About
Hugo Serejo Genes is a filmmaker, writer, producer, actor, and PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology. He is currently studying at the CUNY Graduate Center, holds a Masters in Nonfiction Filmmaking from the City University of New York Hunter College, and a degree in Economics from Cornell University. Hugo was a Fulbright Scholar in 2016, working with the Xavante Indians of Mato Grosso Brazil on video/photo production, and development of their first village-based audiovisual archive. He has produced media for nonprofits, start up companies, and musicians, & is the writer and director of several films including Collegetown, a feature narrative-doc hybrid illuminating the social and financial pressures that determine choices made by debt-ridden U.S. college students. He is also a former member of the Illuminator Collective, which stages guerilla projection interventions. Hugo was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and raised in New York City
