NALA Films
| Private | |
| Industry | Motion pictures |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Emilio Diez Barroso |
| Headquarters | West Hollywood, Los Angeles, U.S. |
| Website | nalafilms |
NALA Films is a film production and financing company, the production arm of NALA Investments, LLC. It was founded in 2005 by Mexican-American businessman Emilio Diez Barroso.
NALA (North America Latin America) Films, LLC was founded in 2005 by Emilio Diez Barroso (the great-grandson Televisa founder Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta), as the production arm of NALA Investments (founded in 1999), an investment vehicle with a portfolio of holdings across various industries. NALA Films, which is headquartered just off Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, is a "film development, production and financing company that NALA Films is a financing and production company that focuses on making quality, character-driven projects for film, television and new media. The company "produces and finances three to five feature films per year".
Under CEO Diez Barroso, Darlene Caamaño-Loquet is President of NALA Films, a role which saw her named the sixth most powerful Hispanic woman on the Hispanic Women "Power 25" list of 2007. As President, Caamaño Loquet develops, supervises and produces the financing/production company's feature film and television slate. In 2007, it was reported that the executive ranks had been expanded by the double hiring of Corrie Rothbart as Chief Financial Officer, and Rudy Scalese as Director of Development. Rothbart, whose previous roles included positions with ICM Partners, Gold Circle Films and Sony Pictures Entertainment, took on the role of overseer on "financial and strategic planning, corporate treasury, business development, production finance, accounting and operations." Scalese's role new role was to "help identify and develop material to fulfill the company's production slate of four to five relatively big-budget films per year, as well as its lower-budget genre fare," after he came to prominence producing the documentary: Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film. Scalese had also previously worked for Caamaño-Loquet's D-No Entertainment.
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