REC Producitons is here to meet the needs of any video and theater project. Teaching artist/actor/filmmaker and most importantly: Jack of all trades!
Richard Calvache is a Queens’s native. He considers himself a storyteller first and foremost. It is through his myriad artistic endeavors as an actor, dancer, and filmmaker that his talent for weaving a tapestry of tales shines. Richard's artistic career began as an actor and a dancer when he was awarded a Summer Scholarship to the Alvin Ailey Dance School. In 1995, he founded Urban Youth Theater at the Abron's Art Center at Henry Street Settlement. Richard's film career began in 2001, when he collaborated with former National Geographic producer, Charles Friedman. Together, they traveled the United States shooting educational and college recruitment videos. When Richard returned to New York, he became Executive Assistant for Daniel Catanach through DLex Productions. He went on to become a key component in the reimagining of the dance department at Abron's Art Center at Henry Street Settlement. He also worked as technical director for the Urban Ballet Theater dance company. In 2003, Richard established his production company, REC Productions (formerly named KRec Productions). Through REC Productions some of his original work found viral life or life in the film festival circuit. He created the shortfilms: "Second Position" and "In Motion," and the webseries: "Walt Disney World Vacation 2006;" and documentaries for various programs, including CASA and Centre Stage, which were successfully used in grant applications. Mr. Calvache can be found in the 5 Boroughs working as a teacher and mentor, offering instruction in theatre and film; at FAO Schwarz, where, as the famed Toy Soldier, he has been featured in numerous charity and television events.
I got to be #toysoldierrich for the @thesecretlifeofpets2 event at @faoschwarz. It was cool meeting the stars and voices of the movie. #myjobsbetterthanyours #toysoldierrich #faoschwarz #actorlife #performerlife #theaterlife #worklife #secretlifeofpets @ FAO Schwarz
A Cup of Thrones 🔥☕️👩🏼🦳🔥🐉
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Cast @rec213 @laguinaga1251 @ruizajenni @marc_reign @kenstarrrz @imadanasaurus @pharaoh.auteur Max Ruiz
Thank you @ocdcafe for having us and @abracadabranyc for the wardrobe and wigs.
Show opens this SUNDAY!!!
Ticket dates/show times:
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Aug. 10, 2018 By Tara Law A new play at Long Island City’s Secret Theater will explore Hispanic folklore and identity in the context of Trump’s America.
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I got to spend 1 week in Bentonville, Arkansas for the Bentonville Film Festival and documenting for the SuperYou FUNdation.
It was the most fun, busiest and fulfilling week I've had in a while.
We were not only welcomed but treated like celebrities.
This was our journey.
The Bentonville Community is empowered by Lourds Lane and the global arts and music-based superhero curriculum, the SuperYou FUNdation.
I'm still doing story time with hints of "Toy Soldier Rich" and hosting birthday parties as my clown "Swaggers".
Thank you Mommy Poppins for including us in this list of awesome birthday venues! We appreciate being dubbed "the brand-new tot hangout spot"! Love!
Nice little shout out.
Richard E. Calvache
Last minute holiday shopping? REC213 and OgoSport have you covered at Columbus Circle's Holiday Market! Booth 37A 10-3pm #ColumbusCircleHolidayMarket
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Only 2 performances left!
LIMITED seating.
You'll definitely enjoy it.
CHIX 6 is a modern pop/rock musical about a 25 year old female comic book artist who learns to love herself and re-connect to her dreams when her own super heroine creations come to life!
This is your last weekend to see this unforgettable original musical by Lourds Lane: http://lamama.org/chix6/
My comic book friends! This show rocks!
Check out the video to see the writer and director of CHIX 6 talk about her character "Misfit" and see how you'd relate!
Video produced, filmed and edited by yours truly.
Tickets are now on sale for CHIX 6 by Lourds Lane! This modern pop/rock musical is about a 25 year old female comic book artist who learns to love herself and re-connect to her dreams when her own super heroine creations come to life. In collaboration with UNESCO, this production will connect global "superheroes" to the NYC theater audience!
Limited $10 tickets are available online if you buy in advance! First come, First serve: http://bit.ly/2e6QyHF
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Day three, (for me) at the New York City Comic Con. Sunday October 9th, 2016.
Richard E. Calvache
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Day two, (for me) at the New York City Comic Con. Saturday October 8th, 2016.
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Day one, (for me) at the New York City Comic Con. Friday October 7th, 2016.
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Bringing my YouTube channel back to life.
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Two day travels to Dallas Texas for a toy preview for my former employer Toys R Us under my new employer, Crayola.
I play a small part in this. :D
The Official LONG BIG GOODBYE Trailer is here! Please feel free to share!
Be here next Sunday, the 25th for the LONG BIG PREMIERE! (y) (y)
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club celebrated the launch of its 55th season featuring artists, curators and live performances.
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Laura Aguinaga's short film Short Steps was accepted at the Official Latino Short Film Festival screening September 17th, 2016 at 4pm as part of "LAS JEFAS BLOCK 8", that Latnia Directors block screening.
Photos by: Richard E. Calvache
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
Shots from the Astro Alive! free performance.
Featuring performances from La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Joe's Pub at The Public and Theater for the New City.
Photo credit: Richard E. Calvache
The Official Latino Short Film Festival is screening Short Steps for those of you that are interested in seeing it.
The Poet's Den Gallery and Theater, Saturday September 17th at 4pm.
Tickets here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2589836
Come join us at the Official Latino Short Film Festival at "LAS JEFAS BLOCK" for the screening of 11 short films written, directed and produced by Latinas.
Short Steps is in the running for Best Drama and Audience Award!
"LAS JEFAS", BLOCK 8.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2016.
4:00 PM.
The Poet's Den Gallery and Theater in Spanish Harlem, New York City.
BUY TICKETS HERE:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2589836
For those of you whom been wanting to see Short Steps, we're having another screening Saturday, September 17th at 4pm.
Come and support!
Join us September 17 for the screening of Short Steps! Tickets are available now. Short Steps is up for an Audience Award so it would mean the world to us if you guys could come and show your love
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Multi Emmy Award winning filmmaker Ray Tsang dives into the primo practices for using shutter speed and frame rate. Be sure to check out the Academy of Storytellers…
Some behind the scene pics of the Sesame Street short, "SuperMom."
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Director/Writer: Lourds Lane
Executive Producer/DP/Editor: Richard E. Calvache
First AD: Daniel Sairitupac
Second AD: Laura Aguinaga
Casting Coordinator: Caroline Powers
Art Director: Christina Kane Sahr
Makeup: Aryssa Arneaud
PA: Christina Ippolito
Here is the Sesame Street Mothers day music video!
Today, we celebrate our Supermom's with this short film brought to you by our #superyoufun team that first appeared yesterday on Sesame Street, (May 7, 2016) and is re-airing today at 11 AM on HBO Family in an episode entitled, "A Very Cookie Mother's Day." Directed by, Music/Lyrics, Story, and Produced by Lourds Lane. Produced, Filmed, and Edited by Richard E. Calvache. We are so grateful to the most amazing cast and creative team who helped us with this film, and of course our own SUPERMOMS. Happy Mother's Day!!
SuperYou FUNdation keeps moving forward...
Dr. Oz speaks in support of the educational arts and music based non-profit, SuperYou FUNdation and the May 23, 2016 "SuperYou FUN Day" event at Citi Field to empower the largest Special Needs/ Special Education District in the world. Watch videos below on this page to see people showing off their superhero selves! Will you take the #superyoufun challenge??? :)
SuperYou FUNdation is starting to get endorsements and sponsors.
Please follow the SuperYou FUNdation page or visit the website: www.superyoufun.org for more information.
We are excited to be in partnership with UNESCO (The United Nation Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) to empower and inspire youth worldwide. Watch this video as UNESCO Global Chair, Mark Brennan, speaks about the partnership with our organization, The SuperYou FUNdation (www.superyoufun.org) and our joint mission to increase empathy in schools worldwide through the global curriculum. #superyoufun
Attention teachers/principals/educators!
We are extremely excited the Huffington Post has become an official #superyoufun media sponsor for our stadium event for Special Education District 75 in NYC on May 23. The event will be live streamed on huffingtonpost.com (as well as doctoroz.com). Our founder, Lourds Lane, will be blogging about the movement and blogs from principals, teachers, and students will be posted about the transformation that has occurred as a result of this unique music and arts infused superhero learning! Are you a SuperYou FUNdation teacher/principal and willing to share your #superyoufun adventures via a blog on Huffington Post? Reach out and let us know!
The SuperYou FUNdation is a small non-profit with hundreds of schools on the waiting list for our program in low-income communities who desperately need a boost of superhero empowerment.
We are creating an awareness challenge and we invite you guys to do it and share with friends.
Subscribe to SuperYou FUNdation on Facebook and YouTube to see upcoming videos with some known celebrities taking the challenge.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfYTWsii9AaJtSgWxLUPg0Q
Join the superhero movement and please donate to our non profit so we can continue to educate and empower youth around the world.
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Inspired by the non-profit and curriculum, The SuperYou FUNdation (www.superyoufun.org), the #superyoufun challenge is a video challenge for you to show off ...
Want to know what the SuperYou FUNdation is all about?
Check out our latest video and don't forget to like, comment and share!
The SuperYou FUNdation is a 501C3 and a curriculum infused with art, music, and dance that inspires students to notice the superhero qualities in themselves and others. But no one can describe it better than the students... www.superyoufun.org
SuperYou FUNdation founder Lourds Lane was interviewed by Forbes.com on her Broadway bound show CHIX 6.
Forbes gave me a subtle shout out by using the video I shot/chopped and produced.
Check it out.
We love and welcome Misfits! Visionary and Founder of SuperYou FUNdation, Lourds Lane inspires millennials to celebrate their misfit because that will ultimately help you realize “the Superhero is You." Watch Lourds in this breathtaking excerpt from the Broadway-bound musical, Chix6, and be inspired. http://onforb.es/1RxROnl via Forbes #Education #Superhero #BeTheSpark
New video up.
Whats YOUR Superpower??
No seriously.
Watch and comment on the video with your superpower. :D
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Fourth graders share how they came up with their superhero names as part of the SuperYou FUNdation curriculum. (www.superyoufun.org)
New video of the SuperYou FUNdation is up.
Please like and share!
The Crisis/De-Escalation Manager of the Department of Education in NYC , the Principal of PS 268, and Founder and CVO of the SuperYou FUNdation, Lourds Lane, discuss how two elementary students completely transformed their behaviors as a result of the SuperYouFUN learning . The class was taught by Edison High School Students who spent a semester learning how to teach the "superhero" curriculum.
Data has shown that the SuperYou FUndation curriculum makes an instant impact on the most hard to reach students. In this class, an essentially non-verbal child was the first to stand up excitedly in front of the class and join the line of high school student mentors to share his superhero name, his superpowers, and how he's going to change the world.
In this same class, there was another boy who has immense behavioral problems. He threw chairs. He bullied the other students. He would tantrum loudly. Because of the disruption he causes in class, he had his own paraprofessional assigned specifically him.
One of the exercises in SuperYou class is for students to call out positive character traits about one other. This helps students decide on their own positive character trait "superpower.” When the high school student mentors asked the class to name the positive character traits about this boy, he didn't want to hear what the class would say about him. He immediately cut off the question with an angry response -- "I'm Evil!" But the energy of the room was so heightened with positivity that the rest of the students just ignored the boy and shouted out what they saw in him... he was smart... and funny... and even kind. Suddenly, the boy softened.
One day later, the Crisis/De-Escalation Manager from the Department of Education in NYC, revealed to us that this same boy is now suddenly taking out the garbage during lunch break and choosing to be helpful to the class for the very first time. AND to top it all off, his fellow classmates instinctively all wrote his name down on their SuperYou star certificates and gave it to this boy to acknowledge him as a superhero for his helpful behavior.
If you want to stop bullying, get to the core of the issue. Just empower the child.
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Learn the SuperYouFUN-- a new dance for students and teachers ... with a little singing, a little signing, and a whole lot of superhero FUN!
Brought to you by the work of the educational arts-based 501C3, The SuperYou FUNdation (www.superyoufun.org) which brings superheroes, music, self-reflection, and fun into schools resulting in an increase in test scores, student engagement, and attendance, and a decrease in bullying and student incidents.
Available on iTunes (100% of the proceeds will be donated to The SuperYou FUNdation): http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1056681869?ls=1&app=itunes
I helped create this music video for the SuperYou FUNdation movement. It was shot in Boston and Brooklyn with students from several schools. I also make a cameo in it as "HatMan".
Please help spread it and likes/comments are always appreciated.
Lourds Lane, Emily Mariana Murphy, Sarah Alli, Nili Schnairsohn Bartley, Johanna Schneider, Everfan.
Learn the SuperYouFUN-- a new dance for students and teachers ... with a little singing, a little signing, and a whole lot of superhero FUN! Brought to you b...
Laura Aguinaga Actress,Writer, and Director, Valerie Aguinaga, Alexander Rivero teamed up to let our creative juices flow and came up with this short vignette that I am very proud of.
I would love to hear feedback since I am trying new things and want to get better.
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Poem by Valerie Aguinaga Concept by Laura Aguinaga Film and Edited by Richard E. Calvache Featuring Laura Aguinaga and Alexander Rivero Special thank you to…
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A Cup of Thrones 🔥☕️👩🏼🦳🔥🐉 Tag a friend who can’t start their day without a cup of brew. ☕️🤗 Directed by @ramon_pesante Cast @rec213 @laguinaga1251 @ruizajenni @marc_reign @kenstarrrz @imadanasaurus @pharaoh.auteur Max Ruiz Thank you @ocdcafe for having us and @abracadabranyc for the wardrobe and wigs.
Learn the SuperYouFUN-- a new dance for students and teachers ... with a little singing, a little signing, and a whole lot of superhero FUN! Brought to you by the work of the educational arts-based 501C3, The SuperYou FUNdation (www.superyoufun.org) which brings superheroes, music, self-reflection, and fun into schools resulting in an increase in test scores, student engagement, and attendance, and a decrease in bullying and student incidents. Available on iTunes (100% of the proceeds will be donated to The SuperYou FUNdation): http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1056681869?ls=1&app=itunes
Limbo master...
We filmed an intro for the preview to our short film for the SOHO International Film Festival NYC (SohoFilmFest)... Cesar Gracia explains his reasons for watching Short Steps.
Repressed memories resurface, forcing Eric (Juan-Pablo Veza) to relive a moment he can not change. Eric now has to make a bold decision on whether he should move on from his wife Lyna (Rachel Cora) in order to take the short steps needed to be with his new potential interest Julie (Cristina Cote). Writer and Director: Laura Aguinaga. Executive Producer and Editor: Richard E. Calvache. Director of Photography: Cesar Gracia. Associate Producer: Danny Garcia and Amarilis Lugo. Produced by: REC Productions and 1251 Productions. Starring: Juan-Pablo Veza Rachel Cora Cristina Cote Bek Markas David Raymond Klien Music by: Michele Riganese Orlando Segarra Elia Esparza Crew: Eric Grisanti Teddy Hernandez Aryssa Arneaud Valerie Auginaga Official Selection for the 2014 SoHo International Film Festival NYC #SOHO5 #SIFFNYC https://www.youtube.com/user/SohoFilmFest @SohoFilmFest http://www.sohofilmfest.com/ For Screenings and Festival Updates please visit our page: https://www.facebook.com/ShortStepsfilm For more info please visit our IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3203454/combined
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