Nicolás Pereda

Nicolás Pereda
Nicolás Pereda
	Pereda at the Berlinale in 2016
Born	1982
Nationality	Mexican, Canadian
Occupation	Film director and writer
Years active	2000s–present
Spouse(s)	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 is married to film director Andrea Bussmann, with whom he codirected the 2016 film Tales of Two Who Dreamt.[3]

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."[4]

His films have been exhibited in festivals around the world, including at the Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Rotterdam, and the Toronto International Film Festival.[5] 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][10]

His films have been described as "meticulous, minimalist, deadpan."[4][11]

Other work

He is currently the Director of the Filmmaking Program, a new BFA program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey.[12]

Awards

2016 Special Mention – RIDM, Montreal, Canada for Tales of Two who Dreamt

2016 Best film– FICUNAM, Mexico for Minotaur

2015 Special Mention – Margenes Festival, Spain for The Absent

2014 Best film– FICUNAM, Mexico for The Palace

2013 Best documentary – Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal for The Palace

2013 Special Mention- Cosquín Film Festival, Argentina for The Palace

2013 Best Documentary – Alucine Film Festival, Canada for The Palace

2013 Jay Scott Prize -Toronto Film Critics Association, Canada

2012 Grand Prix du Jury - Festival La Roche-sur-Yon, France for Greatest Hits

2012 Fipresci Award – Habana Film Festival, Cuba for Greatest Hits

2012 Best director - Lakino :: Latin Film Festival Berlin, Germany for Greatest Hits

2012 Best film – Baja Film Festival, Los Cabos, Mexico for Greatest Hits

2012 Best film – Courtisane Film Festival, Belgium for Interview with the earth

2011 Best film – Cinema of the Future – BAFICI, Argentina for Summer of Goliath

2010 Premio Orizzonti – Venice Film Festival, Italy for Summer of Goliath

2010 Best film – Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile for Summer of Goliath

2010 Critics prize - Valdivia International Film Festival, Chile for Summer of Goliath

2010 Special Mention – L’alternativa, Spain for Summer of Goliath

2010 Images Prize - Images Festival, Toronto for All things were now overtaken by silence

2010 Best film - World Cinema Amsterdam, Netherlands for Juntos

2010 Best film - Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico for Perpetuum Mobile

2009 Best film - Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexico for Perpetuum Mobile

2009 Best director - Gramado International Film Festival, Brasil for Perpetuum Mobile

2009 Best film -Under construction, Toulouse Film Festival, France for Perpetuum Mobile

2009 K.M. Hunter Artist Award, Canada

2008 Best film - Levante Film Festival, Italia for Interview with the Earth

2008 Best documentary - Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal for Interview with the Earth

2008 Best documentary – Guanajuato film festival, Mexico for Interview with the Earth

2008 Best documentary - Flexiff, Australia for Interview with the Earth

2008 French critics award - Toulouse Film Festival, France for Where are their Stories

2007 Best film - Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico for Where are their Stories

Filmography

Where Are Their Stories? - 2007
Together (Juntos) - 2009
Perpetuum Mobile - 2009
All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence - 2010
Summer of Goliath - 2010
The Greatest Hits - 2012
Killing Strangers - 2013
Los ausentes - 2014
The Empty Classroom (El aula vacía) -2015
Minotaur - 2015
Tales of Two Who Dreamt (Historias de dos que soñaron) - 2016
My Skin, Luminous - 2019
Fauna - 2020

Retrospectives

2018 Mexican Cinematheque, Mexico City, Mexico

2018 Quito International Film Festival, Ecuador

2018 Cine Tonalá, Tijuana, Mexico

2018 Faro de Oriente, Mexico City, Mexico

2018 Cine Villa Olimpica, Mexico City, Mexico

2017 Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain

2017 Festival Cinemistica, Granada, Spain

2016 Brussels Cinematek, Belgium

2015 University of Texas, Austin, USA

2014 Play-Doc Film Festival, Spain

2014 CGAI, Galicia, Spain

2014 International Film Festival Universitario de Chiapas, Mexico

2014 Zacatecas Cinematheque, Mexico

2014 Veracruz Cultural Institute, Mexico

2013 La Roche Sur-Yon Film Festival, France

2013 Museum of the city of Queretaro, Mexico

2012 Tiff Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada

2012 Sala Lugones, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2012 Mostra de Cinema de Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2012 Madrid Cinematheque, Madrid, Spain

2011 Anthology Film Archive, New York City, NY, USA

2011 Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA, USA

2011 Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA

2011 Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2011 Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, USA

2011 Paris Cinema (Film festival), Paris, France

2011 Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea

2011 UCLA Film Archive, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2011 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA

2011 Cartagena International Film Festival, Cartagena, Colombia

2010 Valdivia International Film Festival, Valdivia, Chile

2010 Cine Las Americas, Austin Film Society, Texas, USA

References

"Perpetual Motion: The Films of Nicolás Pereda | The Cinematheque". www.thecinematheque.ca. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
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.
Jason Anderson, "Local attention for international director: Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolas Pereda gets belated recognition in adopted home". Toronto Star, 16 November 2012.
"Where Are Their Stories? | The Cinematheque". www.thecinematheque.ca. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
"Nicolás Pereda". IMDb. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
Walls, Seth Colter (6 July 2011). "Nicolas Pereda: Here Are His Stories". Village Voice. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
"Where Are Their Stories? The Films of Nicolás Pereda - Harvard Film Archive". hcl.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
"Nicolás Pereda". IMDb. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
"Nicolás Pereda | dafilms.com". dafilms.com. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
"Nicolás Pereda". IFFR. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
cinema-scope.com https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-magazine/nicolas-pereda/. Retrieved 30 March 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)
"Nicolás Pereda | Mason Gross School of the Arts". www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

External links

Nicolás Pereda at IMDb

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[1] "Perpetual Motion: The Films of Nicolás Pereda | The Cinematheque". www.thecinematheque.ca. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

[Globe-and-Mail-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.

[3] Jason Anderson, "Local attention for international director: Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Nicolas Pereda gets belated recognition in adopted home". Toronto Star, 16 November 2012.

[:0-4] "Where Are Their Stories? | The Cinematheque". www.thecinematheque.ca. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

[5] "Nicolás Pereda". IMDb. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

[6] Walls, Seth Colter (6 July 2011). "Nicolas Pereda: Here Are His Stories". Village Voice. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

[7] "Where Are Their Stories? The Films of Nicolás Pereda - Harvard Film Archive". hcl.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2017.

[8] "Nicolás Pereda". IMDb. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[9] "Nicolás Pereda | dafilms.com". dafilms.com. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[10] "Nicolás Pereda". IFFR. 4 September 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2020.

[11] cinema-scope.com https://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-magazine/nicolas-pereda/. Retrieved 30 March 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)

[12] "Nicolás Pereda | Mason Gross School of the Arts". www.masongross.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 19 February 2017.