony Vozzo, the play also stars Vozzo, Stephanie Garay, Greta Quispe, James Edward Mosher, Jerry Davis Cuda, Patrick Surace, Broni Borikova and Steven Vega. The play is scheduled for an August run at the Crowne Theater/Producers Club in the theatre district of midtown Manhattan. For more information, click here. Valley will follow this up by reprising his role in the HOLA Award-winning musical Temple of the Souls. Written by Anita Vélez-Mitchell (book and lyrics), Anika Paris and Dean Landon (music and additional lyrics), the musical is directed by Lorca Peress (with musical direction by Bruce Baumer). The musical will run in September at the Johnson Theater/Theater for the New City, located in Manhattan's East Village. For more information, click here.

2014 HOLA Award recipient Marco Antonio Rodríguez and Lina Gallegos are among two of the over 30 participating playwrights for the first annual Dallas One-Minute Play Festival. Curated by Dominic D'Andrea and produced by The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Kitchen Dog Theater, the plays are directed by Spencer Driggers, Kelsey Head, Tim Johnson, Dylan Key, Nico Martini and Lee Trull. The short plays are scheduled for an August run at The Kitchen Dog Theater at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC), in Dallas, Texas. For more information, click here or here.

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?
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2014 HOLA Awards in the News

August 18, 2014, 4:02 pm
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The 2014 HOLA Awards, scheduled to take place Monday, October 13, 2014 at The Battery Gardens, inside Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, has been in the news as of late. Click on each link to read the press coverage of the 2014 HOLA Awards.


• Playbill Online
• Broadway World
• LocalTheatreNY.com
• Impacto Latin News (shown at right)
• Latin Heat
• ArteNY: Arte y Teatro, Cultura, Cine y TV en NY
• El Blog de Pablo
• El Camerino


To read the press release for the event, click here.
To get tickets for the 2014 HOLA Awards, click here.
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10 Extremely Problematic Realities About Latinos In Hollywood (And Some Hope)

August 20, 2014, 10:29 am
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A STUDY INDICATES LATINOS WERE MORE REPRESENTED IN AMERICAN MEDIA IN THE 1950s THAN TODAY
An in-depth study from Columbia University in conjunction with the Hispanic Foundation for the Arts and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, The Latino Media Gap: A Report on the State of Latinos in U.S. Media, indicates that Latinos found much more representation in movies and on TV in the ’50s. Deadline lays out the numbers, noting that “Latinos on average made up only 2.8% of the U.S. population in the 1950s but accounted for 3.9% of lead actor roles and 1.5% of all leading roles." 
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s estimates, there are roughly 52 million Latinos in the U.S. as of July 1, 2011, or just over 16% of the current U.S. population. That number is on track to reach 132.8 million — or about 30% of the U.S. population — by July 1, 2050. 
Among the racial and ethnic groups studied in the the Media, Diversity, and Social Change Initiative’s report, released August 2014, Latinos made up only 4.9% of movie characters across 100 of 2013’s top-grossing films.
Check out Alex Álvarez's blog in BuzzFeed regarding ten extremely problematic realities about Latinos in Hollywood, PLUS some hope for the present and future by clicking here.

(Above, from left to right, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo in the television series "I Love Lucy"; Zoë Saldaña as Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek film series.)
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HOLA Member Bochinche

August 21, 2014, 11:39 am
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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.

Christian Gnecco Quintero, shown at right, will be acting in the play Sound Syndrome. Written and directed by Walter Tucker, the production will run in September at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn. For more information, click here.

Rhina Valentín will be hosting the Morris Park Community Association's International Music Festival. Co-sponsored by the New York Daily News, the headliner will be musician Frankie Morales (who will be a special tribute to the king of mambo Tito Puente). The event will take place on Saturday, September 7, 2014 at the Oscar Comras Mall in the Bronx Park section of the Bronx. For more information, e-mail here.

Caridad de la Luz (also known by her nom de poésie et de musiqueLa Bruja) will be performing spoken word poetry on Friday, August 29, 2014 at The Poet's Passage in Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Roberto Sanábria, shown at left, booked a World Cup-themed, anti-jaywalking public service announcement viral video through an HOLA referral, and now the video (and Sanábria) was the subject of a report on PIX 11 News in New York. To see the report, click here.

Laura Riveros and 2014 HOLA Award recipient María Cuartero will be performing in Immersion. The Sans Comedia production, written and directed by Julián Mesri, will have performances in September and October at This Theatre in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. The cast also features Nathaniel Basch-Gould, Elizabeth Fox, Israel Hernández, Mesri, Florence Minniti, David Ohana and Jen Taher. For more information, click here and here.

Anthony Ruiz and Ed Trucco co-directed the short film Truth Will Out. The film stars Trucco, 2014 HOLA Awards recipient Armando Riesco, Susanna Guzmán, Mateo Gómez, Laura Gómez and A.B. Lugo. The film was written by Ruiz, Trucco and Riesco (based on a story by Trucco) and can be seen below. (Caution: Some strong language.)



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?
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SAG-AFTRA Ratifies 2014 TV/Theatrical Contracts

August 23, 2014, 5:10 pm
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Robert Rodríguez On Storytelling and "Hispanic" Stories

August 23, 2014, 5:26 pm
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Filmmaker-El Rey network chief
Robert Rodríguez in his office at
Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas.
Photo by Brent Humphreys
for The Hollywood Reporter.
We have to create storytelling that has universal appeal. That's how I had to sell Miramax on Spy Kids. They asked me, "Why are you making them Hispanic? Why don't you just make them American?" I said, "They are American! It's based on my family." I told them, "You don't have to be British to enjoy James Bond." The more specific you can make them, the more universal. Spy Kids, Machete, Desperado — they are Hispanic films, but they're for anyone. You can't beat people with the Latin stick. Even Hispanics don't want that.

Check out Stacey Wilson's profile of filmmaker-El Rey network chief Robert Rodríguez in The Hollywood Reporter by clicking here.
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HOLA Member Bochinche

August 25, 2014, 9:59 am
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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.

Roger González, shown at right, booked a role in the Ricardo Bacallao short film The Wine Taster. He booked the gig after meeting the director at an HOLA event and then auditioning for him shortly afterward. The film also stars Manny Alfaro, Mateo Gómez and Mariana Parma (see below), and is scheduled to start filming soon in Glen Cove, New York.

Mariana Parma (see above) acted in the short film The Romancer (written and directed by Lucas Sachs), currently shooting in New York City.

Rénoly Santiago is acting in the film The Networker. Written by Bill Brady, Richard Buyer and Victor Ribaudo, and directed by John A. Gallagher, the feature film stars Sean Young, Stephen Baldwin, William Reiner and Danny Doherty. The film is currently lensing in New York City.

2014 HOLA Award recipient Marco Antonio Rodríguez, shown at left, was interviewed by Lynda Baquero on the NBC New York program “Visiones”, where he spoke about the HOLA Award-winning play he wrote and in which he stars, Barceló con hielo(currently running at Repertorio Español, located in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan). For more information about the production, which has extended its run at Repertorio Español through February 2015, click here, here or here. To see the interview, which references the production's four 2014 HOLA Awards, click here.

Modesto Lacén is starring opposite Lorraine Vélez in the bio-musical Clemente: The Legend of 21 (written and directed by Luis Caballero), where he plays the title role of the late baseball icon Roberto Clemente. Produced by the NightBlue Performing Arts Company and Artocarpus at Stage 773 in Chicago, Illinois, the production will run in August and September.

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?
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HOLA Legends: MARIO MORENO "CANTINFLAS"

August 25, 2014, 11:47 am
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Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes, known more casually as simply Mario Moreno, and known professionally as Cantinflas (August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993), was a Mexican comic film actor, producer, and screenwriter. The character came to be associated with the national identity of Mexico, and allowed Cantinflas to establish a long, successful film career that included a foray into Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin once commented that he was the best comedian alive, and Moreno has been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico". To U.S. audiences, he is best remembered as co-starring with David Niven in the 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days, for which he won a Golden Globe Award.


As a pioneer of Mexican cinema, he helped usher in its golden era. In addition to being a business leader, he also became involved in Mexico's tangled and often dangerous labor politics. Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became enmeshed with his own, was examined by media critics, philosophers, and linguists, who saw him variably as a danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a kind philanthropist, a transgressor of gender roles, a pious Catholic, a verbal innovator, and as an underdog.

Born in the Santa María la Redonda neighborhood of Mexico City, D.F., Mexico, as one of eight children, he was raised in the Mexico City neighborhood of Tepito. After an unsuccessful attempt to enter the U.S. through California, he became a prizefighter in his teens as a source of income. His comic personality led him to a circus tent show, and from there to legitimate theatre and film.

As a young man, Cantinflas performed a variety of acts in travelling tents. At first he tried to imitate Al Jolson by smearing his face with black paint, but later separated himself to form his own identity as an impoverished slum dweller with baggy pants, a rope for a belt, and a distinctive mustache. In the tents, he danced, performed acrobatics, and performed roles related to several different professions. It was there he acquired the stage name Cantinflas, although the origin stories differ. One story says "Cantinflas" was a meaningless name invented to prevent his parents from knowing he was in the entertainment business, which they considered a shameful occupation. Another origin story is below.

According to a legend, a young Mario Moreno, overwhelmed by stage fright, forgets his original monologue. He begins to say what comes to mind in a complete emancipation of phrases and words, and what comes to mind is an incoherent brilliance. Someone, taken in by the nonsense, screams: "Cuanto inflas!" [C' ntinflas] ("You're annoying!") or "En la cantina inflas!" ["You like to drink a lot at the cantina (inflar means to swell)"]. The contraction caught on and he became known as Cantinflas.

In the mid-1930s, Cantinflas met publicist and producer Santiago Reachi and subsequently partnered with him to form their own film production venture. Reachi produced, directed, and distributed, while Cantinflas acted. Cantinflas made his film debut in 1936 with No te engañes corazón before meeting Reachi, but the film received little attention. Reachi established Posa Films in 1939 with Cantinflas and another investor. Before this, Reachi produced short films that allowed him to develop the Cantinflas character, but it was in 1940 that he finally became a movie star, after shooting Ahí está el detalle ("There's the rub", literally "There lies the detail"). The phrase that gave that movie its name became a "Cantinflas" (or catchphrase) for the remainder of his career. The film was a breakthrough in Latin America.

He married Valentina Ivanova Zubareff, of Russian ethnicity, on October 27, 1936, and remained with her until her death in January 1966. A son was born to Moreno in 1961 by another woman; the child was adopted by Valentina Ivanova and was named Mario Arturo Moreno Ivanova, causing some references to erroneously refer to him as "Cantinflas' adopted son". After Ivanova passed away, he never remarried.


In 1956, Around the World in Eighty Days, his American debut, earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Variety magazine said in 1956 that his Chaplinesque quality made a big contribution to the success of the film. The film ultimately made an unadjusted $42 million at the box office (over $355 million in 2013 dollars). While David Niven was billed as the lead in English-speaking nations, Cantinflas was billed as the lead elsewhere. As a result of the film, Cantinflas became the world's best paid actor.


The 1940s and 1950s were Cantinflas' heyday. In 1941, he rejected Mexican film companies and instead signed with Columbia Pictures, who distributed his films. Like Charlie Chaplin, Cantinflas was a social satirist. He played el pelado, an impoverished Everyman, with hopes to succeed. With mutual admiration, Cantinflas was influenced by Chaplin's earlier films and ideology. El Circo (the circus) was a "shadow" of Chaplin's silent film, The Circus and Si yo fuera diputado ("If I Were a Congressman") had many similarities with the 1940 film, The Great Dictator. Cantinflas' films, to this day, still generate revenue for Columbia Pictures. In 2000, Columbia reported in an estimated US$4 million in foreign distribution from the films.


He served as president of the Mexican actor's guild known as Asociación Nacional de Actores (ANDA, "National Association of Actors"). Following his retirement, Moreno devoted his life to helping others through charity and humanitarian organizations, especially those dedicated to helping children. His contributions to the Roman Catholic Church and orphanages made him a folk hero in Mexico.


Among the things that endeared him to his public was his comic use of language in his films; his characters (all of which were really variations of the main "Cantinflas" persona but cast in different social roles and circumstances) would strike up a normal conversation and then complicate it to the point where no one understood what they were talking about. The Cantinflas character was particularly adept at obfuscating the conversation when he owed somebody money, was courting an attractive young woman, or was trying to talk his way out of trouble with authorities, whom he managed to humiliate without their even being able to tell. This manner of talking became known as Cantinflada, and it became common parlance for Spanish speakers to say "¡estás cantinfleando!" (loosely translated as you're pulling a "Cantinflas!" or you're "Cantinflassing!") whenever someone became hard to understand in conversation. The Real Academia Española (RAE) officially included the verb cantinflear and the nouns cantinflas and cantinflada in its dictionary in 1992.


In 1993, after his death in Mexico City of lung cancer, thousands appeared on the rainy day for his funeral. The ceremony was a national event, lasting three days. His body lay in state in the Rotonda de Las Personas Ilustres (The Rotunda of Illustrious Persons) and he was honored by many heads of state and the United States Senate, which held a moment of silence for him. Although Cantinflas never achieved the same success in the United States as in Mexico, he was honored with a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Moreno's life is the subject of the 2014 biographical film Cantinflas (directed by Sebastián del Amo). It stars Óscar Jaenada, who portrays a young Mario Moreno attempting to gain respect and make a living as an actor, and Michael Imperioli as Mike Todd, an American film-producer struggling to film his masterpiece. The film is centered in Moreno's personal life, and in the development of Around the World in 80 Days. The film is scheduled for release on Friday, August 29, 2014.
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CYNTHIA LÓPEZ, Commissioner of NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, to Receive 2014 HOLA Advocacy Award

August 25, 2014, 5:10 pm
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Commissioner of NYC Mayor’s Office of
Media and Entertainment
CYNTHIA LÓPEZ
to receive 2014 HOLA Advocacy Award

Will join HÉCTOR ELIZONDO, DANNY BURSTEIN, ANA ORTIZ, BIANCA MARROQUÍN, PEDRO PASCAL, CIERRA RAMÍREZ and SIBILA VARGAS
at the 2014 HOLA Awards Gala and Benefit 

The 2014 HOLA Awards will take place on Monday, October 13, 2014
at the Battery Gardens, located in NYC's Battery Park

Commissioner of New York City
Mayor's Office of Media and
Entertainment Cynthia López.
August 25, 2014 (New York, New York) — The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA), the nation’s longest running active arts advocacy organization for Latino actors, is pleased to announce that it will honor the Commissioner of New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Cynthia López with the inaugural HOLA Advocacy Award. She will join Emmy and Obie winner, five-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein, actress Ana Ortiz, triple threat Bianca Marroquín, actor Pedro Pascal, actress Cierra Ramírez and WNBC-TV anchor Sibila Vargas at the Fifteenth Annual HOLA Awards Gala and Benefit. The HOLA Awards will take place on Monday, October 13, 2014 at 6:30pm at The Battery Gardens, located on the waterfront overlooking New York Harbor in Battery Park (opposite 17 State Street in lower Manhattan). Sponsorship opportunities are still available. A limited number of individual tickets are available at $150.

Cynthia López will receive the 2014 HOLA Advocacy Award. She is the Commissioner of the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. She joined the City of New York from American Documentary | POV, where she served as executive vice president and co-executive producer of the award-winning “POV” (Point of View) documentary series. She has received many prestigious awards including the 2013 Industry Award from Chicken & Egg Pictures, Prism Award, and many others. In 2013, the Imagen Foundation cited her as one of the top 20 most influential Latinos in entertainment. She is the recipient of eight News and Documentary Emmys.

Obie and Emmy winner Héctor Elizondo, currently starring in ABC’s “Last Man Standing”, will receive the 2014 Rita Moreno HOLA Award for Excellence. Five-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein, currently treading the boards on Broadway in Cabaret; and Ana Ortiz, star of the television series “Ugly Betty” and “Devious Maids”, will receive the 2014HOLAJosé Ferrer Tespis Award. Bianca Marroquín (currently on Broadway in Chicago, and a judge on Univision’s celebrity dance competition series “¡Mira Quién Baila!”) will receive the 2014 Raúl JuliáHOLAFounders Award.

Pedro Pascal (of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” and the upcoming Netflix series “Narcos”) will receive the HOLAExcellence in Television Award. Cierra Ramírez (of the ABC Family series “The Fosters”) will receive the HOLA Emerging Artist Award.HOLA will present its Excellence in Media Award to WNBC-TV anchor Sibila Vargas.

In addition to the above awards HOLA will also continue its annual tradition of honoring the best of Latino theater in New York with noncompetitive awards encompassing multiple winners in each category. HOLA is at the forefront in recognizing the high caliber work being offered across New York’s growing and thriving Latino theatrical stages.

A list of the 2013-2014 theater awardees can be seen HERE.

Individual tickets are $150 and can be purchased in advance by calling (212) 253-1015 or by going to www.hellohola.org. Sponsorships are also available and can be purchased by calling A.B. Lugo at (212) 253-1015 or via e-mail at ablugo@hellohola.org.

The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA) is an arts service/advocacy organization dedicated to expanding the presence of Hispanic artists in entertainment and media through the cultivation, education and recognition of emerging artists.HOLA strives for an accurate, informed and non-stereotyped portrayal of the full spectrum of Latino culture and heritage in the entertainment and media industries.

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U.S. Network Fusion Launches Documentary Short Competition

August 26, 2014, 12:20 pm
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U.S. network Fusion is launching a competition for short documentaries, with the winning entry earning a slot at Slamdance in January and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in February.
The network is partnering with the International Documentary Challenge (IDC) to ask young filmmakers from around to world to create short documentaries (four- to seven-minutes long) in five days from start to finish.
“We know that millennials are smart, young, curious and creative – and the best way to showcase that is by allowing them to showcase themselves,” said Fusion CEO Isaac Lee in a statement. “By partnering with the International Documentary Challenge, we can engage with our audience while holding up the best they have to offer for their peers worldwide to experience.”
IDC exec producer Paige Williams added: “One of our main goals is to provide talented young filmmakers great opportunity to advance their careers. A premiere at Slamdance and television exposure through Fusion is the perfect match for moving the Doc Challenge into our next decade.”
For more on how to participate in the Fusion International Doc Challenge, click here.
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Louis C.K. and Lin-Manuel Miranda Win 2014 Emmy Awards

August 26, 2014, 2:47 pm
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The 66th Annual Creative Arts and Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Saturday, August 16, 2014 and Monday, August 25, 2014, respectively, at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The Emmy Awards recognize achievement in the television medium. Eligible programming for the Emmy Award for this year 's ceremony had to have premiered between June 1, 2013 until May 31, 2014. The nominees and winners of the Creative Arts and Primetime Emmy Awards, respectively, are decided upon by members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS). The nominees were announced on July 10, 2014. The Governor's Award and juried award winners in Animation and Costumes for a Variety Series were announced on July 31, 2014. Six Interactive Media juried awards were announced on August 13, 2014.


Among the Latino Emmy Award winners this year were Louis C.K., who won (his fifth Emmy overall) for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for his FX series "Louie" (he was also nominated this year acting and directing episodes the same series, as well as for a guest-hosting gig for  NBC's "Saturday Night Live"). His five Emmy nominations this year bring his grand total of Emmy nominations to 30, including a whopping 16 over the past two years (9 nominations in 2013 and 7 nominations in 2012). C.K. won for the episode "So Did The Fat Lady", which ignited a conversation throughout social media. See a scene from the episode (with C.K. and Sarah Baker) below. Note: Adult language.




Also an Emmy Award winner this year was Lin-Manuel Miranda, who shared with Tom Kitt an award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for their composition "Bigger (Go, Neil, Go)", which was performed as the opening number of the "67th Annual Tony Awards" telecast on CBS. Miranda is one of the few people to have nominated for a Primetime Emmy and a Daytime Emmy in the same category in the same year (he was nominated this year for a song he wrote for the PBS program "Sesame Street"). To see the musical number, performed by Neil Patrick Harris (and literally hundreds of Broadway stars, including, yes, Mike Tyson), look at the video below.



Other Latinos were also nominated and won Emmys for their work behind the scenes. For more information, click here.
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HOLA Member Bochinche

August 26, 2014, 4:14 pm
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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.


Natalia Ivana Escobar, shown at right, booked a role in the play Federico García Lorca vuelve a nacer (based on the works of Federico García Lorca). Produced by United Productions, it will be presented as part of the eARTh Theatre Festival/Lorca Al Desnudo II, scheduled to take place at the Roy Arias Theaters in the theater district of midtown Manhattan in New York this upcoming winter. She received the role after reading a casting notice in the announcements HOLA sends to its members and self-submitting. For more information on the festival, click here. 

Ángelo Mercado, Jr. will soon be seen in an episode of "The Hunt with John Walsh" (CNN).


Marlene Forté, shown at left, in character, was interviewed by the Ultimate Dallas blog regarding her role as Carmen Ramos in the TNT reboot of the nighttime drama "Dallas", now in its third season. To read the interview, titled "Revenge, Ramos Style", click here.

Repertorio Español is opening its new season with a production of Virgilio Piñera's Aire frío. The production will be directed by 2014 HOLA Award recipient Leyma López and star fellow 2014 HOLA Award recipients Zulema Clares, Pablo Andrade, Annia Bu and Erick González, as well as Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado, Frank Robles, Idalmis García, Sandor Juan and Mario Mattei. The play will premiere in September at Repertorio Español's namesake space located in the Rose Hill area of Manhattan. For more information, click here.

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?
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9 Latina Stars Who Aren't Hypersexualized On TV

August 27, 2014, 10:13 am
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A recent study from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism of the University of Southern California revealed that "Hispanic females (37.5 percent) were more likely than females from all other races to be shown partially or fully naked on screen.”

During one of the most cringe-worthy "jokes" of the 66th Annual Emmy Awards the "Modern Family" star Sofía Vergara angered many by standing on a rotating platform so viewers would have "something compelling to look at" while the president of the Academy gave a speech about diversity on television.
Check out Ana María Benedetti's article in The Huffington Post regarding nine Latina stars (from television series that range from "Orange is the New Black" to "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" to "Once Upon A Time") who aren't hypersexualized on television by clicking here.
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Robert Rodríguez On Keeping His Name, Creating A Star System Of His Own And Using El Rey To Realistically Represent Latinos On Television

August 27, 2014, 11:16 am
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Filmmaker and El Rey network co-founder and chief Robert Rodríguez was honored recently with a Corazón de Oro award from the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAAHJ). During his acceptance speech, he emotionally recounted how his older sister (who had moved to New York to be an actress) told him and their family that she was thinking of changing her name because she "couldn't get work as [someone named] Rodríguez".
I remember being really upset by that. Not upset with my sister, but upset about an industry where you would be denied work because of your name. And I was very determined from that day forward to change that. I’m not going to change my name.
Listen to the rest of his inspiring speech by looking at the video below (the speech starts at about 09:10 of the video).
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HOLA Member Bochinche

August 28, 2014, 5:39 pm
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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.

José Roldán, Jr., shown at right, will be performing his award-winning, self-penned solo show Father Forgive Them For I Have Sinned (directed by Dante Albertie) in September at the world famous Nuyorican Poets' Café in Manhattan's Loísaida neighborhood. For more information, click here.

Flor Bromley booked a role in the play Federico García Lorca vuelve a nacer (based on the works of Federico García Lorca). Produced by United Productions, it will be presented as part of the eARTh Theatre Festival/Lorca Al Desnudo II, scheduled to take place at the Roy Arias Theaters in the theater district of midtown Manhattan in New York this upcoming winter. For more information on the festival, click here.

Roberto Sanábria, shown at left, was interviewed and profiled by Univision Nueva York, where he spoke about a World Cup-themed public service announcement (PSA) he booked regarding the dangers of jaywalking after he read the casting notice in HOLA's daily e-mail announcements it sends to its members and self-submitting. To see the profile/interview, which is in Spanish, click here.

Rénoly Santiago nabbed a role in two episodes of the upcoming HBO miniseries "Crime".

Manuel Morán and Jesús E. Martínez star, alongside Mario Mattei and Indra Palomo, in Los títeres de cachiporra/The Billy-Club Puppets. Written by Federico García Lorca and directed by Morán, the Teatro SEA production will open the 2014-2015 season in September at SEA's namesake theater located in the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center (home to HOLA), located in Manhattan's Loísaida neighborhood. It will then travel to Montevideo, Uruguay in October where it will be presented at the tenth annual International Puppet Theater of Uruguay. For more information, click here.

Baires Entertainment will present the Gabriel Campana play My Way. Based on the life of the late Argentine media personality Ricardo Fort, it is directed by Rubén Darío Cruz II and stars Tony Rodríguez in the lead role. The play also stars Juan Villarreal, Claudio Weisz, 2014 HOLA Awards recipient Caridad del Valle, Edward Azcorra, Stalin Cando and Colón Holguín in the cast, and will premiere in October at the Roy Arias Theaters, located in the theater district of midtown Manhattan. For more information, click here.

Athenas Duché acted in the short film El soplo del diablo (The Devil's Breath). Written and directed by Julián Juaquín, it stars Susana Pérez, Monte Bezell and A.B. Lugo. For more information about the film, click here. 

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?
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WELCOME NEW AND RETURNING MEMBERS – JUNE AND JULY 2014

August 28, 2014, 6:00 pm
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Below is a list of new (and returning) HOLA members who joined between July 1, 2014 and August 31, 2014. (Note that "returning members" refer to those members who have returned to HOLA after having their memberships expire for some time and do not  include renewing members.)

Top right, left to right: Rafael Beato, Gina Blasi; second row, left to right: Danny Borbón, Howard Collado; third row, left to right: Athenas Duché, Liz Figueroa; fourth row, left to right: Francisco Huergo, Wendy Lechuga; fifth row, left to right:  Emm López, Gina Marín; sixth row, left to right: Diana Pou, José Sepúlveda; bottom row:  Blanca Vivancos.

Not shown: Christopher Morriss, Linda Viruet.


 
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