Sebastián Hofmann

Sebastián Hofmann

Sebastián Hofmann (n. 1980, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican visual artist and filmmaker whose productions have been presented in the film festivals of Rotterdam, Locarno, Sundance, Fantastic Fest,[1] La Habana, among others. He is also the co-founder of the production and distribution company Piano.

His work as a visual artist has been presented in galleries and museums in New York, Sidney, Rio de Janeiro, Athens, Berlin, Santiago, Pasadena, Mexico City and Prague.

Career

Sebastián Hofmann has a B.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.[2] In 2010 he shoot his first short film Jaime Tapones,[3] which main topic inspired his first feature film "Halley".

In 2011, Hofmann and Julio Chavezmontes founded Piano in Mexico City as a creative studio for developing original and challenging artistic projects.[4] With Piano, they wrote and produced Halley which was selected in more than 50 international film festivals after its premiere at the New Frontier Section of the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, where the Sundance / AMC Channel acquired it for release. "Halley" was well received and won several awards,[5] including the Sitges New Visions Award,[6] the Cinevision Award (Best Film By An Emerging Director) at the Munich Film Festival,[7] the AQCC Award and the Special Jury Mention at Fantasia Film Festival and Best Film Award at the East End Film Festival. In Mexico, the film had five nominations at the Ariel Awards, such as Best First Work for Hofmann, winning the prize for Best Make Up.[8]

Besides his work as a director and co-producer, Sebastián Hofmann has also worked as a cinematographer in documentaries such as Nicolas Echevarría’s Echo of the Mountain screened at the Berlinale and winner at the Chicago International Film Festival 2014, The Gaze of the Sea and Canícula. In this last one he also worked as co-writer and editor.[9] Canícula won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival and was later acquired by Discovery Channel.

Hofmann is also the creator and star of Los Micro Burgueses, an independent absurd comedy web series of social critic, presented at the IFFR in 2012.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "HALLEY". halleyfilm.com.
  2. ↑ "Sebastian Hofmann". IMDb.
  3. ↑ "Jaime Tapones (2011)".
  4. ↑ "Página de Inicio - Piano".
  5. ↑ "Visit Films - Quality American, Independent and World Cinema". www.visitfilms.com.
  6. ↑ Premio Noves Visions http://sitgesfilmfestival.com/cas/noticies/?id=1003192
  7. ↑ Cinevision Award "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-16. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
  8. ↑ https://56th_Ariel_Awards
  9. ↑ "Sebastian Hofmann". IMDb.
  10. ↑ "Los micro burgueses". 4 September 2015.
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