Dr. Janet Alvarez-Gonzalez
Filmmaker in Rowlett, Texas
Dr. Janet Alvarez Gonzalez is an Award winning marketer, investigative reporter, film scriptwriter. Born on February 7, 1965 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, she began her career in the late 1980's as a director and producer, and political reporter for US television and radio networks PBS NPR, FOX and Jay Sears News Services, interviewing personalities such as President Mikhail Gorbachev, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, Vice-President Al Gore, Senator George Allan, Governor Douglas Wilder, as well other international personalities. Later she worked as executive producer, script writer supervisor, and hosted several top television shows transmitted at Red PAT, Teletica, Bolivision, Telemundo, Univision, and Pentagon Network.
In 2003 she wrote, produced and protagonist the movie "Latin Comedy" a social satire about how Hispanics were manipulated by the media with the legendary Cuban comedian, director and scriptwriter Leopoldo "Pucho" Fernandez known as "Tres Patines" and "Machito Pichon".
She received a Bachelor in Psychology from the Virginia Commonwealth University, a Master in Educational Media from Virginia State University, and culminated a Ph.D. in Business Administration Business in Marketing and a Post Graduate Certificate in International Business from Argosy University.
Dr. Alvarez has taught Mass Communications and Marketing in many universities around the world. In addition she was the Dean of the MBA Center at Columbia University in Puerto Rico.
In 2010 Dr. Janet Alvarez Gonzalez reopened Planet Films LLC in Rowlett, Texas, receiving The Aspen Award in the Motion Picture & Video Production for Exceptional Marketing Success in 2013.
She hosted the television morning show Buenos Dias Mi Amor, and currently she is producing the films; "The Portrait's Secret", "Making the Portrait's Secret" and "An Anonymous Prisoner in Egypt".
The Portrait's Secret Cast: Maria Conchita Alonso; Louis Gossett Jr. Damián Alcázar; Federico Luppi; ; María Rojo; Enrique Castillo; Carlos Carrasco; Hemky Madera; Julian Acosta Roberto Urbina; Carolyn; Fernando Carrera; Eduardo Paxeco; Raoul Bova; Taylor Dooley; Bobbie Phillips; Tony Longo; Keren Lynn Gorney; Jullianne Michelle; Donny Boaz; Jack Holmes; Paul Ganus; Angela Kerecz, Bobby Kerecz; Sewell Whitney; Grant McLellan and many others.
In 2015 she received The Latin Golden Award for Lifetime Achievement in Media and Marketing by the foreign press association AIPE.