AWARDS
Nearly 60 honors including 40+ film/media awards. Screenings in 100+ film festivals. Works aired on PBS, BBC, RTVE, Canal+, and attended Mipcom Cannes, IDFA Amsterdam. Screenings in Harvard University, Arts University Plymouth (UK). Collaborations at Lincoln Center (US), and National Center for the Arts (MX).
“Best Short Film Jury Award & Audience Award at Berlinale. Emmy Award nomination. National Geographic award. Official selection in Sundance and SXSW. Screenings at MoMA, PS1, and Whitney Biennial.”
AWARDS You Are Mythical, awards in two film festivals in L.A. New York Spin, 10 honors in 12 countries. Forgetful (coproducer), 16 awards. Cuba 15 (producer), Best Short Film Jury & Audience Awards at Berlinale (Panorama), Emmy Award nomination. HONORS Selected for EU-MEDIA List of Film Experts, member of Royal Television Society (UK). Letters of recognition from the President, Congress, and Senate of Mexico as director of Cancun Riviera Maya International Film Festival. GRANTS Highest grant of the year from the Ministry of Culture of Spain to study filmmaking in New York. 15+ studies grants including research for PhD dissertation at Columbia University in New York. ENDOWMENTS including 11 film/theater productions: NYFA (1), UC3M (4), Tecnológico de Monterrey (4), Fundación Sepi at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (3).
Official selection at FILM FESTIVALS including Sundance and SXSW. Aired on TELEVISION in P.O.V. Point of View at PBS (US), BBC (UK), RTVE (Spain), Canal+ (France, Spain), Canal 22 Internacional (Mexico). Screenings at ART CENTERS New York: three times at MoMA, PS1, Whitney Biennial. Madrid: Círculo de Bellas Artes, La Casa Encendida, Casa de América, La Neomudéjar. Internationally: Plymouth Art Weekender (UK), Centro Artistico il Grattacielo (Italy), National Gallery of Fine Arts (Jordan). Screenings at UNIVERSITY Harvard University (US), Arts University Plymouth (UK), Université Paris Diderot (France), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Presentations at national THEATERS in Spain and Latin America. WORK for The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson at The Watermill Center in NY, Piccolo Teatro di Milano (development), Teatro Comunale di Modena in Italy (preview), and Lincoln Center in NY (premiere).
HONORS
Nearly 60 honors: 40+ film/media awards including Berlinale and Emmy Award nomination. Highest Grant of the year in Spain to study filmmaking in New York. Selected by European Union’s MEDIA List of Film Experts.
SHORT FILMS
Cuba 15 I 12 awards including: Best Short Film Jury Award, Berlinale / Panorama, Germany • Best Short Film Audience Award, Berlinale / Panorama, Germany • Emmy Award Nomination, Program "She Shorts" on POV (PBS): National Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Programming • Best Short Film Audience Award, The Hamptons International Film Festival, New York • Best Short Film, Aspen Film Festival, US • Best Short Documentary Film Jury Award, Newport International Film Festival, US • Best Short Film, Luna de Valencia de Plata, Cinemajove, Spain • Most Promising Director Kodak Award, New York Women Film Festival, US • Earthwatch Award, Environmental Film Festival, National Geographic, Washington DC • Best Short Film / Finalist, USA Film Festival, Dallas • Best Short Film I Finalist, Arizona International Film Festival, Phoenix
Forgetful I 16 awards including: Best Short Film of the Month, South Film & Arts Academy Festival, Chile • Best Director, The Monthly Film Festival • Best Cinematography, European Cinematography Awards
FEATURE FILMS
New York Spin I 10 awards including: Project Involve Award / Honoree, Independent Feature Project New York 2001, US • Best Documentary Film, Santo Domingo International Film Festival, Dominican Republic 2006 • Best Documentary Film Jury Mention, Lleida Film Festival 2006, Spain • Best Documentary Film Nominee, Roma Independent Film Festival 2003, Italy • Avid Film Camp Award 2001, Digital Media Center, Portland, US • Media Arts Finalist 2002, Jerome Robbins Foundation, New York, US • Kodak Award Finalist 2001, Roy W. Dean Foundation, New York, US • Crossover Semifinalist 2001, Web Lab Rockefeller Foundation, Miami, US • Postproduction Award Finalist 2001, Bay Area Video Center, San Francisco, US
You Are Mythical I 5 awards: Best Experimental Film, Alive Documentary Film Festival 2019, Los Angeles, US • Audience Award, Expression Art Movie Film Festival 2018, Los Angeles, US • Semi-finalist, Los Angeles CineFest, US
Awards
EUROPEAN UNION Selected for the List of Film Experts of MEDIA Program I PRESIDENCY Letters of support as film festival director from the President, Congress and Senate of Mexico.
FULBRIGHT Spain/US I Highest Fulbright grant of the year to study filmmaking in New York (Ministry of Culture, 1yr) • Spain I 15+ GRANTS including PhD dissertation in Columbia University of New York (Spanish regional government, 2 months), Photography (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2yrs), Journalism (Ministry of Education, 5yrs), and university residence (Fundación Sepi, 4yrs).
New York Film Academy supported Cuba 15 (short film) • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid produced You Are Mythical (film), Penelope is Waiting (video installation), Crossing Europe (film), Crossing Stages web series (videos) • Tecnológico de Monterrey supported The House of My Dreams (short film), Tarahumara Project (video art), Flying Fish Over Mexico (visual theater), Myths MX (arts event) • Sepi Foundation at Universidad Complutense de Madrid produced Tilmun Theater’s Roberto Zucco, Caresses, and Nothing to America (visual theater).
Honors
SCREENINGS
Screenings at 100+ film festivals including Sundance and SXSW. Television: PBS, BBC, RTVE, Canal+. Markets: Mipcom Cannes, IDFA Amsterdam, Toronto.
INTERNATIONAL London, Paris, Madrid, Toronto, Vancouver, Sydney, Brussels, Oslo, Zurich, Leipzig…
US International, Independent, Latino, Documentary Film Festivals: New York (Independent, Latino, Doc, Children, GenArt), Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Miami, Seattle, Philadelphia, Taos, Nantucket, Mill Valley, Aspen, Florida, Atlanta, Tahoe, Jacksonville, et al
Sundance Film Festival, Utah, US • SXSW South by Southwest, Austin, US • The Hamptons International Film Festival, NY • New York Latino International Film Festival • DocFest Documentary Film Festival, NY • Los Angeles International Film Festival • Alive Documentary Film Festival, LA • Expression Art Movie Film Festival, LA • Rome Independent International Film Festival, Italy • Oberhausen International Film Festival, Germany • BBC Short Film Festival, UK • Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival • Paris Short Cuts Film Festival, et al
Film Festivals
Mipcom Cannes, France • IDFA Amsterdam, The Netherlands • HotDocs Documentary Film Festival, Toronto, Canada • Malaga Film Festival, Spain
MARKETS
National Film Network, New York
DISTRIBUTION
Screenings on TV networks: PBS (POV) Point of View, US BBC UK RTVE Spain Canal+ France Canal+ Spain NRK Norway SVT Sweden Canal 22 International Mexico
Television
ART CENTERS
Three screenings at MoMA, and PS1. Selected at Whitney Biennial, and Harvard University. Art centers in Madrid Casa de América, Círculo de Bellas Artes, and La Casa Encendida.
NEW YORK MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art • PS1, MoMA • Whitney Biennial 2006 • Writers Guild of America • The Poetry Society of New York • Nuyorican Poets Café LOS ANGELES American Cinemateque MADRID Casa de América • Círculo de Bellas Artes • La Casa Encendida • Museo La Neomudéjar INTERNATIONAL ARTSevilla Intenational Encounter & Exibition of Contemporary Art (Spain) • Plymouth Art Weekender Festival (UK), Centro Artistico il Grattacielo (Italy), The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts (Jordan)
Art Centers
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. • New York Film Academy, NY • Arts University Plymouth, UK • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid • Universidad Complutense de Madrid • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid • Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
University
THEATERS
Lincoln Center New York State Theater. Centro Dramático Nacional Spain. Centro Nacional de las Artes Mexico. Theaters in Latin America.
NEW YORK New York State Theater, The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts MADRID Sala Olimpia, CNNTE (Currently, Teatro Valle-Inclán, Centro Dramático Nacional CDN) • Teatro Alfil • Teatro de la Facultad de Bellas Artes, theaters at Universidad Complutense de Madrid • Regional & local theaters in Spain MEXICO CITY Teatro Salvador Novo, Centro Nacional de las Artes (CNA) LATIN AMERICA Teatro Teresa Carreño, Caracas, Venezuela • Teatro Nacional de Guatemala, Guatemala City
Theaters
100+ Festivals 60+ Honors I Berlin Paris London Rome Milan Amsterdam Oberhausen Oslo Sydney I New York Los Angeles Austin Washington DC Boston Philadelphia Miami Seattle I Madrid Barcelona Valencia Bilbao Málaga Huelva Ourense. I Filmmaking
