Nicolás Pereda

Nicolás Pereda
Born 1982
Nationality Mexican, Canadian
Occupation Film director and writer
Years active 2000s–present

Nicolás Pereda (born 1982) is a Mexican-Canadian film director. To date, he has directed nine features and three short films.[1]

Early life

Peered was born in Mexico City in 1982; he holds dual Mexican and Canadian citizenship and is a resident of Toronto, where he studied filmmaking at York University.[2]

Career

Pereda's films, which have been financed by both Mexican and Canadian funds, have been predominantly shot in Mexico and are "resolutely Mexican in their intimate attention to class, culture, social structure, and family relations in Mexican society."[3]

His films have been exhibited in festivals around the world, including at the Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Rotterdam, and the Toronto International Film Festival.[4] Pereda's work has also been presented at several retrospectives in various festivals, cinemateques and archives around the world, including the Anthology Film Archives,[5] the Pacific Film Archive, and the Harvard Film Archive, which wrote of his work: "Pereda’s films are resolutely Mexican in focus and almost exclusively deal with stories drawn directly from the everyday lives and worlds of their working-class characters."[6]

His films have been described as "meticulous, minimalist, deadpan."[3]

Other work

He is currently the Director of the Filmmaking Program, a new BFA program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey.[7]

Awards and nominations

In 2010, his film Summer of Goliath was awarded the Orizzonti award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival.[8] Pereda won the 2012 Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist, awarded by the Toronto Film Critics Association.[9]

Filmography

  • Where Are Their Stories? (2007)
  • Together (2009)
  • Perpetuum Mobile (2009)
  • All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (2010)
  • Summer of Goliath (2010)
  • The Greatest Hits (2012)
  • Killing Strangers (2013)
  • Los ausentes (2014)
  • El Aula Vacía (2015)
  • Minotaur (2015)
  • Tales of two who dreamt (2016)

References

  1. ↑ "Perpetual Motion: The Films of Nicolás Pereda | The Cinematheque". www.thecinematheque.ca. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  2. ↑ James Adams (8 January 2013). "Sarah Polley's family doc wins $100,000 prize at Toronto Film Critics' gala". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 15 January 2016. Other honorees on Tuesday were Ryerson University’s Andrew Moir, awarded the $5,000 Manulife Financial Best Student Film Award for his short documentary on Lou Gehrig’s disease, Just As I Remember, and York University film graduate Nicolás Pereda, named the recipient of the TFCA Jay Scott Prize for talented emerging artist. The prize, named after the late Globe and Mail film critic (1949-1993), consists of a $5,000 cash award and $5,000 in post-production services.
  3. 1 2 "Where Are Their Stories? | The Cinematheque". www.thecinematheque.ca. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  4. ↑ "Nicolás Pereda". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  5. ↑ Walls, Seth Colter (2011-07-06). "Nicolas Pereda: Here Are His Stories". Village Voice. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  6. ↑ "Where Are Their Stories? The Films of Nicolás Pereda - Harvard Film Archive". hcl.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  7. ↑ "Nicolás Pereda | Mason Gross School of the Arts". www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  8. ↑ Levine, Sydney. "Summer of Goliath wins in Venice | IndieWire". www.indiewire.com. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
  9. ↑ Jennie Punter (9 January 2013). "Toronto crix honor Polley". Variety. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
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