Carla Lopez(I)

Carla was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Due to her energetic and vivacious personality, at the tender age of two, in her country she started working on the small screen in commercials and public announcements. As an adolescent she started studying Ballet and Modern Dance in the Opera Theater in Maracay. Standing out as a dancer and choreographer. She moved to Caracas entering in the Universidad Central de Venezuela, graduating in the Performing Arts. She worked as professional model, and debuted as an actress on Martes Television, where she participated in successful Soap Operas. She is a fiction and documentary film producer, actress, director and former producer and talent of Sierra Alta Entertainment Group. Enterprise directed by Miguel Sierralta. There she performs the task of producer and host of the show Salsa Review, which gave her popularity and international recognition. Throughout the past 20 years, Carla has remained passionately devoted to educating about veganism, animal rights and cultural issues. She speaks fluent Spanish and English. In 2006 she created Carla Projects Entertainment, production and post-production company that develops independent and corporate projects. She returns to her career as an actress, participating in theater productions in Miami, together with the Sociedad Actoral Hispanoamericana. She takes intensive acting workshops with the filmmaker Ika Santamaria, and collaborates in her latest cinematographic production FLEA market finish LINE and played the lead role on the film Justicia Ciega by Mercedes Christian and Jhonny Obando. Carla is presently working on Voices from the Abyss her first documentary film produced by her company. Carla became inspired to make Voices from the Abyss years ago following several encounters with vegan activists like herself during a series of demonstrations against the Circus and Vivisection Centers in Miami. She hopes Voices from the Abyss will offer the rest of the world an opportunity to experience how veganism and respect for all animals will bring more needed change to the world.