SILENT WARRIOR Productions, LLCAntone Pagan-Actor/Producer/Writer/Director |
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Antone Pagan- 2012 Comeback Win
Antone Pagan-Actor/Producer/Director/Writer A proud ‘Bronxite’ and raised in Harlem Antone Pagán is proud to announce his SILENT WARRIOR Production Company is opening the "Hell's Kitchen"/Times Square Division Branch of P.A'.L.A.N.T.E.(which means to "Go Forward" in Spanish) and the Power letters stand for People Against Landlord Abuse and Tenant Exploitation in the beautiful Landmark Film Center Building at 630 Ninth Avenue. Its a Organization founded by the relentless and victorious Elsia Vasquez for Tenant Empowerment and Advocacy. Antone is honored and privileged to know and work with her as they stand up against the infamous Shalom Slumlords aka Ladera Partners, LLC/Keystone Management/Richard Bluttal/Joel Gendels as receiver and yet a new receiver in 2012 that are all linked together in their web of felonious "constructive eviction and forced displacement" and harassment abuse tactics and manipulation of the L&T Court System and its faulty and most probably corrupt Judges. The Public Advocate-Bill DeBlasio and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn have supported Pagan's "Hell's Kitchen" defense against these slumlords since 2008 and are now stepping up to the plate to bring them to Justice along with The District Attorney's Office who has been investigating them for years. Mr. Pagan is a constituent of both offices and has a considerable following in the 'Latino' Community as well as the 'Theater, Film and TV' Community. In 2008 while filming a TV pilot in Alburqurqee, New Mexico, Antone attended an event with 10,000 undecided Latino votes for the Presidential Election. Since J-Lo and Marc Anthony were not present Antone represented "El Cantante" and the Latino vote, danced to its music, mingled and helped to garner the majority vote which helped win New Mexico and lead towards Obama's Victorious campaign. A a member of the famed Actors Studio since the late 80s and recently on its Membership Committee. He produced there a special evening presentation of Miguel Piñero’s prison classic “SHORT EYES with Paul Calderone directing and cast legendary Puerto Rican actor and his Dear Friend, the late Victor Argo. Antone honored VIC on his date of birth (Nov. 5th - also Puerto Rican Heritage Day) by shooting a film short, “Nightlife” by Shandor Garrison to help it manifest into a feature film as ‘VIC’ would’ve done to help aspiring, positive talent to develop, emerge and forward. It recently World Premiered for five screenings in the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival.
As Executive Artistic Director of SILENT WARRIOR Productions The New FAMILY Theater, LLC in N.Y.C. he is presently and proudly supporting the development of an original composition and book of a Hip Hop musical "FREEDOM" by Jason Lopez's premiere Hip Hop Artist CHI ILL (original composition & lyrics) and writer Patrick Blake who also produced the award winning play "Exonerated" which inspired this work. *Antone and his New FAMILY Theater, LLC with producing associates will revive in 2011 Miguel Piñero’s, signature classic prison play “SHORT EYES” to be designed by Tony Award winning scenic designer Richard Hoover. *Please see below the You Tube and Face Book links and description to a short clip, “Pagán’s Long Vision of Piñero’s SHORT EYES”. ...also 2 Recently posted You Tube clips to be posted soon on this site include: 1) http://youtu.be/fkNsFHQjb40 Antone Pagan and Friends Impromptu Miguel Pinero Jam in The Lower East Side! March 2010
2) http://youtu.be/6qtVfyBSAkg A 12.19.10 Miguel Pinero Birthday Tribute Trailer announcing a resurgence to Pinero's Work supported by Joe Cuba Hot Latin Music!!!
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*Also is a member of several professional actors’ unions: SAG/AFTRA and AEA (please see:www.imdb.com for professional Film/TV Antone Pagán credits and resume).
*Antone Pagán's current SAG Indy Film and screenings include "Here and There" by Serbian Writer-Director Darko Lungulov. This film World Premiered April 23rd 2009 in Robert DeNiro's, TRIBECA Film Festival in competition with 11 other features for 6 screenings and was eamarked early by MTV Productions as one of 2 of the features in to watch out for. Indeed it was & won 1st Prize Award as "Best N.Y. Narrative Feature Film". *A good pre-premiere review (4/22/09) can be read by Peter Gutierrez, a critic for FIREFOX NEWS (www.firefox.com ). Please see Premiere Red Carpet, Q and A, Festival screenings and on location set photos below by Giulia Piccari and Serge with Cyndi Lauper & David Thornton, who worked together well on screen as well as on the Red Carpet, Q and A's and Interviews.
The film screened twice in Japan from July 10th through the 20th, 2009 in The Skip City HD Film Festival where it won a “Special Audience/Director Award” thanks to Antone's filmmaker mentor, friend and associate Mevlut Akkaya of Akkaya Films in New York City. It has been released since 2009 in Serbia, Germany & other territories in Europe before its release March 2010 in the USA. It also screened in The Milano, Silk Road, Hamptons Film Festivals among others and garnered several more awards.
Antone attended and supported many screenings and participated in Q and A sessions with the producers and its writer/director. Antone Pagán plays a positive Puerto/Nuyorican Mechanic, Jose Escobar. For Film updates and news please visit: http://www.hereandtherethemovie.com/.
A Film Promo Interview with Antone Pagán, Cyndi Lauper and David Thornton is posted on YouTube by ActZero Prods./Jason DeSimone at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHHAVuebOLY . An earlier trailer scored with with Ms. Lauper's wonderfully composed and sung song for the film, "Heart and Soul" can be heard and viewed on the You Tube site link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCKGt7h3gSU .
Also posted on You Tube is a positive and inspiring interview with Antone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsIhu2P4AT4&feature=channel_page
also on vimeo link at: http://vimeo.com/4988720 representing the entire cast/crew/ filmmakers not able to attend the Opening Gala at The Hoboken Film Festival on 5.31.09. *KinoKamera Productions' George Lekovic(Polycarp with Charles Durning) & Darko Lungulov had a preliminary screening in the May 2008 Cannes Film Festival as a Serbia work in progress. Antone Pagán and Benicio Del Toro (Che) were the only two Puerto Rican actors featured as leads or principles and Antone is glad to have been there on screen to represent New York 'real' actors and Nuyoricans Baby!! Pa'lante!
*Antone Pagán also had the privilege in Nov. to work with Emmy Winners Todd Robinson and Joel Surnow ("24" TV show co-creator) on location in Alburqurqee, New Mexico on Brother Tom Willeto and Family’s Native Twa'hajalee Navajo Land (see Native Land Pics Below). Their new TNT TV pilot is called, "Night and Day" and airs in 2011. Antone Pagán guest stars as Weapons Arms Dealer/ Terrorist Antone Bello; he survives a massive shootout and hopes to be seen again to bring correct closure to his character.
Directed by Milan Cheylov who has also directed several episodes of "24". A wonderful and very professional experience which led to finding his Navaho Family. Please see below for on set Production stills and Native Family Pics.
*Antone Pagán also shot in the jungle as Miguel (see character pics below) in Horror Icon George A. Romero Presents DeadTime Stories" Vol. 2 - "Valley of the Shadow" Spring 2011 release. This Horror Trilogy is written and directed by Jeff Monahan (see poster and pics below). It had 3 Market screenings in Cannes Film Festival 2009-May 13-24th.
*He was featured with Nick DaMici in Horror film, "Mulberry Street" often compared to Romero's horror classic, "Night of the Living Dead". It screened dozens of times in 2008 & 2009 on the Scy Fy channel as well as premiering on it Oct.11th, 2008 as part of the 31 Days of Halloween. The DVD was released 3/08/08 by Lionsgate's 8 Films To Die For series: (Belladonna Productions/Linda Moran Producer/Jim Mickle/Director). It was also the opening film in Nov. 07's Toronto After Dark Films' Horrorfest where it won 1st prize for a feature and screened nationally in select movie theaters for two weeks in The After Dark Films Festival Tour. In the past year two years this film has been well received in U.S./Int’l Film Festivals and re-released in 2009 as “Zombie Virus on Mulberry Street”. The little film that could.
*Antone Pagán’s positive and uplifting interview for Revolucion Latina can be viewed on YouTube - "Revolucion Latina & the Power of Antone Pagan". YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC9xRunAahg . This interview is conducted by fellow Puerto Rican (dancer/teacher/choreographer/actor) Luis Salgado, who enjoyed the success of the Hit Broadway Latino Musical, In The Heights as a co-choreographer and dancer. Vaya! Antone looks forward to collaborating with Salgado Productions towards mounting an original Pinero Poetry Theater piece hopefully at The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater this spring/summer.
*Antone Pagán can also be seen in the Jennifer Lopez produced film of Salsa music legend Hector Lavoe in “El Cantante” (as J Lo’s brother Papo) also starring Marc Anthony.
* Some of Antone Pagán's earlier film appearances include Columbia Pics Army Comedy Classic STRIPES, Abel Ferrara’s - RX’mas, The Killing Hour, Dirty Dancing, Bringing Out The Dead,The New York Ripper & The Warriors among others. He has appeared in most of the major NYC soaps and several guest star stints in all spin-offs of "Law & Order" including 2 episodes on the original show, The Sopranos, Miami Vice, N.Y. Undercover, among others. He has done several TV pilots and TV movies. His stage and touring credits are extensive and has played BERNARDO in English and Spanish in multiple national and international productions of West Side Story.
*As an actor/producer, Antone Pagán won a prestigious award in 2004 for 18B Justice with Ralph Nieves/Nuyorican Productions in The HBO sponsored N.Y. Int. Latino Film Festival with 2 films screened in the Experimental Student Film (The Starseed Incident- Myztico Campo) and Documentary (18B) genres. These works are a result of being a proud student of Mevlut Akkaya (AKKAYA FILMS) at The Digital Film Academy.
*He currently has 3 feature film/TV projects in development and is proud to be re-uniting on upcoming ventures with award winning Production/Scenic Designer Richard Hoover (“Dead Man Walking”, “Twin Peaks” and “Cradle Will Rock” and an Associate Producer on SHORT EYES 2010). Martial Arts Master Sifu Jose Grados (Combat Wing Chun) will bring his talents to SILENT WARRIOR Prods., LLC film/TV projects develpoment department. Antone recently worked with Jennifer Tilly on “30 Beats” with wonderful cinematography by Lisa Rinzler (“Dead Presidents”, “Pollock” and “Menace II Society”) among many others. Actor Studio mentors include Paul Calderon, Frank Corsaro, Lee Grant, Harvey Keitel, Elizabeth Kemp, Arthur Penn, Al Pacino and Estelle Parsons amongst others.
*The innovative, talented and steadfast Production Esquire/Producer, Jonathan Gray of Gray/Krauss, LLP in New York City was “30 Beats’ ” Production Counsel among his over 100 other features. Antone Pagán plans to someday soon work with and hopefully be represented by this talented, professional and inspiring individual. A terrific guy!
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