{"id":10097,"date":"2014-03-07T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?p=10097"},"modified":"2015-06-03T00:34:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:34:44","slug":"festival-welcomes-new-advisory-board-members-blaylock-and-espinosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/festival-welcomes-new-advisory-board-members-blaylock-and-espinosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival welcomes new Advisory Board members Blaylock and Espinosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*** For Immediate Release ***<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Nani Rivera nani@santafefilmfestival.com 505-988-7414 ext. 102<\/p>\n<p>Santa Fe Film Festival Adds Production Team of Blaylock and Espinosa to Advisory Board<\/p>\n<p>The annual film festival has engaged the powerful Beverly Hills duo in with a view to continue bringing top-level talent to this\u00a0year\u2019s international cinema event, held in Santa Fe May 1-4, 2014 .<\/p>\n<p>SANTA FE, March 4, 2014 \u2013 The Santa Fe Film Festival is pleased to announce the addition of Optimism Entertainment co-founders William Blaylock and Brian Espinosa to the festival\u2019s advisory board, in preparation for bringing A-list talent to the May 1-4 event in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Espinosa, himself a former Santa Fean, is the head of the Beverly Hills production company\u2019s talent division, managing both the talent and music divisions. He has secured contracts for the recording industry\u2019s top labels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was born and raised in Santa Fe, NM, which has always been a city with a rich cultural and artistic history,\u201d Espinosa points out. \u201cNew Mexico is a magical place which has attracted film makers ever since the days of Thomas Edison. It&#8217;s an honor to have been selected to join the Santa Fe Film Film Festival as an advisory board member; likewise, to have the opportunity to be actively involved in the creative community of Santa Fe.<\/p>\n<p>William Blaylock is a film producer and development director who has worked with Academy Award-winning productions and actors. As an agent, he represented Zooey Deschanel, Sean Bean and Jennifer Beals, among others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am excited to have the opportunity to work with Brian Espinosa and William Blaylock. As talent and literary management, and also as a production company, they have worked with some of the most recognizable names in cinema,\u201d says Santa Fe Film Festival director Nani Rivera. \u201cThe team is working with us to bring highly recognizable talent to the 2014 festival.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The addition of Blaylock and Espinosa reflects the core values of the Santa Fe Film Festival, which celebrates all facets of filmmaking, from scriptwriting to casting, and production to screening. This year\u2019s festival will occur the first weekend in May at various screening houses in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Nani Rivera, Festival Director of the Santa Fe Film Festival: festivaldirector@santafefilmfestival.com<\/p>\n<p>505-988-7414 ext. 102<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Fe Film Festival celebrates all facets of cinematic arts \u2013 here in New Mexico, regionally and globally.<\/p>\n<p>Our annual event honors everyone working both behind the scenes and on screen to bring the best of film creation, production and showings to the public. We constantly seek improvement in our respective crafts and provide film makers with resources to pursue their dreams. To that end, the Santa Fe Film Festival focuses on bringing together distinguished industry specialists and discriminating movie lovers through accessible screenings, panels, workshops and parties.<\/p>\n<p>The Festival will continue to grow as the leading exhibition and educational portal for all things cinematic in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Fe Film Festival is a cultural, not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization.<\/p>\n<p>####<\/p>\n<p>Santa Fe Film Festival Adds Production Team of Blaylock and Espinosa to Advisory Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** For Immediate Release *** Contact: Nani Rivera nani@santafefilmfestival.com 505-988-7414 ext. 102 Santa Fe Film Festival Adds Production Team of Blaylock and Espinosa to Advisory Board The annual film festival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"festival_year":[],"class_list":["post-10097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/optimism_medium.png?fit=1024%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15296,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097\/revisions\/15296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10097"},{"taxonomy":"festival_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/festival_year?post=10097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}