Cast
Cristina Lizzul as CATALINA
Eric Charles Jorgenson as CATRON
Cristina Lizzul as CATALINA
- Cristina Lizzul was born in San Diego, and raised in Naples, Italy. She is best known for her work in Righteousness, Lemonheads, Subject 0- Shattered Memories, La Prigione Oscura and In Harmzway. Cristina started acting at age 10 in Los Angeles in theatre, film, and web series.
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Reinaldo Zavarce as DIEGO
Eric Charles Jorgenson as CATRON
Cristina Lizzul as CATALINA
- Reinaldo Zavarce Peche, best known as "Peche" to fans across Latin America, is a Venezuelan actor, singer and director. Born and raised in Caracas, he started acting at a young age in the Venezuelan RCTV telenovelas "Mujer con Pantalones," "Te Tengo en Salsa," "Amantes," and "Toda una dama." His film credits include the popular romantic c
- Reinaldo Zavarce Peche, best known as "Peche" to fans across Latin America, is a Venezuelan actor, singer and director. Born and raised in Caracas, he started acting at a young age in the Venezuelan RCTV telenovelas "Mujer con Pantalones," "Te Tengo en Salsa," "Amantes," and "Toda una dama." His film credits include the popular romantic comedy "Dia Naranja," but he is perhaps best known for his starring role as Alex in the hit Nickelodeon Latin America /Sony Pictures Television teen drama series "Isa TKM" and "Isa TK+".
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Eric Charles Jorgenson as CATRON
Eric Charles Jorgenson as CATRON
Eric Charles Jorgenson as CATRON
- Eric Charles Jorgenson is an actor and writer, known for Chasing Serenity (2010), Broken Glass (2013) and Yes, and... (2014).
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Gabriel Romero as BALTAZAR
Gabriel Romero as BALTAZAR
Eric Charles Jorgenson as CATRON
- Born and raised in Mexico, Romero began acting professionally when he was 16 years old touring the country with musicals such as "Barnum" and "Something's Afoot". He went on to make history as a series regular playing an openly gay character in the award-winning sitcom "Los Beltrán" on Telemundo from 1999 to 2001. He has also starred as t
- Born and raised in Mexico, Romero began acting professionally when he was 16 years old touring the country with musicals such as "Barnum" and "Something's Afoot". He went on to make history as a series regular playing an openly gay character in the award-winning sitcom "Los Beltrán" on Telemundo from 1999 to 2001. He has also starred as the incorrigible Sergio in "YLSE," a comedy web series with Ruth Livier and Marlene Forte; and as Sicario with Kate del Castillo in "Ingobernable" for Netflix.
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Rosa Krystle Rose as RUBIA
Gabriel Romero as BALTAZAR
Rosa Krystle Rose as RUBIA
- Rosa Krystle Rose is an American/Puerto Rican actress, born in Brooklyn, NY. Rosa went from swimsuit modeling in Puerto Rico to film and television in NYC. She was one of the Silk Dolls in the Classic Uncle Floyd Show (1994). Rosa is best known for Law & Order SVU, Brother's Keeper, The Blacklist, The Michael J. Fox Show, and The Jim Gaffigan Show.
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Del Zamora as LORETTO
Gabriel Romero as BALTAZAR
Rosa Krystle Rose as RUBIA
- Del Zamora's family dates back to the 1500's, and further back, on the Mescalero Apache side of his family; in what is now known as Lincoln County, New Mexico. Del is a Mescalero Apache/Chicano mix. Del was cast by English film maker, Alex Cox, in Repo Man (1984). This was Del's film debut, and his breakthrough role. After that, he was pr
- Del Zamora's family dates back to the 1500's, and further back, on the Mescalero Apache side of his family; in what is now known as Lincoln County, New Mexico. Del is a Mescalero Apache/Chicano mix. Del was cast by English film maker, Alex Cox, in Repo Man (1984). This was Del's film debut, and his breakthrough role. After that, he was promptly cast in RoboCop (1987), Born in East L.A. (1987), and became a 'go to' Latino/Native American actor. He is known as a versatile, strong actor. As of 2018, Del has portrayed 263 speaking roles in a 37 year career. A true character actor, who has worked with some of the biggest stars in the World.
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Holger Moncada Jr. as LEANDRO
Francisco Ovalle as PABLO ANTONIO
Francisco Ovalle as PABLO ANTONIO
- Holger was born in Wiesbaden, Germany from Ecuadorian parents, Holger's father was in the U.S. Military where he grew up in Europe until he was 6 years old. Upon reaching stateside when he was 12, he had his first foray into acting by participating in community theater in West Texas and New Mexico. Later, Los Angeles came calling where he
- Holger was born in Wiesbaden, Germany from Ecuadorian parents, Holger's father was in the U.S. Military where he grew up in Europe until he was 6 years old. Upon reaching stateside when he was 12, he had his first foray into acting by participating in community theater in West Texas and New Mexico. Later, Los Angeles came calling where he has appeared in Jane The Virgin, Scorpion, Criminal Minds and Prison Break. He's also had recurring roles on FX's Saint George, starring George Lopez, Amazon Prime's Hand of God, starring Ron Perlman and Future Man, where he plays a set of twin brothers.
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Francisco Ovalle as PABLO ANTONIO
Francisco Ovalle as PABLO ANTONIO
Francisco Ovalle as PABLO ANTONIO
- After arriving in Los Angeles. Argentinian actor Francisco Ovalle dove into film landing leading roles in multiple feature films including: lead role of Emperor Ulugh-Beg in “The Star of Al-Tahir” opposite Armand Assante and Vincent Cassel, lead role in “Parasites” opposite Robert Miano, lead role of Masho in "Masho's Descent", lead role
- After arriving in Los Angeles. Argentinian actor Francisco Ovalle dove into film landing leading roles in multiple feature films including: lead role of Emperor Ulugh-Beg in “The Star of Al-Tahir” opposite Armand Assante and Vincent Cassel, lead role in “Parasites” opposite Robert Miano, lead role of Masho in "Masho's Descent", lead role of Pablo in the Crystal Pantera Productions Pilot “The Bentley Timeshare”, the lead role of Elwain the Grymblade in Web-Series “Freelancers.”
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MIGUELITO
Francisco Ovalle as PABLO ANTONIO
MIGUELITO
Synopsis
EARTH or The Monster of Tierra Amarilla
- In 1911 Northern New Mexico, a pregnant woman named Catalina hears a foreboding dream from her husband Diego by river’s edge. He tells of death and destruction of the land.
- Nearby, a strange doctor named Catron coaches himself through a blinding headache.
- When Diego suffers a devastating injury to his brain and spinal cord after a fall, Catalina seeks the help of Dr. Catron, her only local source, and sends away for a Mescalero Apache healer named Loretto.
- It is revealed that the doctor is afflicted with a bizarre illness causing compulsive behavior he must suppress in front of the locals.
- Catalina asks the doctor for help in treating her husband’s pain, but she has no cash funds to pay. Dr. Catron has no compassion and gives her two options for earning his medical attention: sign over the deed to her land, or agree to allow him to perform a series of “medical experiments” on her for the good of his science.
- His first request is out of the question, and she initially declines the second, but when her husband’s condition worsens and Loretto performs a ritual with Diego to prepare him for spirit transition, Catalina desperately returns to Catron to negotiate.
- Catalina signs an agreement consenting to allow the doctor to use her body for experimentation in exchange for his medical supervision of Diego, including the doctor’s commission of an unusually large man named Baltazar for round-the-clock care.
- As Baltazar settles in and relieves her pressures with Diego, Dr. Catron’s nefarious intentions with Catalina begin to play out.
- Join us and find out what happens. Coming soon ...
About the Director/Writer/Producer
Leo Garcia is an award-winning playwright, filmmaker, director, performance curator, producer, visual artist, and actor and has served as Highways Performance Space's Artistic Director and Executive Director since 2003 where he has developed and presented over 800 performance works. His work is Influenced by the didactic of agitprop and inspired by the optimism of naiveté.
As a playwright, Garcia has chronicled his family’s genealogy, ten-generations plus of New Mexican family history, in his cycle of plays entitled The Abduction of Hernan Cortes: The New Mexico Cycle. The cycle explores the themes of abduction: of land, of self, and of alien abduction, and follows the lives of five New Mexican families from 1598 to present.
Garcia’s plays have won awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, National Performance Network, New York Foundation for the Arts, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, The National Hispanic Media Coalition, and MCA/Universal. His works have been developed and presented by numerous nationally-established companies and presenters, including The New York Shakespeare Public Festival (The Public), The Jewish Repertory Theatre, International Arts Relations Theatre (INTAR), The Los Angeles Theater Center, The South Coast Repertory Theatre, The Tiffany Theatre, and Santa Fe Stages, among many others.
Garcia worked for many years with his mentor internationally acclaimed playwright and director Maria Irene Fornes. He has the unique and distinct honor of being a member of the orginal writers in Fornes' playwright residency program at INTAR in NYC. He worked with Fornes as both a writer and actor. He has been directed by her in her plays in New York, Los Angeles and Siena, Italy at the Dionysia World Festival. Notably, Fornes also directed Garcia's play, Dogs, at West Coast Ensemble Theater in Los Angeles. Garcia is one of four living playwrights whose work Fornes chose to direct.
More: https://www.leogarcia.com
Actor // Writer // Producer
Leo has appeared in over 30 off-Broadway and regional theatre works and hosted the Emmy nominated NBC Special, Another American, followed by television work in Los Angeles, where he guest starred in episodic television, including his favorite, Star Trek the Next Generation, and was a regular on the daytime drama serial Santa Barbara.
While in Los Angeles, Garcia wrote, produced and directed his first film, A Rainy Day, which was distributed by Universal Television and shown in festivals nationally and internationally.
Garcia recently produced Hammurabi, a short horror film now available on Alter. He also produced the independent full length feature Excess Flesh, a psychological thriller with tones of body horror: " a modern day Los Angeles. the entrapment of dreams. the prison of self. a la Polanski, Zulawski, von Trier." Excess Flesh premiered at SXSW on Friday, March 13, 2015. Theatrically, Excess Flesh was released for a one-week Limited Engagement in Los Angeles in October, 2015. The film is distributed by Midnight Releasing and is available on VOD/DVD on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play and others.
Garcia also produced ten minutes is two hours, a short-form documentary video shot in South Sudan. ten minutes is two hours is both a work of and a commentary on cultural exploitation. It is a self-consciously “cinematic” re-creation of a journey through a land plagued by the ghosts of colonialism and the present anxiety of conflicting religious and political agendas – both of which can often seem one and the same. Evoking a surreal sense of place, both very present and very distant, the video depicts the hazy lines between notions of “foreign aid” “missionary practice” and “colonialism,” and shows the ways history has of recycling itself. The essayistic, experimental nature of the work is inspired by the politically charged silent-era montage of Dovzhenko, Vertov, and Eisenstein and the later impressionistic film and video works of Marker and Godard.
He served as an artist, teacher, director and producer for numerous productions and classes at Highways Performance Space; resident playwright with the Mark Taper Forum's Latino Theatre Initiative; and project artistic director and playwright with the community-based San Diego Playwrights Project.
Garcia has also been a fixture on the Los Angeles alternative performing arts scene for many years, one of a handful of artists who represent a fully developed, professional approach to multi-disciplinary work. His solo performance works include "My Alien Abduction" and "Leo Garcia is Dead."
Awards // Influence
The Los Angeles Stage Raw Theater Awards awarded Garcia with the 2016 Queen of the Angels Award. Garcia was "honored for his tenacity and skill while serving as artistic director for Highways in Santa Monica – recognition that his social media supporters described as “long overdue.”"
Out Magazine recognized Garcia as one of the OUT 100 of 2005, a list of the year's most interesting, influential, and newsworthy LGBTQ people as a result of his many contributions to the arts as well as his indefatigable activism on behalf of alternative artists and the alternative arts community through the support and presentation of their performance works and in service to the community at large.
In 2010, Garcia was honored by the HARC Foundation as a recipient of Trumpet Award for "his unique and extraordinary contributions to the Arts and to humanity."
Other representative awards:
- National Endowment for the Arts Creativity Grant Award
- National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Playwright Residency Program
- National Performance Network Creation Fund Award
- National Performance Network Development Fund Award
- New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting/ Screenwriting
- Southern California Leadership Network Fellow
- Stage Raw Queen of the Angels Award
- Out Magazine OUT 100
- The HARC Foundation Trumpet Award
- Mark Taper Forum Latino Theatre Initiative Playwrights Fellowship
- Universal MCA / National Hispanic Media Coalition Film Project Award
- South Coast Repertory Hispanic Playwrights Project Award
- Santa Monica Artist Fellowship
- Santa Monica Community Arts Grant
INFLUENCE
As a young person, Garcia was influenced by the presentational, didactic, agitprop plays he discovered in a little red book of “actos” by El Teatro Campesino and was inspired by the hopes and optimism he witnessed in Shirley Temple films.
About the Director/Editor
Patrick Kennelly
As well as working as a full-time video post-production guru (editing, sound design, coloring, post supervision), Patrick Kennelly writes, produces, directs, and curates for film & video, theater, live events and the visual arts. In his highly stylized and darkly surreal genre-infused works, Kennelly examines the prismatic nature of identity - broken, mistaken, clashed, crossed, unknown. What is unleashed is a style of extreme "raw pop."
Kennelly was a recipient of the 2008 Princess Grace Award for Theater, and has received numerous fellowship, grants, and awards for his work. He received his BFA in Film/Video at Cal Arts and an MFA in Theater Direction at UCLA.
Kennelly is Artistic Director at renowned experimental arts center Highways Performance Space & Gallery, in its 32nd year, as well as serving on their board of directors.
Kennelly's debut feature film Excess Flesh, which world premiered at SXSW in March 2015 to much controversy and divisiveness (The Daily Beast called it “the most twisted movie at SXSW—and of the year.”) is distributed by Midnight Releasing and is available on VOD/DVD.
About the Scenic Designer
Mark Kanieff
Mark Kanieff is a Set Designer and Sculptor. His most recent designs include Democracy [sic] (directed by Johnny Yoder, Art of Acting Studio, HCLAB), Il Giasone (directed by David Radamés Toro, NEO Opera), Intimate Apparel(directed by Jaye Austin Williams, Chapman University), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (directed by Carl Weathers, Edgemar Center for the Arts), and the dance piece The Other Side(directed by Sophia Stoller, Gramercy Studios). He has also designed for a number of productions in Rome, Italy, where he worked for 20 years in the field of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He received an MFA in Scenic Design from the California Institute of The Arts and a BFA in Sculpture from Carnegie-Mellon University. His most recent sculptures and installations focus on plodding. He has also been developing a puppet piece focusing on informed consent to perform medical research on human subjects.
About the Lighting Designer
Pablo Santiago
Pablo Santiago is originally from Chiapas, México, and designs for theatre, opera, dance and gallery work.
Theatre - Regional: Destiny of Desire (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Arena Stage); Valley of The Heart, Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum); I Am My Own Wife (Laguna Playhouse); Time Alone, Dementia, A Mexican Trilogy (Los Angeles Theatre Center); Good Grief, Citizen (Kirk Douglas Theatre); The Cake, Skeleton Crew (Geffen Playhouse).
Opera: Breaking the Waves (Perelman Theater, Philadelphia; NYU Skirball Center); Pelléas et Mélisande (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra); On the Town, Das Klagende Lied, Boris Godunov, Soundbox with San Francisco Symphony (Davies Hall); Three Penny Opera (Boston Lyric Opera); Place (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Proving Up (Opera Omaha, Miller Theatre, New York), Prism (LA Opera, BMP), Ne Quittez Pas: A Reimagined La Voix Humaine (OperaPhila/O18 Festival).
Other: Distant Vision—Live-Cinema, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Awards: Richard Sherwood Award (2017), Stage Raw Award (2015), Ovation Award nomination (2019, 2018, 2014), Stage Raw nomination (2018), L.A. Weekly Award (2014).
Film: please visit his imdb.com page.
Education: MFA, Lighting Design, UCLA.
About the Costume Designer
Isabel Rubio
Isabel Rubio is a Méxican costume designer and, since the 1980s, an adopted New Yorker. It is a blessing to be back telling stories & bringing characters to life after Covid. It is an honor to return to collaborate with entertainment artists once again. Over my design career, my greatest strengths have been flexibility and a willingness to explore new visual points of view. These abilities have allowed me to work in all mediums -- theatre, dance, film, and television -- and this diversity of experience has in turn given me a wide range of skills and influences, enabling me to bring a rich visual vocabulary to your projects. My design work has been featured internationally at Russia’s famous Mariinsky Theatre, the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow, and México's Morelia Film Festival, to name a few. I have held a Fellowship in Costume Design at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art and was a juried exhibitor at the USITT / Prague Scenofest 2007, among other honors. I currently reside in Brooklyn, NY with the loving support of my family.
https://www.isabelrubio.com/bio
About the Composers
Jimi Cabeza de Vaca & Joel Jeronimo
Jimi Cabeza de Vaca and Joel Jeronimo are natives of Los Angeles and have been making music together since their high school days. They have released music under the band name dios, wearedios, and dios malos and toured the U.S., U.K. and Mexico and received awards from LA Weekly and NME for best new band. Their music has been featured in film and television.
Jimi received his B.A. from UCLA in ethnomusicology and a M.F.A. from CalArts in Guitar performance. He composes music for theater, dance and films.
Joel is a producer/singer/songwriter who performs solo as well as with multiple bands. In 2018, the Los Angeles record label Dangerbird, released Atlantis Airport 1982, the first instrumental album that Jimi and Joel recorded as a duo.
Jimi and Joel have recently written and performed a new score to Sergei Eisenstein’s silent masterpiece “Que Viva Mexico” and will be releasing a new instrumental album titled Birthstones later this year.
About Sirius Productions
Founded in 1998 by Leo Garcia, Sirius Productions is an indie film company specializing in magical realism, psychological drama, and short-form documentary films. Our team challenges norms and ignites imaginations, creating innovative and original narratives. We value creative freedom, collaboration, and inclusivity, fostering a supportive environment for diverse voices. Join us as we push the boundaries of indie filmmaking and inspire with our cinematic experiences. Sirius Productions, where storytelling is the star.
Our Projects
EXCESS FLESH
Jill is obsessed with her new roommate Jennifer, a promiscuous and sexy hotshot in the LA Fashion scene. New to the city and recently single, Jill is unable to keep up as she binges and purges to stay thin; eventually hating herself and everyone around her. Her jealousy and rage spiral out of control -- Jennifer has everything, and Jill wants to be just like her. If Jill can’t BE Jennifer, she must destroy her.
10 minutes is two hours
This short-form documentary video shot in South Sudan is a work of and a commentary on cultural exploitation. It is a self-consciously “cinematic” recreation of a journey through a land plagued by the ghosts of colonialism and the present anxiety of conflicting religious and political agendas – both of which can often seem one and the same. Evoking a surreal sense of place, both very present and very distant, the video depicts the hazy lines between notions of “foreign aid” “missionary practice” and “colonialism” and shows the ways history has of recycling itself. The essayistic, experimental nature of the work is inspired by the politically charged silent-era montage of Dovzhenko, Vertov, and Eisenstein and the later impressionistic film and video works of Marker and Godard.
Hammurabi
"EARTH or The Monster of Tierra Amarilla" Supporters
CREATION & DEVELOPMENT FUND
The Creation and Development Fund is made possible with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), and co-commissioners; Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica, CA), Adobe Space(Alamosa, CO), and Outpost Productions (Albuquerque, NM).
SANTA MONICA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs awards two Fellowships of $16,000, and three $4,200 Project Fellowships, annually. The awards provide opportunities to Santa Monica artists and help promote public discourse on topics of human creativity and learning. Leo Garcia is a recipient of the 2020-2021 Santa Monica Artist Fellowship and the project will support performer fees.
National Performance Network Co-Commissioner
ADOBE SPACE provides access to space for the development and presentation of new works. We support artists who deal with political, psychological and personal narratives.
Founded in 2011 by land preservation activistt, Maria Abeyta.
National Performance Network Co-Commissioner
Established in 1988, Outpost Productions is based at The Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque’s nonprofit, member-supported, 160-seat Performing Arts Center.
Outpost also presents in larger venues in Albuquerque and Santa fe, notably during the New Mexico Jazz festival. Outpost presents 100 concerts annually — jazz, experimental, folk and roots, spoken word, teen nights and more — plus classes for youth and adults. Outpost hosts visual arts exhibits in its Inpost Artspace.
While an important presenter of touring acts, Outpost also remains committed to supporting local performers. Dedicated to a mission of linking with other organizations, Outpost collaborates with an ever-growing number of partners.
