APPROACHING THE XI WORLD SUMMIT OF THE TELENOVELA AND FICTION SERIES INDUSTRY

Elvis Crespo, innovative singer-songwriter who has entertained a large audience throughout his distinguished career in markets that never imagined that with suavemente was going to achieve so much success.

Now with his song La Novia mas Bella for the telenovela Corazon en Condominio nourishes with his lyrics scenes of the Mexican telenovela in which the artist also has an intervention as an actor.  His topic is part of the soundtrack of the telenovela that premiered last month on Mexican television achieving to surmount audience records.

Now preparing for the filming of the video with Pitbull, but first will be participating as a speaker at the summit of Puerto Rico, his native country.

“Surviving the crisis in local television.” Is the conference that will offer the artist Sonia Valentin. Director, producer and host of the program Entre Nosotras of the leader channel of Puerto Rico, WAPA TV. Actress and director of film and television. Founder – along with actress Alba Nydia Daz – of the producer Coopelar, producer of films like Y si Cristobal Despierta and Plaza Vacante.

Alberto Santini Lara is general director of Azteca 13 and Azteca Music, and executive vice president of programming, marketing and production of Azteca America. 

Recognized and appreciated for his creativity and passion for television, for eight years was a key person in Univision in several senior positions, including director of programming.

As part of his responsibilities for Azteca 13, monitors networks productions, including a production of more than 1,300 hours of telenovelas per year. TV Azteca is one of the two largest producers of Spanish language television content in the world. He will share his experience in this event especially, in regard to Spanish-speaking audiences in Latin America and the United States as well as his strategies as a programmer.

Carlos Santos. "Casting and Directors: Success or failure?" Is the presentation by Mexican actor and artistic director. He has been part of Televisa, Telemundo and Univision. In Venevision Productions of the powerful Cisneros Group is artistic director participating in Sacrificio de Mujer, Eva Luna, Corazon Apasionado, El Talisman, Rosario, and now is preparing for the upcoming release for Univision.

Led the webnovela’s direction of No me Hallo for Univision in Los Angeles. He was an actor, acting coach and director in major productions of Telemundo: Mas sabe el diablo, El rostro de Analia, Pecados Ajenos, and Dame Chocolate. In Televisa was part of productions, such as Heridas de Amor, Corazones al Limite, Amor Real, Salome, Mujeres Casos de la Vida Real among others. He has made ​​short films and movies. 

On behalf of EGEDA, Raul Vazquez, general manager for Latin America at this organization that defends the interests and collectively manages some of the intellectual property rights of producers.

He will speak to the public on collective management of audiovisual rights of communication.

His career includes leadership positions in companies such as CBS Inc., Sony Music International, IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) and areas of consulting, auditing, publishing, music and film.

Carli Dávila was born in Puerto Rico and spent his early years delivering newspapers and selling mangoes from his backyard.  After graduating from Cornell University he moved to New York City to work with financial databases and investment banking while focusing his creative energy in writing satire for a nascent blogosphere.  

His life has been altered after spending 1 year backpacking, 40 days on a motorcycle, a month on a bicycle and 2 days learning how to whistle. 

As a creative strategist, Carli has worked in public relations and spearheaded the launch of Wapa.tv, Puerto Rico’s main TV station video site, and Bumbia.com, a digital video network focused on hispanic audiences and currently offering original and third-party programming in more than 20 content channels.  He keeps his sanity by doing standup and improv comedy.

The challenge of the video games is confronted by the prestigious University of Puerto Rico, Atlantic University College, an academic institution that has become the main research center of Central America and the Caribbean and one of the most important in Latin America, both for the number research programs, and the excellence achieved in this field.

At this summit, three of its leading experts in digital animation and Video Games make their contributions. Rodrigo Barasorda, program coordinator of digital animation and video games. Fernando Montilla, professional animator and director of the laboratory of digital motion capture and Valmin Miranda in video game programming.

Carlos Melendez, the Mexican acclaimed screenwriter, director and producer, created his company Mr. Blue creative labs and has made thirteen short films that include: Estrella de Plata, Chalino Rivera and Bestia, presented at several major festivals, including the Cannes Film.

He has directed commercials and television programs and series (Paracinema, El Cine de lo Anormal and the first horror social series in Mexico, Herida Abierta. This year completed his second feature film, After school, his directorial debut in the United States.   With all this creativity and experience, the creative will speak on genres and themes as anchors to attract audiences.