ABOUT

Arturo R. Jiménez began his career in Mexico City, writing for Rolling Stone México and La Ciudad de Frente. He also hosted a late-night radio show on Ibero 90.9 FM and contributed to the station's music programming. Additionally, Arturo has served as an Assistant Curator at Museo Rufino Tamayo.

Arturo began his professional film career in 2009 as a Cinematographer for the feature documentary El Árbol Olvidado. The film was screened at SXSW, SF DocFest, Ambulante, and other festivals, and was nominated for a Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences Ariel Award for Best Documentary. Arturo has also worked as a Script Supervisor on projects such as Eisenstein in Guanajuato, directed by Peter Greenaway.

Arturo's latest narrative film as a director is El Fantasma, a short inspired by Lee Harvey Oswald's visit to Mexico City shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film features Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood) as Oswald and Fernanda Rivera (Son of Monarchs) as Silvia Durán. El Fantasma has been showcased at Palm Springs International ShortFest, CAMERIMAGE, Rhode Island International Film Festival, and more. In 2022, Arturo received the Latino Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship from Latino Public Broadcasting for his short documentary Sangre Violenta/Sangre Violeta, co-directed with Edna Diaz. The film premiered at SXSW 2024 and won the Audience Award in the Texas Shorts section.

In 2023 Arturo's feature film screenplay A Thousand Particles of Light was one of three projects selected for the Austin Film Society's Artist Intensive program, an invitational retreat with professional mentors that included Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused), producer Jacob Jaffke (X), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar), and producer Toby Halbrooks (The Green Knight). 

Arturo has been a professor and instructor at The University of Texas at Austin, the Austin Film Society, Austin Community College, and the Travis County Correctional Complex. He has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film Production from The University of Texas at Austin. He currently lives in Austin, Texas.

CONTACT - artjimenez [at] gmail.com