ADVIN ILLA

ACTOR • FILMMAKER • VETERAN

New York-based actor, filmmaker and U.S. Army combat camera veteran who served in Iraq. Founder and CEO of Iconic Original Media.

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ABOUT

Advin Illa

FILMMAKER · ACTOR · PUBLISHER · U.S. ARMY VETERAN

Roots

San Sebastián, Puerto Rico

Company

Iconic Original Media Corporation, Founder & CEO

Service

U.S. Army, combat photographer and videographer

Publishing

Advin Illa is a Puerto Rican filmmaker, actor, publisher, and U.S. Army veteran raised in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico. As founder and CEO of Iconic Original Media Corporation, he publishes stories about fashion, culture, and leadership for readers in English and Spanish. His work spans several sides of a magazine cover. He has helped produce covers for Iconic Style Magazine, interviewed figures in entertainment, and appeared on the cover of Lifestyle Plus Magazine as an actor.

Service & Film

Before his work in publishing, Illa spent a year in Baghdad documenting the Iraq War as a combat photographer and videographer. He later used savings from that deployment to finance Beyond the Fight, a short film he produced and starred in. Illa plays Marcus, an Iraq veteran confronting a future in which artificial intelligence is used to suppress veterans’ emotions.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

6 years

U.S. Army, 55th Signal Company

Baghdad

Combat photographer and videographer, Iraq War

Award

Won in Mexico for Beyond the Fight

CEO

Founder of Iconic Original Media Corporation

Military Service

Served six years in the U.S. Army with the 55th Signal Company.
Documented the Iraq War during a yearlong deployment to Baghdad as a combat photographer and videographer.

Film & Entertainment

Financed, produced, and starred in The Fight, released as Beyond the Fight and featured on The Veterans Channel.
Had his film work screened at the Angelika Film Festival.
Collaborated on a film with alumni of The Actors Studio and a director of the Studio.
Worked as Hugh Jackman’s assistant.

Veteran Initiatives

Co-founded Beyond the Fight Retreats with the Veteran Retreats Foundation.
Created The Veterans Channel’s first talent directory.
Worked on Hopes, The Veterans Channel’s first short film.

Publishing & Interviews

Worked on Iconic Style Magazine covers, including one featuring Amara La Negra.
Interviewed Al Pacino and Sylvia Villagrán, the first Latina in-show announcer for the Oscars.
Cover of Lifestyle Plus Magazine (as an actor) and Awakening Magazine.
Featured in 42nd St Magazine and Accomplishments Magazine.

Design, Education & Training

Luxury interior designer in New York.
New York School of Interior Design graduate; advertising degree from the Art Institute.
Certificate in digital marketing, New York University.
Trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, T. Schreiber Studio, and HB Studio.

From his roots in San Sebastián to his work in New York, Illa has carried a photographer’s instinct for the human story into everything he creates. Through Iconic Style Magazine, he gives Latino artists and cultural voices space to tell their stories in English and Spanish. With Beyond the Fight and the retreats that grew from it, he draws on his own experience in Iraq to bring veterans’ stories to the screen and veterans themselves together.

PEOPLE | STORIES | SERVICE | A MORE HUMAN TOMORROW