Latino New York City-based documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist specializing in social justice issues.
About
Fernando is a documentary filmmaker and visual anthropologist based in New York City. For the past eleven years, he has participated in numerous productions focused primarily on social justice issues in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, and the United States. These works have been screened at film festivals, on television, digital platforms, universities, and cinema clubs.
In 2009, he received an honorable mention for the JosĂ© Rovirosa Award for his short documentary film "Only One Day." In 2014, he produced the documentary "MĂ©xico Crossroads" for Al Jazeera English, and in 2016, he worked as a producer for the feature film "The Patronas Kitchen" (Dir. Javier GarcĂa, Mexico 2016), which garnered three awards for best documentary feature film and four honorable mentions internationally.
In 2018, Fernando was one of the recipients of the 18th National Short Film Project Contest awarded by the Mexican Film Institute, enabling him to produce his recent film "Seeds, the Legacy of the Land." He is currently developing his first feature-length documentary, "Those Things I Still Don't Understand." This self-referential film explores fatherhood through self-reflection, juxtaposing Fernando's experiences as a new dad with the memory of his own father.
