WHO WE ARE

About

Founded in 2009 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.

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).

Strategy
“It’s a matter of the talent's goals and perfecting the craft and then the strategies and relationships and administrative organization of the management.”

Javier Montaya Talent Manager at Kontakto Entertainment.

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.

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.