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 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 T- Mobile, 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, , 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 Ann- Margret, 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