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NEXT ACTOR FILMS TO SCREEN AT BAYOU CITY INSPIRATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
IN HOUSTON
The Feature film "A Federal Case" will
premiere at the Bayou City Inspirational Film Festival on August 8 @
12:50 PM at the Sheraton North IAH. To view trailer of the film, click
here >>
Click
for details of the premiere at the BCIFF
San Banarje's short film "The Enemy
Inside" will screen at the same festival on August 9 @ 10
AM. This 14 minutes film deals with two dads - A US soldier and an
Arab civilian at the time of war and terrorism. Click
for screening details at BCIFF
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FEDERAL CASE GETS ITS FIRST FEATHER
The Feature film "A Federal Case" that was shot
in Richmond and Brownsville, Texas and Mexico with only Next Actor
cast won a remi award in the dramatic category of Worldfest Houston
International Film Festival 2008. The film sends a strong message
about teen pregnancy, drugs and alcohol abuse and abortion
issues. Written by Brian Stewart and directed by Trisha Ray, the film was
shot by San Banarje and starred only Next Actors - Kelley
Nesper, Catherine Burdett, Lance Stodghill, Jordan Jaffe, Brandon
Belknap, Dave Amyx, Tom Combs, Fabrizia Faustinella, Mark Menn, Aaren
Wheeler, Jason Bell, Joseph Cintron to name but a few. Most actors
faced the camera for the first time in this feature. We at Next Actor Studio are extremely proud of this feat and
would like to congratulate our team of cast and crew who made this
film a beautiful memory. For info, visit Lake
Camp Productions and Worldfest
Houston.
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CLOSURE
IN CLERMONT-FERRAND
Trisha Ray's short film 'Closure' that deals with a divorced couple's
dinner rendezvous was recently played at the Clermont-Ferrand Film
Festival, held in France. Film Festival and is now available in
the festival's archive. Clermont-Ferrand Film festival is known as the
Cannes of Short Film and boasts an international viewership from
several countries including the USA.
You may watch the film online
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FEDERAL CASE WRAPS
Action Thriller "A Federal Case" wraps in Mexico and Texas.
The entire cast and crew was hired from Next Actor Studio. For more info,
visit www.imdb.com
View
Trailer
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Actor
Ryan Donowho (OC, Imaginary Heroes) has a new role in
Trisha Ray's feature film Bleep Love. Ryan is the music
composer of the 105 minutes comedy about artists and their struggle.
The film features Ryan's songs along with background scores that are
highly eclectic with an ethnic fusion and hip hop tracks, thereby
showing once again that this teen icon is not only one of the
most prominent young actors but also a talented musician with a huge
range of composition that fits any mood.
Donowho is member of the band called PAGODA with actor Michael
Pitt.
Bleep Love also features Ryan's father Wayne in a supporting
role as Donald Kaufhold.
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Model-actress Jennifer Sciole has several
movies under her belt this season, among which the most anticipated one
is Political Engagement where she plays the lead role. Although she
resides in Los Angeles, California, Jennifer often travels to Houston to
take class with San Banarje whenever she has auditions and gigs to
follow through. An immensely dedicated actress, Jennifer has been in
several TV shows including Nip Tuck, Everybody Loves Raymond
among others.
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Editing Student Wayne Slaten won three
awards at the recently held 48-hour film festival in Houston. Wayne
produced the film THE ERASER which went on to win the best
cinematography, graphic edit and musical score in this highly
competitive film festival.
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Next Actor Studio
short-to-feature film MONEY was shot in Paris, France after it
was screened at the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner in May
2007. The short has now been turned into a feature and is currently
being submitted to festivals all around the world.
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Screenwriting Student
SIBYL AVERY JACKSON has just sold her screenplay A Degree of
Caution to a major Hollywood Studio. The screenplay was
adapted from Jackson's own book by the same name. "A Degree of Caution"
won several literary awards and rave reviews and is available in
every bookstore including Barnes and Noble, Border as well as through
Amazon.com and other literary sources.
A Degree of Caution anecdotes the adventures of special agent
Monica Sinclair, who fights the corruption of a Houston based giant
cellphone company which is using the cellular wavelength to cause
terrorist activities worldwide.
Production of this motion picture will start shortly.
Sibyl has more than twenty years experience as a writer, editor,
publicist for television and radio, as well as a
researcher/writer/editor for corporate executives and a local
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BEN
WARNER, who played the lead role of Travis in the upcoming Trisha
Ray comedy feature Bleep Love, has grabbed the
lead role of Pat Warden in the New York feature film "Follow Your
Heart" to be shot in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Jamaica
and Mumbai. "Follow your Heart" is going to be
released worldwide end of 2007. Ben was cast by the director and
producer without an audition after they saw him in the trailer of Bleep Love
online and realized he was the actor they wanted. Ben will be
traveling with the film all over USA and abroad. |
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Acting and Screenwriting Student KYM MOSLEY
has won the best screenplay award for her full length feature film
script "Let the Good Times Roll" at the SAIFF Filmand
Screenplay Festival 2007. A native of New Orleans, Kym currently lives
in New York and has written the script about a love story set in the
time of Hurricane Katrina.
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10-year old Erika Marks cleared the auditions of
NBC's America's Got Talents. NBC will air the show this
summer as America votes for winners. Erika had earlier won the Best
New Talents contests in Los Angeles and then went on to be featured in
the Mo'nique show. |
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The new dialogue promo
of our very independent comedy feature is now available online
as well as on you tube.
The film deals with the lives and love of
artists who are trying to make it as superstars but are finding it
hard to overcome the different obstacles that keep popping up. The
film, produced by Next Actor Studio and written, directed and
edited by Trisha Ray, casts several Next Actors including San Banarje,
Mikhail Sebastian, Ifeoma Onugbo, Ben Warner, Joy Delafose, Ryan
Williams, James Coate, Fabrizia Faustinella, Maria Belyaeva, Katerina
Pasat, Erik Foster, Genaro Deanda among others. |
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Striking Range, (earlier titled
Bloodlines) distributed by Sony Pictures is now available nationwide. The film is directed by Dallas based Daniel Millican and stars Lou Diamond Phillips. San Banarje of Next Actor Studio is cast in a cameo
role as a mafia leader in the film. Rent
your copy from hollywood, blockbuster or netflix video store.
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Evil Behind You, a film by Jim Carroll and Jason Kerr will open nationwide in Feb 2007. The film stars San Banarje of Next Actor Studio as one of the lead actors.you
can rent your copy from any Hollywood, Blockbuster, or Netflix video
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"THE MISSION" IS NOW "THE
ENEMY INSIDE"
Next Actor Studio's Feature THE MISSION
has been renamed as THE ENEMY INSIDE. The film stars J. D. Hawkins,
Joey Malouf, Trisha Ray, Jerry Redmond, Jordan Graham, Edward Bradley,
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| Sharon McNerney played the role of Bree's friend in the Mother's Day episode of "Desperate Housewives." Sharon moved to Los Angeles in 2005 after working in the Next Actor feature film "The Mission" where she played the ditsy wife of a
porsche- man and got herself several gigs on MTV which were broadcast nationwide. |
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MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTS, NEW YORK
chose Bong Connection as the closing
night film of its festival in New York. The
film was screened at the Museum of Modern Arts on Monday, April 30 @ 8
PM. Next Actor Studio's talented cast and crew made the film possible
by working day and night at a very little pay. Without the cooperation
of the Houston team, this film would not have been complete.
To read
reviews about this film on Variety, click
here
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STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY ENDORSES *BLEEP* LOVE - THE INDIE COMEDY FEATURE
STARBUCKS COFFEE COMPANY has endorsed the production of the comedy feature Bleep Love, which is being produced by Tidus Films and Next Actor Studio. Directed by Trisha Ray, the film stars several students of Next Actor Studio including
Ben Warner, Mikhail Sebastian, Ifeoma & Air Sritiraj of Next Actor Studio. |
"THE MISSION" SCREENS IN HOUSTON
Feature Film "The Mission" produced by Next Actor Studio screens at the City Hall on September 8th. The film casts several Next Actor Students who will make their screen debut with this feature. |
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JUAN VAZQUEZ DONATES TIME TO VOLUNTEER WITH HURRICANE VICTIMS
We are proud to share with everyone that Juan Vazquez of Next Actor Studio is volunteering his time in Louisiana, helping the victims of Hurricane Kattrina and Rita. Juan has taken a vacation from his regular job to selflessly donate his entire time to do this for the last few weeks. After working in New Orleans for a while, Juan is currently in Lake Charles, LA, where he is working with the victims of Hurricane Rita. |
ERICA MARKS WINS THE GRAND FINALE OF TALENT SHOW IN LOS ANGELES
Erica Marks is a 9-year old singer who ventured into acting this summer when she participated in the Talent Contest called Best New Talent, that spends all of spring and summer traveling to major cities all over the US and Alaska auditioning for contestants for their show. They came to Houston last April and Erica auditioned and made it. Erica started preparing with her private tutor at Next Actor, Trish, right after she got selected to be on the national show.
ERICA WON THE GRAND FINALE IN THE EVENT AMONG KIDS, TEENS AND ADULTS after making the finals in Comedic acting, Contemporary singing, and Broadway singing. Erica won the BEST OVERALL TALENT AWARD for winning the most categories and getting the highest rank score in every category including kids, teens and adults. The prizes Erica won are trophies, cash and a finder guitar. Erica's mom Sandy Marks quoted "Even more exciting han the prizes were the endless callbacks of many people wanting to represent her. People have been known to become very successful after attending this event, getting record deals, major movies etc. We are not ready to move to LA so we would like to have her represented in Houston. We thank you Next Actor/Trish for helping Erica prepare for this event. She has learned so much from you and we would love to continue being involved with Next Actor." |
REBECCA ON THE PHONE ENTERS FILM FESTIVAL IN SOUTH AFRICA/SWAZILAND
Trisha Ray's Rebecca on the Phone was screened at the Golden Lion Film Festival on October 16th and after that played twice due to popular demand. The film stars Falin
Proffitt, Julianne Christoffel and Amy Warren of Next Actor Studio and is written, directed and edited by Trisha Ray. The film is the first story of the feature A BLACK CHRISTMAS which deals with three people on a White Christmas.
TREVOR PARSONS' WORK REVIEWED IN HOLLYWOOD'S BACKSTAGE - WEST
Trevor Parsons garners a great review in Hollywood's Backstage West for his performance as Jesus Christ in the play "Jimmy Christ". According to the popular publication 'Backstage-West', "A wonderfully clever humor energizes Nicholas Monohan's play [Jimmy Christ] immediately picked up in two exceptional performances by Jonah Wanicur as the title character and Trevor Parsons as his future - challenged surfer-dude redeemer brother who's unsure if his personal oracle told him to "go east" or "go eat." Parsons, whose Jesus looks and sounds a bit like an early Nordic Keanu Reeves, is a master of the deadpan while tossing away Monohan's paraphrased biblical gems, wholly comfortable with lines such as, "Hey, I want to try out a new parable on you guys if that's cool with you," then following with, "There's no use
cryin' over spilt milk," which he proudly admits he thought up in a trance. Trevor moved to L.A. in May 2005 and is currently making rounds as leads in both plays and films and getting noticed by several agents and casting directors. Trevor's recent screen performance includes the lead role in MTV's new pilot "Snitched" |