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Our Approach
We take a collaborative approach to every project, working closely with our clients to ensure that their vision is brought to life. Our team of experienced filmmakers and creatives are dedicated to delivering high-quality work on time and on budget.
The Mission:
We are a Latinx Horror and Genre screenwriting group formed to discover stories that can often be overlooked. Our focus is on the type of programming we love most - HORROR and GENRE! We believe that reading and sharing our stories will help us produce our best work with honest feedback, making us better writers.
What We Do:
- Each month our group reads 2 scripts for feedback
- Organize quarterly mixers for community building/networking
- Scripts can be submitted by our members, as long as they are from marginalized communities and/ or identify as Latinx/e/o/a
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The Team
Jose Vicente Chavez
Founder
Jose Vicente Chavez is a native New Mexican who grew up with devout Catholic parents. He prayed the rosary on his knees every night to Our Lady of Guadalupe. He began obsessing over the Catholic Saints and their horrific martyrdom. This obsession pushed him towards the horror genre, but with an added spiritual element. He showed affinity to film early in his teens. He would later graduate from NMSU in 2012 with a degree in Digital Filmmaking, and moved to Los Angeles in 2014. In 2019, he was accepted into the NHMC TV Scriptwriters Program. In 2020, he was selected as one of three directors for the CBS Pipeline Challenge, making a short film for Homeboy Industries titled, “Hope Has An Address.” In that same year, he wrote and directed “The Tongue,” which had a great 2022 festival run. Additionally, it was selected to screen at the 43rd CineFestival San Antonio and Indie Short Fest 2023. Jose is the Founder of The LatinXorcists.
Ricardo Martinez
Co-Founder
Ricardo Martinez is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and dad from Oakland, California. His first short documentary film, A Journey into Me, won a Silver Spire award at the SF International Film Festival at the age of 16. After graduating from NYU Tisch Film School, his documentary films launched him into a career in post production, editing shows for everyone from Vice to Netflix.
His recent screenplays have made the semi finals of the Stay Macro/Blacklist competition and his hit comic, The BloodStone is in development with producers Aaron Semmel (Morgan Creek), Darrelly Fetty (The Grey House), and an unannounced Latino Hollywood LEGEND. A full time editor at NBC Universal, Ricardo cuts commercials and promos for shows like The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and all the various versions of Law and Order.
Ricardo is on the board of Unidos, the Latino Employee Resource Group, at NBC Universal and is a founding member of The LatinXorcists.
Alfredo Hernandez
Co-Founder
A California State University, Los Angeles graduate with a BA in Film and a Minor in Social Media Marketing, Alfredo Hernandez is a writer, director, and producer who has long been a champion for diversity and accessibility in Hollywood. Well-versed on and off the set, he has completed the 2018 OutFest Fellowship program, the 2020 CBS Pipeline Challenge, and the 2021 Creative Futures Fellowship program. He occasionally writes and creates content for Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation subsidiary, Channel Kindness, and was most recently a Writers’ Assistant for Netflix’s Selena: The Series and Narcos: Mexico. Alfredo is a Co-Founder of the writer’s group, The LatinXorcists.
Our Advisors
Laurel Pérez-Fuksa
Laurel Pérez-Fuksa
Laurel Pérez-Fuksa
Current Programming, Executive Assistant
Warner Bros. Television
Jesse Nicely
Laurel Pérez-Fuksa
Laurel Pérez-Fuksa
SVP, Culture Strategy
Cashmere Agency