Nicolas Entel has created shows for Amazon, Netflix, and HBO. He recently premiered the bilingual science fiction/horror limited series S.O.Z. Soldiers or Zombies (Amazon Prime). It stars Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Snowfall) and Horacio Garcia Rojas (Narcos Mexico). Previously, he made Break It All (Netflix). The documentary series tells the history of rock music, youth culture, and politics in Latin America. Entel also wrote, directed, and produced the documentary Sins of My Father, featuring Pablo Escobar's only son. It premiered at Sundance and was acquired by, among others, HBO (U.S.), Channel 4 (U.K.), Discovery (Lat Am), and Arte (Germany and France).

 Along with his brother Ivan, he is the founder of Red Creek. The company's projects include production services in Latin America for the movie Paddington 2 and season 3 of the English hit series Riviera. Red Creek is currently shooting the documentary Maria Soledad for Netflix and is about to start production on the comedy series El Imitador (Vix). Red Creek has also produced hundreds of television spots for the likes of Amazon and Apple, Coke and Pepsi, starring J. Balvin, Giselle Bundchen, Eugenio Derbez, and Hugh Jackman, winning multiple awards, including numerous Cannes Lions.

Katalina Gutierrez produces, writes, directs, shoots and edits fiction films and documentaries both in New York City and worldwide. Directing allows her to travel across cultural barriers and embrace different viewpoints in her work while engaging with social issues in daily lives. This exploration fires up her interest in reflexive forms of cinema and inspires her to collaborate in new media projects that are concerned with vital political issues of our time. During the last five years, Katalina has produced visual content for nonprofit organizations such as Bank street Bookstore, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts. She also directed two fiction shorts, Ophelia and Second Light, and Phantasmagoric Traveler, a documentary about New York visual artist Ruth Marten. Katalina teaches media at ReelWorks. In addition, she writes about cinema, gender dynamics, and the representation of women in film. In 2022, her film Ophelia was part of the official selection of the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival in New York.

Carlos Freire is an Ecuadorian-born documentary filmmaker. He earned an AA degree in Media Studies, a BA degree in Film Production and a MFA in Media Communication Arts focused in Documentary Production.

As a communicator, Carlos has produced media for more than fifteen years. During this period of time Carlos has produced Terraza 7, a documentary about how gentrification affects the small businesses of Jackson Heights. He also produced My Dream At The Other Side and Qween Amor, documentaries about immigration and gay rights respectively. His work has been shown in film festivals in which he has won awards to the quality of his work. Also, Carlos was given recognition from the President of the Borough of the Bronx for his commitment to the art community of New York City.

As an international content creator Carlos covered the visits of the president of Ecuador to China and Saudi Arabia. In these trips he had the opportunity to work closely with presidents of other countries as well. This work was aired in Ecuadorian news channels and presented as documentaries. He also produced two television shows, Business in Queens hosted by the Queens Chamber of Commerce at Queens Public Television (QPTV), and Guerrilla Mosh TV, a rock music television show aired in Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN)

Carlos Freire is based in New York, he is a Higher Education Officer and works as Communications Broadcast Multimedia Project Coordinator for The City University Of New York (CUNY).

Wendy Angulo is a New York City-born Latina, raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Armed with a zeal for reading and writing since the age of seven and a law degree from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello,  in Caracas, Venezuela, she made the decision to move back to New York City in 1998 where she began her career as a paralegal.

Wendy, who strongly believes that “The only limitation we have is within ourselves” re-discovered her love for writing in the summer of 2011 when she attended a spoken word event in Queens, New York. It was through this event that she joined the New York City Latina Writers Group where she has been an active member since 2012 and has taken on the role as the organization’s Program Director until December 2018. 

Wendy is a writer and essayist who is currently working on her Memoir “Rebirth: Where it All Begins”, she wants her story to inspire and motivate women everywhere who face divorce, single parenting, and the countless other challenges of womanhood. Wendy has read her work at several venues throughout New York City, including Nuyorican Poets Cafe, East Harlem Cafe, Sankofa Sisterhood, Camaradas and has been published twice in the online journal Mom Egg Review and The Kenyon Review; she also has been featured at More Than Latina, Sofrito for your Soul, the Nasty Women Unite Festival, Bowery Poetry Club and the Richmond Hill Love Letter; she is also a 2016 VONA alum, and is the sole creator/curator and producer of Canvas of Words, an art, and poetry showcase that birthed of Wendy’s desire to bring the arts back to her beloved borough of Queens. 

After reading her poetry at various venues throughout New York City, Wendy felt the need to bring the arts back to her beloved borough of Queens. She created Canvas of Words, an art and poetry showcase that debuted October 12, 2013, to a sold-out audience. The success of Canvas of Words motivated her to begin Wendy Angulo Productions, an organization whose goal is to support, encourage, and promote poetry and visual arts in the borough of Queens. Her goal is for Canvas of Words to become a nationwide event that promotes the arts and the love of literature.

Through Wendy Angulo Productions she has managed established performance poets and built numerous partnerships with different grassroots community organizations; she Co-Curates and Produces LETRAS, The Latino Self-Published Book Fair alongside Maria Aponte, she is the producer ofElephant, a choreo-film created and produced entirely by women of color Elisabet Velasquez, Keomi Tarver, Connie Chavez and Alicia Cobb to fight against street harassment. She also created Trailblazers, A Meeting of the Dreamers and Doers in collaboration with Mariela Regalado, to highlight the works and successes of entrepreneurs in our communities. Additionally, she is the creator and editor of Lifting the Burden of Shame, a collection of essays written by women about the role of shame in their lives. Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, religious beliefs, mental health, infidelity, marriage, body image, gender, employment, and relationships. These powerful stories illustrate the language and impact of shame and how it can be overcome. More recently, Wendy joined the Queens Hip Hop Festival as its Public Relations Coordinator and through her numerous connections was able to secure the participation of Dj Funk Flex, TedSmooth and Music Producer Oscar Pena giving the festival a very special touch. This winter she joined Teatrica as one of its producers forming part of their Maracay/New York project to stimulate the exchange of dramaturgical work between Venezuela and New York.  Wendy also is one of the Experts of the ALSO US project by MTPA US that helps teenagers impacted by ALS bring their stories to life through art. Most recently, Wendy joined VONA (Voices of Our Nations Art Foundation) as their Interim Program Director for an entire year at critical time in the organizations’ transition. In this role Wendy committed to amplify the voices of writers-of-color and add to the mission of VONA through her work. She writes weekly on her website’s blog by interview format highlighting the work of “extraordinary people within our community who have inspired me and influenced my work”. With these interviews, Wendy hopes to inspire others to pursue their dreams as she has been inspired by each one of her guests.  She continues to scout for new talent, build new connections and create platforms to perpetuate the arts and strengthen the literary community in New York City.

Website: www.wendyanguloproductions.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendyanguloproductions/

Instagram: @wangproductions

Twitter: @wendyanguloprod

JAIRO CORREA, FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCER Jairo is originally from Bogotá Colombia, a publicist by profession, he studied artistic drawing at the Universidad Nacional, airbrushing. He was also an illustration techniques professor, sketching, wood carving studies; product photography. Jairo co-founder the agency Magenta & Medios in 1990, in the agency he was in charge of creating advertising campaigns for different Colombian companies. In 1994, he came to the United States to work in the television channel 66 to cover the World Cup, he worked in the traffic department, as a studio cameraman, production of commercials and coverage of events of the channel. In 1997 he became certified as a television producer and thus he always continued working in the television industry, he also created the Master Productions Agency which handled different clients for New York and national channels. During these years he worked with Univisión 41 in the promotions department, he was director of the production department of TV Azteca New York, and currently works with NY1 Noticias as a producer and cameraman. He completed film studies and workshops and is certified as a Screenwriter, Art Direction, Cinematography, Script Techniques and project development, resource management, creative writing and development of creative projects. 

Correa was a Technical Director of the short film "Garden of Hope" by director Gloria Zelaya and producer of "Confusión" short film by Dominican director Victor Martinez. His great sensitivity connects him with art and he has been able to produce music videos and blogs for social media. From June of this year to date, he is linked to Holistics Events, as producer and editor of the virtual radio program Abriendo Puertas Con Cacaya, a program that is broadcast weekly on social networks. Thanks to his great career as a producer and his knowledge in marketing, taking into account these moments of reinvention and always thinking about the well-being of the community, he was called by some friends to be part of the marketing and media department at SQUAD Sanitation Squad, a company Dedicated to combating the spread of COVI 19 and other viruses, this company has licenses and insurance from the FDA, EPA, etc. non-toxic, organic products that can be used anywhere.

"He have been in the audiovisual industry for more than 30 years and there is still a lot to learn he said"

Judith Escalona is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and gallerist. Her last film BX3M garnered awards in domestic and international film festivals, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. The coming-of-age story of three Latinx teens growing up in the Bronx, BX3M screened at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Newark Latino Film Festival, and film festivals in Milan, Berlin, and Warsaw. Her short documentary Arturo Schomburg: Father of Black History screened at the Newark Museum of Art and at the Mott Haven Film Festival. Previously, Escalona wrote and directed The Krutch, a surreal film about a Puerto Rican psychoanalyst with an identity problem, starring Jaime Sánchez (Pawnbroker, The Wild Bunch). The Krutch and BX3M are featured in a scholarly work titled Revolving Door Life Writing: Literature and Cinema of Puerto Rican Women by Christin Freyer. 

Currently, a correspondent and segment producer for CUNY-TV, Escalona is also the founder of PRdream.com, the 25-year-old, award-winning website on the history, culture, and politics of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora. PRdream.com was the first Latino/Latin American website on the internet. She is the founder and chief curator of MediaNoche, a technology-based art gallery (medianoche.us) now on hiatus, and was invited to present a paper on the gallery at the Asian Women's Research Institute Conference in Seoul, South Korea in November 2020.

Nicole Betancourt Bengoechea is a versatile bilingual actress and VO artist who has developed characters for film, theater and web series. Born in Mexico City and raised in Puerto Rico. Trained by acclaimed coach Susan Batson In New York City. Through her work in theater she won an award for Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role at FuerzaFest (2019) while continuing to pursue film and TV with credits that include the film She Said (2022) and TV credits Orange Is the New Black (2018) and StartUp (2017). More info at nicolebetancourt.com

Porfirio Betegon Lara

Porfirio began his university studies in 1979 at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the National University of Panama, then obtained a diploma from the Santa María La Antigua University (USMA) of Panama in Business Administration and Accounting. He knew from early on that he had to prepare before arriving in the United States.

During his student days, Porfirio worked in the Migration Department of the Republic in the Colón Province area as an investigative agent of the specialized investigation unit. Subsequently, Porfirio moved to the United States of North America.

At the time in the 90 ’S he works in the Stock Market as a banker in the stock market with the firm Gruntal & Co. where he paid dividends.

  At the end of the 80's and beginning of the 90's in the company of other associates he opened the International Boxing Promotion organization "Universal Boxing Promotions Inc".

  As a Professional and International Boxing Promoter, he has participated in events in countries such as England, Germany, Hungary, Costa Rica, Panama, Scotland, Tokyo Japan, in the United States he has toured much of this nation in Las Vegas, California, Philadelphia , Texas, Chicago, Detroit, Louisana, New York and many other American nation states.

  Taking advantage of the opportunity to promote not only boxing, but also tourism in Panama, Porfirio manages to organize events and World Conventions including in 2009 The #26 Convention of the International Boxing Federation in 2019 the 30th Convention of the World Boxing Organization. For many years Porfirio was a member of the International Boxing Federation (IBF), currently Porfirio is a member of the Board of Directors of the North America Boxing Organization regional division of the World Boxing Organization (WBO).

 He worked in different trades and reached another goal in 2009 by graduating as a Psychologist from New Rochelle College in New York State. Porfirio currently works at the New York City Department of Housing and Preservation in the Emergency Services Unit as a case manager, in the administration of Mayor Bill Di Blassio.

As a community and political activist in New York, Porfirio has served as Junior Advisor to Brooklyn Congressman the Honorable Ed Towns. Porfirio has worked with many of the Panamanian organizations in Brooklyn New York, organizing charitable projects to help communities in need within the United States and in Panama, including events promoting Panamanian culture and highlighting Afro-Panamanian roots and informing positively in community.

In 2015 Porfirio is Certified as a Producer of Video and Film on Television by the TV network, BRIC FREE SPEECH. Porfirio is the Executive Producer and Co-Founder of the television program Desde Aquí Para Allá TV, an informative medium for the Spanish-speaking community, especially Panamanians living in the United States, with its special segment "Heroes Have Names". Our objective is to inform in a true and professional way the events, activities, highlighting some professional achievements of Panamanians residing in the United States as well as in the Panamanian Nation.

Some of the programs produced by "Desde Aquí Para Allá TV" include interviews with His Excellency the President of the Republic of Panama Laurentino Cortizo, The Panamanian Singer Jamilka, the former Consul of Panama in Sao Paolo Brazil Lic. Antonio Morgan, the former Assemblyman for the State of New York Waldaba Stewart, Documentary Africa in America produced in Panama, Great Parade of the Black Ethnic Group in Panama, Interview with Gloria Karamanites Black Queen of Panama and Miss Panama for the Miss Universe contest, The Latino Afro Festival of New York, Sports celebrities among others.

Currently, Porfirio coordinates with various non-profit organizations donations to social service centers in the Republic of Panama and some Public Schools in the Province of Colón.

We can mention his participation in the Tourism Promotion Project for the Panamanian Nation from different cities in the United States to Panama, as well as internal tourism in Afro-descendant population areas and within the country in indigenous communities.

Sugeiri Cristian (Actress, Producer, Cultural Manager)

Sugeiri is a native Dominican-American Actress who settled down in New York.

She is the first child of Yuderca Feliz and Rafael Cristian. Ms. Sugeiri as she is known by friends and family, moved to New York, in 2012 to continue building on a career she started in the Dominican Republic.

She had a keen interest in performance dance and began her training at five years old and became Ballet Staff Leader of her native town. She has extensive training in the expressive and plastic arts. Between her artistic training, she has studied in-camera for Cinema and Television, besides radio speech, learned ballet as well as other dance forms. Not only did her training provide an excellent outlet for the enthusiastic and energetic youngster, but it would also prove to be a fortunate precursor for the start of her model studies and professional acting career.

She landed her first role in the theater early at 6 years old; since then, Sugeiri has appeared in a variety of National and International Theater Festivals, Musicals, staging, televisions shows, and radio shows. She started working as an Event Coordinator at Gatsby Dominicana, House of Queens with Miss Amber of the world and Miss Dominican Amber beauty pageants and founded her first modeling agency. Her love for art led her to explore other forms of art, such as writing and cultural management. She also obtained a degree in Modern Languages from UTESA University in 2004.

 Sugeiri and her family moved to the United States where her love for acting became stronger, getting her first experience on the movie A trouble in Dollars in 2014 and becoming film producer of some short films. In January 2017, she called a meet and greet to publicize the project of the subsidiary Amucine NY, acting as the entity's director for one year. In April of the same year, she launched the first edition of the short film festival made by Latin American women. “Cayenne Short Film Festival” This is the pioneer in the tri-state air who opens this diffusion platform with the aim of promoting films made by women from different countries, supporting independent films made by women, and strengthening women in the film and audiovisual sector. She also was Associate Producer of the Hispanic International Film Festival of New Jersey

Sugeiri Cristian is the one who opens the opportunity to introduce the talents and consecrated artists of cinema, television, Models, and theater. The most selected of the Latin culture through Dream Actors Talent Agency (DATA). Being the CEO of this talent agency, provides the New York community with the most prepared talents for different productions.

Olga Camil, actress of Dominican origin studied Children's Theater in Fine Arts of Santiago and Theater in the Technological University of Santiago. Located in the city of New York for almost 30 years, she trained in Radio and Television hosting, and participated in Cable programs with several producers. Produced her own TV show called "Dimensions" it was a variety program with information topics interviewing famous hispanic artists and political personalities of the Latin Community.

 Short Film:

Olga is the lead character in the  2018 Alma Lab’s short film “The Fuse” directed by Juan Carlos Londoño. She has appeared in several short films featured in Cultural Centers and Festivals.

 Theater work:

Olga has been the lead and supporting actress for diverse productions written by the Dominican writer Dinorah Coronado interpreting Dominican heroines and characters demanding a strong stage presence, among them: Released from their Networks, Juan Bosch, Minerva and Manolo, the immigrants, Women of February with Duarte, and the long run hit Secrets of Women.  Gabriela Mistral and others more.  She is well known for interpreting monologues about the lives of Minerva Mirabal, Salome Henriquez, Juana Saltitopa, and most recently Ercilia Pepin. She has worked with other producers in Sounds of Death, Public Services, The Hand of God, Las Canibales, all pieces with which she has traveled to various Mexico, Panama, Rep Dom. Puerto Rico, Canada, and several states of the USA.

 Olga produced “Flora Tristan”directed by Manuel Tineo for the 7th. Theatrical Festival of the Dominican Commissioner of Culture in 2017 in New York, Her as the lead character, and the production was nominated by Latin American Theater Awards in three Categories: Set (vintage work), Costumes and best Actress of Drama.  In 2018 and 2020, Olga won best Actress in Drama with an outstanding cast for “Flora Tristan.”  For the same production, she also won the institutional award of the 2020 ACE Awards.  The play Flora Tristán, participated in the FELT 2019 held in Buenos Aires, Argentina where there were more than 40 plays on stage with the participation of 10 countries. Olga Camil represented the United States with the talented Ecuadorian actor / director Edison Carreras, along with local Argentine talent Silvio Torres and Jorge Gimenez.

Cherly Thomas earned an associate degree in media technology and management from Kingsborough. She also obtained a bachelor`s degree in Television & Radio and a minor in Spanish with a concentration in translation from Brooklyn College.  She was a co-host of “Honduras New York”, for more than five years which is transmitted via BronxNet.  Cherly, an Afro-Latina in media started noticing the lack of diversity in the Spanish-speaking media.  That is why she decided to create her own television show with a colleague. The show is called Conéctate con Nosotras (CCN). The show focus on topics that empower the Latino community, with an emphasis on women. Looking to break free from stereotypes, shed light on the taboos in the Latino community desperately needs to be more open about. while tackling sexuality, racism, and religion. It's a combination of 'light politics' and 'lifestyle'. CCN airs through Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN).