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Linda Mendoza was born on 21 October 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Ugly Betty (2006), Sesame Street (1969) and Scrubs (2001). She is married to Tim Kahle. They have one child.- Director
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Edward Ornelas is known for Locke & Key (2020), Fear the Walking Dead (2015) and Harlan Coben's Shelter (2023).- Actress
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Roxann Dawson was born in Los Angeles, California, to Richard and Rosalie Caballero. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (Theater Arts major). She soon landed her first role as Diana Morales in the Broadway production of "A Chorus Line". During her acting career, she performed in numerous productions including plays at Circle Reoertory Theatre, where she was a member and Julie Taymor's "The Tempest", George Abbott's "Tropicana", "Six Characters in Search of An Author" , "Accelerando", "Rose Tattoo", "Daughters", among others.
She has also been on many television series and movies - including popular series such as Star Trek: Voyager (1995), Baywatch (1989), Matlock (1986), Jake and the Fatman (1987), The Untouchables (1993), Nightingales (1989), Any Day Now (1998), Seven Days (1998), Coupling (2003), Another World (1964), The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988), The Round Table (1992), among others, but her television experience includes roles in a number of television movies such as Broken Angel (1988), Guilty by Suspicion (1991), Dirty Work (1992), Mortal Sins (1992), Pointman (1994), Greyhounds (1994) and Foto Novelas: Seeing Through Walls (1997).
Dawson works as a writer as well as director -- She made her directorial debut on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and continued directing on series like Any Day Now (1998), Star Trek: Enterprise (2001) and Charmed (1998). She does also practice writing -- a trilogy called "Tenebrea" was co-written by her and Daniel Graham! She resides in Los Angeles with her husband Eric Dawson and their children.- Producer
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David, the youngest of four siblings was born in New York City to Millie and J.B. "David" Rodriguez. He was raised in the South Bronx and Long Island and unlike most young men in his neighborhood, he spent his formative years at the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY. A few years after graduating from N.Y.M.A., David enlisted in the United States Marine Corps following a family tradition of service in the military.
After spending a short time as a corrections and law enforcement officer in South Florida, in 2003, David took the leap into the entertainment business pursuing his life-long dream of becoming a director.
Since 2004, David has worked steadily as a director, producer and writer in film and television. David splits his time between Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX and is a member of the Director's Guild of America.- Director
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Félix Enríquez Alcalá was born on 7 March 1951 in Bakersfield, California, USA. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Third Watch (1999), Battlestar Galactica (2004) and ER (1994).- Director
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Gerardo Naranjo was born on 6 April 1971 in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for Miss Bala (2011), I'm Gonna Explode (2008) and Kokoloko (2020).- Director
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Paco Cabezas was born on 11 January 1976 in La Puebla de Cazalla, Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain. He is a director and producer, known for Penny Dreadful (2014), The Umbrella Academy (2019) and Mr. Right (2015).- Director
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Alex Garcia Lopez is a director and writer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He moved to the United States as a teenager and studied music at Berklee College of Music. He later moved to London where he began making short films. After working in the British TV industry for many years and directing BAFTA nominated shows like Misfits and Utopia, among others, Alex's career expanded into the US where he has directed The Witcher, Daredevil, Punisher and Cowboy Bebop among other projects. His latest project is Star Wars' The Acolyte and 100 Years of Solitude from the Nobel prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.- Writer
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- Actor
Alonso Ruizpalacios was born on 11 September 1978 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and director, known for Gueros (2014), A Cop Movie (2021) and Museo (2018).- Director
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Rose Troche was born in 1964 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Go Fish (1994), The Safety of Objects (2001) and Bedrooms and Hallways (1998).- Director
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Zetna Fuentes has established herself as one of the most in-demand directors, helming many of television's notable, award-winning shows. Most recently, Fuentes directed and executive produced episodes of the highly anticipated Hulu series, "Black Cake," based on the NY Times Bestseller. She also recently directed the pilot of "Bosch: Legacy" and served as an Executive Producer on the series. Her work has been showcased on numerous series including "The Old Man," "Ray Donovan," "The Girl From Plainville," "The Deuce," "The Great," "Shameless," and "This is Us." Fuentes has received multiple nominations for her work including NAACP and Imagen Award nominations for Outstanding Directing. Prior to her primetime success, Fuentes first earned recognition on the popular daytime dramas, "Guiding Light" and "One Life To Live," for which she was awarded three Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team. Born and raised in the Bronx, Fuentes began her directing career in New York theater working on many critically acclaimed Off-Broadway productions.- Director
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Rashaad Ernesto Green was born on 19 August 1978 in Bronx, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Premature (2019), Gun Hill Road (2011) and Premature (2008). He was previously married to Maryse Tricia Karunaratne.- Director
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Antonio Negret is an international filmmaker, fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate from the USC School of Cinema Television, with a minor from the USC School of Theatre where he was the recipient of multiple scholarships.
Negret directed 'Overdrive,' starring Ana de Armas and Scott Eastwood, and distributed by Paramount. He is also an in-demand Television director, at the helm of multiple TV shows across various platforms, including 'Hightown,' 'Just Beyond,' 'Lethal Weapon,' 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,' 'Prodigal Son,' 'LA's Finest,' 'Arrow,' 'Magnum P.I.,' 'Riverdale,' and many more.
Previously, Negret directed the action film 'Transit,' starring Jim Caviezel, executive produced by Joel Silver, and released by Warner Brothers. Negret also directed the supernatural thriller 'Seconds Apart', released by Lionsgate and named in various 'best horror' lists of that year.
His first feature, "Towards Darkness," premiered in competition at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. It starred Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress America Ferrera. It was picked up for distribution by Peace Arch Entertainment and MGM. Subsequently, Negret's talent was recognized by The Hollywood Reporter as part of their 'Top 10 Latino Directors to watch'.
Negret has lived and worked in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, England, and the United States. He continues to pursue challenging and entertaining filmmaking.- Stunts
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Ben Hernandez Bray is a film and television director who was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in one of the toughest San Fernando Valley neighborhoods. He's the oldest of six children, raised by his Mother and Grandmother and is of Mexican and Irish descent. In the late 1980's his boxing skills led him into the stunt industry where he then became one of the very few successful latino stuntmen in Hollywood and eventually becoming one of the top action stunt coordinators and second unit directors, working specifically with "Smoking Aces" Joe Carnahan and "Silver Linings Playbook" David O Russell. After twenty five plus years in the industry and over one hundred fifty film and tv credits, Mr Bray made his television directorial debut in 2015 with Katie Heigl's tv series "State of Affairs" for NBC/Universal, he then went on to direct episodes for Fox/Bruckheimer, CW/Greg Berlanti and ABC/Freeform. In 2018 will be Bray's feature film debut which he co-wrote with Joe Carnahan called "El Chicano" a Mexican Super hero story about two brothers growing up in East L.A. The story was inspired and originally written by Bray 10 years earlier after losing his youngest brother to gang violence. The film is being produced by War Party Productions and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.- Director
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Victor Gonzalez is known for Wizards of Waverly Place (2007), George Lopez (2002) and The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex (2013).- Director
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Hernán Otaño is known for Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021), Power (2014) and The Rookie: Feds (2022).- Director
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- Actress
Hiromi Kamata was born on 12 February 1982 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She is a director and assistant director, known for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023), Let the Right One In (2022) and Shōgun (2024).- Director
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- Producer
Oz Rodriguez is known for Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020), Creating Saturday Night Live (2016) and Funny or Die Presents... (2007).- Producer
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Norberto Barba was born on 12 September 1963 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and The Event (2010). He has been married to Regina Osorio since 1999. They have two children.- Director
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Eduardo Sanchez was born in Cuba in 1968. It was at a young age he gained an interest in film making. At Wheaton High School Ed made school movie projects such as Shrimp Fried Vice and Pride (in the name of Love) all of which starred his friends and family, as well as Ed himself.
After High School Ed studied at Montgomery College where he continued to make movies like Star Trek Demented. He later got accepted to the University of Central Florida where he made Gabriel's Dream, a film which he thought was going to be his big break, but that didn't come for almost another decade. In 1997 he and a close friend Daniel Myrick got together and started production on the most successful movie (budget to gross) ever, the The Blair Witch Project (1999). It was a world-wide hit and has become one of the most spoofed films of all time.- Director
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Alonso Alvarez-Barreda was born in México city and raised in the small town of Tampico, on the eastern coast of Mexico. Despite his father's best efforts, he chose to forgo a career as a professional ping-pong player to pursue his passion for filmmaking.
Mentored by Alejandro Monteverde, Alvarez-Barreda directed his first short, Historia de un Letrero. The entire project was shot in Tampico on a $50 budget using borrowed equipment and his friends as actors. in 2008, it won the Best Short Film Award at Cannes Film Festival.
Alvarez-Barreda's third short, Crescendo, is an 18th century period piece entirely in German and tells the story of the birth of Beethoven. The project was produced by Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim. It screened in over 30 international film festivals including Telluride and New York and was a finalist for the 2013 Oscars®. The short also landed him the Best Director award at the NBCUniversal Short Film Festival and nominations for Best Writing and Best Film.
In 2014 Alvarez-Barreda was one of four filmmakers selected for the first ever HBO Access Directing Fellowship. The program culminated in the production of his short, The Walk, starring Max Arciniega (Breaking Bad). The short tells the story of a Mexican man and his young son crossing the border illegally.
Since then, Alvarez-Barreda has helmed a dozen episodes of television including The Mosquito Coast for Apple TV, The Lincoln Lawyer for Netflix, Mayans M.C. for FX, Big Sky for ABC, Jordan Peele's The Twilight Zone for CBS All Access, The Chi for SHOWTIME, Kindred for FX, American Horror Stories for Ryan Murphy and The Calling for David E. Kelley - PEACOCK
Three of his Snowfall episodes have been submitted to the Emmy's by FX in the category of Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series.
Alvarez-Barreda is currently in post-production of his first feature film The Wingwalker starring Mexican star Omar Chaparro, and Ariel Winner actress Mercedes Hernandez.- Producer
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Pablo Gomez-Castro is an LA-based writer/director from Spain who was raised without a TV because his father wanted him to be successful. Several years later, and thanks to his award-winning short film "El Alquiler", he got into both the 2018 ABC Disney Directing Program and the 2020 Ryan Murphy's HALF Initative, which helped him land his first TV episode on "The Resident" (FOX) in 2021. In addition, Pablo established himself as a commercial director working for clients such as Mattel and Sonny Music. As a writer, he has co-written the biopic of Spanish fashion icon Cristóbal Balenciaga for Barcelona-based company Distinto Films, the psychological thriller Windrush for Jenny Pellicer's (The Bridge, Cocaine Godmother) company Red Jacket, and several pilots including "Angeles", which was a Sundance Pilot Lab finalist in 2019. Pablo is represented by Echo Lake and Verve in the USA, and by Alter Ego in Spain.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Batan Silva was born on 2 February 1964 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an assistant director and director, known for Resident Evil (2022), The Boys (2019) and The Flight Attendant (2020).- Director
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Kimberly is about to start her fourth season on "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series" for Disney+ as an Co-Executive Producer/Director. Last season, Kimberly directed episodes of Amazon's "With Love", Hulu's "How I Met Your Father", Netflix's "Boo, Bitch", and "Fantasy Island" for Fox. Kimberly has directed multiple episodes of the Freeform/UTV hit series "The Bold Type" and directed many multi-cams including "Carol's Second Act" for CBS, The Conners" for ABC, and "One Day At A Time" for Netflix.
Kimberly is both Mexican-American and Indigenous; her career defines her as a true utility player with a diverse resume covering hour-long drama, single-cam, and multi-cam comedies. She is now jumping into features after Orion put her musical, "Smile Now", into development with Plan B producing.- Actor
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Carlos Bernard spent his formative years in Mexico City and Chicago. He attended New Trier High School and majored in Fine Art at Illinois State University. It was after college that Carlos began his acting career - performing at such Chicago theaters as The Second City, Victory Gardens and Pegasus Players. He later made the move to San Francisco to train at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater masters program. While at A.C.T., he appeared in the classic plays Hamlet, As You Like It, The Cherry Orchard, Heartbreak House and Good.
Carlos has starred in various films and television series, including The Lincoln Lawyer, The Orville, Madame Secretary, Supergirl, Castle, CSI Miami and Dallas; however, he is probably best known for his portrayal of Tony Almeida on Fox's Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning series 24 - for which he received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, two Alma Award nominations and three Imagen Award nominations.
Carlos has written and directed for the stage and screen. He received an LA Weekly Theater Award nomination (Best Director) for his staging of Vaclav Havel's play The Memorandum. His first film Your Father's Daughter, which he wrote and directed, premiered at The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. He has directed episodes of FBI, Law & Order, FBI Most Wanted, Chicago Fire, BULL, Ciminal Minds, Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Magnum P.I. and The Inspectors.
Carlos was selected to participate in the Warner Bros. Directors' Workshop and the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directors Program. He was one of the founding members of the Ashbury Actors Group theater company in Los Angeles.
Carlos is a life long Cubs fan.