Voice Spotlight: Rena-Marie Villano

Powerhouse sound on "Bombshell" UK Release Trailer

LA-based voice talent Rena-Marie Villano always sounds incredible, and packs a serious punch on this recent trailer for the UK Release of the movie "Bombshell." Loving her sound!

WATCH HERE

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High School Experience: Heath's Impact

Co-Star Remembers an Acting Legend

But it was Heath — a natural storyteller, and always reliable for a cheesy joke — who transfixed us. Before I knew it, the cast was experiencing what I’ve since found to be all too rare: a unified chemistry throughout the ensemble, without a single bad apple in the bunch. The experience was communal, it sang like a well-tuned chorus both onscreen and off-, and we all agreed that we were having the best summer of our lives.

When you think about it, I'm sure we all look back at some of our high school experiences with vivid recollections.  It's that time we refer to as blissful ignorance.  Before all our life's major decisions.  Before any major growing up.  We were growing but we didn't think of it as "growing" in any real adult sense.  We were just having fun.  Or maybe we weren't.  And I'm sure each of our high school experience didn't include being mesmerized by Heath Ledger in person.  In a recent article for Vulture, actor David Krumholtz fondly remembers his experience with the rest of the cast, as well as Heath's effect on the group as a whole, and it's pretty amazing...

Do you remember the first time you watched  10 Things I Hate About You? I most certainly do.  Obviously it was during high school.  And it was in a movie theater with a bunch of screaming teenagers, especially during Heath Ledger's break-out singing scene.  And yes, I may have even been on a date!  More importantly, what I remember most about this movie was that it quite accurately summarized the feeling of high school romance.  The movie was simply golden.  It had a magically quality all its own...

Krumholtz. David. "David Krumholtz Remembers Heath Ledger and the Rest of the 10 Things I Hate About You Cast" Vulture. Web. 2 Nov 2015. 29 Nov 2015

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Spike Lee film - Acknowledging and Honoring A Great City

The new Spike Lee film called "Da New Yawk Joint" (great title) is one I'm really looking forward to seeing. Who better than a director of Spike's stature and experience,  who is so clearly well-versed in all things NYC, to bring this project to life?

If there's any filmmaker as passionate and knowledgeable about New York City,  it's Spike Lee.  I've loved his films since day one and feel that no one can capture the physical, emotional and psychological make-up of this great city better than this man.  With the city rapidly transforming before our eyes, gentrification pervading every avenue and street corner, I find it sometimes challenging to see the very character (what made this city so special) being almost completely driven out by the wealthy millennial market and Trump-like towers of mirrored emptiness.  Spike's movies put my anxieties to rest.  Mo Better Blues was the first film by Spike that I saw, due in no small part to the music of Terence Blanchard, who introduced me to a handful of other notable jazz musicians emerging at the same time: Branford Marsalis, Jeff Tain Watts, the late Kenny Kirkland and Donald Harrison, to name a few.  Terence has worked on most, if not all, Spike's films as well, and has collaborated with a group of other talented directors as well.  In this upcoming film I'm hoping (and am completely confident) that Spike will help people remember what continues to make this city so magical and the "greatest in the world." New York. My forever home. Watch with me?

 40 acres and A Mule Filmworks. "Da New Yawk Joint" Online Video Clip. Vimeo. Vimeo 29 Oct 2015  9 Nov 2015

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