by Marvin Ramírez and the El Reportero news service
In local film news, actress and filmmaker Vicky Contreras, has just finished her most recent film, EXPIATION, The Ghost of the Cabin, with a first class cast. To mention a few, the former Venezuelan Miss Universe Alicia Machado, plays a role as a villain; Cuban-Mexican actor Francisco Gattorno, (Strawberry and Chocolate, Las Lloronas), and Vicky Contreras herself as the leading actress.
EXPIATION The Ghost of the Cabin, which was filmed in San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and is already in the edition department to be presented at its Premier in January 2020, is about a widow who falls in love with a young man (ghost) who turns out to be someone who had died 15 years ago.
It seems that Vicky is fascinated by ghost themes, as one of her latest films, The Elegant Lady (Consuelo Vega, La Señora Elegante), also dealt with the ghost of a lady who appears to a young man in a house where he asks for help after being shot, and it turns out that when he returns later, days after he had recovered to thank her for the attention, a gardener tells him that “the lady” had died several years ago…
Stay tuned for this new film work by Vicky Contreras, who, in addition to acting and producing, gives acting classes to people who want to venture into the seventh art – to create new talents.
The parent of the Spanish TV network Estrella TV, LBI Media, Inc., goes out of bankruptcy
The American Hispanic television company LBI Media, Inc. announced this week the successful conclusion of its reorganization plan approved by the court, a step that allows it to exit the Chapter 11 process it had been in since Nov. 21, 2018.
As the company based in Burbank (Los Angeles County) stands out, with the support of its creditors, including HPS Investment Partners, LLC, sponsor of the reorganization plan, it was able to eliminate more than US $350 million in debt from its balance sheet, “ achieving significant recoveries for its general unsecured creditors and the Stock Exchange.”
LBI Media, after completing its reorganization under Chapter 11, appointed former Granite Broadcasting executive Peter Markham as its new CEO.
Markham replaces founder Lenard Liberman. Liberman gave up his capital in the company as part of the bankruptcy reorganization plan that was approved in April and eliminated the $ 350 million of debt.
Now the investment company HPS Investment Partners owns 100 percent of LBI Media.
The Burbank, California-based media company primarily serves the Spanish-speaking community, owns television and radio stations in several major Hispanic markets, and is the parent company of the Estrella TV network.
