New York, NY, USA
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Request QuoteDIRECTOR, PRODUCER, CINEMATOGRAPHER Raúl is an emerging Mexican-Immigrant filmmaker, making East Harlem NYC his home. He is a CINE Golden Eagle Award Winner, a Princess Grace Award recipient and a 2017 Tribeca Film Institute All Access Program recipient. His film’s have screened all over the world including at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in the U.K., DOCSDF in Mexico City, and at the Ethnografilm Festival in Paris, France. He has produced work for many clients including Al Jazeera and PBS. Recently he was a fellow for the Film Society of Lincoln Center Artist Academy at the NYFF54 2016 and received the 2017 Art Matters and Jerome Foundation Artist Residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Raúl graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2012 where he received the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for exceptional achievement in social documentary Film. Currently he is working on his first feature film “BORDER SOUTH/FRONTERA SUR,” a gripping story that documents the lives of Central and South American migrants as they cross through Mexico and has received support from the Jerome Foundation and the Undocumented Migration Project.
East Harlem has historically suffered from many issues, including having the highest rates of unemployment, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, homelessness, and violent crime in New York City. In 2015 the NGO Harlem RBI opened a multi-purpose building that includes Harlem RBI’s offices, DREAM Charter School, a new community center, 89 affordable housing units, and a beautiful public park. “A HOME” tel
Filmed in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, "OME - Tales From a Vanishing Homeland" follows the indigenous Huaorani on a journey through their pristine ancestral homeland where their traditional way of life is challenged as oil companies loom on the horizon.
BEYOND BORDERS: Undocumented Mexican-Americans examines US policy decisions that triggered the rise of undocumented immigration in a deeply moving documentary program that explores the under-reported lives of Mexicans living and raising families in the United States. The film carefully explains the history of the relationship between the two countries - Mexico and America - some of which may be un
Two successful women, one a North American fruit farmer and the other an undocumented Mexican immigrant working as a supervisor in a fruit processing plant, are caught in the perverse immigration system. They’re impatient for a change and they risk everything by telling their stories.
Password: worksample2017 The reel features my latest work directing, shooting and editing. It also highlights the big social issues that I cover, while showing my ability to access unique characters and develop complicated stories.
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