AWARDS

AWARDS Near sixty honors including 42 film/media 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 Award/Audience Award in Berlinale (Panorama), Emmy Award nomination. HONORS Selected for MEDIA European Union’s Film Experts Program, 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).

Awards

PRESENTATIONS Screenings in 100+ film festivals, Sundance, SXSW. TV screenings in P.O.V. Point of View at PBS (US), BBC (UK), RTVE (Spain), Canal+ (France, Spain), Canal 22 (Mexico). Screenings in art centers in New York, three times in MoMA, Whitney Biennial; in 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 in universitie: Harvard University (US), Arts University Plymouth (UK), Université Paris Diderot (France). Presentations in national theaters in Spain and Latin America. Works as video design collaborator for three years for The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson developed at The Watermill Center in New York, Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Teatro Comunale di Modena (Italy), co-produced by Lincoln Center Festival.

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 15 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

AWARDS

FEATURE FILMS

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

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

Press I Links

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.

HONORS

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).

GRANTS

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).

ENDOWMENTS

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…

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

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 P.O.V. Point of View, US BBC UK RTVE Spain Canal+ France Canal+ Spain NRK Norway SVT Sweden Canal 22 International Mexico

TELEVISION

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 Plymouth Art Weekender Festival (UK), Centro Artistico il Grattacielo (Italy), 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

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

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