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Brett Potter

Brett Potter is a filmmaker living in South Florida. As a producer, he has premiered features and shorts at Sundance, Cannes, SXSW and more. An alumni of the Sundance Labs, Brett currently serves as the Chairman of the Board for Borscht Corp in Miami. As a director, his television pilot The Midnight Service premiered at Tribeca and continues touring on the festival circuit.

"I usually like to write them very short! :)"-Brett Potter

Screen Heat Miami

Screen Heat Miami (SHM) is hosted by veteran Miami based producers Kevin Sharpley and JL Martinez and each week covers the latest trends in the film, tv, and entertainment industry, including interviews with global and local industry leaders, all told from a "Miami" point of view.

Mark McCray is an award-winning television writer who was instrumental in the launch of the classic Boomerang Network. He has also worked for Cartoon Network as a television programmer and currently works for the network Adult Swim. He lives in Powder Springs, Georgia.

Screen Heat Miami

Screen Heat Miami (SHM) is hosted by veteran Miami based producers Kevin Sharpley and JL Martinez and each week covers the latest trends in the film, tv, and entertainment industry, including interviews with global and local industry leaders, all told from a "Miami" point of view.

Eric Gaunaurd

Paradiso Pictures & Executive Producer Eric Gaunaurd has produced over a dozen films & TV shows over the last six years. In March 2018, we began season 2 of our hit new show for Nickelodeon titled I AM FRANKIE. In September 2017, we premiered our new show for the US market. Ultimately, Frankie was the number one rated show for Nickelodeon the month it aired, which propelled the network to air the show in over 120 countries. In 2017, we also produced a new and exciting dating game show for MTV titled SWIPE DATE, which also premiered in late August 2017. In 2016, we produced two seasons (60 - half hour episodes) of MTV's Ridiculos for Mexico and Brazil, hosted by Luja Duhart and Felipe Titto. Over the last year, Eric produced and directed content for Nickelodeon's TONI LA CHEF (Toni the Chef), and has also directed/produced promotional content for TALIA'S IN THE KITCHEN and YO SOY FRANKY Seasons 1 & 2 (I am Franky), also for Nickelodeon. We also produced a 20 episode web series for NBC/Telemundo Network called EL MAESTRO & EL MAESTRO PURA MUSICA starring latin music icon Luis Enrique.

In 2015, Eric produced the Feature length Documentary SPECTRUM OF HOPE, a film about a group of children with autism who competed in the national Junior Theatre Festival in January. He along with director/producer Danny Mendoza had the pleasure of documenting their remarkable journey in this competition as the only school for children with special needs that has an active musical theatre program.

In 2013, Eric was one of several producers on YB Project's indie film CHUB, which will enjoy it's premiere in March 2014 at the Miami International Film Festival, before hitting the festival circuit.

In 2012, we co-produced the feature film CALLOUSED HANDS, which enjoyed it's world premiere at the Miami International Film Festival. We also produced THE ACTING LESSON for HBO Films (Winner of the Jury Award for Best Film - NY Latino Film Festival) as well as VINO TINTO (premiered at MIFF in March 2013). Previously we produced among other films GLORIA & ERIC (Jury Award for Best Film - Palm Springs Intl Short Film Festival) and ESCONDIDO for Showtime Networks & their Latino Filmmaker Showcase.

Prashant Shah

Prashant Shah brings 25 years of experience in the industry, including more than 30 feature length blockbuster Bollywood and Hollywood movies and several TV shows in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and India, with budgets ranging from US$3M to $75M. His latest film titled “Jungle Cry” launched at Cannes 2019. "Jungle Cry" is based on an inspiring true story about underprivileged tribal kids from India winning the Rugby World Cup in England.

Screen Heat Miami

Screen Heat Miami (SHM) is hosted by veteran Miami based producers Kevin Sharpley and JL Martinez and each week covers the latest trends in the film, tv, and entertainment industry, including interviews with global and local industry leaders, all told from a "Miami" point of view.

Carla Berkowitz

Carla Berkowitz is the Executive Producer of the highly anticipated independent feature film Critical Thinking, directed by and starring the Emmy-award winning actor John Leguizamo. She spent over 20 years developing the project from story to screenplay to film. Her company, NRSP, is producing Critical Thinking, and developing other aspirational projects. She first made her mark on the Fitness Video industry Producing 15 Internationally sold Fitness Videos from 1991-2005. Anyone who watched BET's Caribbean Rhythms in the 1990's knows her Jamaica Me S'wet Fitness Video series, which she also produced. She's also an Audio Engineer, writing all soundtracks for the videos, mixing sound and editing all 15 of the Fitness Videos she produced. She's also the Founder of Perfect Balance World, a Yoga/Athleisure Brand focused on introducing Physics-Based Yoga clothing engineered to improve your performance on the mat. She started her city's first dark-candle-light yoga studio & pioneered the use of hip-hop, rap and indie rock to replace traditional meditative music for yoga. Carla is a mother of four kids who have no idea what to do with her. She has lupus, and it sucks, but creating stuff helps and it's basically the least interesting thing about her. Ask about her Vinyl Wall instead.

Screen Heat Miami

Screen Heat Miami (SHM) is hosted by veteran Miami based producers Kevin Sharpley and JL Martinez and each week covers the latest trends in the film, tv, and entertainment industry, including interviews with global and local industry leaders, all told from a "Miami" point of view.

Tarell Alvin McCraney is an acclaimed writer. His script IN MOONLIGHT BLACK BOYS LOOK BLUE is the basis for the Oscar-winning film MOONLIGHT directed by Barry Jenkins, for which McCraney and Jenkins won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. He wrote the film HIGH FLYING BIRD which premiered on Netflix directed by Steven Soderbergh. McCraney’s plays include MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT (co-written with Tina Landau), THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS trilogy, HEAD OF PASSES, WIG OUT!, and CHOIR BOY which was nominated for four Tony Awards.

McCraney is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, the Whiting Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, the Evening Standard Award, the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, the Windham Campbell Award, and a USA Artist Award.

He is currently Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama; an ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Chicago; and a member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects.

McCraney is currently working on an original scripted TV series, DAVID MAKES MAN, for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network, produced by Michael B Jordan and Page Fright Productions.

Screen Heat Miami

Screen Heat Miami (SHM) is hosted by veteran Miami based producers Kevin Sharpley and JL Martinez and each week covers the latest trends in the film, tv, and entertainment industry, including interviews with global and local industry leaders, all told from a "Miami" point of view.

Ethan Banville is a writer-producer and showrunner with over twenty years

of experience in television and film, in almost every demographic and

format. He has written episodes of primetime comedies, created action

sports programing for FUEL TV, been staffed on over ten shows including

hits like iCarly and Drake & Josh, helped craft interactive stories for mobile

apps, and has been a producer and showrunner on shows like Max & Shred

and Terrific Trucks. He has worked extensively in 11-minute animation and

was nominated for a WGC award for his episode of Johnny Test, “Stop In

The Name Of Johnny.” Outside of production, he has developed shows and

films in the US, Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands. He has been a guest

lecturer at his alma mater, Emerson College as well as at the Los Angeles

Film School. He is currently developing an animated series for Netflix, a live

action series for Nickelodeon, and working with music magnate Jason Flom,

Propogate Media and BentoBox Animation on a children’s series. In his spare

time, he teaches online television pitching and writing classes.

Screen Heat Miami

Screen Heat Miami (SHM) is co-hosted by veteran Miami based producers Kevin Sharpley and JL Martinez and each week covers the latest trends in the film, tv, and entertainment industry, including interviews with global and local industry leaders, all told from a "Miami" point of view.

Dean has 30+ years of experience in collaborating with cutting edge directors, studios, production companies, post-production facilities and technology developers throughout the world. He is passionate about the potential of creative use of technology to transform the art of visual story-telling. Dean’s career has included roles as Producer, Artist, Inventor and Entrepreneur, working on motion pictures, music videos, theme park attractions, and virtual reality.

He has worked on 100’s of international television commercials and 50+ feature films including Armageddon, Independence Day, Air Force One and the Lord of the Rings trilogy where he received credit as a Visual Effects Supervisor. Dean was one of the pioneers responsible for bringing computer graphics to film and television, and arrived in Florida to define future technology for da Vinci Systems.

Dean is the CEO of Splinter Studios. Splinter Studios is a next-generation visual effects-oriented production & post-production company dedicated to expanding the independent film industry.

Screen Heat Miami

Screen Heat Miami (SHM) is co-hosted by veteran Miami based producers Kevin Sharpley and JL Martinez and each week covers the latest trends in the film, tv, and entertainment industry, including interviews with global and local industry leaders, all told from a "Miami" point of view.

Maricarmen Lopez

Maricarmen Lopez has one hand on the pulse of pop culture and the other contributing to the growth of the hip-hop community. The Cuban-American Television Executive and Artist Manager has several production credits, notably on cable’s most watched docu-franchise “Love & Hip Hop”, while also being 1/3 of Slick Rick’s management team, an influential rap pioneer and the most successful British rapper of all time.

With a background in music and over 8 years in television, Mari has not only been a part of the fabric that launched one of television’s most successful and longest running franchises, but has given a platform to artists, especially women in music, including Cardi B, Amara La Negra and Trina.

When not producing hit television shows or working alongside Slick Rick, she’s focused on mentoring youth interested in music and television production and pushing to increase visibility for minority women in TV and film. Being first generation Cuban-American and working closely with Slick Rick on fighting his deportation from the United States, she is passionate about immigration reform.

Mari is one out of 100 women who was selected across the country as a 2018 Women of Empowerment honoree by Ciroc and Variety. Mari has been featured on numerous panels, including HBO’s FUTURO Digital Conference at the New York Latin Film Festival, Women in Film Panel at the Urban Film Festival, Johnson & Wales University’s SEEM Conference as well as the Creative Colors discussion at the Everybody Digital Film Festival, founded by actor Allen Maldonado.

Mari spends time between New York and her hometown of Miami, where she wrapped production on the 2nd season of "Love & Hip Hop, Miami." The premiere of the first season delivered VH1 its best season launch in over a year, averaging 1.8 million viewers. Mari is focused on growing the production landscape in Miami and is very excited to establish herself as an independent producer. She just wrapped a project for Netflix and is currently consulting on a series for Facebook Watch.

The Screen Heat Miami recording room for whatever reason had a hum that wouldn't stop, so the crew and Emmy Award winning composer Rafael Rivera took a minute to reflect on things while the sound subsided. Here's a behind the sound outtake that goes from Star Wars to advice on staying true to yourself to Old Town Road. Hope you love it!