Nicolás Pereda

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Nicolás Pereda after the premiere of Tales of Two Who Dreamed at the Berlinale 2016, February 16, 2016.

Nicolás Pereda (* 1980 or 1982 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican director , screenwriter , film producer , cameraman and film editor . He is known for his films that explore the line between fiction and documentary.

life and work

Nicolás Pereda was born in Mexico City in 1982. He moved to Canada for his studies, where he studied film at York University . He also lives there with his wife Andrea Bussmann , who is also a filmmaker, but also works in Mexico. Pereda is the director of the Center for Digital Filmmaking at Rutgers University .

In his first films, Pereda worked several times with the actors Teresa Sanchez and Gabino Rodriguez , who played mother and son. Because of the relationship of trust that arose in this way, he was able to implement his films with less risk. Most of them were films that addressed the father's absence in many Mexican families. It wasn't until Los mejores temas from 2012 that a father appeared. Except in his first film, ¿Dónde están sus historias? from 2007, Pereda always used the real first names of his two actors. However, the films did not relate to each other, but each form a complete work. In them, he primarily addresses the social problems of the poorer social classes. In 2013, Pereda released the film Matar extraños , which explored the myth of the Mexican Revolution . In 2016 he showed the film Tales of Two Who Dreamt , which he made with his wife Bussmann. Pereda's films have been shown at the major film festivals in Berlin and Venice, and he has already received several retrospectives.

Haden Guest described the character of Pereda's films in 2011 as follows: “Refusing the long dominant narrative tradition of characters whose motivations are clearly explained through 'back stories', Pereda's films instead center around carefully modulated performances in which gestures and bodies 'speak' more clearly than words. Restricting dialogue to an absolute minimum, Pereda's films follow simple, almost stark, stories focused less upon actions than their effects and featuring recurrent characters played with laconic reserve by performers from Pereda's stock company of regulars [...]. Rejecting dialogue-driven drama, Pereda's deeply nuanced films demand and reward a more patient and engaged mode of spectatorship attentive to the emotions and meaning contained with the smallest gestures of his actors, and floating between the elliptical stories that always seem to be fragments of a larger unfinished film. "

Filmography

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Haden Guest: Where Are Their Stories? The Films of Nicolás Pereda , at harvard.edu, 2011, accessed May 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Adam Nayman: Filmmaker Nico Pereda's 'improvised way of framing things' , on theglobeandmail.com, November 23, 2012, accessed May 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ page Peredas on rutgers.edu.
  4. ↑ Seth Colter Walls: Nicolas Pereda: Here Are His Stories , on villagevoice.com, July 6, 2011, accessed May 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Pereda, Nicolás
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, film editor and cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH 1980 or 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico