BOC Week 6 - Monty Lapica

Monty Lapica is a Las Vegas native who has aspired to be a producer, director and writer in the film industry. He is the founder of Thought Division Media Company “creates television ads, and offers Internet and multimedia services for major companies worldwide” (Business Press, Akers). His company is in Las Vegas because it made sense to him to offer services from his hometown, plus that Las Vegas is not as competitive as Los Angeles. Although he enjoys the advertising aspect, he enjoys being a filmmaker more because it is more fun. At the age of 24 he wrote, directed, co-produced and was the actor for his documentary film “Self-Medicated” in 2004 (IMDb). “Lapica has given back to his hometown through the creation of the Las Vegas International Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in Nevada (Business Press, Akers). Monty Lapica has become so far and successful because he has been determined enough to follow his true passion, film. How he got there is through networking in Los Angeles and Las Vegas companies, and building a reputation of himself. He started out as a small company just doing commercial jobs but his clients also were interested in web and mobile production in which he then expanded into doing that as well because it was high in demand. Lapica’s career has blossomed into greatness and still has more to go to become the next Steven Spielberg.