Salma Hayek Bets on Latino Talent

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Famous Mexican actress and soap opera director Salma Hayek has associated with a powerful partner in order to create a production company whose main goal is to promote movies with Latino themes and that employ Latino talents. The company’s films will be oriented to the mass audience and not only to a particular social or ethnical group.

Harvard Foundation Artist Award winner of 2006 will be the chief executive of Ventanazul (Blue Window), Production Company that will be created in association with important Hollywood Studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It has been announced that Ventanazul will be producing no less than 2 to 4 movies per year, as the company’s main goal will be to make Latino audiences “proud of their culture” as the famous artist pointed-out during a recent interview. “It’s an amazing opportunity to draw upon the entire range of ways the Latin world can contribute to the film industry” said the Oscar-nominated star of Frida.

Hayek’s premiere in USA film industry was back in 1995 in the movie ‘Desperado’, where she worked with Spanish actor Antonio Banderas under direction of Robert Rodriguez. The actress definitively caught the audience attention there and thus began her successful career in Hollywood where she has to date participated in movies such as ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’, ‘54’, ‘Frida’ and recently ‘Bandidas’, where she co-stars with her good friend and renowned Spanish actress Penelope Cruz. 

It is important to note that the beautiful 40-year old actress and soon-would-be-mother has remarkable experience on the Production business too. She is the executive producer of the TV series ‘Ugly Betty’, a major television hit adapted from a Colombian “telenovela” (soap opera) for the US Latino audience that has been airing since September 2006. The show has become quite a success in just a few months, winning the Golden Globe Award this year for Best Comedy Series.