Fanny Véliz is an award-winning filmmaker, actor, and director with more than 14 years experience in the business. Véliz has worked in both traditional and digital media for a vast array of brands, including Ford and Nissan. She also produced two seasons of the TV show “Doctor Vet” for National Geographic which aired in the U.S. and all over Latin America.

One of her latest projects is her award-winning feature film HOMEBOUND which received a theatrical release and numerous awards and traveled the country as well as abroad. Throughout the years, she has learned the ins and outs of creating a project from scratch and using non-traditional methods to fund, produce, and distribute. She's bringing that knowledge to her clients at Avenida Productions.

On This Episode we Cover:

Her reason for starting film was to help end stereotypes.

Establishing a Production Company, www.avenida.tv

Teaching her self to produce.

Why representation matters.

How distribution works in the indie world.

Using the platform Tugg www.tugg.com

Crowd Funding and working with her client John Leguizamo "Latin History for Morons.

Raising over 700,000 in a year for crowd funding projects.

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