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Antone Pagan- Bio
Antone Pagan-Actor/Producer/Director/Writer
A proud ‘Bronxite’, Antone Pagán is 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 recently honored VIC on his date of birth (Nov. 5th - also Puerto Rican Heritage Day) by shooting a project film short, “Nightlife” by Shandor Garrison. He intends to help it manifest into a feature film as ‘VIC’ would’ve done to help aspiring, positive talent to develop, emerge and forward.
*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 Film 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 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 currently released in 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 potentially positive Puerto/Nuyorican Mechanic, Jose Escobar (somebody is coming closer to getting it right). Thanks Darko! For Film updates and news please visit: http://www.hereandtherethemovie.com/. A Film Promo 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 and 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.
*Also New York Urban Music from Antone Pagán's Warrior Artist Brother Julian Rosado of "The Whole Damn Show" is featured and gives a New York Flava to this positive feature film; as well as a wonderfully scored Serbian Soundtrack. *KinoKamera Productions' George Lekovic(Polycarp with Charles Durning) & Darko Lungulov had a preliminary screening in the May 2008 Cannes Film Festival as a Serbian Special Presentation 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 Baby!! Pa'lante
*Antone Pagán also had the privilege in Nov. of 2008 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 2010. 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 has shot in the jungle as Miguel (see character pics below) in Dec.2008 in Horror Icon George A.
Romero Presents DeadTime Stories" Vol. 2 - "Valley of the Shadow" 2009/10 release Horror Trilogy written by Jeff Monahan. It had 3 Market screenings in Cannes Film Festival 2009-May 13-24th.
*Horror film, "
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 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”.
*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 is currently enjoying the success of the Hit Broadway Latino Musical, In The Heights. It is long overdue & time for a shift on Broadway and change! May "In the Heights" do well...indeed it is still doing so! Vaya! Antone and his New FAMILY Theater/SILENT WARRIOR Prods. look forward to joining them on the Great White Way in 2010 with Miguel Piñero’s, signature classic prison play “SHORT EYES”.
*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 done all 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 has currently three feature film 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 designing SHORT EYES 2010), writer/actor Malachy Murray (2007 to present best seller book – “Unigue New York”) and with Martial Arts Master Sifu Jose Grados, who will bring his talents and Combat Wing Chun as a Fight Coordinator/Actor & Associate Producer to SILENT WARRIOR film/TV and stage projects. 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. Susan Batson was the Executive Producer on this film and one of Antone Pagán’s Producing partners on the “SHORT EYES” revival as well as one of his Actor Studio directors/acting teachers/mentors along with Paul Calderon, Frank Corsaro, Lee Grant, Harvey Keitel, Elizabeth Kemp, Arthur Penn, Al Pacino and Estelle Parsons among others.
*The innovative, talented and steadfast Production Esquire/Producer, Jonathan Gray of Gray/Krauss, LLP in Beats’ ” Production Counsel among his over 100 other features. Antone Pagán plans to someday work with again and hopefully be represented by this talented, professional and inspiring individual. A terrific guy!
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