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Interview with the actor and producer Joey Perez, spokesperson for Editions Dedicaces LLC

The French Canadian publishing house, Editions Dedicaces has existed since 2009 in Canada. A branch of the enterprise was formed on April 1 2014 in the State of Delaware, in the form of a Limited Liability Company. The purpose of this new entity is to develop and expand the scope of activities of the publishing house and providing significant expansion into a market with several million people.

Today we take you back to meet a person who has become the spokesman for the publishing house since its creation in Delaware. Joey Perez is an actor and a producer of great talent. He played in theater. He also starred in films and in many commercials in the United States, for companies such as Toyota, Volkswagon, Six Flags and more. He was also the spokesman of McDonald’s restaurants nationwide. But that’s not all! Mr. Perez is a businessman, as he created two new companies: Audio Dollar and Webby Cloud. So, we invite you to read this very interesting interview with Joey Perez:

Hello Joey. You are a professional actor. You have done over 20 national commercials for companies such as Feed the Pig, Six Flags, Volkswagon and Mcdonald’s. Can you talk about that?

It’s my pleasure Guy, first thank you very much for giving me the chance to work with your publishing company, I have to say its been great. I’ve been an actor for most of my life, and I’ve done a lot of national, international commercial and industrial work. So over the years I’ve attended thousands of auditions and casting calls. I started my journing to becoming an actor because I was interested in policitics at a young age believe it or not and I thought one way for people to get to know me, is through doing some movies and tv. Like the Ronald Regan and Arnold Schwarzenegger route, but I’m more involved now with philanthropic activities and that makes me happy. I try to mix things between acting and philanthropy. I also doing some creative work tied into ecommerce businesses.

You also acted in several films and TV shows. Can you tell us about that experience?

I’ve done a lot of short films, and have done a few films growing up but my experience is limited because I was always focused on school, but my favorite film I worked on is The Limey directed by Steven Soderbergh. He directed the oceans 11 movies, Contagion. I also worked with Terence Stamp and Luis Guzman on that film, great guys. When I first met Terence he was a cool guy and I didn’t know he was the original General Zod from Superman with Christopher Reeves. After I realized that, he was all excited to talk to me about that film. It was funny, because He was telling me during the set, where he points the shotgun to his chest and fires it, well the blank on the shotguns actually blew his chest hair off, and they had to glue fake chest hair throughout the rest of the movie. I thought that was funny. After I become an adult I focus on booking more commercial work to make sure I had somewhat of a steady income as an actor. That is how I was able to do a lot of commercial work. I plan to move more towards films and theater now that I’m older.

I was told that you also played in the drama “Murder With Malice” (Sinergia Theater) and “Toro apestoso” (Nosotros Theater). What was the experience for you?

Murder With Malice was a theatre play and it was one of my first plays I did and it taught me a lot about acting and at the time I was in Beverly Hills Studios Acting school too. Nosotros was a great place too, a lot of fellow Latino actors doing great skits. I had a great experience with both theaters and I learned a lot about the acting craft there. I also did bi-lingual version of the plays both in Spanish and English. That was fun and pretty intense because I had double the lines to memorize and its pretty interesting because I remember it was a little different between the version, I don’t know how to describe it but some parts were funny in Spanish and in English they were serious and the crowed reacted differently. Great experience…

You are a member of “Associated Actors & Artists of America” and “Producers Guild of America”. Does it gives you something more in your career? 

Oh yes definately, you see when you start working on bigger projects in an acting career, Screen Actors Guild invites you to join their union, when you work on projects that are “SAG” certified meaning the production company that is hiring the cast promise to pay you on an actor scale, so everytime it shows on TV or in the movies or on netflix or whatever, you get your fair share of residuals, I mean this is only a small part of what the union is good for, they are helpful when it comes to keeping the workplace fair and support aspiriting actors. The same concept applies to the Producers Guild of America, I’m part of the New Media Division that focuses on the internet video production stuff. The PGA is great because they always invite me to different mixers, events, private screeners or events in which we and other producers can get together with some of the biggest and successful producers in the industry. They really help out aspiring producers and support the big famous ones too.

Not only are you an actor, you are also a producer. Can you tell us about your work as a producer?

Sure, one of the things I love to do is help people online get industrial and advertisement videos, so I produce those types of videos. On the indie side, I have a couple of projects, one entitled Delayed Diagnosis, I can’t release too many details of the film, its on IMDB but its not updated, there were some problems with the film and I have to re-cast because of time constraints with some of the production crew and cast, I also ran out of the budget but hopefully I’ll finish it hopefully in a couple of years. I’m also working on a documentary project about aspergers and autism in which I’ve already filmed about 25% of it, it takes a look at the lives of people who are clinically diagnosed and the things  families have figured out to make sure their loved ones suffering from these mental disibilities have a fulfilling live. The documentary is unique in the way it presents itself, we take a close look at “out of the box” care giving techniques that are unique. I hope this documentary can inspire other families with simliar sitatuions that deal with their loved ones.

You have already met the actor Mel Gibson and his girlfriend Nadia Lanfranconi on her birthday party. What was the purpose of this meeting?

Oh yes, haha, when I mentioned that to you I was referring to the documentary and one of the actresses that worked on a segment in the documentary, I just came back from her Birthday party and I have to say she shines no matter where she is at, she is a very talented and bright young lady. She helped very much with the first segment of the documentary with a genetlemen who had aspergers and was stuck in a situation where he needed someone to help him, Nadia offered to help this disabled man. She played a fictional character in a real documentary. I can’t say too much of the documentary but when you see it, you will understand and it will surprise the viewers. While I was at her birthday party I met Mr. Gibson and him and I spoke about aspergers and what medical breakthroughs have been achieved. I’m a fan of his work as well and to my surprise he happened to be there and happen to be Nadia’s boyfriend. He is actually working on some projects in the silmiar genre so we shared a bit of helpful information and he made some suggestions to help in my documentary. Nadia and Mr. Gibson are very involved with helping the disabled community and the progress to find cures for some of these mental dieases. I was very honored to have met him there, and  I can’t say enough that Nadia did a great job in the documentary and truly changed the life of a disbled man but that’s all I can say for now, you have to wait until I finish it.

You told me once that you have a movie project that can be distributed on the web. Can you talk about that?

I can’t talk too much about distribution or media platforms that I plan to do business with because I’m still working out those deals but I can tell you that on some of my smaller projects, I plan on self-distribution and I hope to be able to book my films directly into movie theaters sometime in the future. The internet has made a lot of aspiring filmmakers into well known artists because it connects the filmmakers directly to the public. I believe its also a ripe market for start up producers like me who wish to build a one of a kind distribution platform that is innovative for example like what youtube is doing with their 360 videos. You can actually simulate a movie enviroment you just can’t move but you can turn left, right up or down, imagine if someone made a movie like that, in the movie theaters. Image when you go to the movie theaters and you not only have 1 screen in front of you but 4 all around you, and you can actually turn your head and see the virtual enviroment of that movie… the first place that type of technology is going to show up at, is the internet. If you have an idea, the internet is a place where you can innovate and be one step ahead of the bigger guys who already have a monopoly on media communcations and distribution.

That is one of my goals in the entertainment industry is to cut out the middle man as much as I can because networks, studios and all those who hold a great deal of what you can call power or what not sometimes have to make limited decisions on the things they distribute to the public. The major studio and networks are great when you want something of high budget produced that cost millions and needs a big production crew and studio sets or sound stages but some independents like myself don’t really need those kinds of things or a big studio set to film on. All we need is the brain power and the internet. That is something that amazes me and I’m already doing it myself and I don’t plan on stopping.

For about a year, you are the spokesperson for the publishing house Editions Dedicaces LLC. What pleasure do you have to present books and authors?

Its been a great adventure becoming a spokesperson for Editions Dedicaces LLC. I’ve got to say one of the coolest publishing houses around. Every story I read about either is very inspiring or actually gives me a point of view on something that makes me think about things differently, and that is something I definately like. The founder, Guy Boulianne has been a great director and the scripts are written beautifully. When I present the books through the promotional videos, I can feel it captives the audience for sure. I can see this publishing house is ahead of the game too with the way they market and reach out for public exposure. Having been a business marketing major, I can tell that a lot of work goes into building all the pieces together to get the book read. It’s been a pleasure being a spokesperson for the authors and their wonderful fictional and non-fictional literature.

Are you a person who reads a lot of books? If so, what genre interests you the most? Would you prefer to read books in print or digital format?

I wish I could say I read a lot of books that I would like to indulge in but unfortunately, the only books I actually read are study books and self motiviation or help books at this time. A lot of what I do I do myself or have to instruct a team of young people who are still learning the trade so a lot of my time is given to making sure things are running smoothly or if needed micromanage my team. I always prefer to read in digital format because I believe in saving a life of a tree here or there. Haha. Its true. As I get older, my heart I guess is starting to soften up a bit. I started rasing chickens and have had these two beautiful chickens Betsy and Barbie, you know, to get some organic eggs every now and then and see how it is to have chickens as pets, and I’m starting to feel sorry for eating chicken now. I hope in the future we don’t use trees to make paper, so I opt in for digital all the time. I have a few PDF and ebook readers and I upgrade to the latest ones whenever I can. I love tablets, I have to thank Steve Jobs for perfecting the end user experience that makes it easier for me to use tablets.

You have dual Mexican and US citizenship. You already told me that you want to use the fame and fortune to run for the presidency of the United States or Mexico. Is this is a serious project?

It was and I like to still talk about it haha, especially if I had a few beers, maybe when I’m 85 I’ll run.. haha. I always like to be the first in somethings or like to be a trend setter, so I thought heck, why not try to run two countries, and I would probably be the first person in the world and go down in history as a man who did just that… I am Latino and my mom is from Tijuana and my dad from Hidalgo. From what I understand it isn’t illegal either to technical, I can if I want to. Both contries recognize the dual citizenship. Ask me 20 years from now again, maybe i’ll be more serious about it but for now, its part of a dream.

You currently have two enterprise projects: Audio Dollar and Webby Cloud. What are the objectives of these two companies?

Yes, along with the entertainment industry I plan to establish e-commerce businesses in vertical markets in which I work in and know. Audiodollar.com is great because it ties into my video advertisement and creative production work, its a place where anyone especially those people who do youtube videos, can get royalty free background music for their videos. When I started doing videos way back in the day, late 90’s actually, it was really hard to find background music because as you know you have to pay licenses most of the time for music and every time you play the music you have to pay royalities. Actually its more complicated then that, you actually have to have a system in place to track those plays too, so its not only the music that costs you but the actual logitics, systems you have to set up to make sure you pay the fair share of music royalities to the music artists. Audiodollar.com lets you just sign up, log in, and browse the music you want and need and only pay $1 dollar one time and it comes with unlimited license useage, meaning you can use it as many times as you want and on any of your projects. Artists can sign up too and sell their music for $1 dollar, bands for example can record some of their practice music and just upload it to the site and make money too, so they can make a few extra dollars on their music.

Webbycloud.com is the first solar powered cloud company that offers you a private personal cloud storage for just $5 dollars for life. Its simple and there are no monthly fees, I specifically want a lot of artists to use it because you can access your files from any device over the internet. You also save the enviroment everytime you upload because our servers are powered by solar power with a power line back up from the electrical company. As of this article’s publication date, we have 600 happy customers who are using Webbycloud.com for their storage needs, most are clients who store their video advertisements. As of this moment, its invite only to join Webbycloud and we try our best to provide the best security for a remote cloud storage system. Every account is setup by hand, meaning a person sets it up, and has its seperate URL and log in, we don’t use one single login database, that improves security. My team and I are also working on a device called the “Cloud Vault” which will work like a bank system that holds your money at the bank but this will be your data. I can’t release too many details because there are actually devices we are building that will be patented network devices that increase security measures to give 99.9% security of data stored on one of our servers. I also recently purchased 5 acres of land in Barstow, California to be the new home of the solar power farm for Webbycloud.com, nothing but server buildngs, solar panels and back up system connected to the electrical power grid company.

What is your biggest dream for your future?

My biggest dream is to become like John Conner and fight with the human resistence againts the artificual intellegence robot terminator overlords… no I’m just kidding, I love that movie. I really dream about… I would have to say is to watch my children grow up and build a successful future for themselves and see my great great grandchildren and tell them how when I was a kid we would watch flat television in a big wooden box, had to drive your own car and ate unlimited amounts of sugar and candy without breaking the law.

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Mr. Perez, thank you for answering all our questions and we wish you good luck in all your projects.

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