Story Gardens seeks to elevate and expand how stories are created and experienced in virtual and augmented reality. The think-tank identifies challenges and obstacles immersive is facing and gather experts together to find solutions and pathways forward. Story Gardens is also democratizing immersive technologies globally through educational and apprenticeship initiatives and the development of best practices from industry practitioners and users. Story Garden’s collective is powered and led A-level talent (e.g. creative, business, technical, top innovators) theme park and experience design, location-based entertainment, film, TV, animation, motion capture, photogrammetry, medical, multimodal interaction and mobile-based experiences. The Story Gardens collective consults across industries such as entertainment, education, tourism, medical, architecture, fashion, art, sports, events and real estate. Story Gardens is also in the development of virtual reality films and television series across all formats and genres.Story Gardens, in partnership with the Belize Film Commission, will train filmmakers and technologists in Belize, Central America, and the Caribbean in Virtual and Augmented Reality Production.Story Gardens and The Belize Film Commission have announced Belize’s Entertainment Industry Distance Learning initiative, launching in 2018,where leading Hollywood professionals will teach workshops from LA’s Belize consulate distance learning studio directly to Belize. Topics will include producing virtual and augmented reality, animation, marketing your film and screenwriting.Story Gardens and The Belize Film Commission recently announced their partnership with Final Draft, the world’s premier screenwriting software. This partnership will include screenwriting and Final Draft workshops and the Belize Film Commissioner’s Screenwriter’s Award.

We are a group of highly skilled individuals with experience in a variety of industries. Media Arts & Sciences, Advertising, Business Management, Finance, Education, Software Development, FEC / LBE Theme Park design and construction, X Reality (XR, MR, VR, AR) Immersive Entertainment.

A 9-year-old selectively mute Mayan boy guards a nest of endangered Yellow-Headed Parrots in the pine savannah of Belize. His beloved older brother returns from the city and the boy discovers he's in debt and has turned to poaching - setting the brothers on a collision course.“Yochi” was filmed in the jungle and pine savannah of western Belize by cinematographer Robert Dugan and edited by David Morales. Featuring a full Belizean cast of first time actors, “Yochi” stars Evan Martinez and Kerry Johan Landero who plays the lead, Yochi. Yochi is a US-Belizean co-production between Yochi Film LLC and YoungStarr Entertainment. “Yochi” is a film about connection, finding your voice, and protecting what is most sacred to you,” said Lapid. “Yochi” puts a human face on the global poaching crisis. The film does not judge, but rather encourages dialogue about the underlying social and economic factors that fuel the illegal wildlife trade.” Global populations of endangered Yellow-Headed Parrots have declined over 90% since the 1970s, due to poaching and deforestation. The film was produced by Lapid, Kristi Drexler, Daniel Velazquez, Arran Bevis and Chris Pack, along with a team of US and Belizean filmmakers, under the supervision of Belize Bird Rescue and with the support of the Belize Film Commission, and the Creative Media Institute of New Mexico State University.“Yochi” won Best Short Film at the 2016 Belize International Film Festival and screened globally:- 2018 Las Cruces International Film Festival- 2018 Sedona International Film Festival - 2018 Santa Fe Film Festival- 2017 Barbados Independent Film Festival- 2017 Anchorage International Film Festival - 2017 Central American Film Festival- 2017 Green Screen Environmental Film Festival - 2017 ShortsTV - 2017 CaribbeanTales International Film Festival - 2017 Parrot Education & Adoption, San Diego 2017- 2017 Apertura Showcase of Latin American Cinema- 2016 Belize International Film Festival

World of Wonder Productions

World of Wonder Productions

World of Wonder Productions

World of Wonder Productions

1 Hour TV Movie SpecialNBCUniversal/E!/Eggplant LF

Develop and design multiple television network brands, their respective programming, as well as the delivery systems (platforms such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, internet enabled televisions) required for each network.Advised senior executive team regarding potential clients, investors, business and technology partners, product & brand integration partners, content providers and creators. Presented strategies for expansion and studying the company’s competitors.Conducted intensive research pertaining to channel development, product development, and product distribution.Collaborated with the Development, Production and Programming team in the content development for film, television and new media properties for each media channel's vertical.

Gay Rosenthal Productions

Gay Rosenthal Productions

Gay Rosenthal Productions

Gay Rosenthal Productions

Pilot: Live Action Animation. Greenscreen

Line Producer (Uncredited)Picture This Television

DVD Dance / Fitness Video with Disney Channel talent & music group

Coquette Productions, TBS Television Network

KST Productions

KST Productions