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"Other innovative recent
incursions into the horror film genre include Eduardo Soto-Falcon's
short film Dhampira."
Pop
Culture Latin America! (Dennison & Shaw, ABC-CLIO,
page 276)
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"A movie is not a logical art form ... It's an emotional experience."
-Roger Ebert
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PROFILE & BIO
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Toronto-based media artist
with a multi-cultural and International experience, having
lived in five countries (Canada, USA, Mexico, Argentina and Italy).
Earned a Bachelor's Degree in Cinema and Photography, along with a
Writing Minor, from Ithaca
College (Ithaca, NY). Graduated Summa Cum Laude and
Valedictorian of the Cinema Department.
While still in film school, worked as assistant editor
of Like Water
For Chocolate, one of the most
successful
Mexican films of all time, nominated for the Golden Globe for
Best Foreign-Language Movie.
Premiered the thesis film 4 Movement / Destruction
at the Chicago
International Film
Festival, where it won an award.
Worked in three feature films, including Clear and Present Danger
with Harrison Ford and Willem Dafoe.
Diversified into other areas of the media and entertainment industries,
including:
- Program Director of the Cancun International Film
Festival.
- Director of narrative corporate
videos for Volks Wagen
Group.
- Editor of TV shows in Montreal (Nuevo Mundo TV).
- Editor of demo reels for dozens of
Spanish-Language movie & TV stars.
- Teleprompter operator for Canadian
National commercials.
- Videographer of web videos for numerous
clients in Toronto.
Worked in the translation of movies (e.g. The Queen and Breaking and
Entering), TV shows (e.g. Criminal Minds, Prison
Break, House,
M.D. and Gilmore
Girls) and videogames (e.g. Broken Sword and Tenchu: Shadow
Assassins).
Wrote 12 feature-length screenplays (8 in English and 4 in Spanish),
along with TV pilots, spec episodes, short films and short stories. Won
a few awards for unproduced screenplays.
Directed and produced 6 short films that have been shown in 30 film
festivals around the world, on National Mexican TV and on cable in all
of Latin
America and Quebec. The US show Sprockets and Splices
will feature some of these short films in 2012. Also directed and
produced a few TV and Web pilots.
Directed, produced and designed a feature-length previsualization
movie, using 3D characters and environments with Moviestorm
software, a
type of technology also used for videogames (Machinima).
Currently working on a few projects for their possible development into
major motion pictures
and pursuing opportunities in media and
entertainment.
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