Press Kit


An Isla Films Production
PRESS CONTACT:
Dayani Centeno
(787) 502-3107
dayani@coqui.net
Stella Soto
(787) 644-5329
stella.soto1@gmail.com
Starring
Oscar Guerrero
Mariana Santángelo
Frank Perozo
Directed by
Rafi Mercado
Written by
José Ignacio Valenzuela
Produced by
Frances Lausell, Sonia Fritz, Ileana Ciena
Director of Photography
Sonnel Velázquez
Production Design
Rafi Mercado, Mailara Santana Pomales
Music Score
Gerónimo Mercado
Art Director
Mailara Santana Pomales
Costume Designer
Angie Olmedo
Production Information
Genre: Psychological thriller
Nationality: Puerto Rico
Language: Spanish (English subtitles)
Running time:
Format: HD
Year: 2008
Synopsis
Henry is a young, shy artist, whose life reflects the contradictions of
modern urban life. Henry walks the fine line between fantasy and reality,
and plays with those concepts in order to survive. His life changes
drastically when he meets bold and sensual Paula, and an attractive
stranger named Diff saves him from a robbery.
Principal Cast
Henry Juarbe
Paula
Diff
Marta
Samuel
Jane
Charlie
Garb
Sr. Jiménez
Casino Waitress
Burglar
Mistess “Latipa”
Bar Dancer
Henry kid
Daughter
Oscar Guerrero
Mariana Santángelo
Frank Perozo
Teresa Hernández
Yamil Collazo
Maine Anders
Efraín López Neris
Julio Ramos
Carlos Vega
Maripily
Rafael Pérez Veve
Eyra Aguero Joubert
María de Azúa
Fabián E. Martínez
Yaredly Hernández
Oscar Guerrero
Henry Juarbe
Oscar Guerrero became a darling all over Latin America in 2007 after
interpreting Pablo Manuel in the Chilean-Puerto Rican production of the
soap opera Don Amor. That same year he filmed the movie Around June,
directed by James Savoca where he was June’s lover. But perhaps his big
opportunity to start his movie career in the United States came with I
Witness (2002) where he worked with Jeff Daniels, James Spader and
Portia de Rossi, after being casted because of his work as an actor and
dancer in Puerto Rican television and in the theater.
He started working in television with the production Locos de amor
(Crazy in love) 2001 under the production team of Jorge Luis Ramos and
Vicente Castro, with whom he also worked in several other movies done
for local television like: La fiebre (The fever), Nacimiento (Nativity) and El
Tesoro del Yunque (El Yunque’s Treasure). In 2006 he did Vanished, for a
television station in the United States.
Guerrero is passionate about dancing and his passion took him to
act and dance in several musicals in Puerto Rico, including Grease,
directed by Joseph Aguayo and the S.S. Titanic, under Gilberto
Valenzuela, among several others.
In the new movie, Miente, Oscar Guerrero is Henry: a shy young
man whose life changes completely after meeting Paula and Diff, the
other main characters of this psychological thriller produced by Isla Films
and directed by Rafi Mercado.
Mariana Santángelo
Paula
Mariana Santangelo started acting in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she
was born. She later became a star all over the world because of her role
of Elisa, a single mother who started working as a prostitute in order to
survive as the leading actress of the movie En la puta vida (Tricky
Life),directed by Beatriz Flores Silva
and
which
became
the
first
Uruguayan movie to be nominated
to an Oscar as Best Foreign Film.
With Tricky Life, Santangelo’s
life changed completely due to the
sudden success of the movie that
took her to travel all over the world.
She won several Best Actress Awards
including various festivals in Spain like
Mérida and Madrid, as well as the
Viña del Mar Festival in Chile. In 2002,
Santangelo moved to Spain where she did several shows for television
and filmed her next movie, El alquimista impaciente (The Impatient
Alquimist), directed by Patricia Ferrerira.
By 2003, Mariana Santangelo was living in Los Angeles, California
where she currently resides with her husband and her son, Lorenzo. After
taking a break to become a mother, Santangelo came back to acting
but this time in English with a character in the ABC series What About
Bryan, where she worked with Roxanna Arquette.
With Paula, her role in the new movie Miente, Santangelo makes
her comeback as a movie actress with a role that changes Henry’s life
completely because of her beauty and sensuality. Certainly a role that will
forever change Santangelo’s life as well.
Frank Perozo
Diff
Frank Perozo is the hippest actor in the Dominican Republic right now. His
most recent films include: La fiesta del chivo (The Feast of the Goat) in
2006 based on acclaimed writer Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel. Also, with
Andy García, Perozo filmed La Ciudad Perdida (The Lost City). Also, he
acted in other movies in the Dominican Republic like the comedy Yuniol
with Charityn Goyco and her son, Shalim Ortiz, La Maldición del Padre
Cardona, for which he won several Best Actor’s
Awards in his country and Espejismo with actress
Zoe Saldana.
Among his credentials, Perozo studied
with several great actors in New York and Los
Angeles, including the Actor’s Studio with Al
Pacino and Harvey Keitel, among others. Also,
he studied and worked under the tutelage of
Dean Zayas and Miriam Colón as part of the
Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
The year 2006 was an excellent year
abroad for Frank Perozo. He had several movies
that opened during that time, including:
Viajeros (Travelers), Código 666 (Code 666),
Negocios son negocios (Business is business), Un
macho de mujer and Cuban Blood, where
Perozo acted with Gael García Bernal.
For 2008, Perozo will also appeared in
another movie to be filmed in the Dominican Republic with actress María
Conchita Alonso called Trópico Sangre, that is scheduled to be released
early in 2009.
Miente gives Frank Perozo the opportunity to become Diff, the main
character’s alter ego, who becomes obsessed by this mysterious
character performed by Perozo.
Rafi Mercado
Director / Production Design
He is a director, producer, designer, and creative
director who became famous for his irreverent work
for the Latino Grammy Awards. He has also worked
in videos for Jennifer López and Ricky Martin,
among other artists.
He founded House of Mercado Entertainment in
New York, before coming back to Puerto Rico in
order to work as production designer for Isla Films’
comedy Manuela y Manuel in 2007.
In 2008 he directed Isla Films’ most recent feature:
the psychological thriller Miente, in which he also
worked as production designer with Mailara
Santana.
Frances Lausell
Producer
She has produced over two dozens of titles for her
company Isla Films, and for others like Darlow
Smithons (UK), including several feature films. Lausell
also directs Cinema Puerto Rico, a strategy funded
by Puerto Rico’s Film Commission to showcase Puerto
Rican films at international markets. She is the
founder of the Puerto Rican NALIP chapter.
In 2007 she produced the comedy Manuela y
Manuel for her company Isla Films, and she is doing
the same in 2008 for the psychological thriller Miente.
Sonia Fritz
Producer
An experienced director, scriptwriter, and producer, Fritz has directed the
feature titles El beso que me diste, Una historia común, and over 20
documentaries that are being distributed by The Cinema Guild. Many of
the documentaries by Fritz have received numerous awards and have
been broadcasted in the United States through Public Television.
She is also a professor for the Communications
Department at the Sacred Heart University in
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 2007, Sonia Fritz was the executive producer
of Isla Films’ Manuela y Manuel. In 2008 she is
also producing Isla Films’ latest venture, the
psychological thriller Miente.
Raúl Marchand
Editor
Marchand is a writer, editor, and director who has
directed the feature films Angeles perdidos, Cuerpo
del delito, Bala perdida (3rd Place Audience Choice
Awards at the 20th Chicago Latino Film Festival). Also,
he directed Atraco a las tres y media and 12 horas –
which received a Special Mention at the 1st Tribeca
Film Festival for Best Emerging Filmmaker.
In 2007, he directed the comedy Manuela y Manuel,
produced by Isla Films. He also co-edited with David
Tedeschi the film El Cantante, directed by León
Ichaso.
In 2008, he edited Isla Films’ latest feature, the
psychological thriller Miente, to be released in 2009.