Spotlight by NHMC
Ligiah Villalobos joins NHMC as its newest Board Member. Villalobos is the Writer and Executive Producer of the independent feature film Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna), released by Fox Searchlight and The Weinstein Company. The film was an Official Selection at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and became the highest sale for a Spanish-language film in the history of Sundance. Made for under $2M, the film has earned over $23M worldwide.
In 2013 Villalobos won a Humanitas Prize for the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Firelight, produced by Alicia Keys and Mary Martin, which aired on ABC.
Villalobos has developed projects for multiple studios and networks, including ABC, NBC, ABC/Family, F/X, Showtime, BET, and HBO, among others. She is the co-producer of two HBO movies, Dancing in September and Walkout. She was also the Head Writer on Nick Jr.’s hit children’s show Go, Diego! Go! for three seasons.
Villalobos has also consulted on a number of high profile projects, including two Pixar movies, Planes and the upcoming Day of the Dead themed movie titled, Coco, as well as the Nina’s World series on SPROUT.
Before becoming an independent writer/producer, Villalobos was a studio executive at The Walt Disney Company, where she oversaw all television production in Latin America for five years, launching eight children shows in seven countries and then overseeing the Writing Fellowship Program and the Directors Training Program for one year. She then worked as a Current Programming Executive at The WB, where she oversaw six prime-time shows, including the four highest rated shows on the network.
Villalobos recently wrote a half hour pilot titled Half Sisters for ABC. She is currently working on The Abby Wambach Story for Lifetime and Starz has just announced that she is the showrunner and executive producer on a new series based on the NY Times best-selling book The Dirty Girls Social Club. She currently has two projects in production, The Real MVP (The Wanda Pratt Story) at Lifetime and an animated feature film titled Chito and the Land of Xo.
Ligiah Villalobos is repped by Eva Greenfield at ICM
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