Kenny Yates

Kenny Yates

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Biography

Kenny Yates is a half-Italian, half-Filipino actor, voice actor, feature film producer, and director based in Los Angeles. He's been working in the film industry since 2004. Kenny began his career in the entertainment industry as a child actor on the Daytime Emmy-winning PBSkids show Zoom. He appeared in 80 episodes over two seasons. Kenny got his first behind-the-camera gig on the 20th Century Fox/Regency film Date Movie. He continued as directors Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer's assistant on Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans & Vampires Suck. He was promoted to Associate Producer on their film Disaster Movie and then bumped again to Co-Producer/VFX Supervisor on their films The Starving Games & Superfast! Kenny has continued his acting career with roles in each of Seltzer & Friedberg's movies. He recently appeared as Floyd in 'Reboot Camp', a mockumentary comedy with Eric Roberts, Ed Begley Jr. & David Koechner. He is also co-starring in the upcoming film 'Wolf Mountain' alongside scene partner Danny Trejo. Kenny continues his studies in Meisner Technique at Playhouse West in North Hollywood. He was also a member of the sketch comedy group 'The Neighbors', directed by Sean Whalen [Twister] at the same repertory. Kenny is also the Founder and President of KAYJ Entertainment.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Love is a Fire movie poster

Love is a Fire

A couple confronts their challenges with intimacy, exacerbated by a toxic yeast infection.

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Hunt Club movie poster

Hunt Club

Follows a group of male hunters who regularly lure women to their island with the chance to win 100K in a hunt, only to discover that they are the hunted, but this time they mess with the wrong girls and must deal with the consequences.

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Karma: Death at Latigo Springs movie poster

Karma: Death at Latigo Springs

Charley Stevens moves to the town where her recently deceased mother grew up; after arriving, he is plagued with strange nightmares that tease a horrific event, hinting at why her mother left town.

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Karma: Death at Latigo Springs

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Epic Movie

When the Pevensie siblings each follow their own path, they find themselves at Willy's Chocolate Factory. Walking through a wardrobe, they discover the world of Gnarnia, ruled by the White Bitch. Meeting up with characters such as Harry Potter and Captain Jack Swallows, the newly reunited family must team up with Aslo, a wise-but-horny lion to stop the White Bitch's army.

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Pirate with Heart

Reboot Camp movie poster

Reboot Camp

After finding out that his wife has blown their life savings on self-help gurus, Seymour teams up with his brother Danny, a filmmaker, to document how easy it is to start a fake self-help group and con people into believing just about anything. But once started, the Reboot Camp takes on a life of its own, and grows into a full-blown cult.

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Evil at the Door

One night every year the world sees an alarming surge in violent home invasions. This is no coincidence.

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Evil at the Door

Confined movie poster

Confined

A couple quarantined across the country from one another during a pandemic are unsure if the strange events happening around them are side effects of a virus - or something altogether more sinister.

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Wolf Mountain

Aj and his brother revisit the spot where their parents were killed. But legend has it there is something mysterious roaming these woods.

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Production

Evil at the Door movie poster

Evil at the Door

One night every year the world sees an alarming surge in violent home invasions. This is no coincidence.

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Evil at the Door

Evil at the Door movie poster

Evil at the Door

One night every year the world sees an alarming surge in violent home invasions. This is no coincidence.

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Evil at the Door

Director of Photography

Death Link movie poster

Death Link

In the age of social media, teenagers tell the story that they want people to see, with each video more daring than the next. But in this small town, a series of staged "murder" videos are turning very real.

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Production Coordinator

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers - Real Love movie poster

Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers - Real Love

In February 1985, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers kicked off a nine-city U.S. concert tour. Footage from the tour was used for the HBO special "Real Love," which was released the same year. The special has been subsequently released on Betamax, VHS and DVD. The special features hit songs by each of the artists, as well as the popular duet "Real Love" and the Gibb brothers' "Islands in the Stream."

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Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers - Real Love

Final Wager movie poster

Final Wager

Former sports gambling addict Chance needs $60,000 to save his mother from nursing home eviction. So he falls back into his old habits, only to learn he's never lost a bet on Christmas. Is this the Christmas miracle he's been waiting for? Or just an addict who can't control himself?

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Final Wager movie poster

Final Wager

Former sports gambling addict Chance needs $60,000 to save his mother from nursing home eviction. So he falls back into his old habits, only to learn he's never lost a bet on Christmas. Is this the Christmas miracle he's been waiting for? Or just an addict who can't control himself?

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Final Wager movie poster

Final Wager

Former sports gambling addict Chance needs $60,000 to save his mother from nursing home eviction. So he falls back into his old habits, only to learn he's never lost a bet on Christmas. Is this the Christmas miracle he's been waiting for? Or just an addict who can't control himself?

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Superfast!

Undercover cop Lucas White joins Vin Serento's gang of illegal street racers. They are fast and they are furious and they plan to double cross Los Angeles kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol, who hides his cash in a downtown Taco Bell.

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Superfast! movie poster

Superfast!

Undercover cop Lucas White joins Vin Serento's gang of illegal street racers. They are fast and they are furious and they plan to double cross Los Angeles kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol, who hides his cash in a downtown Taco Bell.

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Visual Effects Producer

Disaster Movie movie poster

Disaster Movie

Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.

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Associate Producer

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