Alberto filmmakers

1: CORE TEAM
2: NOTABLE CAST
3: FULL CAST & CREW

CHRIS SHIMOJIMA (WRITER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / EDITOR)

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• New York commercial director represented by various production houses.

• AICP nomination (Association of Independent Commercial Producers), one of the key recognitions in the US advertising world, and for his own self-produced commercial, no less

• Projects have appeared in Nowness, Directors Notes, and various press outlets.

• International film festival awards

• YouTube “top 10 Made-for-the Web shows” credit

• Work has a million+ views online.

• BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s renowned Tisch School of the Arts.

• Former senior video editor at high-profile ad agency R/GA, working on numerous campaigns you may have seen and thought were cool. A decade of experience making things catchy and entertaining.

• Principal Member of The Royal We, an independent studio that helps brands and agencies develop their visual stories, overseeing from start to finish.

• Known for capturing a unique dynamism and rhythm, tied to his upbringing as an athlete and classical musician. He approaches his films like nuanced music: Signal Strength; Sounds of NY

• He draws complex performances from actors and non-actors alike, and blends them into tense, compelling, thoughtful pieces

ALEJANDRO SANTONI (ALBERTO BUENAVENTURA)

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• from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

• high school art teacher's improvisation exercises gave Alejandro the passion for acting

• MFA The Actors Studio.

• BS Industrial Engineering from University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. He hoped this profession would help him financially to pursue acting in New York City. Instead, that money came from a gig as a stand-in for Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the Warner Brothers movie The Losers filmed in Puerto Rico.

• Apart from Alberto and the Concrete Jungle (2020), his recent credits include FBI (2019) on CBS.

• Among his goals is to become a role model for the next generation of actors, especially those that do not have many opportunities.

PAULL CHO (PRODUCER)

• Former Senior EVP of A&R at a Universal Music Group record label. His involvement in the production process of several music videos led him to TV and independent feature film production.

• As an executive at Prominent Pictures, his resume of films has resulted in the Piaget Producer of the Year Award at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards (Frozen River), a total of 5 Academy Award nominations (Frozen River, Precious), Gotham Awards, and the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

• Executive Producer on The Angriest Man In Brooklyn (Robin Williams, Mila Kunis, Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo, James Earl Jones); Ass Backwards (Alicia Silverstone, Jon Cryer, Bob Odenkirk, Vincent D'onofrio, Brian Geraghty), which was publicized as a "must see" and among the "top films to watch" at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival by Rolling Stone; Magic Valley (Scott Glenn, Kyle Gallner, Matthew Gray Gubler, Alison Elliott), which premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival and received numerous international awards; and the documentary Family: The First Circle which was acquired by and premiered on Showtime Networks.

• Producer on 1982 (Hill Harper, Wayne Brady, Ruby Dee, Bokeem Woodbine, Sharon Leal) by Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winning Producer & Director Tommy Oliver. His latest release was Tallulah (Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Tammy Blanchard, Zachary Quinto), which played at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Competition and was the second largest sale at the festival, acquired by Netflix for a reported $5million.

hill harper (executive PRODUCER)

• Actor

• Harvard Law School graduate, Obama’s friend/classmate

• New York Times best selling author

• Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

• Currently starring as the Chief Doctor in the worlds most watched drama, ABC’s The Good Doctor. Check local listings

ARTHUR WOO (CINEMATOGRAPHER)

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Arthur is a New York City-based director of photography. His ongoing study of lighting techniques, composition, color theory, camera movement, and other cinematic techniques allows him to plan, advise, and shoot for the most well-known brands and publications in the world, such as L'Oréal, Maybelline, Garnier, Estée Lauder, Prada, Google, Netflix, Vogue Mexico, Nyln Magazine, and Paper Magazine.

LJOVA (composer)

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• Over many months, he composed and arranged the full score for 15 instrumentalists. The nature of the budget meant he met with them individually to record them himself, rather than with a big sound team in a sound studio. The results are phenomenal. Check out this excerpt.

• Plus, a special trio arrangement of "Marina's Theme"

• The music for Alberto is not just a small band homage to the John Williams adventure scores, but its own quirky enterprise, and, as the film progresses, the beating heart that underlies Al's longings. His in-depth classical training meant he and Chris could speak in musical terms and make nuanced choices together.

• Divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance & film, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND

• Busy career as a freelance violist, violinist & musical arranger.

• Recent projects include commissions from the City of London Sinfonia, The Louisville Orchestra, a new work for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well arrangements for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, tenor Javier Camarena, conductors Gustavo Dudamel and Alondra de la Parra, and the Argentine composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla. Long story short, many world-renowned performers. Full bio here.

JULIE VOSHELL (Marina (lead))

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• Diabolical (series), Shadow of Doubt (series)

• graduate University of North Carolina School of the Arts

• member of NYC’s The Barrow Group theatre company (directors Lee Brock and Seth Barrish) and New Circle Theater Company. part of women’s group FAB (plays for, about, and by women. produced by Lee Brock and Christine Cirker.)

• lead in The Pavilion at The Barrow Group. “Voshell is dryly funny! (The play is a) tantalizing revival” -The New York Times

• trained dancer. Broadway 1st National tour of Movin’ Out directed by Twyla Tharp

RAMI MARGRON (OPRAH)

• Multiple-character actor, dancer, choreographer, movement director

• "Margron is so versatile and transformative that I went through most of the play thinking that two different actors played these roles” -TheaterMania

• High Maintenance (series), Ray Donovan (series)

• Trained in roughly twenty styles of dance in the US, France, Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, and Indonesia

• Artist residencies with Crowded Fire Theater and Mugwumpin

• Founding member of Reconnect, an African-diaspora dance theater company

SONIA COULING (JAYLA)

• Instagram: 230k

• International model, celebrity, actress, TV personality/host

• Thailand's Next Top Model (series), The Face Thailand (series)

alexander wraith (OUTSTANDING MEMBER JERRY)

• Instagram: 52k

• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (series), Orange Is the New Black (series), Savages, Westworld (series), Taken 3

BRITTANY MIRABILÉ (KELLY)

• Instagram: 22k

• The Purge: Election Year

JEFF GREENSPAN (RANDAL)

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• Facebook: 5.5k, Twitter: 4.3k

• Public speaker (TEDx talks), comedian (French Comedy Festival), advertising creative director (former BuzzFeed

  CCO), creator of viral projects (front page Reddit, front page YouTube, NYTimes, NBC, CNN)

EILEEN WEISINGER (Outstanding Member Carol)

• Iron Man, High Maintenance (series), Gotham (series)

JACOB A. WARE (BART)

• Boardwalk Empire (series), Shades of Blue (series), Gotham (series)

TONY NAUMOVSKI (DIMITRI)

• The Blacklist (series), Daredevil (series), Run All Night

DAVID PENDLETON (DARLES CHICKENS)

• It Comes at Night, High Maintenance (series)

DAVID SHIH (PAULIE / Z)

• The Blacklist (series), Billions (series), Eighth Grade