Indie Streak

Jacques Derosena is an Actor/Producer/Writer & Musician working in theatre, films, television & commercials.On camera, Jacques Co-Starred in the HBO Drama Series "The Wire." Jacques has also written, produced and starred in several independent films, short films, music videos and TV pilots that were nominated & won awards in several film festivals. He associate produced "Murder101," starring Tom Sizemore, and the dark Drama, "Meth Head," starring Lukas Haas; both screened at Cannes Film Festival Market Screenings. They are now available on  DVD,Video On Demand at Amazon.com, Itunes.Recently, he acted in "The Hunger Games Mockingjay: Part 1 District Voices Series," a 5-episode series. He also acted in a PBS Documentary/Reenactment Film "Out Of Obscurity" and "The Devil's Toy Redux" by The National Film Board of Canada.  

President & CEO Gregory von Hausch will share everything that is happening at this year's Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (Nov. 7-23). In its 29th year, the fest will include, as always, films from around the world, special events and plenty of celebrities. Included in those being honored is Jason Alexander, who opens the fest with Pamela Shaw with musical comedy "Lucky Stiff," also Daniel Baldwin, George Hamilton, filmmaker/ actress Clara Mamet and British Filmmaker Mike Downer.

Daniel Hoyos is an indie film producer and new director of the popular Seattle Shorts Film Festival now in it’s 4th year. After graduating with a degree in film and communications in 2009, Daniel got his first job working for the nationally syndicated TV Show “Biz Kids” on PBS, as a production assistant. The following year, he got hired at the international film festival “National Film Festival for Talented Youth” as the submissions and programming intern. Since then, he worked at the “Children’s Film Festival of Seattle” where he helped program the week long 2011 festival, at the Northwest Film Forum.  In 2012, his short film “Play for Me” won best cinematography at the 2012 Sierra Canyon Film Festival in Hollywood. That same year, Daniel produced  “No One Knows." The two lead child actors -- Sami Isler and Caleb Barwick -- went on to star in NBC's "Sean Saves the World," and Lifetime's "Army Wives." The film was accepted into 18 film festivals and will premiere on the Shorts HD Network, part of Direct TV, later this year. Daniel is also the film editor at the national magazine "I Am Entertainment."In December 2013, Daniel became the festival director of the Seattle Shorts Film Festival after taking over from the founder of who retired in 2012. The Seattle Shorts Film Festival begins November 15th at SIFF Film Center. This year, 28 filmmakers are expected to attend  from across the country, along with special guest speaker sag-actress Venus Demilo Thomas from Nickelodeon's "Salute Your Shorts."Some of the films Daniel will be discussing are "A Fish Tale," "Lunch," "The First Hope," "Water, Ice, Snow" and "The Father."www.seattleshort.org. 

Director Gil Green is creating Who Is Lou Gehrig? a short film featuring Miami Heat power forward Udonis Haslem. The film is inspired by Green’s friend of over 20 years, Jeff Fogel, who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease) about three years ago. The film will follow Fogel as he escapes into his imagination to create a more positive reality for himself. Gil already has raised over his goal of $60,000 on KickstarterThough ALS has received a lot of recent press, this project is not affiliated with the viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.“While the Ice Bucket Challenge has brought a tremendous amount of awareness to ALS, this film is meant to do something beyond that.”, said Green. “Our goal is to provide an insight not only to the effects of the disease, but to have people be inspired by Jeff’s courageous ability to maintain a positive daily outlook, amongst life’s biggest challenges.”The film will premiere at The Borscht Film Festival this December. For more information, visit the Who Is Lou Gehrig? Kickstarter campaign at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whoislougehrig/who-is-lou-gehrig-an-inspiring-film-about-als or at www.whoislougehrig.com.Gil's company, 305 Films, has clients ranging from Drake to Pepsi.                                                       www.facebook.com/indiestreak

Jeremy Breslau, writer and director of "1982," earned his MFA in screenwriting from USC. While there, in addition to writing and directing award-winning shorts, his screenplay, "Plague Season," was a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Competition. Based on his Nicholl script, Fox Searchlight signed Jeremy to a first-look deal and produced his next short, after which he created a successful web series for MTV’s AtomFilms. Currently, Jeremy is developing two features that will utilize the talents of the team behind "1982.""1982' features a blocked novelist who reflects on a pivotal year in his life, when, as a precocious six-year-old, he struggled for the attention of his bickering parents.www.1982short.com                                                                 www.facebook.com/indiestreak