Monstrosity Storyboard

The Monstrosity Cast

Leanna Zamora - "Milly"

Leanna has always enjoyed performing and making people smile. She started early on stage performing in the school talent show at age 6 and has continued to perform every year since. She also enjoys soccer, softball, art, piano, animals, and reading.

Beau Allen - "Dylan"

Beau is a Santa Barbara native and lives with his three sisters and parents. In addition to some modeling jobs, his other performances include roles in "High School Musical" and "Vacation on Mars." This is Beau's first film and he's excited to play the role of Dylan.

Alexis Healey - "Joanna"

Alexis has lived in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley since birth. She sings in a young girl's group called "Pink" and she has danced at the Los Olivos Dance Gallery since the age of 4, when she made her debut performance as a Teletubbie. In addition to being a triple threat: acting, dancing and singing, she is also an excellent athlete and especially loves soccer.

Caden Scott Fallon - "Sam"

Caden is very imaginative and loves to make up songs and stories. He is very active in sports including basketball, baseball, soccer, swimming, boggie boarding and hiking. He is currently learning Archery and how to surf. Canden has a great love for animals, the outdoors, reading and traveling.

Elton Roberts - "Milly's Younger Bro"

Elton was born in Santa Barbara and attends Los Olivos Elementary. He has acted in three Missoula plays. In addition to acting he enjoys tennis, soccer, riding his bike and playing with friends, but his "favorite thing in the whole world" is football. He is a really great student and loves animals.

Preston Gorr - "Milly's Youngest Bro"

Preston is outgoing, quick witted and very funny. He has an imagination that keeps him entertained for hours. He loves dressing up in his superhero costumes and playing the part. He also loves Legos, baseball, and playing video games. He loves his family and to him everyone is his best friend.

Kendall Odermatt - "Cool Kid on the Bus"

Kendall has lived in Pasadena all her life and goes to Mayfield Junior School. She has always had a passion for performing from her pre-school singing performances to school talent shows to piano recitals. She is creative and outgoing and loves to be with people of all ages. This is her first time starring in a film and she hopes to learn a lot more about acting from this experience. Kendall's other interests include art, photography, guitar, and reading.

The Monstrosity Crew

Alyssa Price - Director/Writer

Alyssa Price is an actress and award winning filmmaker living in Los Angeles. She's the creator of a popular Internet series called "Life With Babs" and also frequently creates content for her reality vlog, "SuperCaliforniaListic." Alyssa has appeared in numerous films and commercials and contributes weekly to the web channel, "5 Awesome Optimists." She is currently a student at The Groundlings School and is an avid reader, photographer and dancer. Alyssa is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Drama.

Ricardo Veiga - Producer/Composer

Multi Award winning composer and producer Ricardo Veiga, has written for virtually every medium, from film, television, theatre concert stage to ballet and modern dance. His most recent film credits include "Found" Intentional Films, "Midlothia" Cinema Obscura distribution, "Confessions of a Pit Fighter" Lionsgate distribution, "Triloquist" Dimension Extreme distribtion. Ricardo is also the vice-president of the International Arts & Education Foundation, a non-profit organization geared towards supporting visual and performing artists. For more information please visit www.RicardoVeiga.com

Samrod Shenassa - Director of Photography

A graduate of UCLA's prestigious Film School, Samrod Shenassa has worked on the visual effects for Independence Day, Batman Forever, Mortal Kombat, Garfield, and Scooby Doo 2, among others. He has also created promotional films for Nike, directed the innovative music video Still Love for indy band Pollyn, and is an active photographer. In his spare time, he enjoys talking about himself in the third person, boredom, and mowing strangers' lawns.

Steve Soria - Art Director

Steve Soria is a multi-media artist currently residing in Santa Barbara. Soria's work utilizes painting, installation, sculpture, video art and animation to explore time and space through a fusion of contemporary and archaic technology. His work has been shown throughout southern California at the Mark Moore Gallery, the A&D Museum and the Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, to name a few. He received his BFA in sculpture from California State in Long Beach.

Brandon Amelotte - Line Producer/1st AD

Brandon Amelotte has been in the film industry for over 10 years. With over 20 films to his credit, he has worked as both an Assistant Director and Line Producer. He has filmed in the Universal Backlot, Rio de Janeiro, as well as shutting down an Airport to film a World War 2 spy film, to name but a few. He graduated with Honors from Penn State University with a degree in Business Administration - majoring in Marketing. He utilized his talents from Unisys, Merrill Lynch, and NASA Johnson Space Center to transition into the film industry.

Jonathan Price - Artwork

Jonathan Price is a painter and graphic designer. In 2008 he won the Grand Prize in a design competition sponsored by the NBA. Since he has done multiple graphic design and paintings for the Sacramento Kings. A graduate of the Art Institute of California Sacramento he is an active member of the Sacramento art community painting murals, doing commissioned city art projects and showing his paintings at local shows. Jonathan earned his BA in Studio Art from Humboldt State University.

Rafael Prata - Assistant to the Producer

Rafael is a recent high school graduate with aspirations in Film and Business. He has always been actively involved in the film program at his high school, St. Francis. He has done many small productions in his mass media class, from music videos to 20 min features, and was president of the St. Francis Film Association. This is his first professional production, and he is excited to be a member of the team.

Vanessa Mirelez - 2nd Assistant Director

A graduate of Brigham Young University with a BA in Humanities, Vanessa "Joie" Mirelez is a freelance writer and photographer living in Santa Barbara County. As a photographer Vanessa's passion is in the light, texture and magic of Polaroid and medium format film. Vanessa's next project is a week long photography retreat in Paris and Beynac-et-Cazenac in the the south of France. She is also the author of the blog, Pois-Rouge.

Charlie Lee - Editor

Charlie is an award winning editor who has cut everything from feature films to multiple commercial spots. His most recent project, a Jeep spot for the "The Things We Make, Make Us" campaign, can currently be seen on both TV and the Internet. Charlie is cutting this film because he and Alyssa are "homies," plus he is hoping Milly will help him to better understand his baby girl Stella when she's a pre-teen someday.

Thy Mai - Hairstylist

Since graduating from the prestigious Sassoon Academy in Los Angeles, Thy (Tee) quickly became the Art Director of the highly regarded Chop Chop salon which has had appearances on MTV's "Made" and E! channel clips. In addition, she art directed and co-sponsored fashion shows for Dress Right and is contributing work to upcoming movie and TV projects. Thy was named one of Bumble and Bumble's "Top 20 Network Educators."

Joanna Berdzinska - Make-up Artist

As an artist, Joanna Berdzinska was shaped by her passion for makeup and love for people. Educated in the world's best makeup academies in France and Los Angeles, she currently lives in LA, California, devoting her time and nearly endless energy to the process of creating. With her amazing sensitivity to beauty, Joanna focuses primarily on the world of fashion and movies, though her versatility leaves her open to people and ideas outside of the box. Striving for perfection, she is constantly looking for new challenges that reflect her most profound philosophy - live to create.

Michael Kircos - Asst. Camera/2nd Unit DP

Michael is currently finishing an Associate of Art degree in film production at Santa Barbara City College. His background is both in music and acting although he loves working behind the camera the most. Photography and guitar are his two favorite hobbies. His best friend is a cat named Harrison. He always wears black.

Mayhem (a.k.a. Lauren Mayhew) - Artist

MAYHEM is a femme fatal music artist who blends her Joan Jett rock n' roll power chords with new age Lady Gaga-esque dance back beats. She has opened up for Britney Spears, NSYNC, Katy Perry, LMFAO, Ray J, and many others! MAYHEM's music can be heard on MTV's "The Hills," "The City," and "Taking the Stage," VH1's "Keeping with the Kardashians," and Universal's "Bring It On: In It to Win It" just to name a few.