Abel Salas names Rami Rivera Frankl, Entertainment Technology Editor
Abel Salas names Rami Rivera Frankl, Entertainment Technology Editor of Brooklyn & Boyle, “Art & Life in Boyle Heights and Beyond.” Brooklyn & Boyle is an East LA magazine created by Poet and writer Abel Salas. Mr. Salas, Publisher/Editor-in-Chief at Brooklyn & Boyle: Art & Life in Boyle Heights and Beyond, is an LA-based journalist, actor, poet and filmmaker. His work as a free-lance writer has been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, New Angeles Monthly, Artillery Magazine, Latina Magazine, The Austin Chronicle, The Austin-American Statesman, Tu Ciudad Los Angeles Magazine, Hispanic Magazine, New Angeles Monthly, Batanga Magazine and the San Antonio Current among many others. His radio essays and reports have been broadcast on KPCC-FM 89.3 by “Off-Ramp,” a weekly news magazine airing in Southern California as well as nationally on LATINO USA. Co-author of the film Six Thugs, Salas is a former staff member at NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) where he helped develop the first ever NALIP Producer’s Academy which nurtures emerging mediamaker talent. As an active and concerned community and urban youth advocate, Salas has taught writing at Los Angeles County juvenile and is a founding member of the Echospace Poetry Collective at Eastside Café, an intergenerational and multicultural group of writers, artist, educators and community activists who came together in the spring of 2007. As a result of his extensive work in media, Salas has often been contracted as a public relations and marketing consultant Among his clients have been Sony Discos, Arista Records, Hollywood Records, Reyes Entertainment, Estrada Communications, Tula Media/Viva Hollywood, performing rights royalty clearinghouse SESAC, Univision Music, documentary production company Galan Productions, Strategy Workshop, Grammy Award-winning music group La Mafia, Telemundo KTMD-TV 48. Long before moving to Los Angeles, Salas was the editor at The National Hispanic Journal and Managing Editor at ARRIBA: Art & Business News, both in Austin, Texas as well as the Managing Editor at Crossroads, a U.S. Mexico-border news and culture journal in Brownsville, Texas. An actor and theatre arts professional since childhood, Salas has occasionally been active as producer, writer and performer for the stage. Before leaving Austin for the border, he co-founded the Cultural Warriors, an at-risk youth theatre company and Teatro Libertad, a Latino theatre company.
Rami Rivera Frankl, President and founder of Hobokenwest Digital Media (HWDM), entered the digital media space with over 10 years of film, television and commercial production experience, including work on Selena, Cesar Chavez Memorial, “Tales from the Crypt,” and with Young & Rubicam as well as a Nestle chocolate commercial. His transition into digital media began in 1997 at Universal Studios within the Digital Video Compression Center (DVCC), one of the first research sites/labs for HD and DVD technology. Mr. Frankl next went on to manage the nationwide Digital Media Services for VDI, now point360. He later created Digital Media and DVD divisions from the ground up at two prominent post houses. In 2002, Mr. Frankl foresaw the digital media wave and created a trademark, Advertising on Demand (AOD). AOD was a new business model for advertising in the digital marketplace. While working on BloodRayne 2 (Vivendi Entertainment), Hobokenwest created DVD Comic Book™, an innovative method for recreating the comic experience digitally. While in Hong Kong, Mr. Frankl was recognized as an entertainment technology futurist. With a history of digital innovation, Hobokenwest Digital Media, a visionary digital media services company, was founded with Brent Akamine in 2003. Hobokenwest was the first Latino owned DVD lab to perform work for the major studios. Clients have included MGM, SONY, Paramount, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Toyota USA, Panasonic Disc Services, and Vivendi Entertainment (UMGD). Frankl is currently producing a Blu-Ray project for Vivendi Entertainment, serves as the Entertainment Technology Editor for Brooklyn & Boyle Magazine, is a contributing writer to Latin Heat and is on the Board of Directors of the Entertainment AIDS Alliance (EAA). EAA is a volunteer group of industry professionals, which was formed in 1989 to respond to the urgent need for funding AIDS service organizations nationwide. Ninety percent of funds raised are distributed to qualifying AIDS health care organizations and facilities. In October 2008, HWDM launched the test site for www.politicalbs.org a political satire video aggregator. At AFM 2008, HWDM’s production partner Hoboken Entertainment launched a Hispanic feature film which is scheduled to begin principal photography 2010.
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