Lure Entertainment Professionals
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
A Group of Professionals that are Freelance and work together in many aspects of the Entertainment Industry. Bringing you the Best in Film, Television, Music, Animation and much more.
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Welcome to Lure Entertainment Productions LLC
Lure Entertainment is much more than just a Production Company and Media and Press. We are a Family. A complete Powerhouse of Hard Working, Dedicated Industry Professionals who love what we do.
Some of the Best in their Chosen Professions, One Hell of a Freelance Team, and Very Strong Together!. The Lure Family!
Daphne Matthews
CEO LURE Entertainment and DMTM Talent Management, Executive Film, Tv, and Music Producer
Daphne has years of industry experience and has worked with the best in the industry. Bringing that knowledge and creating Lure Entertainment and the sister company Daphne Matthews Talent Management. (DMTM) Daphne is also well focused on everything she does in the Movie Industry from being the Executive Producer on the upcoming movie Shattered Dreams (The Leslie Vass Story) to taking on Acting roles herself and working with other film-makers on their Productions as well. She is well determined on creating a Trifecta in every aspect of the Industry.
Carla Christina Contreras
Associate Producer/Producer & President of Sag-Aftra (Nashville)
Carla Christina Contreras is an American Actress born in sunny Southern California under the cozy spotlight of tinsel town to Armando Contreras (entertainment Grip) and Diana Contreras (professional singer) in Torrance California, Carla Christina started her professional acting career at the ripe age of three selling Barbie Dolls and Tootsie Rolls; from eleven to sixteen she regularly worked on the TV series, 'The Waltons'.
Leaving the business to finish her formal education and after receiving a degree in business, Carla Christina ventured back to Hollywood to train at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where she discovered her singing voice. She also studied acting intensively with Groundlings Founder Gary Austin, and further study with Kathrine Daley, Scott Arthur Allen, Bob Corff and Seth Riggs.
Upon an invitation to visit Nashville's Music Row, Carla Christina fell in love with Tennessee and decided to stay in 1992 to pursue music and experience a quality of life she couldn't find in Los Angeles. After living in Tennessee for a year, Carla Christina Co-Founded the Actors Alliance for the Nashville Film & Video Association, and has been a constant force in helping to build the film community we see today in Nashville.
A 30-year member of the Board of Directors and now President of the SAG-AFTRA Nashville Local. Carla Christina has been an active member of FilmNashville / Women in Film & TV Nashville / TN Women in Film & Media and Actor-Com, she continues to help other creative artists grow and prosper in the mid-west region. She is working on a Live Action Animated Musical web series 'Incognita's Infamous Adventures', a handful of indie projects, producing her first short film, has developed a situation comedy for network TV (being pitched), and in development for a limited series.
Carla Christina is married to Timothy E. Rumsey, with their two furry daughters Dolly (a Scottish Terrier) and Willie (a Black Cat rescue).
Carla Christina is also a world-renowned visual artist; her fine art works can be seen in various permanent collections as well as private collections around the world. She is also the author of the children's book Clint the Black Cat®, and is working on another literary work based on a shattering life experience.
Michael Givens
Michael Givens Director/Cinematographer
The Stories We Tell Become Life Timeless, Sophisticated, Intelligent, Current
Stories that are inspirational are stories that embrace our lives. The influence of the effect of these stories affects culture and lifestyle at every level. Intimately presented ideas are consumed and assimilated into the human experience.
The style of Michael Givens' work is the summation of a life's study of visual arts as a director, cinematographer, photographer, and painter. His understanding of the human as an art form has grown from his distinctive understanding of the language of acting, developed over decades of research and refinement. Michael's style engages all the senses to interpret and tell a story from a simplistic and sophisticated point of view.
Director/Cinematographer Michael Givens earned an international reputation for creating memorable stories through compelling images. A graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California, Michael established his career as a photographer in the fashion and music industries before progressing into the film industry. There he became the cinematographer of choice for such noted directors as Sir Ridley Scott, Stephen Frears, Philip Borsos, Sean McNamara, Ron Maxwell and Peter Smillie. Michael's directorial debut was at Sir Ridley Scott's famed production company - RSA. His credits include over 70 feature films and 1,000 television commercials.
Michael's work is clarified and grounded by his years of creative work abroad. The majority of his films have been created in the far corners of the globe. Success has relied on his ability to elegantly speak across cultures through his Timeless, Sophisticated, Intelligent, and Current style.
This style is the source of how the stories we tell, become life.
Jim Harris
Jim is a freelance graphic designer, who is always passionate about his work, be it working individually or within a group of people. He's highly skilled in creating various illustrations and designs via the use of Adobe software products - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign etc. Assisting many clients upon request for creations in media, company logos, trading cards, alternative film art and much much more!
He has established his own business through the use of networking and setting high quality standards, implementing his own brand within the entertainment industry. All whilst maintaining excellent client and customer service abilities.
Jim has an educational background with the use of Information Technology from his college years, beginning from 1994. And has continued to work in that field, with mostly admin related positions, leading up to the present day. Where for the past few years, he has been freelancing under his own brand: 'Jim Harris Designs'.
Jim has been featured in Shoutout Atlanta Magazine and is also the New Jersey Film Awards 2022 winner for Best Movie Poster Of The Year, for 'Slaughter Beach' (2022).
In his spare time he enjoys educating himself on Adobe creative suite, and staying active in his personal time with boxing and other sport related activities. Finding the time to coach children and men's boxing classes in the evenings on weekdays, at a local gym. Enjoying his hobbies in creating music production, as well as indulging in his love for motion pictures and television, and reading autobiographies. Most of all, he thrives in my biggest passion of all, which is being a father.
Jim is 42 years old, originally a British resident who now permanently resides in California, USA.
Cadence Lang
Junior Animation Team
Cadence Lang was born in January. In Florence Kentucky to her Mother Daphne Matthews and her Father Michael Lang. Cadence is the youngest of eight siblings. She has 3 brothers and 5 sisters. At a very young age Cadence became in Singing and drawing.
She has gradually developed her drawing while growing in age. Cadence was signed with The Ascendent Studios in 2018 and is now being managed by her Mother, Talent Manager, CEO of Lure Entertainment Productions LLC and Lure Entertainment Media, and Press, Producer, Writer and Actress Daphne Matthews.
Cadence has had the opportunity to be in front of the cameras having been offered roles for Wednesday Adams in roles in Feature films. Cadence declined those roles because she does not like to be on Camera. This little ray of sunshine decided she wanted to take a path a little different from her Mother and has started training in Voice-Over Acting to better pair with her ability to draw on Animation teams.
Cadence will continue to train with her Mother and later be training with Howard Vine in the year 2023. She has also been studying Digital Graphics in school and that will be another tool she will be able to use on her path to being a working Animator. We look forward to what the future holds for this young lady.
Bruce Nahin
Business Affairs
Nahin was,as a young lawyer, involved in the creation, development and expansion of the World Famous Chippendales Dancers He also worked backstage for a major concert promoter in Los Angeles during the early 1980's. The City of Santa Clarita appointed him as one of the two founding film committee members for the newly formed city where Nahin established himself in the fields of film permits, set logistics, and site management. He was instrumental in the establishment of the City of Santa Clarita as the major area for filming in Southern California . He practiced law for almost thirty years with an emphasis in Entertainment law especially in music and live entertainment and in the 2000's transitioned to become an executive producer , business affairs consultant, ,and producer in films and television. He also acts in film and TV from time to time. He is no longer a member of the California State Bar nor a practicing lawyer. . Nahin became a co founder of Janick Entertainment, a film production company, specializing in quality female empowered independent films. and, providing Business Affairs Consulting in Production, Development and Distribution to Film, TV and Music Specializing in Legal Deliveries including Title, Script Clearance, Copyright reports and motion picture and Television clearances. He loves mentoring young people in Film, TV, music, live entertainment and modeling and is involved with One Church LA..a church established to serve young Hollywood, He also lectures at various film schools in the Southern California area, and a judge of several film festivals. He is the co-chair of the Entertainment Circle at the Gathering Spot located in LA,ATL and DC He is a member of the Producers Guild of America, and The Television Academy.