RESUME
DETAILED FILMOGRAPHY AND WORK SAMPLES/
“Reign of the Dinosaurs” – VFX COORDINATOR at Creative Differences/ Discovery Channel (November 2010 – Current)
Reign of the Dinosaurs is being produced by Creative Differences for Discovery Channel. Destined to reset the benchmark previously set by Discovery’s WALKING WITH DINOSAURS for dinosaur natural history programming, REIGN OF THE DINOSAURS combines the latest paleontological research with Hollywood storytelling and the talent of the world’s best dinosaur illustrators and animators. In the series, new creatures like giant dinos with Freddy Krueger-style clawed hands, a Jurassic flying squirrel, pygmy T-Rex and frogs so big they can eat dinosaurs, are combined with the latest understanding of dinosaur behaviors.
“Tiger Man of Africa” – National Geographic Channel (September 2010 – December 2010)
Story Assistant for “Tiger Man of Africa”, a show series about wild tigers in South Africa by Creative Differences for National Geographic network.
“Portrait of a Gun Enthusiast” – Video Journalist at VJMOVEMENT (April 2011)
Produced, directed, edited and shot the special report about guns for the VJMOVEMENT site.
Guests of Space (Spring 2010)
Production, shooting and editing of this short documentary that explores the encounter between the last nomads to be contacted in South America and the white man in 1988, Colombia.
Screened at: Mill Valley Film Festival – October, 2010. San Francisco, California, USA.
International Festival of Sustainable Development Films Ekotopfilm – October 11-15,2010 Bratislava, Slovakia.
A Mexican Toy Story (Spring 2010)
Mexico Reporting Project at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Directed, produced, shot and edited the 9-min short documentary about a Mexican toy collector and his Antique Toy Museum in Mexico City. Published on SFGate.com and Missionlocal.org on March 6th 2010.
Screened at:Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival, 7th, Annual - September 30, 2010 to October 03, 2010
Docs Df , Categoria Cortometraje Documental Mexicano, 5th Annual – October 21st to October 31st, 2010
San Diego Asian Film Festival, 11th, Annual – October 21, 2010 to October 28, 2010
Red Rock Film Festival of Zion Canyon, 4th Annual from November 11, 2010 to November 14, 2010
The Urban Indigenous (Fall 2009)
Independent Project funded by UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Directed 8-min short documentary about urbanization in the Amazon.
Mediastorm – Summer 2009
Associate producer in “Times of Crisis. The Year of Global Change.” This multimedia piece is a Mediastorm production for Thomson Reuters. In-depth multimedia charting the year of global upheaval following the collapse of Lehman Brothers. See how lives everywhere have changed as a divergent world embarks on a new era of historic uncertainty. It won the first Place for the Best Documentary Project at the Sixty-Seventh Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition 2010. See my profile at their website here.
El Perdon -2008, Nanouk Films S.L.
Second Unit director in the 57-minute documentary about Andres Rabadán
Responsible for interviews, archival footage and animation.
Airs on Canal +, Spain in 2009.
Utopia 79 -2007, Frame Zero Productions and the Catalan Television Broadcasting (TVC)
Director’s first assistant for 95-minute documentary shot in Nicaragua about the Sandinista revolution and its effects.
Responsible for shot planning, interviews and management of archival footage.
Airs on TVC in 2009. Premieres May 19, 2009 in Spain Cinema Halls.
Selected for the Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival and Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México (DOCSDF).
Je Ne Suis Pas Moi Meme -2006, Nanouk Films S.L. and Catalan Television Broadcasting (TVC)
Directed, wrote and produced 57-minute documentary shot in Cameroon about African art trafficking.
Aired on TVC on December 11, 2007.
MIMU -2005
Conceived, co-directed, co-produced, and edited the audio-visual expression workshop with groups of immigrant teenagers in Barcelona and Vienna. Through the project a group of young boys from Morocco living in Barcelona and a group of Turkish and from the ex-Yugoslavia in Vienna were introduced to audio-visual language and how to use the camera to express themselves and show their own reality.
Trained immigrant teenagers involved in the participatory video workshop in Austria and Spain.
Aired on TVE Televisión Española on April 28, 2005 in “Gran Angular” slot.
Memories Without Rememberers. The Lanjia Sora Tribe of Eastern India -2004
Directed, wrote and produced documentary thesis film about the disappearing shamanic rituals of the Lanjia Sora tribe after the arrival of the Christian missionaries in Orissa.
Aired on TVC on January 28, 2005.
EDUCATION/
Masters of Journalism with focus on Documentary Film – UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism- University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Bachelor of Arts, Audio-Visual Communications – Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain)
AWARDS/
2011 Winner of the Tribeca Film Institute Latin America Media Arts Fund to produce “TOYS”, a feature documentary film.
2010 Winner of The Television Academy Foundation Internship Program (Documentary Category), designed to provide college students with in-depth exposure to professional television production during an eight-week summer period in Los Angeles. The program has been hailed for more than a decade as one of the top ten internships in the country.
2010 North Gate Documentary Prize for “Guests of Space.” Award given by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
2010 Silver Palm Winner of the 2010 Mexico International Film Festival for “A Mexican Toy Story”.
2009 Material Culture and Archaeology Film Prize for “Je ne suis pas moi-meme”, 11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Leeds, UK
2008 La Caixa Fellowship to extend studies in the U.S.
2006 MIMU nominated for Best Documentary, European Youth Prizes.
2005 European Fellowship Award for Youth Initiatives.
2004 TVC Actual Award (First Place) for Memories Without Rememberers.
2004 Best Director Award, New Author Category (Sitges International Film Festival) for Memories Without Rememberers.
2004 Beca de Colaboracion Fellowship (awarded by the Ministry of Education) to assist in the Journalism and Audio-Visual Arts Department at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).
SKILLS/
Native Spanish and Catalan speaker. Conversant in German.
Experience with digital video cameras, location sound and lighting equipment.
Proficient in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Microsoft Word, FTP, Dreamweaver, Keynote and PowerPoint.
