JDelgado Media
Today we’d like to introduce you to Alexandra Bello.
Alexandra, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I was born in 1985 to a Ballet Teacher “Miriam Bello” and a Book Author “Cecilio Diaz” in the heart of Dominican Republic. I started in the Theater and Ballet business when I was 7 years old. I started my training in Ballet, Piano, Chorus, Musical reading and Jazz at the age of 7 along with English classes. By the age of 9, I was the lead in a musical called “The Green Little Worm” presented in Fine Arts Dominican Republic. Violin training started when I was 11 and I joined Barbizon when I turned 14 years old. My Ballet career and Musical career had to share a space with my new modeling career, which allowed me to get into Television almost right away, at a weekly kid’s show called “Corporan’s Little Saturday” airing every Saturday morning from 7 AM until 11 and transmitting throughout the entire Caribbean and Central America, in addition to some South American countries via Channel 9.
From the Television career, I was introduced to Beauty pageants and had the opportunity to represent the Dominican Republic in Miss Teen International 2000. Television, Ballet, Music, and Modeling continued until each career became too demanding to the point that I was forced to chose my path. At the age of 18, I started Law School and only had time for Music and Beauty pageants. At the age of 19, I participated in Dominican Republic Miss World as Distrito Nacional, which aired as a reality show on channel 7. At almost 20 years old my life had become about Law School and Beauty pageants only. When I turned 23 and almost finishing my Bachelor’s Degree in Law, I was crowned as Miss Atlantic International 2008 in Uruguay. Such accomplishment took me to travel the world and do a lot of networking. It was in an International Film Festival called Ischia Film Festival, where I made the decision to move to the United States without even finishing my remaining classes for my Law degree and pursue acting and Television Production. I moved to South Florida in 2008 and started working in the Restaurant business while getting accustomed to the North American lifestyle.
In 2009, I had enough money to attend Miami Film School and in 2010, I started my Associate’s Degree in Video Production at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. I graduated in 2012 and went back to the Dominican Republic to finish my Law degree and by the summer of 2014, I was an accredited lawyer. In that same year, I founded a local private screening for south Florida filmmakers, called Film Carpet. Film Carpet has been running consistently three times a year since then. I am currently an independent film producer based out of South Florida and working under my company Alexandra Bello Productions, LLC. I have worked on over 30 film productions and some of my Company’s productions include “Consent”, “Meet My Mother”, “Artistic Times Radio”, “Artistic Times”, “We are here” and “WOW TV Show”. I have a partnership with various organizations in South Florida, that promote art and culture, such as Miami Web Fest, Miami 48 Hour Film Project, FLIFF, Ashanti Cultural Arts, The Florida Table and Film Carpet.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
Several struggles, but I barely remember, I focus so much on the productive aspects of my life and can never get enough productivity that I forget to store and quantify the struggles I faced through the path.
I really can’t mention anything right now other than, I moved here with no money from the Dominican Republic, nobody knew who I was and then I started making some money, friends and got a career for myself.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
My company focuses on partnering up with cultural organizations to develop networking events or art festivals and help the community, also focuses on partnering up with artists to promote their stories and values and operates as a regular production company to service audio visual clients with their needs. I think there are a lot of strong production companies out there doing exactly what I’m doing, but our uniqueness is the people we serve. One company can’t serve everybody but we can all serve a portion of society and make sure that everyone is touched by the stories we produced and by our services.
What were you like growing up?
I was very interested in knowledge, science, facts, I loved numbers, they made so much sense to me and I wouldn’t stop creating music, writing music, performing it, I discovered that music has a solid foundation in math and that helped me tremendously with the rhythm. I was always so happy to see other people succeed, always thought that there is plenty of success for all of us and thought that teams make a better product.
Contact Info:
- Address: 4407 NW 5th AVE, Pompano Beach, FL 33064
- Website: alexandrabelloproductions.com
- Email: abptvnews@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abptv/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexandrabelloproductions/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ialexandrabello
Image Credit:
JDelgado Media
Getting in touch: VoyageMIA is built on recommendations from the community; it’s how we uncover hidden gems, so if you know someone who deserves recognition please let us know here.
