Latin Boys Go To Hell - Profile Director Ela Troyano

LATIN BOYS GO TO HELL 

PROFILE DIRECTOR - ELA TROYANO

LATIN BOYS GO TO HELL
Actors: Irwin Ossa, John Bryant Davila, Jenifer Lee Simard, Alexis Artiles, Mike Ruiz
Directors: Ela Troyano 

    Ela Troyano is a Cuban-born director writer and producer. Select films include her feature debut “Latin Boys Go To Hell” (Strand Releasing) and the award winning half hour short “Carmelita Tropicana” (First Run Features). Troyano also directed the television network series “Reyes y Rey” and “Angeles” for Telemundo/Sony and a one-hour documentary for Spain’s Canal Plus titled “Urban Youth in the 21st Century” . She directed “A to B” by Ricardo Bracho at INTAR (2002) Off Broadway and will be collaborating with Carmelita Tropicana on a new play at INTAR in the Fall of 2007. Her video installations, often in collaboration with John Zorn and Tiffany Mills have been presented at the Guggenheim Museum, Walker Arts Center (2004) and Joyce Soho (2007). 

 

    Selected awards include a Rockefeller Fellowship, the Teddy Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, a screenwriting workshop at Sundance with Gabriel Garcia Marquez and funding from the Jerome Foundation, Ford Foundation, Latino Public Broadcasting, New York State Council on the Arts and Creative Capital.