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Even as a very little girl, I had always wanted to be an entertainer. I had barely started walking and I was already singing, dancing and making my own skits and plays. My mother told me that I would always perform for friends and family whenever they came to visit. For as long as I can remember, I just really enjoyed making people smile and laugh. I was with my Mom shopping when we saw this flyer for child actors. I begged her and begged her until she finally gave in and let me go to the audition. I ended…
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Hollywood
I started by picking up guitar in college. After college, I worked briefly as an Electrical Engineer while I played in a Thrash Metal band & a Megadeth Tribute band. But after years of this, I decided to take the risk and try to become a professional musician. I quit my full-time job & went to the Musician’s Institute in Hollywood to learn some skills and to then put myself out there. Easier said than done. After I had left music school, my playing began to deteriorate. Physically it was getting harder & harder for me to play. Things became…
It all started when I was an undergrad at California State University, East Bay. My roommate Meghna and I were in our living room doing homework one evening. She was expressing to me how she wished that she had enough time during the day to cook meals for herself because she was a full-time student, was in a sorority, and she wanted to have a healthier diet. So I suggested to her, what if you paid me weekly and I would cook for you so you can have time to study and worry about other things that were going on…
Creating art was always a desire of mine. I experimented with many kinds but constantly came back to writing, mainly poems. And then directing came along and I knew I found the things I’m supposed to do. During my military service in the Israeli army, I had a folder on my computer with hundreds of poems. One day my commander told me he saw it and read a few. I was worried he might get angry, but instead he showed interest in them. I was an Operation Sergeant in the West Bank, so it wasn’t like he was expecting to…
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South Bay
Gil and I met in 7th grade band class at Indian Ridge Middle School in El Paso, TX 2005... I believe? We started learning to play guitar around the same time and immediately knew we wanted to start a band and run to California with our dream. A couple years later, No Application Fee was born. We made it though High School playing backyards and quinceañeras, and the short time we spend in College, at UTEP, is when we really started playing. El Paso was much, much smaller back then, so there were only a handful of venues and people…
As an award-winning cinematographer and filmmaker, there have been very few things that have inspired me the way cinema does. Hi, my name is Kevin Stevenson, born and raised in Pasadena, California, and this is my story. Growing up in Los Angeles, I constantly heard about the glamorous stories of Hollywood, just minutes from my childhood home. Those stories seemed like an untouchable dream, until one day I found myself working the red carpet at the Oscars. After graduating from film school, that one job gave me the big dream to make feature films. My journey started a little later…
My husband and I got married in 2017 and decided to forgo a traditional honeymoon for a long-term trip across Canada and the U.S. After a few months on the road, we soon realized that it wasn’t just a lengthy trip, but a new lifestyle choice and business in the making. We started our trip in April 2017 by driving up from Los Angeles to Vancouver, British Columbia. From there, we visited 13 Canadian cities and drove as far east as Halifax. We re-entered the States in Maine and visited eight more U.S. cities before returning home to Los Angeles.…
When I was younger, I would hang out in my dad’s classroom as he taught a psychology class at a local community college. After those classes, we would go to his office and I’d always see these yellow page doodles up on his bookshelf. That is when my curiosity of linework and creativity came about. Over the years, I crafted my abilities and visions and now consistently create paintings on a daily basis. It took me many years to actually put paint onto canvas tho or even feel comfortable applying pen to paper but something clicked in late 2015 and…
After my mom’s experience with cancer and radiation, we learned about Cancer fueling toxins found in a product we use weekly-NAIL POLISH. I became inspired to incorporate my love for research, my healthcare and education experience, and my love for serving others into providing healthy manicures through the creation of my personal nail polish brand. Coupled with a desire to create a successful business and a legacy for my family; “DEMIblue” was born. It has become my mission to provide education through the offering of my nail polish products and healthy manicures. I aspire to contribute to my community in…
“What was the thing that got you into filmmaking?” As I sat surrounded by strange faces for the first time in ten years of school, I felt myself grow smaller with every answer that was recited back to the professor. “Kubrick”, “Amadeus”, “Film Noir” or “The raw, spontaneity of the Italian New Wave in the 1940’s” I felt myself sink more and more into the incredibly uncomfortable chair of my film school. It was my first day, and I was already challenged to think deeply about what got me all the way from Mexico City, to the City of Stars,…