John Casablancas Oakbrook Terrace, IL Stars Shine at IMTA Los Angeles 2010

Feb. 19, 2010 - PRLog -- (Oakbrook Terrace, IL. February, 2010) Among those many beautiful and talented people from throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Canada were also the students from John Casablancas Oakbrook Terrace, IL, who gathered in Los Angeles at the Westin Bonaventure for the semi-annual International Modeling and Talent Association’s event. IMTA is an organization comprised of leading modeling/talent training centers and agencies engaged in the professional promotion of the fashion and talent industry.

More than 300 top fashion and talent agents, casting directors and industry professionals participated as judges and scouts in the action-packed, week-long, international event. Men, women and children of all ages competed on the modeling runway in high fashion, casual wear and swimwear while actors performed monologues, cold reads, entertainment host and sitcom scenes, and TV commercials. Singers and dancers were showcased, and all participants attended educational workshops and seminars presented by industry experts.

The exciting week culminated with many of the top awards going to the John Casablancas Oakbrook Terrace, IL Center at which the agents, educational institutions and VIP’s in attendance presented competition winners with trophies, cash prizes and scholarships for outstanding performances.

Many of the John Casablancas Oakbrook Terrace, IL Center will hopefully join the ranks of IMTA Cover Models who are working in Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo, Brazil and New York, who have graced the covers of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Elle, In Style, Flaunt, Interview, Seventeen, GQ, Style, Sports Illustrated, Lucky, Teen Vogue, Marie Claire...and IMTA actors who appear on 90210, Grey’s Anatomy, ER, Brothers & Sisters, Ghost Whisperer, CSI, Entourage, Without A Trace, Hannah Montana, The Wizards of Waverly Place, Sonny With a Chance, Days of Our Lives, The Young & The Restless, One Life To Live, All My Children, Law & Order, Criminal Minds, Cold Case, CSI: Miami, The Bold & The Beautiful, NCIS, Heroes, Friday Night Lights, Bones, Private Practice, Burn Notice, Medium, Lie to Me and Desperate Housewives...Feature Films including The Twilight Saga, 9, Planet 51, Valentine’s Day, The Other Side, The Extra Man, The Inner Circle, Killers, When in Rome, Astro Boy, Personal Affects, The Romantics, The Ward, Women in Trouble, The Promotion, The Madness Of Jane, Splinter, The Gift, Street, Smokejumpers, Happiness Runs, Get Some, Say Hello To Stan Talmage, Night & Day, Life As We Know It and many more.

Agents from the USA, Milan, Paris, London, Hamburg, Munich and Tokyo were present and searching for new stars. These agents and managers were particularly impressed with the quality of talent coming from the John Casablancas Oakbrook Terrace, IL Center, which received a 100% callback success rate.  Among those scouting at the convention were IMG, Elite, New York Models, Next, Major, LA Models, Wilhelmina, Women, United Talent Agency, Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty, Abrams Artists, Coast to Coast, Brian Leder Talent Management, The Savage Agency, Acme Talent & Literary, Unified Management, KSRA and numerous others.

IMTA states: “This is the week top international agencies gather to scout at our convention for new faces. Contracts are signed and new careers are launched for many of the IMTA Contestants. Nothing compares to an IMTA experience...there is no other event of this magnitude!”

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John Casablancas began the JC Centers 25 years ago. The founder of Elite Model Management, the most prestigious modeling agency in the world, John developed the world’s first “supermodels” and changed the model industry forever. He is responsible for discovering such greats as Gisele Bundchen, Cameron Diaz, Alyssa Milano, Demi Moore and Claudia Schiffer and has represented such names as Naomi Campbell, Heidi Klum, Iman, and Brooke Shields, to name a few.