Script Buzz: The Mask of Manolo by Alveraz Ricardez
by Jaden
My website and services are geared to help people make a screenplay sale in Hollywood, a Hollywood that I would like to see change.
Part of my personal life mission is to elevate people and stories that have something positive to add to the world.
With so much negativity, selfishness, violence, xenophobia, ignorance and emptiness to combat, every bit of clever positive brilliance needs all the momentum and support it can get.
We have to entertain to educate. Film is a powerful tool that can be used for good or evil. There have been stories throughout time that have moved people and changed the world forever, some making the world worse, some making it better.
As writers, we can’t all write those special stories, but we can at least try.
Alveraz Ricardez submitted 
a script to me this week called The Mask of Manolo. Knowing nothing about him, I expected the usual fledgling screenwriter with little to say and much to learn.
What I received with The Mask of Manolo was a wonderful script based on 500 years of literature, intermixed with pop culture, and psychological issues that span all humanity. All of this was presented in a rapid-fire entertaining story full of quick-witted dialog, introspective poetry, colorful relatable characters, vivid imagery, and a wacky adventure. By the title, you can guess that this adventure story has a Spanish flavor as it travels through Mexico and the south-western United States.
Alveraz’s love of literature and understanding of people is evident from his script. He also clearly understands that to reach the public, you must entertain.
For confidentiality, I can’t tell you any details about the story, but I truly hope he makes a sale with this script and that it gets made into a movie quickly because I am desperate for my friends and family to see it!
Crying by page one, laughing by page two, The Mask of Manolo is an emotional roller coaster that can help people to better understand themselves and others. Artistic and poetic, it also has potential for mass appeal. It is campy, silly, and fun, while also being profound with intellectual merit.
The best part about this script for whoever the lucky producers shall be, is that it is relatively cheap to make with potential to make a lot of money. This is a winning combo that any studio would love to have.
Wishing Alveraz Ricardez the best of luck. This is a movie I want to see!
You may learn more about Alveraz Ricardez at his kicking website:
“Zampano Films delivers lasting independent cinema. We strive to transcend the standard, indifferent movie experience and bring you independent film that is not only entertaining but innovative and engaging.”
For serious inquiries only, if you want to throw buckets of money at Alveraz Ricardez (like he deserves), you may contact him directly at:
a l v e r a z 1 (at) y a h o o . c o m
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Sounds really interesting. I would like to wish him all the best as well.
Reel Ninja
That website is sweet! “The Mask of Manolo” is a catchy title. Sounds like it might be about shoes… and like a fun project. Hopefully the film will be made. There aren’t many great films coming out of Hollywood these days, not like in decades in the past.
I would like to add my best wishes for his success at selling his screenplay and to see it made into a film.
I have been discouraged lately about the types of films coming from Hollywood in recent years, although a few good ones do manage to make it through. I am hungry for a good story, good characterizations, and if I can learn something from it, all the better.
Here’s hoping I get to see the film in the near future!
On behalf of Alveraz, I thank you all for your good wishes. When it comes to screenwriting, we need all the encouragement we can get; Hollywood is a tough road.
Hate to be the party-pooping voice of reality here, but… after seeing the trailer to ‘the tailor” Zampano’s first feature I have to say it looks like badly acted ‘amateur hour’ crap.
And as for “the state of poem” it seems like mission accomplished for the folowing assignment: go out on a cross country roadtrip, take your video camera with you, shoot as many wannabe poets in coffe houses that you stumble across, interview them about poetry, edit it on windows movie maker, and then try to pass it off as a documentary on American poetry.
I hope that filmmaking for those responsible for these two things is just a
hobby, and not an ill planned career aspiration.
Matt Matthews — Thanks for adding your two cents. It is always good to have multiple perspectives. I have only read the Mask script and seen nothing else Alveraz has done, other than his impressive comics, so I can’t comment specifically about what you saw.
What I can say is that Hitchcock was also once an “amateur” and was not born farting The 39 Steps out of his arse. Greatness takes time to develop.
As this Mask script is a bit down the line from Alveraz’s earlier endeavors, I can only guess that it is better. Given practice and brave public displays of their arts, all artists learn and grow with time and experience. Some artists really excel, some don’t. From what I read, Alveraz has the spark. Mask might also earn the budget to pay for more experienced actors, which seems like your main complaint: the performances.