IMTA Countdown - Week 4

IMTA Tip of the Week

IMTA Competitions give you the opportunity to be seen by Agents, Scouts and Managers from major markets. The Agent Introduction and Overview held on Thursday night is an opportunity for the Agents, Managers, and Casting Directors to see all the Models and Actors one more time. For Overview, you will walk the T with other Contestants in groups and be categorized by age, gender, and whether you are primarily a Model or Actor. Contestants wear a classic black and/or white wardrobe ...so the focus is on you, not your clothing. Agents have told us that they would like to see models with hair pulled back and minimal makeup. They want to see your face, bone structure and complexion. This also means that the agents don't want to be distracted by elaborate styling. A plain white fitted t-shirt paired with black jeans or a black skirt is perfect. Talent, casual clothes are best for you, too. We suggest wearing something that makes you feel confident.

Remember to smile and show your personality!

Model Tip of the Week

"It's all in the Jeans"

The Jeans Competition is a terrific opportunity for you to show your style on the runway. Be sure to wear your favorite pair of blue denim jeans and a fitted T-shirt or tank top. Agents want to see you in jeans - avoid denim skirts or overalls, as it will affect your score. There are so many to choose from such as Gap, Guess, Old Navy, Seven, Express, True Religion, and many more. This is one competition where you will definitely want to flash a mega-watt smile!

Girls - keep your hair and makeup fresh, young and natural.

Check out:  Lucky Magazine's Denim Guide for advice on how to find jeans that flatter every body type.

Talent Tip of the Week

''Screen Test' is a great chance for you to show agents, managers and casting directors your headshot, how you look on-camera and in person! Here's how it works: You'll check in with an IMTA staff member and receive a list of lines. Select the line you can deliver best. Your contestant number will be announced, your headshot will be shown on the screens and then you're on! 

This is the only talent competition that presents you to the judges in person, on screen and in combination with your headshot  simultaneously.  The judges want to see your acting potential so deliver your line as you would in a scene. Do not be over the top.

Tips - Show your personality. There is no need to mimic the original delivery of the line. A fresh approach can be just as impressive. Be yourself and let your winning personality shine!

Makeup Competition / Model Tip of the Week

How quickly and skillfully can you do your makeup? In the Makeup Competition, you are given 15 minutes to apply your makeup. This Competition shows the judges whether you would be able to apply your own makeup if you were on a shoot and the makeup artist didn't show.

For the Makeup Competition, be sure to be bring any makeup supplies and brushes you will need along with a lighted mirror, (we'll have outlets for you to plug them in). Come with a clean face, hair pulled back and a terrific smile! Emphasize your best feature (eyes, lips, etc.) and make the rest of your face a flawless canvas.

To find the colors that work best for you, check out Cover Girl's Color Match.

And don't forget to follow the seasons! For current makeup styles, visitSephora.

Sitcom Competition

The Sitcom Competition is a live competition that demonstrates your acting abilities in front of agents and managers. In the Sitcom Competition, you will act opposite a professional actor or actress. Be sure you understand your scene. Know which lines are funny, and deliver those with a punch. Make your delivery natural and don't over-rehearse. REACT to the other actor's lines. Your expressions in response are just as important as when you are delivering your own lines.

Actor of the Week

Alyson Stoner has starred in projects like Camp Rock, Mike's Super Short Show, and Cheaper By The Dozen. She played the title role in independent film Alice Upside Down, which received rave reviews. Alyson has done it all, including her own "Original Dance Instructional Musical Fitness Revolution" DVD and her own channel on Wii Fit! Alyson first showcased her talent in 2000 at IMTA New York, where she signed with Osbrink Talent Agency. They have helped her in succeeding to where she is today. Some of Alyson's other projects include Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam,Kung Fu Magoo, House M.D., Phineas and Ferb, and Step Up 3D.

Click here to read Alyson's website & blog!

Model of the Week

Marissa Irwin attended IMTA Hooray for Hollywood in 2004 where she found and signed with her manager. She has done numerous print ads and was also featured in a bridal magazine! She has modeled all over the world and has been in magazines such as Seventeen and the cutting-edge magazine Zink.

For more on Marissa and a great listing of her work, check out ThatIMTABlog.com!

IMTA Hall of Fame

Eva Longoria Parker came to IMTA in 1998 where she amazed the judges with her dazzling talent and gorgeous look. She moved to Los Angeles soon after IMTA, and landed spots on 90210 and General Hospital. With her incredible talent, she also joined the cast of The Young and the Restless. In 2004, she became the nation's favorite housewife on Desperate Housewives. Eva wrapped her role as Gabrielle on Desperate Housewives this spring on the final season of Desperate Houewives while still working on feature films such as The Baytown Outlaws, The Truth and Long Time Gone.

To see a complete listing of Eva's projects, click here.

IMTA Alum Travis Winfrey on Single Ladies!

IMTA alum Travis Winfrey's show Single Ladies returns on VH1 for its second season!  Single Ladies is a romantic comedy and it's VH1's first original scripted dramedy series!  Travis plays Omar, the one constant male presence in the lives of the ladies.


After competing at IMTA, Travis has appeared in several exciting projects. He had a supporting role in Beverly Hills Chihuahua and worked with Adrienne Grenier on Last Hours. He guest-starred on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Play the Game, Dexter with IMTA alum Dominic Janes, Hannah Montana with IMTA alum Moises Arias, The Loop, MadTv and Passions.

You can watch 'The Fabric of Our Lives' from Season 2 right here on That IMTA Blog!

Single Ladies (Season 2)

IMTA alum Josilyn in Avant Garde!

Check out these beautiful shots of Josilyn in Avant Garde London magazine!  Josilyn competed at IMTA and now she is modeling for Revolution Management!

IMTA alum Riley Smith on 90210!

IMTA alum Riley Smith has booked a recurring role on 90210 as the love interest for Shenae Grimes' character! Look for Riley on the upcoming fifth season of the hit CW show.

Riley competed at IMTA in 1997 where he won Model of the Year for his age division.  IMTA INSIDER:  Riley was roommates with Ashton Kutcher in New York city, when they were both competing at IMTA that year!  Riley has been working in television and movies ever since.

Riley has appeared in many notable television shows and films such as: Drive, 7th Heaven, Freaks and Geeks, Gideon's Crossing, Boston Public, CSI: Miami, 24, Radio, Eight Legged Freaks, Weapons, and the thriller Gallowwalkers.  He most recently guest-starred on The Closer and The Glades.

IMTA Countdown - Week 3!

Model Tip of the Week

Get your hair in gorgeous condition! Find the products that work best on your hair and remember salon products may cost about the same as drugstore products because you can use so much less. Be sure to ask your Director before you make any significant changes to your hair such as a shorter style, or highlights. Your Director will want you to look like your photos and comp card so dramatic changes are not a good idea. The Agents at the IMTA Convention will want you to have healthy, beautiful, shiny hair.

For some hair style tips from Marie Claire, click here.

Runway/Fashion Print

Let's focus on Runway/Fashion Print. The way you walk is one of the most important factors in presenting yourself in the Runway Competition. Be sure to select shoes that you can walk in. It's good to show some personality -- and the judges love a great smile! As you practice and refine your walk, focus on moving smoothly and confidently. Wardrobe selection should not deter from your walk - choose an outfit you feel great in. Guys, make sure you walk naturally too. You may want to use creative imagery and envision yourself on the Runway at IMTA, walking beautifully with elegance and grace. Remember, your three fashion print shots will be projected onto screens and monitors just before you walk the T. Agents love seeing how you look in print as well as your potential on the runway.

To see some great examples of runway walks from the Spring 2012 Collections, click here and select your favorite designer's show.

Talent Tip of the Week

Have you ever noticed how your first impression lasts the longest? It's that way for the agents, managers and casting directors at IMTA too! So when you take the stage or the mic for your performance at IMTA, be in character and in the moment. In fact, as soon as you walk in the room, you may have attracted an agent's attention. Whether you are on stage, in the elevators or in a meeting room, be professional, friendly and upbeat. You never know when you'll be noticed!

Having a great stage presence has a lot to do with how prepared you are. Rehearse enough so that you feel comfortable with your lines but don't over rehearse. Smile; you're on!

Break a leg!

Competition Tip of the Week

Get ready for your TV Commercial Competitions. When performing your Commercial, remember that you are selling a product. Make your product sound like it's the best ever! Make your delivery fresh and stick to the script. Judges are looking for personality, projection and believability.

You can practice your commercial in front of a mirror. On your competition day, make sure you are not wearing distracting jewelry or hair clips. The judges will want to see your eyes so if you have long bangs, make sure they are off of your face. Wear a solid color shirt (stay away from white). Prints and striped materials usually don't show up as well on-camera.

The best part of an IMTA Commercial Competition? It may be about a product but you are really promoting yourself as a talent! IMTA alum Eva Longoria is pictured above performing her IMTA TV Commercial Competition.

Actor of the Week

Raini Rodriguez has been in numerous feature films and television series since attending IMTA in 2005. Raini's television projects include The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Parker, I'm in the Band, andTrue Jackson, VP. Most recently, Raini starred in the Disney hit movie Prom! She is currently working on two new projects titled See If I Care and Austin & Ally.

Model of the Week

Zhanna competed at IMTA in 2003 and signed with IMG. Zhanna has appeared in tons of fashion magazines including Nylon, Teen Vogue and Jane. She has also modeled in many designer fashion shows including Genart, Daryl K and Michael Soheil.

In an exclusive IMTA interview with Zhanna, when asked about what she learned at IMTA that helped her in her career, Zhanna replied, "EVERYTHING, How to walk, how to pose, how to talk to clients, how to portray myself as a professional model and as a professional woman."

IMTA Hall of Fame

Ashton Kutcher plays Walden Schmidt on the hit CBS comedy Two and a Half Men.  He has worked with several IMTA Alumni in the movies Valentine's Day with Jessica Biel, Bobby with Elijah Wood, in Cheaper by the Dozen with Alyson Stoner and in Dude, Where's My Car? with yet another IMTA alum, Seann William Scott.  He also starred in the film New Year's Eve with fellow IMTA alumni, Jessica Biel and Josh Duhamel. He has starred in many popular films including No Strings Attached, What Happens in Vegas, The Butterfly Effect, and The Guardian. Kutcher is currently working on the film Jobs  about the life of Steve Jobs. 

Ashton competed IMTA in 1997, and received so many callbacks, he won Most Sought After Male Model of the Year! He signed with a modeling agency and walked the runways for top designers in the fashion industry. He soon was cast as Kelso on That 70's Show. He has become a successful producer (Punk'd, Miss Guided) as well as a Hollywood A-List actor. Alongside his acting achievements, Ashton was also the first person to have 1 million followers on Twitter! Follow him at Twitter.com/aplusk for daily updates in the life of Ashton.

IMTA Alum Brandon Routh for Bello Magazine!

IMTA alum Brandon Routh will be featured in the Summer Fashion Issue of Bello Magazine!  It will be available first on the Apple Newsstand.  The shot above is a behind-the-scenes sneak peek.

Brandon Routh competed at IMTA during the New York, New York 1999 Convention. He was on the IMTA stage for Swimwear, Team Fashion, Runway and in acting competitions. IMTA insider scoop...he was known as BJ Routh then!

IMTA alum Tatiana Owens featured in a new single!

The single Dolce DJ by Dave Matthias featuring Tatiana Owens is out today! This version plus all the remixes are available on iTunes!  Tatiana competed at IMTA in 2007 where she won Singing Junior, Honorable Mention for Cold Read and Ready for My Closeup. Both MTV and VH1 have featured her songs on many of their shows. One of her songs was featured in MTV's The Hills!

Tatiana has performed at the mid-western jazz festivals, including the Tatum O'Neil Jazz Festival and the Old West End Festival. Her regional stage credits include Rent, Hot Mikado, 42nd Street, Annie, All Shook Up and The Wiz.

IMTA Insider Info: Tatiana performed her track Boy Watcher to a standing ovation to a packed house of fans at the final day of the IMTA competition in New York City last year!

IMTA alum Ashley Greene nominated for Teen Choice Award

The 2012 Teen Choice Award Nominations are in! IMTA alum Ashley Greene's film The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 has several nominations and Ashley herself is nominated for Choice Movie Scene Stealer: Female!

Ashley is an alum of the International Modeling and Talent Association Convention. She competed at IMTA in 2004, when she said,"I'm so thankful I got the opportunity to be here at IMTA because there are so many people and so many opportunities. I want to come back to IMTA even if do I make something big of it. I definitely want to come back, it was a lot of fun!"

Mila Kunis - "Ted" Photocall

Mila Kunis - "Ted" Photocall/Photoshoot

IMTA Countdown - Week 2!

Model Tip of the Week

Are you ready for the Swimwear Competition? Do you have a great swimsuit that flatters your figure? Is your body in top form? The agents want to see fit, healthy bodies so be sure you are working out, eating healthy and in great shape.

Get to it!!! There's still time

to get in better shape!

For exercise demonstrations and tips, click here.

Talent Tip of the Week

Did you enter the Cold Read Competition? For some talent contestants, this is the Competition that makes them the most nervous. Relax! Your Cold Read does not need to be memorized. You'll need to glance at your script and pick up as much of the line as possible. This will enable you to have eye contact with the professional actor you'll be reading opposite. Show your reactions with your facial expressions as you listen to the other actor read his/her lines.

Actor of the Week

Ready, Set, Hike! Get pumped for this week's IMTA alum, Adrienne Palicki who is best known for her starring role in the hit television series, Friday Night Lights. Adrianne portrayed Tyra Collette, a small town girl that intertwines in the small town drama. The cast has also included fellow IMTA alumi, Zach Roerig and Jeremy Sumpter. Adrianne will appear in the feature films Red Dawn and is filming G.I Joe 2: Retaliation! Adrianne was recently named on the Top Ten list for Maxim Magazine!

In 2001, Adrianne competed at IMTA. "It was amazing. I love IMTA! I'm so sad it's over," said Adrianne in an interview with the IMTA Video Crew. Since IMTA, Adrianne has been working on the sets of television shows, major motion pictures and on Broadway!

Model of the Week

Sean Harju competed at IMTA in 2006 and was the 1st runner up for Male Model of the Year. He has worked for Dolce & Gabbana, Donatella Versace, Thome Brown, Karl Lagerfeld and Narciso Rodriguez. He has also been featured in the magazines Zero,Surface, and German and Taiwan GQ. Sean was in numerous shows during New York's fashion week as well as the very prestigious Calvin Klein's Milan show! He did Blanco's 2011 Christmas campaign as well as the German magazine Kult.

Want to know more about Sean?Click here to read That IMTA Blog's updates on his work.

IMTA Hall of Fame

Jessica Biel rose to fame for her role as Mary Camden on Seventh Heaven. Since she attended IMTA in 1994, she has been continuously on the television and big screen. With films such as The Illusionist, I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry, and Next... there isn't a role Jessica can't take on!

It won't be long before Jessica hits the theater screens near you starring in the films Hitchcock, The Tall Man, The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Total Recall and Playing the Field, all due for release in the upcoming year.

To find out more about Jessica's latest films and more, click here to visit her IMDB page.

IMTA alum Elijah Wood on the cover of Nuvo!

The Summer 2012 issue of Nuvo magazine features IMTA alum Elijah Wood on the cover!   According to Nuvo's press release,"Wood discusses his upcoming projects in the summer 2012 issue of NUVO, on newsstands May 28."

Elijah got his start at IMTA in 1989 when he caught the eye of the famed superagent Al Onorato. He moved from Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Los Angeles and booked his first roles in Paula Abdul's memorable video Straight Up and the feature film Back to the Future Part II. Elijah has starred in films such as 9, Happy Feet, The Romantics with fellow IMTA alums Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel, and more than 40 feature films in his career and is one of Hollywood's (and IMTA's!) most-loved actors! His television series Wilfred will return on FX on June 21st for the second season premiere.

IMTA Alumni in the feature film Captured!

Brittany Curran from Captured

Two IMTA Alumni are starring in the feature film Captured!  Brittany Curran and Christian Monzon!  IMDB describes the plot as, "A weekend getaway to shoot a music video turns into a nightmare for a rock'n roll band when they become the crazed obsession of an escaped convict."

Christian Monzon from Captured

Brittany competed at IMTA and signed with Diane Hardin and Judy Savage. She has had several guest spots on such popular television shows as Shark, The Young and the Restless, Drake and Josh, Power Rangers and Mad TV. Her movie roles include Akeelah and the Bee which also stars another IMTA alum Sara Niemietz . Brittany has also been in various print ads including KFC, Kraft Post Cereal, AT & T, Suave and Chevy. She starred in two seasons of Men of a Certain Age playing Ray Romano's daughter Lucy.
Christian competed at IMTA in 1998.  Christian was a very successful male model who has done numerous campaigns and appeared on runways for H & M, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, Krizzia Uomo, EXTE, Nautica, Sean John and Fubu. In addition, Christian has had roles on television in such series as Entourage, Law & Order: SVU, Crossing Jordan, The Closer, CSI: NY and CSI: Miami, and in the feature film If I Had Known I was a Genius.

For more about Captured, please like the official facebook page!

IMTA Alum Tiffany Thornton is Guest Celebrity Blogger!

IMTA alum and Disney's So Random star Tiffany Thornton is the guest blogger for Celebrity Baby Scoop!  She is sharing her pregnancy experiences and tips for Moms-to-be on the popular parenting blog.

Tiffany competed at IMTA in 2003 where she met her manager and began acting in television shows such as Quintuplets, 8 Simple Rules, American Dreams, The O.C., Desperate Housewives, and Jericho. Tiffany has also appeared on the Disney shows That's So Raven, Wizards of Waverly Place, Hannah Montana and the Disney movie Hatching Pete!  Tiffany recently starred in HBO's Game Change.

You can watch Tiffany discuss her IMTA experience right here on That IMTA Blog!

IMTA alum Brandon Routh meets with President Obama!

Brandon Routh and President Obama

IMTA alum Brandon Routh was invited to meet with President Obama for a very special gathering of two dozen of Hollywood's hottest stars!  President Obama spoke to the stars at a private breakfast meeting at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA.

Brandon Routh competed at IMTA during the New York, New York 1999 Convention. He was on the IMTA stage for Swimwear, Team Fashion, Runway and in acting competitions. IMTA insider scoop...he was known as BJ Routh then!


He had been scouted by Patrick Baca, who encouraged him to compete at IMTA. Brandon got lots of face time with the agents, managers and casting directors and ended up moving to Los Angeles. He signed with Mara Santino and Ryan Daly who both were at Kazarian/Spencer & Associates at that time. Routh was chosen for the role of Superman following an exhaustive search that spanned the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Thousands of candidates were interviewed before the final selection was made.

Prior to his worldwide starring role as "the Man of Steel", Routh was best known for his soap work, including roles on One Life to Live and the MTV nighttime soap, Undressed. He's also had guest-starring roles on Cold Case, Will & Grace, and Gilmore Girls.  He's also starred in Chuck, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Crooked Arrows.

IMTA Countdown - Week One!

IMTA Countdown - Week One!
The IMTA Countdown has officially begun! Today and every Friday for the next five weeks counting down to the Convention, That IMTA Blog will feature hints and tips and feature stars who got their start with IMTA to help you make the most of your IMTA Convention experience! We are excited for you to join us in counting down for the Event of a Lifetime together!

Model Tip of the Week
Makeup artists are always emphasizing the importance of "a perfect canvas" for makeup. Do you have a good skin care routine? Find out what products work best for you and use them regularly. The modeling agents at IMTA will want your skin to look beautiful and for you to wear very little makeup.

For great skin care advice, click here or here.

Talent Tip of the Week
Headshots are a black and white or full color shot of your face or ¾ length vertical shot that should look like you. Casting Directors use headshots to choose talent who have the potential to work in their projects. For that reason, it is very important that your headshots look exactly like you -- not glamorized, airbrushed, etc. Therefore, your headshots for the IMTA Theatrical Headshots Competition should be natural and styling should be simple.

Zach Roerig

Actor of the Week
Our featured Actor of the Week is Zach Roerig, who stars on the television-thriller-series The Vampire Diaries. Zach Roerig performs on the hit show as Matt Donovan, Elena's former boyfriend. He's also known for his roles on Friday Night Lights and One Life to Live. You can watch Zach anytime in The Vampire Diaries on CWTV.com!

Zach attended IMTA in 2003 at the Los Angeles Convention where he met his manager.

Emma Ostilly

Model of the Week
IMTA alum Emma Ostilly has modeled for Abercrombie and Fitch, Victoria's Secret and Sports Illustrated.  When she competed at IMTA in 2009, she won 1st runner up for Model of the Year and signed with Wilhelmina and Elite.  She was also chosen by Elite Paris to represent North America in the Elite Model Look World Contest.

Ashley Greene

IMTA Hall of Fame
Ashley Greene competed at IMTA in 2004! Ashley made connections at IMTA where she was able to move to Los Angeles and become a working actress! Ashley first appeared on MADtv and Crossing Jordan before starring in the movie King of California. Soon after, Ashley was cast as Alice Cullen in the hit vampire saga Twilight. Alongside her role as a vampire, Ashley has also starred in Skateland, Butter, and Radio Free Albemuth. Ashley also starred in  LOL and The Apparition and will be seen in the final movie of the Twilight series,Breaking Dawn: Part 2.

For more on IMTA, like us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/IMTAModelsandActors!

You can also follow us on Twitter, at Twitter.com/IMTA!

IMTA Alum Ashley Greene at the 2012 CMT Awards!

Ashley Greene recently walked the red carpet for the 2012 CMT Awards in Nashville and she is getting rave reviews for her gorgeous glamorous style!
Ashley stars as Alice Cullen in the hit films of the Twilight series.  For the fourth year in a row, the latest installment took home the Best Movie Award!  Breaking Dawn-Part 1 won the top prize recently at the MTV Movie Awards and Jodi Foster handed over the trophy!

Ashley competed at IMTA in 2004, when she said,"I'm so thankful I got the opportunity to be here at IMTA because there are so many people and so many opportunities. I want to come back to IMTA even if do I make something big of it. I definitely want to come back, it was a lot of fun!"

For more information about IMTA, please visit our official site!

i2 Model & Talent Search!

I2 Model & Talent Search
Win a Cruise to Belize!!!
IMD is looking for fresh faces
June 21st @ 5pm

1257 N. Riverside Drive Suite 10
Medford, OR. 97501
541-858-8158
hollie@imdmodeling.com

Looking for Models, Actors, Singers & Dancers
Please come with minimal makeup!!
For more information on the i2 Discovery Cruise (an IMTA production), please visit our official site.

IMTA NY 2012 Search!

Network International Models and Talent is holding its last private IMTA NY 2012 search the week of June 4th & June 11th, 2012 in Beverly Hills, CA.

We are looking for actors, models, singers and dancers. - All ages & types.

Submit your information to: talent@network-models.com or Call 310-855-0166;
Visit us on Facebook at Network International Models & Talent 
Visi our website: network-models.com

Schedule your audition time.
Search is on-going for NY 2012.

Be our next star discovered at IMTA!

IMTA Press Release- Greater Glory Eva Longoria!

IMTA ALUM EVA LONGORIA LOOKS FOR GREATER GLORY
IMTA Press Release
May 31, 2012, 2012

For Greater Glory opens nationwide in the U.S. on Friday, June 1

For centuries, wars all around the world have been fought because of religious persecution. In Mexico in the 1920s, one such war took place after the Catholic Church was outlawed, Catholic churches, schools, seminaries and convents were shut down, and Catholics faced unrelenting oppression. Rebels against the government crackdown—known as Cristeros—at first resisted peacefully, but were eventually forced to take up arms in what became a full-blown revolutionary uprising against the government. La Cristiada, as the Cristero War was known in Mexico, lasted for three years and claimed nearly 90,000 lives until it was ended by diplomatic means.

With the true events of La Cristiada as the background, the story of one particular
group of the Cristeros who risk everything for their faith comes to life in the action epic For Greater Glory. The film stars Andy Garcia as General Gorostieta, a retired military man who becomes the resistance’s leader facing impossible odds against a ruthless government, and LA98 IMTA alum Eva Longoria as his devoted wife, Tulita. “The government tried to outlaw religion, priests were hung,” said Longoria. “It was a terrible time in Mexican history.” Peter O’Toole, Oscar Isaac, Ruben Blades, Bruce
Greenwood, Nestor Carbonell and Bruce McGill also star in the film, which premiered in Mexico on April 20 to excellent reviews.
With “Desperate Housewives” now ended, Longoria is concentrating on several
upcoming feature film projects. Following the opening of For Greater Glory, another film scheduled for release in August of this year is The Baytown Disco, an action crime comedy in which she stars opposite Billy Bob Thornton as a woman trying to save her son from his abusive father. In the film, she recruits three redneck brothers to help her, but they all become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters Thornton has hired to do his dirty work, one of which is fellow IMTA alum Agnes Bruckner (LA95) in the role of Mona.
Longoria teams up with Andy Garcia again in The Truth, an action thriller about a former CIA operative-turned-politician talk show host who is hired by a corporate whistleblower to expose her company’s cover up of massacre in a South American village. The film, which was filmed in Ontario, Canada and the Dominican Republic, is tentatively scheduled for a 2012 release but has no specific date set.
Also in the works is Long Time Gone, a drama about a broken family that must cope when a man leaves his wife for another woman. Longoria stars alongside Anthony LaPaglia, Virginia Madsen, Amanda Crew, Zach Guilford and fellow IMTA alum Graham Rogers (NY09). The film is in post- production with no release date scheduled.

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IMTA alum Katie Holmes on the cover Hungarian Marie Claire!

IMTA Alum Katie Holmes is on the cover of Marie Claire!  It's the Hungarian February 2012 edition!  Katie competed at IMTA twice, in 1993 and 1995. She returned a couple of years later to present awards at IMTA and debuted the first fifteen minutes of the pilot episode of Dawson's Creek. The entire ballroom was riveted by this ground-breaking stylish teen drama and Katie received thunderous applause! On that special night, she gave us a very nice interview saying:

"Let's just say a girl from Toledo, Ohio wouldn't end up cast

in a Hollywood movie if it weren't for IMTA!"

You can read a darling letter from Katie Holmes from the IMTA Archives  right here exclusively on THAT IMTA BLOG!

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IMTA Spotlights...

Feature Film and Television Star

Katie Holmes...

Katie Holmes attended the IMTA New York Convention in July '95. She signed with Onorato/Guillod Entertainment and was cast in the Ang Lee feature film, The Ice Storm with Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver and IMTA discovery Elijah Woods, which is slated for a summer release. Katie has recently been cast in the lead role in a new television series "Dawson's Creek" which will air this fall. We have just received the following letter from her and felt it was so incredible that we wanted to share it:

"For years I have spent some time sitting in front of the television from 7:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. listening intently to John Tesh and Mary Hart inform me about which star was filming what new movie, who was dating who, and who was the rising new actor or actress. Hollywood and its numerous success stories seemed extremely far away and definitely from a world that I would never come into contact with.

On July 23, 1995 my life changed. This particular Sunday evening, I found myself in the New York Hilton for the International Modeling and Talent Association Convention. I was sitting in one of the ballrooms reciting a monologue in front of about 50 other contestants, as well as Al Onorato, David Guillod and Bobby Moresco, the men who were conducting this seminar on "Prepare to Compete. After I had finished, Al and Bobby offered some direction and had me alter it a little. I used my nervous anxiety to help me become more intense and, following my second performance, I felt elated. It was clear to me that something very special occurred in that ballroom that evening.

About six months later, I found myself in the Los Angeles office of Al Onorato, rehearsing an audition piece for the Ang Lee film The Ice Storm. David, Al and Bobby had become my business managers following that memorable convention and encouraged me to audition in Los Angeles during the 6-week pilot season. Instead of viewing Hollywood on my T.V., I was there. Being in that untouchable world, experiencing the life of a beginning actress, was surreal. Suddenly this strange path of life seemed so normal. I love it.

My experience grew even more unbelievable. On May 21, 1996 I found myself in a trailer on Park Avenue in New York City, getting my hair and make-up done in order to transform myself into a teenager from 1973. I was anxiously waiting to begin filming The Ice Storm. Suddenly, I was part of Hollywood. I was then inside the walls of the business instead of remaining a curious outsider gazing in, struggling to discover what exactly takes place on the inside. I found myself chatting with actors whom I had read about for several years. After receiving directions by the highly acclaimed Hollywood director, Ang Lee, and talking to Kevin Kline for a substantial amount of time, it was time to begin becoming a professional actress.

My rather eventful and definitely memorable year provided me with such valuable life-long lessons that will forever remain a part of me. Fortunately, I was able to work with extremely focused, conscientious people who are completely unconcerned with the Hollywood myth. They work hard at their jobs and then retreat home to their families. I discovered that the Hollywood portrayed on Entertainment Tonight of exciting parties, premieres, galas, etc. is a distortion. The Hollywood I came into contact with is one of extremely talented people who spend their time participating in acting workshops, auditions, films, etc. in order to perfect their craft. The highly respected actors and directors are solely concerned with their work and concentrate on ways to improve. Although "Tinsletown" continues to be a mystery to all and several have benefited from the fortunate fate that seems to occur only in Hollywood, it remains to be true that even in Hollywood, those who diligently work hard are the people who achieve true and long-lasting success."