The founders of this female-led company provide a well-rounded perspective..
from an extremely popular Actress who was born and raised in Mexico and has successfully managed to cross-over in Hollywood, to two women who were raised in East Los Angeles with both traditional Mexican and American upbringings, that managed to build successful careers in their respective fields of the U.S. Latin entertainment industry.
Kate Del Castillo
Among dozens of hit telenovelas, Kate Del Castillo’s recent work includes highly successful TV series such as “La Reina Del Sur 2”, “Ingobernable”, and “The Day I Met El Chapo”, the ladder two which she also Executive Produced. She also did key guest appearances on shows like “Weeds’, “Grim’, and “Jane The Virgin”.
Her highly successful film career includes movies like the upcoming “Bad Boys for Life”, “No Good Deed”, “The Book of Life”, and the critically acclaimed “Bajo La Misma Luna”. Del Castillo is also a businesswoman with a Tequila brand “Honor”, and an ownership stake in MMA’s “Combate Americas”, as well as a fierce activist who’s causes include women’s rights, animal rights (PETA), human trafficking, and, along with other Mexican actresses, she started a non-profit organization, Los Angeles En México, which is still helping to build homes for the displaced victims of the massive Mexican earthquake of 2018.
Carmen Cervantes
Carmen Cervantes is a veteran U.S. Latin music industry marketing executive who worked at Sony, Warner, Universal and Disney with iconic artists such as Juan Gabriel, Rocio Durcal, Jose Jose, Caifanes and countless others. More recently, she worked as a Creative Executive at Televisa USA, which helped produce shows like “Devious Maids” and “Chasing Life”. Cervantes was instrumental in raising funds for various film projects, including the Eva Longoria produced documentary “Food Chains”, which chronicles the abuse of migrant workers in the U.S.
She is also one of the co-founders of The University of Guadalajara Foundation in the USA, which promotes Hispanic culture and education, as well as FICG in L.A., the Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara in Los Angeles, which showcases and promotes otherwise inaccessible global Spanish-language films and film-makers in the US.
Jessica Maldonado
Jessica Maldonado is a Daytime Emmy award winning journalist who’s career started in Telemundo and rapidly moved to Univision Network to have a successful long-run on the popular Spanish-language Entertainment magazine show, “El Gordo y La Flaca”, where she rapidly became one of the most successful entertainment correspondents.
Maldonado covered major stories like Michael Jackson’s trial and death, The Oscars, Grammy’s, and the Latin American Music Awards. She is currently the entertainment correspondent in Los Angeles for “Al Rojo Vivo” the highly rated News Magazine Show on Telemundo.