Charles Tentindo

Charles Tentindo is an American actor, award winning director and acting coach. He has worked as producer-director-editor since 1985 in the short film, corporate and documentary markets since that time. He is also a director of photography and photographer and won his first Telly Award directing the Lions Gate Documentary 'Inside The International Arms Trade' -part of the Nicholas Cage film Lord of War DVD which was distributed worldwide. The documentary was an important account documenting the illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons as well as child soldiers and the diamond trade. Mr. Tentindo is an innovator of digital video technology and and pioneered the use of in-field laptop editing in 90's along with his invention of cinematic backdrops used for on-location shooting of video interviews. He is the Founder and Creative Director of The Aurora Theater in Long Beach, CA. where he continues to produce staged productions and development of one man and one woman shows as well as stand up comedy and musical events. Mr. Tentindo is an inventor and patent holder of The Zen Riffer, a unique electronic keyboard that has been referred to as "The King of Keyboards" by Dream Theater's world renown keyboardist Jordan Rudess. His innovative and radical design gleaned the cover of Keyboard Magazine in 2006. His keyboards have been sold around the world and the first was sold to Jesses Carmichael of Maroon 5.