Nicolás Pereda

Nicolás Pereda
Nationality Mexican-Canadian
Occupation Film director and writer

Nicolás Pereda is a Mexican film director. He is a graduate of the film program at York University in Toronto.[1]

To date he has directed nine features and three short films. His award winning films have been exhibited in festivals around the world like Venice, Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, Oberhausen, and San Sebastian. He has had more than twenty retrospectives in various festivals, cinemateques and archives around the world including Anthology Film Archives, Harvard Film Archives, Jeonju International Film Festival, Cartagena International Film Festival, the Pacific Film Archive, and Valdivia International Film Festival. In 2010 his film Summer of Goliath was awarded the Orizzonti award for best film at the Venice Film Festival.

Pereda won the 2012 Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist, awarded by the Toronto Film Critics Association.[2][1]

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

Filmography

References

  1. 1 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.
  2. ↑ Jennie Punter (9 January 2013). "Toronto crix honor Polley". Variety. Retrieved 15 January 2016.


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