The Zoo Human Project Sets Out To Promote Third Album, First Music Video

With their third album set for December release, The Zoo Human Project is teaming up with Silverlined Entertainment to produce a music video for inclusion in this year's Sacramento Film & Music Fest in July

THE ZOO HUMAN PROJECT (ZHP) is comprised of three friends: Derek Martinez, Jen Cordero, and Kevin Sakamoto. Formed in Los Angeles, they decided to quit their full-time jobs and tour nationally to promote their first album, "Innominata" (released 2006). Much to their delight, they made it back to California with enough cash to fund their second album, "Naissance" (released 2007).

ZHP’s tunes are a frenetic blend of dueling guitars, funky world percussion, and tight three-part harmonies. Sacramento Bee's music critic, Chris Macias, awarded them with SINGLE OF THE WEEK (song "NWT") - while Press Tribune's writer, Nathan Donato-Weinstein, published The Zoo Human Project as one of the CITY’S BEST MUSIC BETS.

While working on their third album, the band is also taking time out to team up with Silverlined Entertainment's Scott Howe to produce their first "official" music video for their single "NWT." Howe has chosen this song for its upbeat celebration of lasting love and hopes to capture the trio's humorous and eclectic style in the process. Click here for more information on The Zoo Human Project.

[Photos of The Zoo Human Project Courtesy of Air B Photography]

 

Ana Feliciano: Widow's "It" Girl

If you don't know her name yet, just wait until you see her performance in Scott Howe's sexy new indie thriller, "Widow."

"It," coined by screenwriter Elinor Glyn to describe silent film actress Clara Bow, is that quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force. In Scott Howe's film Widow, Ana Feliciano is the embodiment of the It-Girl.

Asked how she landed the part in Widow, Feliciano says that the director shared the treatment with her and she thought "it was genius." Director Scott Howe confessed that he'd been sitting on the Widow treatment for ten years. After he had met Feliciano just once, he was compelled to escalate his treatment of Widow into a full-blown script, convinced that he'd finally found the woman who could portray the story's pivotal seductress.

So is Feliciano at all apprehensive about playing a vixen? She pauses for a moment, "That's funny, I guess people perceive me that way because I'm just comfortable with who I am which I feel helps people be themselves around me. Really, I'm just an ordinary and even clumsy individual in real life."

Though her character, Alex, speaks very little thoughout the film, Feliciano makes the most of her screen time. "It'll be a challenge to find ways to communicate my character's feelings," she says, "but I'm excited." Feliciano credits some of her comfort in playing such a character with the director. "The support and faith that Scott has in all of us fuels our performances. He's definitely an actor's director."

Asked if Widow is her most challenging part to date, Feliciano says there have been challenges to every role she has ever played.  "Not once have I worked on a project where I wasn't at some point physically and emotionally exhausted, almost to the point of tears.  I think what is most important is the relationship with the cast and crew... They make me feel like I can move mountains with their faith in my ability but they are also quick to laugh at me which helps keep everything real." 

When asked where she's getting the inspiration for the part of Alex, Feliciano jokes, "From Will Farrell's character in Wedding Crashers." For anyone who knows her, this answer is par for the course. In practice, however, Ana Feliciano is serious about her acting, which shows through in everything she's done.