by Voyage | Dec 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
…(THIS COULD BE YOU IN 2013!) It’s a new world of media opportunity out there, and talent is coming from every which way. We’re extremely grateful to have met and worked with so many talented people over the course of this amazing year. We especially want to congratulate a few stand-outs who offered up their hope, talent, and unique experiences to form the basis of winning entertainment properties, and who made all the right moves in 2012! Carolina Sullivan and Chris Balsamo are enjoying new-found TV stardom with the debut of their hot new show “Flipping Miami.” When we met these two newlyweds who had left the stresses of Wall Street for a “funner” life flipping houses in Florida, they had no experience in entertainment—just enthusiasm, open minds, and great personality. We quickly realized they belonged in front of the camera, so we had them work closely with our Reality TV Producer (and expert show-seller) Aisha Corpas-Wynn, and voila–just a few short months later they had a deal with noted Reality producer John Kroll and their pilot just aired on A&E! Javier Ortiz grew up in Bushwick, New York and had a hankering to write. He had no experience in the industry. His first great move was to come to Voyage with a few ideas for edgy, socially conscious, indie screenplays. Wethought he had talent—and that one of his film ideas could meet the growing 2012 market demand for projects with appeal to the Hispanic/Latino audience, and possibly other niches as well. Javier mounted a kick-starter campaign to raise money to fund his own project development—that was his second great...
