ADIOS
VAYA
CON
DIOS
“Debut of Adios Vaya Con Dios…is a power piece of cinema.” DVD & Blu-Ray Release Report
“Highly distinctive and fascinatingly provocative…” AXS Entertainment Arts
ARISE FROM DARKNESS
ENTERTAINMENT LEADERS
YAHOO LIFESTYLE
Similar to Areu’s humble upbringings, Mónica Esmeralda León was an immigrant from Mexico who settled in Chicago, founding Ave Fenix Pictures Studios; the first Latino movie studio in Chicago and the Midwest.
EL AVE FÉNIX QUE CUMPLE EL SUEÑO AMERICANO
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La mexicana Mónica Esmeralda León es la primera cineasta latina en tener un estudio en Estados Unidos. Sus largometrajes independientes compiten con películas de Hollywood.
AND THEY CALLED HER PARADISA
YAHOO ENTERTAINMENT
Ave Fenix Pictures Studios new film ‘And They Called Her Paradisa,’ directed by admired European director Marius Iliescu who casted the leading actress, an African American transgender woman named Maliyah Londyn, a model and performer at the SteppenWolf Theater.
WHERE SWEET DREAMS DIE
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Zachary Laoutides, Jaime Zevallos and Alexander James Rodriguez have been cast in Where Sweet Dreams Die, the Ave Fenix Pictures Studios dramatic thriller being directed by Mirza Esho. Production is now set to get underway in November in Chicago and New York with COVID-19 protocols in place.
EXPANDING INTO
LOS ANGELES
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Iliescu worked to pioneer the west coast branch since 2015 and the results started to show as distribution deals developed shortly with Ave Fenix Pictures becoming an inclusive brand...
PERFORMING
INSTINCTS
THEODYSSEYONLINE.COM
In late 2018 Black Ruby premiered at the Los Angeles Film Forum Awards taking home wins: Best Feature, Screenplay, Actor, Soundtrack and Independent Sprit Award via Zachary Laoutides...
ART WITH PURPOSE
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Monica Esmeralda Leon originally from Mexico and this year named the Next Generation of the industry’s rising stars for 2019, has established herself as the first Hispanic Latina owned film studio in Chicago...
BRANDO & CLIFT
PERFORMANCES
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This is what brought me to the label ‘method actor.' Today, it is a new trademark that is loosely flung around, a plethora of actors wanting to costume the description or rather be perceived as the eccentric thespian willing to do whatever it takes...