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Recent Press: LA WEEKLY:Chasing the Party Van: From RVIP to Gawker to Facebook - SxSW Parties HOUSTON PRESS: SXSW Games and Girls: ScreenBurn Arcade, Facebook Party, RVIP Lounge What's Really Hood: "Fresh indie jams from his Orchestra" LA TIMES Cover, Print Edition ( PDF)- "Fest Train Rollin'" (Kestrin en route to perform at Coachella) Lucky Magazine, for Tribute METROMIX (PDF)-- "The RVIP Lounge: Organizer Kestrin Pantera may be one of our favorite humans ever" LA TIMES Article (PDF)--"The RVIP Lounge: The Funnest (and Wierdest) Way to Get Around SXSW" XLR8R Magazine (PDF)--"SXSW Interactive: Nerds Gone Wild" Paper Magazine (PDF)-- "The 100 Most Interesting Faces in Los Angeles" STREETPEEPER.COM--(PDF)- "Right now on the Streets of Los Angeles: Kestrin @ LA Film Festival" LAIST.COM--(PDF)-- "Hop on RVIP Lounge at LAFF This Weekend" Laughing Squid (PDF)--"RVIP Lounge & Karaoke Cabaret at SXSW Interactive 2008" Yahoo News/E! Online (PDF) --"Beck Down with "The O.C."- Guero Album Release Virgin Magazine (PDF)-- "Vigorous Benefit Rocks LA..." "...another unforgettable moment" Coachella.com--Adam Freeland at Coachella Indieexpress.com--"Stars and Suns" and "Expired" reviews Cinevegas.com--"Stars and Suns" featured interview New York Magazine --"Expired" review PlanetGreen.com--Home of "Alter Eco" Indie Music 101 (PDF)-- Cary Brothers Tour Facebook has taken over the timeline updates below-- we should be friends: facebook.com/kestrin 2010 Highlights: MTV Canada live national television performance RVIP Lounge video & write-up in the Wall Street Journal Filming feature films "The Golden Age" and "Bonjour Nosveratus" Film short films "Wunderpalms" and "iPhone" Go to Grammy's, best night ever SXSW Panel Presentation K's wedding! also featured on front page of style section of NY Times 2009 Highlights: Join the team of Nickelodeon's "Ni Hao Kai Lan" perform with Soko & Daniel Johnston at the Henry Fonda Theater tour with Soko & Adrian Grenier's The Honey Brothers Master & record his Orchestra's record, "Field Guide to the Wilds", Billboard magazine write-up RVIP's SXSW LA Weekly and Houston Press Coverage shoot Hyundai, Allstate, Home Depot, Comcast, United Health commercials shoot Taryn Manning's "Boomkat" video & his Orchestra "Black Coffin" video, anti-piracy video shoot Perform in 10 Cent Night at Victory Theatre Second Company Begin filming 2 independent feature films, "The Golden Age" and "Bonjour Nosveratus" 2008 Highights Continued: Film "Operation Ugly Beauty" Pilot & episodes with Sarah Carter & Causecast.org Record record with Sarah Carter in Montreal Guest Star in an episode of "Rita Rocks", whose story revolves around a cellist named "Kestrin" Shoot Xbox spot with Burt Reynolds & Axe body spray commercial Live appearance playing cello with Weezer Fundraisers for Barack Obama, perform opening for Colin Hay & Jackson Browne Radio play of K's recording on Rob Dickinson's new tunes, trip to sweden RVIP Lounge launches maiden voyages & LA Times Coverage "Stars and Suns" wins at Malibu Film Festival, Kestrin appears in several episodes of Adrian Grenier's "Alter Eco" TV show, K executinve produces "Artists in Support of the Climb Against the Odds" Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser (with Sarah Carter, Jaime Pressly, and a celebrity host committee, raising $30,000 in support of cancer research), 2008- New York Magazine writeup of "Expired", film gets accepted at Cannes Film Festival Kestrin's photo on the front page of LA Times 12/07- KP2 Productions Rentals launches. His Orchestra's first show. Begin regularly posting on KESTRIN'S BLOG 11/07-Writer's Strike, His Orchestra Recording, KP2 gets a Winnie Award 10/07- Shoot "Sub-Urban Dating", His Orchestra Recording 9/07- Bordeaux & Tribute Fashion Shoots 8/07- Play 15,000 seat Amphitheatre at Jones Beach, New York, with The Fray 8/07- Shoot a series of T-Mobile Commercials, with director Matt Aselton 6/07- Shoot independent films "Stars and Sun", "2+2", and "Test Shot Starfish". Star in the play, "The Man of Infinite Sadness". Model for Bordeaux and Tribute fashion shoots. Acoustic recording session at Sony Connect 5/07- Cary Brothers/Brandi Carlile tour. Read the REVIEW! 4/07- "Expired" accepted to Cannes Film Festival, begin the Cary Brothers/Brandi Carlile tour 3/07- Perform at south by southwest with Ian Moore, solo, and see Cary Brothers rawk, among others. Photo published in Venice magazine. 2/07- Publish "Genghis Kahn". This month: "Shugar Shank" DVD release party, photo published in Paper mag's "most interesting faces in LA" issue. 1/07- "Expired" premieres at SUNDANCE! Commercial work! Marathoners! 12/06- Commercial work. More Marathoners stuff... (this is taking a long time.) 11/06- Shoot "..and you Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead" video (Interscope), directed by Cat Solen, of prestigous Partizan Films. Shoot "Marathoners" pick-ups. 10/06-Shoot hilarious SuperCuts commercial, directed by Matt Aselton. Pre-produce "Marathoners" pick-ups. Form "KP2 Productions, LLC", Kestrin's independent production company. 9/06- "Marathoners" short in post-production, photograph with Dana Patrick, meetings for "Marathoners" feature 8/06- Kestrin directs first small commercial spot, for "the m-80 microlight laser" 7/06- "Marathoners" short Principal Photography 5/06-"Marathoners" heads to the Bay to Breakers race in San Francisco to film. 4/06- "The Betrothed", is extended through 4/31, in response to rave reviews. Trigger Pictures, L.L.C. gets 2 new projects. 3/06- Films in first national commercial, by HAPPY, of Smuggler 3/06-The LA Times and Backstage West love "The Betrothed". Kestrin is described as "magnificently radiant". 3/06-K films with Academy Award winner Samantha Morton in "Expired" & joins the Screen Actors Guild 2-3/06- Trigger Pictures, L.L.C. is licensed. First project, "Marathoners", is cast. We've begun the hilarious rehearsal process. 1/06- Films 3 Doors Down video (Universal Records), New York trip. Begin the shows "The Betrothed" and "Lonesome Town" 12/05- MTV Article about the new Strokes video, "Juicebox", by Michael Palmieri. 10/05- Presides as Reverend Pantera at Sheridyn and Brody's wedding. Films in a Strokes video. 9-11/05-pre-filming-&-post production of Kestrin's film, "Embrace Insanity" 7/05- Kestrin, aka "Susan" comes to life in the feature film "Intellectual Property". 6/05-In China. Sees Tienanmen Square, Mao's dead body, the Great Wall of China, practices Mandarin, films "Embrace Insanity", & learns on the set of "D.O.A." 5/05-film "Shugar Shank" Beck's "Black Tambourine" video, with Kestrin dancing nominated for a 2005 MVPA award. Articles -Virgin Records reviews her performance at a benefit concert. -E!Online, and Yahoo News mentions (for her dancing with Beck) |
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