Zachary Laoutides
- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Zachary Laoutides is an American actor and writer born in Chicago. In 2008 Laoutides was the finalist for Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment nationwide talent search for new young actors. Laoutides became solely selected winning the competition and representing the best in the United States.
In 2014 Laoutides and Mónica Esmeralda León formed the first Latino film studio Ave Fenix Pictures in Chicago and the Midwest. They are also founders of the cinematic approach today coined as La Raza a cinematic style 'La Raza filmmaking' merging performers with non-artists for realism
Laoutides earned recognition for his role, writing and acting in Adios Vaya Con Dios an Official Selection at the 2014 Bel Air Film Festival. In 2016 Laoutides wrote and acted in Arise from Darkness recognized by Screen Rant as one of the "10 Best Supernatural Horror Movies of the Last Decade." In 2017 the Huffington Post praised Laoutides experimental enactments as homage to Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando. Laoutides was named Mogul's Next Generation of Hollywood's Rising Stars for 2019.
In 2022 Laoutides took over the screenplay as lead writer for Where Sweet Dreams Die from the creators of Taxi Driver and American History X.
In 2014 Laoutides and Mónica Esmeralda León formed the first Latino film studio Ave Fenix Pictures in Chicago and the Midwest. They are also founders of the cinematic approach today coined as La Raza a cinematic style 'La Raza filmmaking' merging performers with non-artists for realism
Laoutides earned recognition for his role, writing and acting in Adios Vaya Con Dios an Official Selection at the 2014 Bel Air Film Festival. In 2016 Laoutides wrote and acted in Arise from Darkness recognized by Screen Rant as one of the "10 Best Supernatural Horror Movies of the Last Decade." In 2017 the Huffington Post praised Laoutides experimental enactments as homage to Montgomery Clift and Marlon Brando. Laoutides was named Mogul's Next Generation of Hollywood's Rising Stars for 2019.
In 2022 Laoutides took over the screenplay as lead writer for Where Sweet Dreams Die from the creators of Taxi Driver and American History X.
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