ABOUT
Arturo R. Jiménez is a filmmaker from Chihuahua, Mexico. He started his professional career in Mexico City where he wrote for Rolling Stone México and La Ciudad de Frente. During that time he hosted a late-night radio show on Ibero 90.9 FM and was a part of the music programming team. He has also worked as an Assistant Curator at Museo Rufino Tamayo. His first professional work in the film industry came in 2009 as a Cinematographer for the feature documentary El Árbol Olvidado. The film screened at SXSW, SF DocFest, Ambulante, and many others. The film was nominated for an Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, for Best Documentary. He has also worked as a Script Supervisor for projects including Eisenstein in Guanajuato, directed by Peter Greenaway. His most recent narrative film as a director is El Fantasma, a short film inspired by Lee Harvey Oswald's trip to Mexico City two months before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The film stars Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood) as Oswald and Fernanda Rivera (Son of Monarchs) as Silvia Durán. The film has screened at the Palm Springs International ShortFest, CAMERIMAGE, Rhode Island International Film Festival, and many others. In 2022 he received the Latino Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship (LEFF) from Latino Public Broadcasting for his short documentary Sangre Violenta/Sangre Violeta, co-directed with Edna Diaz. The film had its world premiere 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 include Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused), producer Jacob Jaffke (X, Pearl, Dream Scenario), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar), and producer Toby Halbrooks (The Green Knight, Peter Pan & Wendy).
Arturo has been a professor and instructor at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin Film Society, Austin Community College, the Travis County Correctional Complex, and AMBULANTE Documentary Film Festival. 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
