Carlo Guillermo Proto

Carlo Guillermo Proto is a Chilean-Canadian director who was raised in both Quillota, Chile and Mississauga, Ontario.[1] His work focuses on the unique interplay between identity and human experience in relation to issues of geography, ethnicity, and perceived disabilities.[2]

Carlo Guillermo Proto
Born (1979-09-22) September 22, 1979
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
EducationMel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
OccupationFilm director
Years active2005–present

Early life

Between the ages of 18-25, Carlo Guillermo Proto was heavily involved in the Toronto theater community. As the general manager and company producer for Toronto's Cahoots Theatre Projects, Mr. Proto produced several plays across Canada. During his time with the company, he created The Cahoots Summer Youth Project, a subsidized summer camp for low-income families.[3] The director's influences include many playwrights and directors who were based out of Toronto, including John Mighton, Dan MacIvor, Daniel Brooks, and Guillermo Verdecchia.[4] After winning the "Best Emerging Local Filmmaker" award for his first short film Pura Sangre in 2005 at the Alucine festival in Toronto, Proto moved to Montreal in order to attend Mel Hoppenheim school of cinema.[5]

Film career

In 2005, Proto founded the production company The Handshake Productions, which operates out of Montreal, Quebec. The company is interested in developing and creating documentary and fiction films with a focus on identity and socio-political issues.[6] In 2013, Proto was selected to be a member of the jury of three for the Quebec City Film Festival.[7] Proto's first short film, Pura Sangre (2005) is based on a South American travelogue and explores society's preoccupation with sociological and biological bloodlines.[8] Proto's next short film, Peggy, Denis, and Lauviah (2007) attempts to reconstruct the perception of cinema by giving a super 8 camera to a blind family of three.[9] El Huaso (2012), Proto's first feature-length documentary film chronicles Gustavo Proto, the director's father, as he struggles with short term memory loss. Gustavo has retired from his business and seeks solace in his homeland of Chile by pursuing his childhood dream by competing as a "huaso" in rodeos. Gustavo awaits the results of medical tests which will determine whether he has Alzheimer's. As he has long professed he would end his life is it became unbearable, he begins making preparations for his death while his family struggles to accept his decision to end his life. The film explores the pivotal point in one man's life where he takes it upon himself to shape his own mortality.[10] Film critic, professor and former head of Mexico's National Cinémathèque, Gerardo Salcedo Romero, named El Huaso one of the best Latin American documentaries of 2012.[11]

Filmography

Features
YearTitleDirectorProducerWriterActorRoleNotes
2012El HuasoYesYesYesYesHimselfDocumentary. Co-written with Gustavo Guillermo Proto. Story Editor Guillermo Verecchia. Co-producers Serego Kirby and Arianne Schaffer
2017Resurrecting HassanYesYesYes

Shorts
YearTitleDirectorProducerWriterActorRoleNotes
2005Pura SangreYesYesYesDocumentary
2007Peggy, Denis, LauviahYesYesYesDocumentary

Awards and nominations
YearAwardCategoryFilmResult
2005Toronto Alucine Film Festival AwardBest Emerging Local FilmmakerPura SangreWon
2011Recontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal AwardBest DocumentaryEl HuasoNominated
2012Quebec City Film Festival AwardBest Feature FilmEl HuasoWon
2012Quebec City Film Festival AwardAudience Award for Best Canadian-Quebecois FilmEl HuasoWon
2012DocsBarcelona AwardBest International DocumentaryEl HuasoNominated
2012Rendes-Vous du Cinema Quebecois AwardBest Quebec DocumentaryEl HuasoNominated
2012Hot Docs International Film Festival AwardBest Canadian DocumentaryEl HuasoNominated
2012Lima International Film Festival AwardBest Latin American DocumentaryEl HuasoNominated
2012Monterrey International Film Festival AwardBest International DocumentaryEl HuasoNominated
2012Santiago International Film Festival AwardBest Chilean FilmEl HuasoNominated
2012Hamptons International Film Festival AwardGolden Starfish Award (Documentary Feature)El HuasoNominated
2012Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival AwardGrand Jury Prize Best Documentary FeatureEl HuasoNominated
2012Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival AwardBest Documentary DirectorEl HuasoNominated
2012Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival AwardBest Documentary CinematographyEl HuasoNominated
2012Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival AwardBest Documentary Film EditingEl HuasoNominated
2012Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival AwardBest Documentary SoundEl HuasoNominated
2012Guadalajara International Film Festival AwardBest Latin American DocumentaryEl HuasoNominated
2012Cleveland International Film Festival AwardBest Documentary - Audience AwardEl HuasoNominated
2013Cinema Tropical AwardBest DocumentaryEl HuasoNominated

References
  1. "HRAFF Interviews the Filmaker [sic] behind 'El Huaso', Carlo Guillermo Proto". HRAFF Arts & Film Festival. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  2. "Q&A: El Huaso Director Carlo Guillermo Proto". CBC. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  3. "Nominees and Jury Announced for 2007 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre Celebrating Directors". CNW. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  4. "Q&A: El Huaso Director Carlo Guillermo Proto". CBC. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  5. "Q&A: El Huaso Director Carlo Guillermo Proto". CBC. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  6. "About". The Handshake Inc. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  7. "La soirée de clôture du FCVQ! Un franc succès sur toute la ligne, ce festival!". Info-Culture. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  8. "Films". The Handshake Inc. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  9. "Films". The Handshake Inc. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  10. "Films". The Handshake Inc. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
  11. "TOP LATIN FILMS OF 2012, THOSE THAT WERE UNDERRATED, AND WHAT TO WATCH IN 2013!". Vancouver Latin America Film Festival. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
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