I worked for an agent named Eric Rovner, Scholey says.
He was the Latin agent for theagency.
But there were very few Latin people.
From left, Andres Budnik and Liam Scholey, co-CEOs of Vision Entertainment.Carlos Nunez
And that happened at every company that I worked at.
The men became fast friends, and on a Thanksgiving surf trip together, an idea bloomed.
To put them in front and behind the camera.
Vision Entertainment’s Mexico City staff.
So, we said, Lets resign from where were working and start our own company.
In December 2013, Vision Entertainment was born.
At that time, the U.S. and Latin American industries were two separate worlds, as Scholey puts it.
So, the co-CEOs went looking for more Latino actors.
And to tackle the lack of authentic roles, they added writers and directors to their clientele.
Next came an office in Mexico City.
The agency now has projects and represents talent across multiple languages, continents and genres.
And their fight for representation and equality rages on.
We had a client that was a renowned actor from Latin America, Budnik says.
[A U.S. show] was offering him $15,000 per episode.
Which is very, very, low.
We said, Hey, why?
Youve budgeted double, or more than double that.
We said, Pay them what their job is worth!
