Get Yours: Trouble In The Heights Now Available On DVD
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) That’s right people, the best movie about Washington Heights ever made, Trouble In The Heights, is now available on DVD. Jon Ullman directs the film and Uptown’s own Rayniel Rufino is the leading man. Not to mention the stellar cast that includes Luis Antonio Ramos, Raúl Esparza, Antonio Ortiz, Alexandra Metz, [...]
Stage veteran Raul Esparza embraces the role of the bad guy on screen | AM New York
By SHEILA ANNE FEENEY Raul Esparza, 42, most familiar to TV viewers as Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Rafael Barba on “Law & Order: SVU,” has received four Tony nominations for his Broadway roles in “Speed the Plow,” “Company,” “The Homecoming” and “Taboo.” In Jonathan Ullman’s new independent film, “Trouble in the Heights” (available on Redbox, [...]
Filmmaker Jonathan Ullman Talks Trouble in the Heights | Reel Life With Jane
By Melanie Votaw I love the opportunity to champion new filmmakers. There are so many wonderful independent films that are seen by too few people, and many of these films are as good, if not better, than the studio movies that get so much attention. One such film is “Trouble in the Heights,” the first [...]
Growing Up Gonzales – The Review
BY Jonathan Ullman (@gogoPatienceCnP) When the character of Johnny Gonzales enters the set of his dead brother Cisco’s apartment to clean it out in the opening moments of Growing Up Gonzales, you’d think you’re in for a night of melancholia and introspection at the theatre. But you’d be wrong. Growing Up Gonzales, starring Luis Antonio Ramos in [...]
UC World Premiere: Washington Heights Presents: The Nutcracker – Teaser
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Letters to Uptown: Jonathan Ullman
Dear Uptown: You are my home, you are my office, You are my studio backlot You keep me cool during the day and warm at night Your scenery’s magnificent, your props are mad Your craft services can’t be beat You always know when to bring out the best light You come in on time, you [...]
Jon Ullman’s Dispatches From the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival – GWB Says Adios To The DR
Monday, 11/21/11 Dear Led: Has the week gone by already? I don’t want to write this letter to you because maybe if I don’t write it then we won’t have to go home. Our third and last screening is at the Mauricio Báez Theatre in Santo Domingo. There was a big event in Capa Cana [...]
Jon Ullman’s Dispatches From the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival – Santiago Beckons
Sunday, 11/20/11 Dear Led: One of these days I swear I’m going to get some sleep. We were up with the birds today to do a live morning television show, Diario del 4. Angel, our festival guide (with me in the pic), is there to crack the whip right on time. We pile in the [...]
Jon Ullman’s Dispatches From the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival – GWB Goes Presidential
Saturday, 11/19/11 Dear Led: Remember the seafood dinner we had Tuesday night? Don’t worry, everybody’s fine. Everybody that didn’t eat the “grilled” lobster (me), that is, so I’ve been a little, um, under the weather all day Thursday. As if I didn’t have enough to do. After playing the Puerto Plata blues Thursday morning, if [...]
Jon Ullman’s Dispatches From the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival – Santo Domingo Bound
Friday, 11/18/11 Dear Led: Exhausted and loving it. We drove down from Puerto Plata Wednesday for the Opening Night Gala in Santo Domingo. What a beautiful part of the world, and what a change of scenery from one end of our destination to the other. Leaving the country club-type confines of PP, we were escorted [...]
Jon Ullman’s Dispatches From the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival – DR Shows Love to GWB
Thursday, 11/17/11 Dear Led: So sorry for not writing for so long, it has been nonstop here since Tuesday night. I won’t bore you with our poolside antics on Tuesday and cut right to the chase, because really, who cares if Domestic P lost his contacts in the pool, blah blah blah. One quick sidebar [...]
Jon Ullman’s Dispatches From the Dominican Republic Global Film Festival – We Arrived!
Dear Led: If it’s Monday I must be in the Dominican Republic. A very uneventful flight (in a good way) if you don’t count International P’s floor show at the JFK terminal with his luggage. I said it before and I’ll say it again, taking P to the DR is like taking Joan Collins to [...]
GWB The Movie Is Taking Part In The Dominican Republic Global Film Festival Next Week
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) That’s right people; our good friends over at GWB the movie are headed to the Dominican Republic next week as the movie has been selected to take part in the prestigious DR Global Film Festival. Even though I won’t be able to make, I will be there in spirit. Much love [...]
Pics From The Uptown NYILFF Celebration of GWB & Act of Love
Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@DjboyNYC)
The Premiere of the GWB Trailer to Take Place At An Undisclosed Location In the Heights on Saturday, July 16th
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Okay, here is the latest: GWB, the Uptown Collective, Genius Group Productions Inc and Dominican USA are putting together a little shindig to celebrate the world-wide premiere of the GWB trailer on Saturday, July 16th at 10pm. Here’s the deal though, we can’t divulge the actual location just yet. What we [...]
Big GWB Event Happening on July 16th
GWB Trailerette from GWB on Vimeo. Okay, the only thing that I am at liberty to divulge at this present moment is that there is going to be a big GWB event somewhere in Washington Heights on Saturday, July 16th. So with that said, stay tuned for more details in the coming days.
Put You On: GWB The Movie
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) The long wait is finally over. We now have a cinematic opus that does justice to our beloved Washington Heights. GWB is a film about our neighborhood, made by folks from the neighborhood, that viscerally documents the drama, joys, highs and lows of this dynamic, diverse and vibrant community. With a [...]
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