Israel Luna (filmmaker)
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Israel Luna is an American filmmaker, best known for his movies
Early life
Luna first became interested in film at the age of five while watching a movie at a dual-screen drive-in theater near his tiny hometown of
Career
As a young adult, he moved to Dallas and began pursuing a film-making career. He produced a couple of segments of a gay-themed soap opera called Boobs, Boys and High Heels for the local public access television network, DCTV. After achieving some notoriety with the soap opera and gaining a great deal of hands-on experience, he embarked on a career as an indie filmmaker. [citation needed]
In 2000 he co-founded La Luna Entertainment with his business partner John Maguire in
La Luna announced plans to film another low-budget comedy intended to act as a companion piece to La Luna's film Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives to be titled Kicking Zombie Ass for Jesus. Willam Belli, Krystal Summers, and Richard D. Curtin were announced as slated to star in this zombie apocalypse spoof in which the only survivors were gay people and church people.[6] The film was intended to begin shooting in late 2012, and La Luna began a crowdfunding campaign through Kicktraq, but failed to meet his intended goal.[7][8][9] According to Belli, the film begins shooting in October 2013.[10]
Recognition
Recognition of his projects includes:
- Winner, Young Filmmakers Award at the Austin Film Festival, for his work on REEL KiDS
- Audience Award for Best Feature, for Deep Ellum Film Festival[11]
- A nomination for Best Feature for R U Invited? at Dallas' OUT TAKES Film Festival
- "Most Memorable of the Fest", for Fright Flick at the B-Movie Film Festival in Syracuse, New York[12]
Filmography
- Not It! (2002)
- Is Anybody There? (2002)
- Almost Time (2002)
- The Deadbeat Club (2004)
- I Know Who You Are (2005)
- R U Invited? (2006)
- Drop Me Off (2010)
- Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives (2010)
- Reunited (2011)
- Fright Flick (2011)
- The Ouija Experiment (2011), a remake of Is Anybody There?[13]
- The Ouija Experiment 2 (2014)
- Dead Don't Die in Dallas (2019)
References
- ^ About Us, La Luna Entertainment
- ^ IMDB
- ^ Israelluna.com
- ^ "Ouija Movies Part 2 | Quinton Reviews". YouTube.
- ^ Itzkoff, Dave (March 26, 2010). "Transgender Comedy Not Amusing to Some". New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
- ^ Gingold, Michael (March 28, 2012). ""TICKED-OFF TRANNIES" DIRECTOR IS "KICKING ZOMBIE ASS FOR JESUS"". Fangoria. Archived from the original (Wayback Machine archive) on May 20, 2012. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
- ^ Jones, Arnold Wayne (July 5, 2012). "Luna launches Kickstarter campaign "For Jesus"". Dallas Voice. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
- ^ "Kicking Zombie Ass for Jesus".
- ^ http://www.bagofnothing.com/2012/07/kicking-zombie-ass-for-jesus-a-narrative-film-project-in-dallas-tx/
- ^ Willam Belli confirms filming
- ^ Kusner, Daniel A. (June 8, 2006). "High School Rebel". The Dallas Voice. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
- ^ Kusner, Daniel A. (October 24, 2008). "Dallas filmmaker showcasing new horror film at Magnolia". Pegasus. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
- ^ Lopez, Rich (December 21, 2011). "Respect the board". The Dallas Voice. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
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