Advisory Board
Richard Blackstone CEO Warner Chappell Music Publishing
Grace Barnes Professor, Motion Pictures, University of Miami
Michael Dagnery VP, Production & Development, MTV Latin America
Rhonda Mitrani Co-Founder/Festival Director, The Florida Room
Sacha Penoucos Senior Producer, DirecTV Latin America
Juan Carlos Zaldîvar Producer/Director, Phonograph Films
Andrea Franco
Director . Producer . Editor
Director . Producer . Editor
Andrea’s filmmaking career began while studying at the University of Miami’s Film School. She worked in several student films and documentaries as director of photography and editor, to later produce, direct and edit the award-winning documentary “Quiero Volver ( I wanna go back)”, which has screened in Lima, Miami, New York and Toronto. She has worked as On-Air Producer, editing and writing spots for MTV Networks Latin America, Vh1 Latin America, Bravo Nickelodeon and NBC Universal's latin youth music network: Mun2. She has also been on board at The Florida Room’s Documentary Film Festival from 2004 to 2006. Andrea is the grandaughter of legendary Peruvian filmmaker Bernardo Batievsky, producer of the Golden Globe nominated film “Mirage (Espejismo)”. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Alfredo B.
Camera
Alfredo has spent the past 15 years of his life in front and behind the camera, he got his earliest formative experience as a cameraman and editor of documentaries for a weekly television series about the culture, art, and history of Peru. Growing up in Lima, documented action sports such as surfing, skateboarding and motocross, developing a friendly relationship with the camera and its multiple possibilities.
Alfredo has produced and edited shorts, music videos and programming ranging from comedy, sports and daily MTV News briefs to prime-time shows and documentary specials such as FANatic, Dismissed, Fashionista and the critically acclaimed MTV Diary series. He currently lives in New York and works as Senior Avid Editor, Writer and Post-producer for V-me Television, the new cultural channel directed exclusively to latin audiences in the US.
Magaly del Castillo
Associate Producer
Magaly obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Film at The New School New York. As a film major she worked in several student films and documentaries, as a director, assistant director, and script supervisor. In the 2004 Magaly worked with Andrea as assistant director and assistant editor in the film “Quiero Volver”. Magaly currently works at “Mogollon” an Art Direction, Motion Graphics, Production Design and Graphic Design studio based in Brooklyn, NY.
Additional Camera Jose Madalengoitia
Augusto Araujo-Alvarez
Gabriela Serra
Sound Mix Ari Guerra
Graphic Design Sol Linero
a Shok’d Monkey Films production
contact: shokdmonkeyfilms@gmail.com
Crew
