LUMINARIAS press kit SCOTT BAKULA Cheech Marin EVELINA FERNANDEZ 2000

Description: This is an original press kit for the 2000 New Latin Pictures release Luminarias. It comes with two 8x10 black and white photos, three color 5x7 photos and a two-sided ad slick with a list of Los Angeles theaters the film was going to open in. There's also production info, articles and a history of New Latin Pictures. DESCRIPTION Four professional women meet at an East Los Angeles restaurant called Luminarias to share secrets about their careers, love, family, and sex. “Luminarias” is a romantic comedy focusing on four Latina women looking for love in Los Angeles. “Luminarias” is also the name of their favorite eastside club and a great place to meet single muchachos. When Andrea, Irene, Sofia and Lilly meet the talk always turns to their troubles with men. The story focuses on Andrea, a successful attorney who is newly divorced and not quite ready for a relationship. Even though Andrea doesn’t like White guys, she goes on a blind date with a Jewish lawyer played by Scott Bakula who ends up charming her. We follow each woman’s search for love and struggles with prejudice in a city as racially diverse as Los Angeles. The film includes a solid cast that includes Evelina Fernandez, Robert Beltrane who plays Chakotay on Star Trek Voyager and my old favorite, Cheech Marin. Love that guy! This is a fresh romantic comedy with a lot of heart that takes chances by discussing everything from interracial dating, to Latino self-hate to white men’s penises. BACKGROUND Luminarias (1999) Directed by José Luis Valenzuela Writing Credits (in alphabetical order) Evelina Fernández ... (play) Evelina Fernández ... (screenplay) Cast (in credits order) Evelina Fernández ... Andrea Scott Bakula ... Joseph Cheech Marin ... Jesus Robert Beltran ... Joe Marta DuBois ... Sofia Ángela Moya ... Lilly Dyana Ortelli ... Irene Seidy Lopez ... Cindy Sal Lopez ... Pablo Fidel Gomez ... Joey Angelina Estrada ... Tia Concha Lupe Ontiveros ... Tia Tonia Mike Gomez ... Frank Chavez Liz Torres ... Judge Sanchez Geoffrey Rivas ... Carlos / Carmela Andrew C. Lim ... Lu Pepe Serna ... Rick Richard Coca ... Tony Aiysha Sinclair ... Laura Johnson Sab Shimono ... Lu's Father June Kyoto Lu ... Lu's Mother (as June Kim) Barbara Niven ... Jan Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Alma Beltran ... Mary Mary Beltrán ... Mary Asanio Lara Elena Lopez ... Sofia's Mother Produced by Joel Ehrlich ... executive producer Evelina Fernández ... executive producer John J. Kelly ... line producer (as John Kelly) Sal Lopez ... executive producer / producer José Luis Valenzuela ... executive producer Music by Eric Allaman John Koenig Cinematography by Álex Phillips Jr. Editing by Jeffrey Koontz ... (as Jeff Koontz) Ivan Ladizinsky Terilyn A. Shropshire Production Design by Patsy Valdez Art Direction by Christine Perez Pena Makeup Department Ken Diaz ... makeup designer Production Management John Jabaley ... unit production manager Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Majd Elias ... second assistant director Bryan Goeres ... first assistant director Sound Department Russell Farmarco ... adr supervisor / dialogue supervisor Mike Hall ... production sound mixer Orada Jusatayanond ... sound effects editor Ai-Ling Lee ... sound effects editor Klaus Peintner ... re-recording mixer Troy Swezey ... boom operator Elmo Weber ... re-recording mixer / sound supervisor Camera and Electrical Department Christopher Bernal ... camera operator Gaylan Andrew Hussain ... key grip Paul Janossy ... first assistant camera Michael A. Johnson ... steadicam operator Christina Lewis ... additional second assistant camera (as Christina Christensen) Marc Lyons ... assistant camera Euripides Núñez ... gaffer Charles Simons ... best boy grip Bela Trutz ... steadicam operator Adam Ward ... assistant camera Location Management John Jabaley ... location manager Music Department John Koenig ... music supervisor / orchestrator Vivian Velasco ... assistant music supervisor Script and Continuity Department Janine Gosselin ... script supervisor Transportation Department Ernie Edgerton ... driver Additional Crew Mike Casassa ... production assistant Michele Garcia ... key set production assistant (as Michele Beeson) Eric Hight ... production coordinator Karen Toronjo ... production assistant Thanks Carlos Puente ... special thanks Scott Stewart Bakula (/ˈbækjʊlə/; born October 9, 1954)[1] is an American actor. He is known for his roles in two science-fiction television series: as Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap – for which he was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards (winning one) – and as Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise. From 2014 to 2021, he portrayed Special Agent Dwayne Cassius "King" Pride on NCIS: New Orleans. A Tony Award-nominee for his work on Broadway, Bakula starred in the comedy-drama series Men of a Certain Age and guest-starred in the second and third seasons of NBC's Chuck as the title character's father, Stephen J. Bartowski. From 2014 to 2015, he played entrepreneur Lynn on the HBO show Looking. Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin (born July 13, 1946) is an American comedian, actor, musician, and activist. He gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s with Tommy Chong, and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez, on Nash Bridges. He has also voiced characters in several Disney films, including Oliver & Company, The Lion King, The Lion King 1½, the Cars franchise, Coco and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. He also played as Padre Esteban in the 2009 film The Perfect Game. Marin's trademark is his characters' strong Chicano accents.[3][4] Evelina Fernández is an American playwright and actress from Los Angeles. Early life and education Fernández is a second generation Mexican-American. Fernández's grandparents immigrated to the United States in 1910 from Jalisco, to escape the Mexican Revolution.[1] Fernández was born in Los Angeles but lived the first nine years of her life in Arizona before returning to live with her grandparents after her parents got divorced.[2] Fernández first got involved in drama in the Garfield High School Drama Club.[3] She then attended California State University, Los Angeles, where she continued to pursue theater and became involved in the Chicano Movement.[3] Evelina was a founding member of the Latino Theatre Company (LTC) in 1985. She has remained involved for 30 years, writing several and performing in a dozen plays for the LTC.[4] The LTC currently has a 20-year lease with the City of Los Angeles to operate in the Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC).[5] Career Her first prominent role as an actress came in Luis Valdez's Zootsuit in 1978.[3] The play was the first play with a Chicano to be shown on Broadway however, Fernández was pregnant with her first child, Fidel, and could not perform in the Broadway production.[3] After Zootsuit, Fernández performed for El Teatro de Esperanza, performing at both the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.[1] Fernández then performed as Julie in American Me, a film about Chicano gang life and the prison system in the United States. She has since appeared as an actress in 28 movies, shows and film shorts.[6] A theme of her work is to fight the common representation of Latino/a characters as victims.[7] Her frustration with the portrayal of Latino/a characters prompted her to write Luminarias, released in May 2000.[8] Luminarias is a commentary about race, sex and love from the perspective of single, chicana women. In addition to writing Luminarias, Fernández also produced and starred in the film as the actress of one of the protagonists, Andrea.[6][8] Fernández wrote a loosely autobiographical trilogy called A Mexican Trilogy, which were put on at the LATC by the LTC.[4] The Trilogy is made up of Faith, Hope and Charity.[1] The titles were intended to be the names of the protagonists but in the end, were the themes of each of the play.[4]

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