The 20-year-old Latino actor has been cast in indie film The Samuel Project, alongside Hal Linden, Ken Davitian, Mateo Arias, Michael B. Silver, and Philippe Bowgen.
The feature centers on a teen (Ochoa) who gets to know his grandfather Samuel (Linden) when he makes him the subject of an animated art project for school. With dreams of becoming a professional artist, the young man discovers that his grandpa, a Jewish dry cleaner, was heroically saved from Nazi capture in Germany by a young woman when he was a boy.
Marc Fusco is directing the film from a script he co-wrote with Chris Neighbors.
Christina Ochoa will fight another day… The 37-year-old Spanish actress will star opposite Jim Belushi in Canadian director and action specialist James Mark’s deadly combat drama Fight Another Day, as the production continues to shoot on location in the Greater Toronto Area, through to early 2023. Ochoa and Belushi join previously…
Christina Ochoa has new representation… The 34-year-old Spanish actress and producer has signed with Buchwald. Ochoa currently appears in the recurring role of Ren Randall on TNT’s Animal Kingdom. She most recently starred in the ABCdrama series A Million Little Things and was previously the lead on The CW’s Valor. She also has appeared on Modern Family, I Hate My Teenage Daughter and The…
Tonatiuh has landed a promising new role… The 28-year-old Latino actor, whose real name Tonatiuh Elizarraraz, has been cast as a lead opposite John Ortiz in ABC’s drama pilot Promised Land. Written by Matt Lopez and directed by Michael Cuesta, Promised Land is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power…
