VIDEO DOCUMENTARY WORK

Voto 2020 is a documentary project profiling distinct voices in the Latinx community and their work and passion to empower other Latinx to become politically active and vote.

Iván is one of the over 135,000 Puerto Ricans that relocated to the U.S. mainland after the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Now living in Miami, Ivan has become a thriving businessman, opening La Social, a restaurant and bakery in the historic MiMo district in South Florida. But Ivan’s contribution to the local community goes beyond serving coffee and picture-perfect pastries; La Social has become a meeting point for the Latinx community.

Director/Producer/Editor: Arturo R. Jiménez

Steiner´s Workshop is a portrait of a forgotten genius. Part mad scientist, part inscrutable musician, Nyle Steiner is a singular presence in the world of underground inventors.

Beginning as a trumpet player in the 1960s, Steiner's creativity led him to experiment with sounds and machines, developing a series of instruments, including the EVI or Electronic Valve Instrument, a brass-style electronic synthesizer. The EVI's haunting sound and Steiner's expert playing ability sparked the interest of Hollywood and filmmakers like Francis Ford Coppola who invited him to be a part of the recording of Apocalypse Now's soundtrack. For more than 40 years Steiner has been working in his Utah workshop assembling, modulating, and understanding anything he can get his hands on.

Screenings: Thin Line Festival, On Art Film Festival Poland. 

Director: Arturo R. Jiménez

Cajetillas de Cigarros is a short documentary going behind the scenes on the filming of Batallas Latentes.

Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Arturo R. Jiménez

Since its inauguration in 1981, the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City has presented the most significant modern and contemporary art in Mexico and abroad. The New American Painting celebrates the historic occasion of the international tour of an impressive grouping of works drawn from the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Director/Editor: Arturo R. Jiménez

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Big Story: Pandemic Response is a feature documentary from CGTN that takes viewers to Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina to see first-hand the divisions being caused by measures made to protect against COVID-19. This documentary highlights the difficulties and roadblocks preventing virus containment while also seeing what businesses are doing to remain open as infection figures keep rising.

Co-Director Texas: Arturo R. Jiménez