Award-winning filmmaker Alex Kruz Rojas was recently honored by U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer with the Outstanding Humanitarian Service Award. The Congressional Award was received on 30 July 2018, on the World Day Against Trafficking Persons, to commemorate Kruz’s international humanitarian work. On the same day, the U.S. flag was flown over the Capitol Building in Washington…
NY Elite: What made you pursue film making? Devin Williams: Stanley Kubrick; Oliver Stone & Spike Lee. Each of these filmmakers were master storytellers and either tackled very unique aspects of humanity for the first time or in a way never done before.
Samantha Wendorf is an actress based in New York City. In March 2018, Samantha made her off-off Broadway debut in NYC as the lead in the world premiere of “Upstander Bystander: From Camp to Camp.” She played the Refugee in this important new work about the danger in viewing others as “different.”
NY Elite sat down with Sanil Doshi, co-founder of NeuCogni who talks about the current projects of the company and his work on neurotechnology and treatment.
David Boris Schaefer is a Swiss-Croatian actor known for The True Story of Pinnochio (2019), Lads in the City (2019), Into My Ears 2018, Eleven (2018). David was born in Oberwil BL a small town near Basel Switzerland. David worked previously 7 years as a international model for prestigious high fashion brands and several modeling agencies Worldwide …
Abrielle Kuo is a bilingual actress, dancer, and songwriter from Taipei, Taiwan. She moved to the United States in 2012. Her dance credits include Common Ground Dance Team (Irvine, CA) and Academy of Villains (Los Angeles, CA).
NY Elite: Tell us a Little bit about you and your career beginnings. Karina Matas Piper: I grew up in Madrid, Spain, where I trained as an actress and studied psychology to try to understand the human condition. My passion for movies led me to film school in Barcelona, at Bande à Part.
Toland Samba is an African Producer/Director, lived in South Africa for many years where he studied, and worked as a fashion model, casting coordinator, French freelance voice-over artist and translator for BORN FREE MEDIA (Broadcast HIV Africa), a program on HIV AIDS awareness for youth which was broadcast in most francophone countries in Africa drawing from his linguistic skills, ever…
Ibër, congrats on being chosen as Festival Selector for the International Filmmaker Festival of New York. How was that experience for you? Ibër Deari: Thank you very much for letting me tell you abut my experience in this great film festival! For me it was a great experience but on the other hand it was…
NY based actress and writer, Amber Reauchean Williams is a supporting lead in the new film One Bedroom written and directed by Darien Sills-Evans. The Philadelphia native and current Brooklynite has been acting professionally for the past 6 years since leaving Boston University where she studied Theatre Arts for four years. She has worked in…
Jenny He is an NYC based writer and director who works as a freelance producer and assistant director. Having found an early interest in filmmaking while growing up in China and Germany, Jenny is currently pursuing her passion at the Tisch School of the Arts. She is currently majoring in Film and Television and minoring…
Director, writer and actor Aaron Mak, sat down with NY Elite Magazine to talk about the making of Cynation’s Go Louie Go Music Video and his upcoming projects. Award-winning Director Aaron Mak is the founder of CEO of Melbourne Film Studio, based in Australia. He is currently working on the documentary “Rise: From Independence to Immortality”.
Having begun her career in marketing, Agnès Godey decided to follow her childhood dream and become an actress. She trained with Beatrice Brout and studied with Jack Waltzer from N.Y on the actor studio method.
Acclaimed Photographer and Producer Ivan Morales won “Photographer of the Year” Award for his work with Innovation Media New York, a company he founded. Ivan has captured key moments in entertainment and TV including the Grammy Awards, Oscars, New York Fashion Week, Latin Grammy’s just to name a few.
Brigitte Millar is an award-winning London based, bilingual European/English, actress. Her family ancestry goes back to the famous painter Emil Nolde and she has inherited his natural creativity.
Born and raised from Hong Kong, Branton Choi is a New York based producer. Experienced in producing in New York, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong, he currently specializes in independent short films and music videos. He founded his production company Chalice Films in February and have since gone on to produce half a dozen of…
Jenny Hodo served as a Red Carpet Host for the International Filmmaker Festival of New York. Jenny tells NY Elite her Red Carpet experience, working with Jordan Griffith, the special guests she met with, and what she enjoyed at IFFNY, held at Kaufman Astoria Studios.
Nick Wall made his way to the top and has produced portraits of famous artists such as David Bowie, Colin Firth, Glenn Close, Jude Law, Pierce Brosnan and many many more. His amazing TV work includes photography on Game of Thrones, McMafia and Downton Abbey. Nick’s film stills include movies such as The Duchess, Dom…
Mirela Turja is a talented fashion designer in Reggio, Emilia. For Mirela ’fashion’ is a living style in which her passion has grown into a successful business. The success of her brand lies in her ability to create unique clothes that enables businesswomen to demonstrate their confidence and be proud of it. For Mirela, dreaming…
International Screenwriting Competition is a project organized by Nil Production Corporate, and is a part of International Filmmaker Festival of New York, held on NYC from 2012. ISC will give out 10 monetary awards to encourage screenwriters around the world This is 4th Edition of ISC and it is a great resource for writers who…
