Casting for my next Comedy Series Pilot

As we are getting ready to shoot our next project in line, Carlitos is Pissed, the story of a teddy bear that is taking revenge on his owner after being trapped in a box for 12 straight years.

We are looking to cast two parts

John, a 30 year old high school teacher that is going through a difficult time with woman, that has trigger a lot of memories of his teenage years. He is a little taller that average, good looking, but not super hot, Caucasian,

Vicky, a 27 year old girl, from the midwest, a small town girl who moved to New York, just to live the New York life for a couple of years before going back to school. Very hot, very sexy, but not the smartest person in the room.

We will be also receiving applications for the voice of our animated main character. A low voice, with a funny accent preferably (thick british or scottish or even spanish think accent can work).

Please email resume and headshot, if you have an online reel, please send like.

For voice talent, please email resume and voice sample (mp3) to the same email address.

To be considered for the auditions, send the subject with the name of the character you would like (for voice, just write on the subject “voice”)

Please send your applications to perezkaram+casting@gmail.com

Review of "Rich Like Them" by Ryan D'Agostino

How awesome would it be to go around the country and knock on the doors of very wealthy people, and have them tell you the story of how they made their fortune? Lucky for us, Ryan D’Agostino did that exactly, and put it all in a book for us to read!

“Rich Like Them” takes us in a trip with D’Agostino to the wealthiest ZIP codes in the US, and his experience with the people who were willing to let him come into his homes and talk about their fortune (he says that of around 500 people who actually open the door, around 50 people actually talked to him).

The reading is great, easy to read, full of anecdotes, where you almost feel you are with Ryan walking up the driveway to the amazing waterfront house. He even writes about the people who didn’t want to talk to him, and how some of that led him to talk to someone else who taught him (and hopefully us) a great lesson to include in the book.

What I liked most about the book was how most of the people D’Agostino writes about, are as normal as you and I. They are nothing out of the ordinary at first, but they all realized something about building wealth, and we all have one or two things (or tons of thousands of things) to learn from them.

Thank you Ryan D’Agostino for going out and putting all this experiences in one book. It is very inspiring to read.

Today at the Open Video Conference

The Open Video Conference has had a great start. In the morning I had the chance to listen to the Chris Blizzard — Director of Evangelism at Mozilla Corporation and Mark Surman — Executive Director at Mozilla Foundation. They talked about how they are helping make the technology to take video off the little flash box where it lives right now when in our browsers, and making it work as any other element in the web, thinking web 2.0, where elements are integrated and connected. The technology is being developed openly under an open source free license, so everyone can have access and we can all make and share videos.

Check out the people that are in the same boat with Mozilla, they are called Kaltura and they seem to be big player of the future or open video

We also had a Fair Use Discussion, by Anthony Falzone — Executive Director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School, and Corynne McSherry — Staff Lawyer at Electronic Frontier Foundation. That was very interesting too, and I will blog more about it latter today, when I check back on my notes. They gave the audience tips on how to respect fair use, and how not to push the boundaries of copyrights so we don’t get in trouble, and still be able to remix, re post, redo, or remake what.

There was also a shorter but as good chance, to meet with Lizz Winstead — co-creator of the Daily Show, how made some fun comments about politics, but more important, made the important remarks of what drives real influential viral videos. She said that the videos that talk about current issues, are the ones that actually influence the audience and have an impact in society. And now, we all have the means to do it. A great example she showed on the conference is this Storm Gathering Spoof they did on Gay Marriage.



Let’s see what is the best that we get tomorrow on the Open Video Conference. Come back to check it out.

subHysteria is finished

In August 2008, Leonard my business partner and friend, came to me with the idea of making and improvised film. We had just come out of our first setback as a production company, and we needed something fun to pick us up.

So we followed the improve concept, created a story, partner up with EO Agency, that is ran by our friend Roberto, and we created subHysteria, the story of 16 people who get trapped underground in a subway car after an accident, without any certainty of ever being rescued.

Not a year has passed and we can proudly say that we have finished our first feature film. It has been an intense ride. With a lot of happy moments, not so happy ones, but with a drive and passion that seem to be part of our working philosophy.

Yesterday we created all the elements to start sending it out to potential distributors, buyers, production reps, and we really have a lot of faith in our movie. It's engaging, it's unique, it's real.

Soon to be screened in NY, LA and Miami.

And what now, well, now Roberto, Leonard and I have teamed up to create the platform from where we are going to produce our movies and series, soon to hit the Internet and theaters, and probably one or two TV networks. As for the future plans, we can only tell you that a Teddy Bear will fill up the cyberspace with crazy quotes, a lawyer will do everything in his power to get a little kid his Christmas gift, a friend will have to debate on whether to stick with his hot girlfriend or move on to a not-so-hot but smarter girl that he just met, and a mother of two will have an affair with a sex addict in recovery that is half her age.

All this and a little more, in development now, by EO7.

Check out subHysteria imdb.com page to see who is involved.

2 months - subHysteria Locked Image

First time I edit a feature. It was a two months process. Gustavo and I where cutting and cutting, and for the last three weeks, I couldn't take my eyes away from the screen. Even where I did, the story and characters would follow me where ever I went.

It was so nice to have a locked film. That moment, when Leonard told me "We are locked" my mind went straight to the first frame I saw of subHysteria, the first time I sat down to visualize the footage. It was a daunting task infront of me. 27 hours of footage, that Gustavo (my co-editor) and I had to some how turn into 90 minutes, and make it interesting, and we had no script.

My approach was a little like I would have edited a documentary. A little bit like sculpting out a of big piece of stone. Taking bits out, trying to make it look and feel like something with sense.

Well, I'd have to say we accomplished, and after long hours, not a lot of sleep, and several nightmares and Friday nights working, subHysteria has finally moved on to it's next stage: sound design and color correction.

Now, my next step is to finish writing my next three projects, and keep pushing to get the resources to get Secrets produced!

subHysteria in Quiet Earth

The great blog Quiet Earth, just published an interview they did to us last week.

It's a great piece, read it here.

As for how the movie is going! we are editing! it's going great! it's moving forward and we are preparing a great viral video campaign! so stay tuned!

Vote for this Superbowl Ad, you might win tickets!

My very good friend Nic made the final 5 (out of over 1900 entries) for the Doritos Superbowl contest! Please vote and spread the word. Every vote is an entry for Superbowl tickets (valued at $10k) and you can vote once per day till the 25th. The video is called "Power of the Crunch" and the link is:

http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/

Thanks!