PRODUCERS
Henrik Larsson
Producer
J. Carlos Gonzalez
Producer / Director / Writer / Editor
Henrik Larsson started out in the entertainment industry when he landed one of the leads in a Swedish film directed by Academy Award Nominee, Lasse Hallström. After a record-setting run in Northern Europe, Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn was followed by a sequel with the same principal cast, also directed by Hallström. Henrik became the youngest non-fiction author published in his native Sweden, when his book, Lansens Folk, was released. The Swedish Emigration Institute chose it as their book of the year. Two years later this was followed by a second opus, Hokahey, which also received a warm response.
Henrik focused on directing while attending the European Film College, winning an award for his short, Hades. He later enrolled at the American Film Institute’s Screenwriting Program. Henrik's passion for film and love for writing have resulted in a number of screenplays, some which have been optioned or are currently in development. His feature screenplay, Ms. Fortune, was chosen by the hotINK International Play Reading Festival to be performed as a staged reading at the Abe Burrows Theater on Broadway. The script was later picked up by the New York based Jamaad Productions and is currently in development.
Henrik has also continued acting, appearing opposite Gary Busey in the western Ghost Rock, and most recently in a feature directed by award winning filmmaker Adam Schalchter. The film is scheduled to be completed early summer, 2010.
Henrik has lately also broadened his repertoire to include producing. He functioned as Associate Producer on Alyssa Rallo Bennett's The Pack, which premiered at the Hoboken Film Festival and which went on to have a theatrical release. Besides that production he has also functioned on the low level producing level on the feature, Savage Spirit, and as Co-Executive Producer on the Hispanic drama, That Day. Henrik is currently working to bring Not in Ohio to the silverscreen
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Helena R. Gonzalez
Producer
Helena R. Gonzalez has been married to J. Carlos Gonzalez since July of 1996. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree and a Bachelor of Science degree from Kent State University. She is pursuing her State of Ohio Architectural Registration while she works at Lorain County Community College in the Facilities Planning Division.
She is an avid fan of films of all genres. She was the Producer and Executive Producer for the film THAT DAY which was based on a hand painted china set that she inherited from her maternal grandmother. She is the Producer and at times Executive Producer on all of her husband’s films. Along with her passion for film, she enjoys music and singing, and is proud to be a Philippine American of Lorain County.
Joram Moreka
Co Producer
Joram began producing films in his native country of Kenya. He produced his first short film titled Safari Drive which deals with a Black Kenyan Safari guide who falls in love with a White German tourist. His second film titled Runge is the story about an injured lion cub whom the star character in the film, Jemo, befriends. Joram also produced and wrote his third film in Kenya titled Kenyan Kenyan which tells the story of a Kenyan student who comes to America to attend college but finds it hard to attend and also support his seven sisters and mother back home.
Since coming to Los Angeles, Joram has executive produced the independent film titled Ghostly Revenge. As an actor, Joram has beat out many other Hollywood hopefuls and has starred in top rated TV shows like House MD, ER and others.
J. Carlos Gonzalez was born September 28, 1968 in Red Bank, New Jersey, the eldest of three, to Esteban and Alicia Gonzalez both originally from Puerto Rico. Carlos lived both in New Jersey and Puerto Rico until his family relocated to Lorain, Ohio where he has continued to work and live. Carlos grew up in South Lorain facing many adverse circumstances throughout his childhood years. One of his earliest challenges was overcoming the English language barrier since his first language was Spanish as he entered the Lorain City School system at age 6.
In his early years, Carlos expressed a great deal of creativity and passion for story telling. Although, he did not have the means to create films with a camera, he first quenched his desire to become a film maker by drawing his stories in comic form. This was the only outlet available to him as his family struggled economically. During his early years, Carlos and his two younger siblings were recipients of Salvation Army Christmas gifts, free clothing and food handouts. His mother was a stay at home mother and his father eventually was laid off from Lake Terminal Railroad and unable to find work. Carlos remembers being embarrassed because he only had two pairs of polyester pants that he had to alternate every other day. He distinctly recalls a girl in school saying, “He’s cute but he dresses like a dork.”
In his middle school years, Carlos was finally able to see the one movie that sealed his fate and affirmed his goals to pursue film making. At a church parish festival, they would be showing the movie STAR WARS on a projector and VCR for free. When Carlos heard this news on the local Spanish radio station, he was persistent in convincing his parents to finally take him to this movie that he had only seen advertisements for. All of his other more fortunate friends had already seen this movie, several times, at the theaters. This was the moment when his eyes were open to a new world of visual effects. This was the moment Carlos began to seek for himself the knowledge of how George Lucas and others that followed him made movies, both technically and cinematically.
As a teenager, Carlos continued to develop his art work still having no means to capture any images in film form. As he entered the 10th grade, life took a turn as he was granted early release from school to work at Woolworth’s, a local store, to help provide for his family. Graduating from Southview High School in 1987, Carlos was awarded a full scholarship to the Cleveland Institute of Art but without guidance and direction along with knowing art was not his true passion, Carlos continued to work at Woolworth’s instead of pursuing a higher education. It was not until a friend of the family took Carlos to Lorain County Community College for a tour of the Television Studios and the Stocker Center Theater that Carlos realized what opportunities higher education had. He soon enrolled in the Television courses at LCCC, eventually winning numerous awards for the college. He also took many theater courses and became involved in the theatrical shows at LCCC. He took up acting because he wanted to know what an actor goes through in order for him to become an effective director. During this time, Carlos continued to live at home and help support his family.
One Christmas, to Carlos’ delight and surprise, he received a gift. This gift was in form of a tripod; no camera. This gift meant two things for Carlos. It was sign that next Christmas he would be receiving a camera that his father had been saving for, for several years. More importantly, this was a sign that Carlos finally had the support of his parents. They had not been supportive of his driven passion to be a film maker or his goals to pursue a higher education. This was a moment when Carlos finally felt accepted for who he was as an artist and story-teller who had grown up in a traditional Puerto Rican home, where importance was not put on artistic abilities and ideas of higher education but on hard labor and providing for your family.
With pressures of life and lack of financial support and resources, Carlos found it difficult to continue his education. Carlos moved to New York City in 1995 as he prepared to be married in 1996 to his wife of 14 years, Helena. While in NYC, Carlos pursued his film dreams with connections to a friend who was already working in the business. To make ends meet, Carlos worked in professional theater as a stage hand and carpenter and was a freelance graphic artist, doing work for such companies as Mars M&M. Again faced with financial struggles, Carlos and Helena returned to Lorain, Ohio where Carlos became the head of maintenance and projectionist at the Lorain Palace Theatre as he still attempted to pursue his dream.
Helena began to work at LCCC in 2001 which encouraged Carlos to re-enroll in school with hopes to complete a degree. This was a time when the film industry was making the switch from analog to digital media. Carlos embraced this digital era and was a key advocate to push the college’s programming forward. By the end of his second semester, Carlos had influenced his entire class to make the digital switch prior to LCCC teaching it. Today Carlos continues to push the digital envelope by using special effects, 3D animation, and raster and vector based imaging, most of which he has taught himself through watching online tutorials, and reading textbook and software manuals and the industry’s leading 3D magazines. He also maintains relationships online with industry professionals from around the world.
In 2003 Carlos was asked by his media instructor to sit on a panel during LCCC’s media fair. This is when Carlos met Harvey Laidman, a director of many television shows such as Knight Rider, The Incredible Hulk and Magnum P.I. As the student representative, Carlos asked him, “What are the physical steps in breaking into the business?” Mr. Laidman’s response was based on his own experience of breaking into the film and television industry. He handed Carlos a pamphlet for the Director’s Guild of America’s Assistant Director’s trainee program. He instructed Carlos to take the test and become a trainee. Carlos took the test twice. The first time, in 2004, he missed the cut by 1.7 points. The second time, in 2005, he received a letter stating that they were not looking for perfectionists. This rejection letter came at time in Carlos’ life when numerous deaths in his family occurred within a short time period. This was a blow to his dream in what seemed to be a last ditch effort.
Encouraged by his wife, Carlos decided at this point to go ahead and make his own film locally on his own terms. He wrote, directed, edited, and produced his first feature film THAT DAY. This was shot in the summer of 2005 in various locations throughout Lorain County with all volunteers and a handful of student actors. Carlos was the first in the area to shoot in High Definition, again pushing forward with the digital media. He premiered the film on March 26, 2006 at the Lorain Palace Civic Center to a crowd of 1,200 people which proved the communities support for Carlos’ dreams and vision.
Today, Carlos continues to pursue his goals of creating quality, thought provoking films that entertain, inform and educate. His future goals as he continues to make positive and thought provoking films, are to establish his company Line 10 Entertainment, Ltd and build his studios in Lorain County providing a half-way hub between LA and NYC. Carlos desires to give back to the community in which he grew up in and make resources available to help shape and mold young film making minds. Not only does he have a goal to create more jobs in Ohio within the film industry but Carlos also has a desire to one day be able to create a film and television school at Lorain County Community College. Carlos continues to pursue his dream, while at the same time helping others achieve their passion in film.
