Josh Martin(XLV)
- Producer
- Director
- Actor
"People need love" Josh's father, Daniel Martin Lacayo, used to always say.
Martin was born on September 16, 1990 to a Nicaraguan couple living in Hayward, California, who named him Jonathan Martin Lacayo. Just at the age of four, Jonathan proved to be a skillful artist when he tried to sketch a picture of Hannah Barbera's Fred Flintstone, which ended up looking almost identical to the picture he was referencing from on a Fruity Pebble's cereal box. Daniel, Jonathan's father, moved the family to Houston, Texas for a job promotion in the US Postal Service when Jonathan was seven.
To help ease the move, Daniel took the family to a nighttime showing of Liar, Liar, starring Jim Carrey, opening Jonathan's eyes to the power of cinema. Since everyone in the theater was roaring with laughter and deeply moved by Jim Carrey's performance, Jonathan immediately jumped in to theater arts and performed in all the school plays, landing principal roles and receiving multiple awards of recognition from 3rd to 12th grade.
Throughout his grade school years, his friends called him "Lacayo", which was his last name, and the name of his future animation company.
After high school graduation, Jonathan Lacayo continued to perform in local theater shows, but desired to study the technical side of producing movies at an art college. In 2009, one year after graduating from high school, Josh enrolled in to The Art Institute of Houston, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Media Arts and Animation. While in college, he met many talented artists, most of them more talented than he was, but the art professor proved that art is a skill and can be learned, as most the students' work would tremendously improve in just a couple months. One of his professors encouraged him to think like an entrepreneur, which sparked the businessman in Jonathan. Upon graduating from college, he joined the business world and began promoting a production company, from which he operated with his younger brother in their Houston home.
In a way, Jonathan went from thinking himself to be like Jim Carrey, to thinking himself to be like Walt Disney. He learned more about business and grew his network while running Lacayo Studios. Only a couple of his college wanted to help him with the new studio, and Jonathan later purchased a professional space on Westheimer Rd. The studio was ten minutes from the Houston Galleria, and his employee count had went from being just him and his brother, to more than 90 employees working on various art projects.
Years passed, and Jonathan began having lucid dreams that led him to close the company and begin learning about the Bible. His family was confused by his actions, as he would even make claims that things he dreamed about were the same things he would later learn in the Bible, or at a local Bible study. Daniel, and Jonathan's mother, Maria, didn't understand why he didn't want to go to church, but wanted to preach.
One of Jonathan's volunteers from Lacayo Studios mentioned to him about an organization that studies the Bible and is not like any other church. The organization is called The Gathering of Christ Church, and they don't use the modern day translation of the Bible to fulfill their understanding of it; they research it's history and still use the ancient Hebrew language. The Gathering of Christ Church (GOCC), offered a program to learn the dead language, and Jonathan couldn't help but think that what he was learning would make for an excellent animated movie.
After giving it much thought, since Jonathan's family and friends, as well as hundreds, if not thousands, of supporters from Lacayo Studios were already troubled by his recent biblical remarks, Jonathan announced a new animation studio in April 2017, called Biblical. In addition, he also started going by Josh Martin instead of Jonathan Lacayo.
The new studio is to focus on releasing a full length animated motion picture, called Adam and Eve, in hopes to produce a series of sequels that would essentially re-tell the critical stories of the Holy Bible to a modern day audience. At this time, Biblical's Adam and Eve has finished development, and it's release date is still TBA.
Martin was born on September 16, 1990 to a Nicaraguan couple living in Hayward, California, who named him Jonathan Martin Lacayo. Just at the age of four, Jonathan proved to be a skillful artist when he tried to sketch a picture of Hannah Barbera's Fred Flintstone, which ended up looking almost identical to the picture he was referencing from on a Fruity Pebble's cereal box. Daniel, Jonathan's father, moved the family to Houston, Texas for a job promotion in the US Postal Service when Jonathan was seven.
To help ease the move, Daniel took the family to a nighttime showing of Liar, Liar, starring Jim Carrey, opening Jonathan's eyes to the power of cinema. Since everyone in the theater was roaring with laughter and deeply moved by Jim Carrey's performance, Jonathan immediately jumped in to theater arts and performed in all the school plays, landing principal roles and receiving multiple awards of recognition from 3rd to 12th grade.
Throughout his grade school years, his friends called him "Lacayo", which was his last name, and the name of his future animation company.
After high school graduation, Jonathan Lacayo continued to perform in local theater shows, but desired to study the technical side of producing movies at an art college. In 2009, one year after graduating from high school, Josh enrolled in to The Art Institute of Houston, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Media Arts and Animation. While in college, he met many talented artists, most of them more talented than he was, but the art professor proved that art is a skill and can be learned, as most the students' work would tremendously improve in just a couple months. One of his professors encouraged him to think like an entrepreneur, which sparked the businessman in Jonathan. Upon graduating from college, he joined the business world and began promoting a production company, from which he operated with his younger brother in their Houston home.
In a way, Jonathan went from thinking himself to be like Jim Carrey, to thinking himself to be like Walt Disney. He learned more about business and grew his network while running Lacayo Studios. Only a couple of his college wanted to help him with the new studio, and Jonathan later purchased a professional space on Westheimer Rd. The studio was ten minutes from the Houston Galleria, and his employee count had went from being just him and his brother, to more than 90 employees working on various art projects.
Years passed, and Jonathan began having lucid dreams that led him to close the company and begin learning about the Bible. His family was confused by his actions, as he would even make claims that things he dreamed about were the same things he would later learn in the Bible, or at a local Bible study. Daniel, and Jonathan's mother, Maria, didn't understand why he didn't want to go to church, but wanted to preach.
One of Jonathan's volunteers from Lacayo Studios mentioned to him about an organization that studies the Bible and is not like any other church. The organization is called The Gathering of Christ Church, and they don't use the modern day translation of the Bible to fulfill their understanding of it; they research it's history and still use the ancient Hebrew language. The Gathering of Christ Church (GOCC), offered a program to learn the dead language, and Jonathan couldn't help but think that what he was learning would make for an excellent animated movie.
After giving it much thought, since Jonathan's family and friends, as well as hundreds, if not thousands, of supporters from Lacayo Studios were already troubled by his recent biblical remarks, Jonathan announced a new animation studio in April 2017, called Biblical. In addition, he also started going by Josh Martin instead of Jonathan Lacayo.
The new studio is to focus on releasing a full length animated motion picture, called Adam and Eve, in hopes to produce a series of sequels that would essentially re-tell the critical stories of the Holy Bible to a modern day audience. At this time, Biblical's Adam and Eve has finished development, and it's release date is still TBA.
