Georgina González Rodríguez
Studies[edit]
Georgina graduated with a BA in filmmaking from Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC-UNAM) and MFA in Producing from University of Southern California’s Peter Stark program with Fulbright Program, HBO, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, and FONCA scholarships.
Films[edit]
During her studies, she produced several short films, such as "The No-Man", which won the Sterpaia Prize at Universo Corto Film Festival in Pisa, Italy 2007 from the hands of Oliviero Toscani and received a nomination from the Mexican Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences (Arieles). She also directed other short films such as “Invisible Borders”, which won Contra el Silencio Film Festival 2010 and was nominated at the Viña del Mar International Film Festival, Fulbright Film Festival, Cancún International Film Festival, Kinoki International Film Festival, Chihuahua International Film Festival and more.
Between her BA and MFA, she worked for three years as an executive production coordinator for Juan Carlos Martín's documentary “Open Field” (Guanajuato Film Fest) about world renowned Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco.
During Stark, she also produced the stop-motion animation short film “The Healing Tree”, which was a Stark special project fund recipient as well as an official selection for The Creative Minds Group at Cannes Short Film Corner.
She’s currently an executive producer at her binational production company Off-Hollywood Films (US) / Monofilms (Mexico) through which she's finishing producing the feature documentary “Kiliwas at Dusk” with funding from Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and DocsMX. The project also participated at the Morelia International Film Festival DocuLab & Guadalajara International Film Festival Co-Production forum. She's also developing her pilot script “The Devil’s Playground” (finalist at Sundance Institute’s Episodic Lab), her feature script “Naïve” (selection at Oaxaca Film Fest and finalist at CineQuaNonLab) and the documentary project “Finding the Werewolf” (Guadalajara Film fest 2017 Co-production forum, EDN’s LisbonDocs 2016, New York Television Festival's Participant Media initiative 2016 and a finalist in Big Vision Fund 2016).
The company co-produced “Kings of Nowhere” (Winner at South by Southwest SXSW and Zurich Film Festival, screened at Museum of Modern Artl's Director’s Fortnight) and “Robertson Street” (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam development fund).
Work[edit]
During her time at Caponeto, Neural Films and Terciopelo Films, Georgina was an executive production coordinator for international and national advertising campaigns for agencies such as BBDO, DDB Worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam, Saatchi & Saatchi, Grey Global Group, etc. In parallel to her MFA studies, she interned at Universal Studios, Skydance Media (Paramount Pictures), Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Lifeboat Productions and Ambulante. Upon graduation from the Peter Stark program, she worked as an executive assistant at 20th Century Fox.
Georgina is an active member of the film community, she served as jury member at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and Guadalajara International Film Festival, has participated in several film forums such as FACINE, DocMontevideo and the round tables for the Mexican Documentary Association as well as NYTVF's StoryNext. She has also written articles for Estudios Cinematográficos magazine.
Sources[edit]
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