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Nicolás Pereda | |
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 Pereda at the Berlinale in 2016 | |
| Born | 1982 |
| Nationality | Mexican, Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | 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]
Pereda was born in Mexico City in 1982; he holds dual Mexican and Canadian citizenship[ citation needed ] 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]
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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." [5] [10]
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.
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