Nicolás Pereda Explained

Nicolás Pereda
Birth Date:1982
Nationality:Mexican, Canadian
Occupation:Film director and writer
Years Active:2000s–present
Spouse:Andrea Bussmann

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

Personal life

Pereda 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] He received his Bachelor degree of Fine Arts in Films in 2005 and his Master in 2007.[3]

He is married to film director Andrea Bussmann, with whom he codirected the 2016 film Tales of Two Who Dreamt.[4]

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."[5]

His films have been exhibited in festivals around the world, including at the Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Rotterdam, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Pereda's work has also been presented at several retrospectives in various festivals, cinemateques and archives around the world, including the Anthology Film Archives,[6] 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."[7] [8] [9]

His films have been described as "meticulous, minimalist, deadpan."[10]

Other work

He formerly served as the Director of the Filmmaking Program, a new BFA program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey.[11] He is currently an Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley.

Awards

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Perpetual Motion: The Films of Nicolás Pereda The Cinematheque. www.thecinematheque.ca. en. 2017-02-19.
  2. News: Sarah Polley's family doc wins $100,000 prize at Toronto Film Critics' gala. 8 January 2013. The Globe and Mail. 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.. 15 January 2016. James Adams.
  3. Microsoft Word - cvNicolasPereda2020.docx (berkeley.edu)
  4. Jason Anderson, "Local attention for international director: Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolas Pereda gets belated recognition in adopted home". Toronto Star, 16 November 2012.
  5. Web site: Where Are Their Stories? The Cinematheque. www.thecinematheque.ca. en. 2017-02-19.
  6. News: Nicolas Pereda: Here Are His Stories. Walls. Seth Colter. 2011-07-06. Village Voice. 2017-02-19.
  7. Web site: Where Are Their Stories? The Films of Nicolás Pereda - Harvard Film Archive. hcl.harvard.edu. 2017-02-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20160505165536/http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2011aprjun/pereda.html. 5 May 2016. dead.
  8. Web site: Nicolás Pereda dafilms.com. dafilms.com. en. 2020-03-30.
  9. Web site: Nicolás Pereda. 2015-09-04. IFFR. en. 2020-03-30.
  10. Web site: Nicolás Pereda . cinema-scope.com. 2020-03-30. 4 April 2012 .
  11. Web site: Nicolás Pereda Mason Gross School of the Arts. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. en. 2017-02-19.

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