Adolfo V. Nodal was born in Guaos, Cuba on March 6, 1950. Mr. Nodal immigrated to the Miami Florida with his family in September 1957. He was raised in Miami where he graduated from Miami-Dade Junior College with an Associate of Arts degree in Journalism & Photography in 1970. Mr. Nodal received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida in 1972. He was awarded a Masters of Arts degree in Contemporary Art by California State University at San Francisco. He was awarded a certificate in Museum Management by The Art Museum Association Museum Management Institute in 1981.

Mr. Nodal has served as Executive Director of Contemporary arts institutions in Washington, DC. (Washington Project for the Arts,1978-83) Los Angeles, CA.(Otis Parsons School of Art Exhibition Center,1983-87) and New Orleans, Lousiana
(Contemporary Arts Center,1988). He worked in large and small arts institutions in San Francisco while he earned his Masters Degree there. He has served as trustee of several local and national arts institutions including American For The Arts, the National Assembly Of Local Arts Agencies (NALAA), The Urban Arts Federation, and as a founding Member of National Association of Artists Organizations LA Works, and LA Shares (Materials for the Arts).

Adolfo V. Nodal Held the position of General Manager of the City of Los Angeles’ Cultural Affairs Department from 1988-2001. He lead the department which regulates civic design, historic preservation, and arts funding and programs. He was responsible for cultural advocacy and planning for arts and culture in Los Angeles He is considered a national leader in the fields of multicultural arts development, arts administration, and support for Individual artists and all artistic disciplines. He established and developed the Los Angeles Endowment for the Arts with the help of the LA City Council. He achieved a comprehensive arts master-plan for LA in 1990. And a cultural heritage master-plan for the city in 1998. He completed a restoration of the City’s historic Art deco Neon and electric signs in the Wilshire, Hollywood and Downtown districts of the City. He developed a millennium arts celebration for Los Angeles and a national study of the public safety impact of the arts in the community as well as a report on the role of art in reducing graffiti vandalism He also initiated an emergency response cultural master-plan for the city which is yet to be completed.

Other achievements in his tenure as General Manager include a program to name city traffic squares to honor artists who have made significant contributions to the arts community such as the dedication of the Carmen Miranda and Carlos Gardel Squares in Hollywood. He also developed a civic recognition program to celebrate important arts administrators in the City of Los Angeles. Mr. Nodal encouraged arts and cultural organizations to include all of the Americas in their programming. He re-energized and developed a significant Cultural Grants for the arts and Historic Preservation for the City of Los Angeles. He supervised an activebuilding program, produced a major Festival program and provided record amount of funding to the city’s mural program. He managed the plans for the total reorganization and physical upgrade of Barnsdall Art Park including the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House. He managed the city’s Watts Towers.

Throughout his career, Adolfo V. Nodal has championed individual artist and designers with special emphasis on experimental visual arts and theatre. He has organized countless programs to present this work in various cultural institutions in the United States. He is considered a national expert on Public Art, Historic Preservation and civic design. While at Cultural Affairs he assisted the Cultural Affairs and Cultural Heritage Commissions in their deliberations regarding the regulation of Civic Design, Architecture, Historic Landmark Status. Public Art, and Street Lighting in the City of LA.

Mr. Nodal has provided encouragement to and support to artists and arts institutions at all stages of development from homeless arts organizations to the City’s established institutions. He is multidisciplinary in his support of art, believing in the power of all the disciplines of culture as well as entertainment. His work in the arts has benefited countless American artists and institutions as well as audiences and communities throughout the region. He has provided leadership on linking the arts to other important civic issues such as education, public safety, community development, tourism, public health and community empowerment.

Mr. Nodal has received numerous awards and honors including Washingtonian Of The Year (1981), The Mayor’s Art Award, Washington DC (1981), A Presidential Citation for Community Service HUD (1987), The Order of the Southern Cross by the Government of Brazil (2000)

Currently Mr. Nodal is President of the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commision. He is also Project General Manager for the Annenberg Foundation/Farmlab LLC where he is overseeing the construction of a Major Public Art Projects in Los Angeles. He also works in the area of cultural development and political evolution of his native Cuba. He believes that Culture is one of the only bridges available to the Cuban People and has devoted a lot of effort throughout his career to supporting Latin American artists achieve a broader audiences. In 2004 Mr. Nodal established an exhibition service in the Town of San Pedro and opened a licensed company to provide Cultural, Humanitarian and Religious missions to Cuba. In 2004 he became president of the Cuba Culture Foundation a non profit organization in California.

Mr. Nodal Completed a book on the role of Public Art in the field of community development titled MacArthur Park: How The Arts Made A Difference in 1990 (Hennessey & Ingalls Press) In 2001 he completed a book project intended to be a definitive reference volume titled Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century. (The California International Arts Foundation) He is preparing a book on the Historic Neon and Electric signs of Los Angeles. Adolfo V. Nodal is fluent in Spanish and English including public speaking.

Julio Bove attended and graduated with honors from the prestigious University of Southern California Film School and the Peter Stark Master’s Producing Program.

While at USC, Julio wrote, directed, and produced several student films, theater and TV projects: Return to Sender, High Tuber, The Tender Trap and All About Eve.

Julio worked for and was mentored by well-known producers with in-house deals at Warner Brothers. He was later chosen during his Master’s Program to attend the highly demanding and select Paramount Pictures Internship Program, which exposed him to most high rank meeting and the rigorous demands under which studio executives work.

In May 2000, Julio formed his own independent Film and TV Production company, Bosco Entertainment, in Los Angeles. He currently writes and produces for Television and Film.

At Bosco Entertainment, he strives for quality material and works with new as well as established talent in the USA, Italy, Spain, Canada, United Kingdom and Argentina. His company now has several projects in different stages of production, development, attachments and financing, among them:

“Unrest” Writer/Dir/Prod: Jason Todd Ipson. Prod: Julio Bove. Completed in 2006. In co-production with Asgaard Entertainment. Low budget. Horror/Medical thriller. Fully financed. Opened theatrically November 17, 2006 – Lionsgate – 500 theatres, 35 top North American markets; on DVD March 20th, 2007.

“Pots and Pans (Verano Amargo)” Writers: Fabiana Medici and Julio Bove, Dir: Juan Carlos Desanzo, Prod: Julio Bove. Lead: Federico Luppi, Gastón Pauls. Prep: early 2007. Shoot: mid 2007 in Argentina. In co-production between Argentina (Cinema Digital) and Spain (Urban Films). Medium budget. Slice-of-Life Drama. Fully financed.

Member of the Executive Committee of LALIFF (Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival)

Member of EGEDA (Entidad de Gestiones de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales)