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Grace Santos Executive Produces Two Series Chosen by the NATPE Global Pitch Showcase

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MIAMI (January 30, 2025) – NATPE Global has selected only five projects for its prestigious Pitch Showcase, and Grace Santos is set to executive produce two of them. The NATPE Global Pitch Showcase is an international live pitch event aimed at advancing the development of TV projects in the scripted programming space. This year, five…

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Filtered, a feature film musical

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Thank you for this review, Mike Haberfelner! “One just can’t but love the concept of this movie, it’s social satire/commentary with some pretty dark moments, packed into a musical, with all the superficial wholesomeness tthat genre suggests – and that “superficial wholesomeness” fits the story rather perfectly, too, as the artificiality of the vlog-verse is…

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PGA Diversity Workshop

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2020 has been a tough year so far. But I did receive some good news.  I’ll be part of the 2020 Producers Guild of America Power of Diversity Master Workshop! I’m very thankful for Elesha Barnette.  We met at the 2011 UCLA Professional Program in Producing.  She’s not only a producer, but also a wonderful…

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Election Night, an award winning dramedy

Election Night, an award winning dramedy 750 409 Grace Santos

A politician’s family waits in the green room on election eve – will the speech be a celebration or a concession? The last 350 votes have yet to come in, and the nerves rattle the family into a comic whirlwind of wild theories, long-held secrets, and a revelation that nobody saw coming.    ELECTION NIGHT…

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Odessa

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LOGLINE A desperate mother is forced to make a perilous border crossing to save her child’s life. About the photos in this post: Some are screen grabs from “Odessa” film: copyright Ethos Pictures. Some are behind the scenes photos by Michael Rushton www.RushtonImages.com : copyright Ethos Pictures. And photo editing by our writer/producer Doug Johnson.…

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A Tricky Treat, an award winning horror comedy

A Tricky Treat, an award winning horror comedy 600 450 Grace Santos

“A Tricky Treat” was the first horror comedy I produced and it had a wonderful year run in film festivals. SHORT SYNOPSIS: Vividly gory and uncomfortably playful, the film revels in the shocking fate of a man kidnapped by a very strange family, and his fate is held in the hands of two kids. REVIEWS:…

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Bree DOES Comedy

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A comedic web series where a porn star discovers that quitting the porn business to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a comedic actor is not that easy – the comedy world is difficult! Starring the real Bree Olson, the one you may have heard on the Howard Stern Show and more. All 6 episodes of Season…

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SILK

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Escaping the past is never smooth.      Silk is the story of Rani (Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Shohreh Aghdashloo), a middle-eastern woman given away by her family and forced into marriage at age 11.  Now a somber seamstress living in Glendale, California with her husband, Rani encounters a group of young woman brazen enough to…

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Spun and 48 Hour Tips

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“Spun” won an Honorable Mention by the Producers Guild of America! 🙂     The Producers Guild of America (p.g.a.) has an annual contest called The Weekend Shorts Challenge (“Competition”).  It has similarities to 48 hour film contests, but this one is nationwide (I’m not sure if there are other nation wide 48 hour contests).  The…

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