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5th Street
Director: Alex Meader
Writer: Eric Arthur Martinez
Producer: Aya Nakano
Editor: Michal Shipman
Associate Producer: Mikio Nakazato
Director of Photography: Connor Hair
Executive Producer: Eric Arthur Martinez
Co-Executive Producer: Christian Monzon
Composer/Sound Designer: Jeffery Alan Jones
5th Street Films in Association with
Wyndotte St. Productions
Synopsis: Joe Montoya is a good man. He works in the medical field, but having been
physically abused as a child by his widowed mother's police officer boyfriend, he is a flawed
individual with great mistrust in the law. A very tragic event occurs which completely tears his
world apart. He is severely injured by the actions of a common street gang. He is torn between
allowing an unjust justice system with all its bureaucratic limitations slowly trudge along or to
take matters into his own hands to exact his revenge. Being emotionally unable to continue
working in healthcare he decides to recruit other like-minded individuals who themselves feel
great resentment in the justice system to take on the street gang who call themselves, 'the
brown street bandits'.
Aya Nakano Producer/Line Producer
Aya moved to Hollywood from Japan 11 years ago. She has been Line Producing/Producing
various low budget feature films, short films, Music Video, and Webspots for the past several
years. She has over 8 years of professional experience in the Film industry in all aspects of
production from development, pre-production, Production, and Post-production.
She has been teaming up with established DGA Directors, Producers such as DGA Director
James Hanlon (won Emmy Award 2002), DGA Director Paul Street (Coors Light, BMW, Ford,
Puma, Steve McQueen Spot) and Director Randal Kirk II at Streetlight films in Hollywood.
Her recent producing feature film with Director Randal Kirk for 'DGK' (Kayo Corp) is currently in
postproduction, and guest stars include Lil Wayne, DMX, and Beanie Sigel.
Her producing/LPing Short Film 'Compulsion' with James Hanlon was screened at Cannes Film
Festival 2012. She continues to work on various projects with talented filmmakers.
Eric Martinez as Joe Montoya/Executive Producer/Writer/lead
Eric began writing 5th Street approximately 8 years ago. He developed the script with Emmy
Award winner Charles Wachter (Fast Food Nation with Jamie Oliver), Emmy Award Nominee
Howard Dratch, Director Rodney McDonald (Sonic Impact starring Ice T and Deep Core starring
Craig Sheffer) and our very own Director Alex Meader. Eric has been acting in Los Angeles for
approximately 15 years. He has appeared in Independent feature's including Dogg's Hamlet and
Cahoot's Macbeth as McDuff starring Clancy Brown as well as in A Light in the Darkness starring
Karen Black and Geoffrey Lewis and in over a dozen short films. This is his first lead in an
Independent feature.
Composer and Sound design: Jeffery Alan Jones
Jeffery Alan Jones is an award winning composer and sound designer. His unique style
can be heard in over 150 films, commercials and video games. Recent winner of the
Los Angeles Composer Competition, Jeffery was commissioned to conduct his
orchestral composition “Cinema Fantastic” with the National Chinese Symphony
Orchestra in Beijing, China. His extensive background in music composition infuses his
stunning sound designs and 5.1 surround sound mixing capabilities, which can be heard
in over a 100 films including most recently, “The King of Fighters,” starring Maggie Q
and “The Gold Retrievers,” starring Billy Zane and Steve Guttenberg. He also recently
completed sound design work on “Ghostbusters,” the video game, starring Bill Murray,
as well as such video games; Spyro, John Wooʼs Straglehold, Lost Planet, Turok,
Spyro, Prototype, Fear, Mortal Kombat and Tony Hawk to name a few. Jeffery brings a
wealth of creativity and experience to every project.
Mr. Jones is the owner and CEO of Alan Audio Works, Inc. The highly in demand
company operates two studio branches, one located in Hollywood, and the other
located in Long Beach, CA. Alan Audio Works Inc, specializes in creating Music, Sound
Design and Audio Post for film, tv, and multimedia projects.
Cinematographer: Connor Hair
Connor Hair our Cinematographer lives and works in Seattle and Los Angeles.
Connor has shot numerous feature films with a wide range of styles in both Seattle and Los
Angeles. Connor has also shot a wide array of short films including Seattle International Film
Festival selections, “Love and War” and “Brightwood." Some of Connor's clients include TMobile, Boeing, Phillips Medical, SIFF, and Tommy Bahama.
Alex Meader Bio
Alex Meader is a director living and working in Los Angeles. He graduated from the Seattle Film
Institute in 2009 and began working as a director in the Seattle film scene. After a year working
in Seattle Alex moved to Los Angeles where he currently resides. While living in Seattle Alex
directed three short films, a stylish noir “Her Dress Was White And It Whispered”, an
introspective examination of a serial killer “Cain”, and a modern adaptation of a the classic Has
Christian Anderson tale, “The Match Girl.” He also directed three television commercials during
this period. Since moving to LA, Alex has directed two more short films. The dark comedy
“Sunny Side Up” and the surreal drama, “Love Salvador” a handful of commercial projects, and
his feature debut, the gritty crime drama “5th Street.”
Christian Monzon as Beto Navronne / Co-Executive Producer
Christian is an American film and television actor and model. Born Christian Gabriel Monzon in
Burbank, California, he spent his early years in Guadalajara, Mexico before his mother Maria
Guadalupe Alcaraz moved the family back to Los Angeles after his father, Pedro Monzon, died.
Christian was educated at Canoga Park High school where he cultivated the attributes to excel
as a student athlete.
Coming from an underprivileged family his desire to attend college was fueled by his aspirations
of receiving a scholarship for his athletic abilities. His pursuit of "the dream" was cut short after
suffering a knee injury that resulted in reconstructive knee surgery. The injury, first viewed as a
setback translated into a blessing when he was noticed by a talent scout from an agency that
introduced him to the fashion industry.
Christian appeared at IMTA in New York in the summer of 1997. There he managed to attract
several modeling agencies worldwide including NEXT Model Management in Los Angeles, New
York, Miami, and Paris. He left NEXT after two years and signed with Bleu Models where he has
been for the last eleven years. He has appeared in advertising campaigns for Skechers,
Abercrombie & Fitch, Perry Ellis, Sean John, Phat Farm, Versace, H&M, GAP, and Dolce &
Gabbana.
Monzon has worked with many of the worlds’ best models including Kate Moss, Gisele
Bundchen, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Fernanda Tavares, with whom he graced
the coveted fragrance campaign for Dolce& Gabbana.
Christian credits his relationship with Dolce & Gabbana as the turning point in his career. He
was introduced to the designers Domenico Dolce and Steffano Gabbana during fashion week in
Milan, Italy. In 2001 he was offered a contract to represent the company as their underwear
model which led to one of three fragrance campaigns and two short movies advertising the
Classic perfume for men and a new fragrance for women, "Sicily." The short movies were
directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, who won an Oscar for Cinema Paradiso in 1988, and starred
Monica Bellucci and Fernanda Tavares.
After enjoying enormous success on the runways of the fashion circuit (Milan, Paris, and New
York) and spending time on set of commercials and music videos, Christian turned his focus to
the theatrical world. Through his studies of the craft at the Carter Thor Studio in Los Angeles he
has established himself and paved the path for a long and successful acting career. Monzon's
reverence for the art of storytelling has presented several opportunities for producing and
writing. Christian established Wyndotte St. Productions in 2002 and has several projects in the
developmental stage two of which were written and conceived by Christian.
Monzon describes acting and storytelling, not just as a communication device, but also as a tool
that leads to self-knowledge and understanding.
Anne Leighton as Sarah Montoya
Raised in a small town on a farm in eastern Washington, Anne discovered her love of
performing on stage as a ballerina and at the young age of ten (the youngest ever) was chosen
by Parisian choreographer Jean Paul to appear in his production of The Nutcracker for the U.S.
tour. Shortly afterwards her family moved to the Middle East where she lived from her young
teens to high school years. Due to the absence of any type of dance institution, she became
herself consumed with performing on stage in musicals. While attending the British Academy
she performed in numerous stage productions, including Grease, Smike and Nicholas Nickelby.
After acquiring her BA she moved to New York to study and perform with The Barrow Group
Theatre Company. Recent film credits include the role of Lynn in Eyad Zahra’s film,
THE TAQWACORES, starring Noureen Dewulf, the role of Vicky with co-star Brian Krause from
Charmed in Mark Vadik’s psycho thriller CYRUS, and most recently won BEST SUPPORTING
ACTRESS award at the Los Angeles International Film Festival in Ricardo Korda’s film
BEAUTIFULLY ESTHER. TV credits include ABC’s COUGAR TOWN and guest stars as new
girlfriend to Brian Van Holt, and in this seasons CBS episode of CSI: MIAMI as a young AnnMargret, and reoccurs in the comedic web series SUPERSEVEN.
Cast:
Joe Montoya- Eric Arthur Martinez
Beto Navronne- Christian Monzon
Peter- Tommy Nash
Detective Gonzalez- Joe Voltierra
Jessica- Annie Fetchu
Sarah- Anne Leighton
Lawrence- Ethan Ednee
Oscar- Jason Giuliano
Felix- Orson Chaplin
Young Joe- J.C. Martinez
Little Joker- Adam Lopez
Silvio- Frank O’Leary
Ty- Skip Pipo
Javier- Christopher Hyde
Raul- Alejandro Matias
Detective Smith- Randy Irwin
Don (nurse)- William Guirola
Benecio (Beto’s son)- Jordon Carreras
Troy- Mike Wade
Carlo- Jordan Erickson
Joaquin- Jovanny Venegas
Consuela- Lorena Flores
Jeremiah- Larry Richardson
Sal- Talon DeSoto
Tommy- Cameron Krugman
Lee- D.Y. Sao
Robert- Marcus Natividad
Castro- Santiago Segura
Jaime- Joseph “Deadlee”
Baby Amy- Sky Roberts
Steven- Joe Hernandez
Lily- Bianca Mettler
Maria- Cassidy Mack
Martin Jeffries- Michael Keeley
CT- Brandon Luke
Carol- Robin Dionne
Marlene- Tamara Cloonan McClure
Janice- Fallon Mack
Lonny- John Crawford
Julian- Frank Miranda
Bill- J Kristopher
Dr. Johnson- Josh Cruze
Daniel- Joshua Bales
Frank- James Maynard
Bob- Lance Underhill
Nurse- Hanna Juurakko
Bus Driver- John Williams
Alfonso- Tiago Roberts
Bobby- Fionn James
Louise- Courtney Harris
Big Al- Jojo Jones
Noboru- Frank Tran
Crew:
Director: Alex Meader
Producers: Aya Nakano, Eric Arthur Martinez
Associate Producer: Mikio Nakazato
Line Producer: Aya Nakano
Executive Producer: Eric Arthur Martinez
Co-Executive Producer: Christian Monzon
Director of Photography: Connor Hair
Production Designer: Taylor Moe
Casting: Aya Nakano, Alex Meader, Eric Arthur Martinez
Casting assistants: Larry VanDoren, Lance (Lancehole) Underhill, Ron (Haole) Dillon
Assistant Casting coordinator: Terence Grant
Background Casting by: Alla Emma Kokikyan
1st AD:
Chris Fishel
Lee D. Andrews
Eric “Z” Zaragoza
Script Supervisor:
Melinda Labita
Elena Antzon
SXF Hair and Makeup: Tessa J. Philbrick
Sound Recordist/Boom Operator: Simon Hayes
Wardrobe: Krystal Ann Hernandez
Wardrobe Assistant: Jessica Lee Korkes, Isabel Velasquez
Art Director: Marcy Silver
Assistant Art Director: Crystal Saldamando
Gaffer: Brian Weber
Key Grip, 2nd AC: Douglas Quill
Grip: Justin Lentz
Sound Design and Composer: Jeffery Alan Jones
PA’s:
Key PA: Daniel Clark
Fernando Mark Paiz
Matt Dority
Jarrod T. Concepcion
Dan Attamante
Richard Par
Evan Gonzalez
Cuahutemoc Tapia
Nicholas Tuliui
Copyright 2013 Indican Pictures/5th Street Films
in Association with Wyndotte St. Productions