About
Founded in 2009 by Isabel Echeverry, Kontakto Entertainment is one of the top latino talent agencies in Los Angeles with headquarters in Burbank. We represent Directors, Actors, Editors, Writers, Post Productions Companies including music/Visual Effects and creative development/production across all media platforms including film & TV.
Danilo Castellano Talent Manager for Kontakto Entertainment.
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Danilo Castellano is a talent manager at Kontakto Entertainment. He join Kontakto Entertainment in 2015, bringing more than 15 years of entertainment industry experience. Started his career working for Edward James Olmos (Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival) as a programming department coordinator. He made a career change, decided to work for various companies like Guerrilla Union (Cypress Hill), Latino Public Broadcasting (Documentary) and, Tunnel Post (Post Production) . In addition work on a couple of indie films & political campaigns (Carmen A.Trutanisch and Bernard C. Parks).
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Alexis Sanchez is a new talent manager at Kontakto
Entertainment. Born in Los Angeles, her background is in civics
and non-profits. Her passion is helping people and helping to build
diversity and bring opportunities to minority communities. She's a
sitting member of the City of West Hollywood Government. Her
career in entertainment began with a docu-series which is still
in production.
Javier Montaya Talent Manager at Kontakto Entertainment.
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Meet Kontakto newest manager Javier Montoya. A New York native who now resides in Los Angeles. Javier on top of being a manager is also a film maker and continues to work behind the scenes as a producer and assistant director on several films and tv shows. His credits include Straight Outta Compton, Rosewood, Halloweed and ABC's American Housewife. |
Derek Baum Show Runner for Kontakto Entertainment.
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Derek Baum is an experienced television and commercial producer and director with a passion for storytelling. He began his career producing and directing over 500 paid-programming adverts (domestically and internationally produced), winning two Telly Awards for his critically acclaimed commercials. Along the way, his clients included Chase Blueprint, Domino's Pizza, and Jiffy Lube among others. While continuing to create award winning commercials, he created and produced the docu-series, Hoops Academy, which documented the high stakes drama of high school basketball in the states while following Montrose Christian School during their championship season of 2011. The series aired in prime-time nationally on Fox Sports in Spring 2011 and was praised by many critics as the best basketball documentary since Hoop Dreams. Further, he directed the pilots for Champagne Travel on a White Wine Budget (Venture Channel) and TK's World (Sobe Films.) Additionally, Derek served as producer on the hit series Swamp Wars (Discovery) and numerous other music videos, live events, and web based original content. Overall, Derek's productions have been seen on WE, Travel Channel, ION, Oxygen, The Africa Channel, Fox Sports, Venture Channel, Animal Planet and Discovery Channel.
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Film consultant, script analyst production and legal analyst at Kontakto Entertainment
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Willie Kutner has been working as a producer in the film industry for over 20 years. He is an award nominated film-maker who is currently working with Warner Brothers and Jerry Weintraub (Oceans 11 & 12, Karate Kid, Nancy Drew) on a pre-quel of Good Fellas entitled 33 Liberty Street written by Peter Doyle (Thomas Crown Affair) and The Man With the X-Ray Eyes with MGM and J.J.Abrams (Mission Impossible, Super 8, Lost) His Rebel Highway series of ten movies was nominated for a cable ace award and distributed by Miramax and directed by Robert Rodriguez, William Friedkin, Jonathan Kaplan, John Milius, John McNaughton, Mary Lambert, Allan Arkush, Ralph Bakshi, Uli Udel, and Joe Dante. The movies starred Renee Zellwegger, Selma Hayek, Adrian Brody, Jared Leto, Matt LeBlanc, David Arquette, Jason Wiles, Paul Rudd, Jake Busey, Alyssa Milano, Carla Cugino, Anne Heche, Alicia Silverstone, Shannon Dougherty, and Julie Bowen. He also developed at New Line Cinema, "No Place Like Home" written by Josefina Lopez (Real Women Have Curves) and has development deals with studios such as Disney, Sony, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures as well as Warners, Sony, HBO and Showtime Television. He developed for Arts and Entertainment the movies, “No Matter How Loud I Shout”, the best selling book by Pulitzer Prize author Edward Humes written by James Manos (Sopranos, Shield)) and the best selling book, “Mafia Cop” by Lou Eppolito. He also controls film, television, and internet rights on the Complete Idiots Guides book series (over 4 billion dollars in sales from over 35 million books) and other best selling novels. He just recently produced the romantic comedy, ”Sundown” for Lionsgate. |
Isabel Echeverry Founder of Kontakto Entertainment
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Isabel Echeverry is the founder of Kontakto. She started her career at ICM working with Jeff Berg and then moved to Reber Covington where she was a director’s rep working with A list talent. Recognizing the huge potential in the Hispanic market, Isabel created a Hispanic division at the company that quickly experienced enormous success. In 2009, Echeverry opened Kontakto Reps-the “go-to” company in the Hispanic advertising world. The roster of production companies represents an impressive array of award-winning directors including Academy-Award nominee Carlos Cuarón. Last year alone, clients of Kontakto Reps received a total of six Cannes Lions Awards. Echeverry’s ability to navigate the Hispanic and global market has proven invaluable on all the projects she is involved in and also promises great success in this ever-growing market. Isabel is a big believer in the concept of giving back and ‘paying it forward’. In addition to the charities and mentoring she is involved in, she also a member of the board for the Monaco Charity Film Festival for the past seven years and is an adviser for the NPO Nosotros. While born in New York, Echeverry currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and children.
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