Gustavo A. Garzon

writer/director
Director, Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Editor and Producer

Los Angeles, California

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About Gustavo

Gustavo is one of the top writer/directors in the international market today. He was awarded a GRAMMY in the Best Music Video category, along with the prestigious Billboard, MTV Latin America Awards, and Premios Lo Nuestro Univision. Gustavo won Los Premios Oye Univision Best Music Video of the Year and also received his 5th Grammy nomination for a music video he directed for SONY international artist Chayanne. His feature film debut, “VOLVERTE A VER” (SEE YOU AGAIN) is a visual romantic comedy he directed and screen adapted in Mexico featuring Alfonso Herrera (lead actor in Fox's The Exorcist). He also wrote and directed DESTINS CROISÉS (Crossed Destinies), a short thriller shot and edited in 48hrs (festival rules) in Quebec, Canada as a guest artist for the KINOMADA PROJECT.

Recently, Gustavo directed the documentary ELYPSE: A JOURNEY INTO SOUND for the international CAMILA group, in addition to campaigns for CHIVAS 'BAND OF BROTHERHOOD feat. the acclaimed band Maná, DIRECTV feat. Shalim Ortiz, promos for THE VOICE KIDS for Telemundo feat. Paulina Rubio and Prince Royce and new regional spots for Kellogg's Chocokrispies.

He has recently finished writing ECLIPSES, a coming of age story about an African Amercan teen cello prodigy with Asperger's and severe childhood traumas who achieves greatness with the help of an forgotten yet vibrant Italian composer.

Gustavo also wrote two SCI-FI projects: REMEMBER? a suspense drama/thriller exploring how a couple survives supernatural events after a post-nuclear disaster, and BIOSPHERE 3.1, a thriller series about a rebel young android programmed to kill who goes through a spiritual awakening in her last mission inside a holistic rehab facility.

His character-driven drama THE EXILE, follows a federal judge with early-onset Alzheimer's who leaves his family behind to make amends with those he wronged in his past... now vanishing. Top Finalist in the Final Draft Big Break Contest, BARCELONA FILM FESTIVAL, INROADS FELLOWSHIP and the STARZ Denver Film Festival. In addition to many more features and TV scripts, Gustavo also wrote FAITH, a thriller TV series commissioned by SONY PICTURES TELEVISION INTERNATIONAL.

Gustavo recently directed multiple Grammy-winner Alejandro Sanz’s latest video and was invited as Jury at the prestigious Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico.

As a director, Gustavo has worked with superstars such as Shakira, Ricky Martin, J. Balvin, Vanessa Williams, legend Johnny Cash, Vonda Shepard, Lila Downs, Oscar de la Hoya, Luis Fonsi, Mana, Juanes, Cafe Tacuba, Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias, Crystal Waters, Paulina Rubio, Camila, Jesse & Joy and the double Academy Award winner, music producer/composer Gustavo Santaolalla, who composed the soundtracks for “Babel”, “Brokeback Mountain”, “Motorcycle Diaries”, “21 Grams” and “Amores Perros” among many.

He has directed near 200 music videos and 100+ hip and visually strong TV commercials for clients such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, HSBC, Astra–Zeneca, Volkswagen, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Wal-Mart, Kimberly-Clark, and Kellogg's along with promos for TV shows "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Entertainment Tonight", for Paramount Pictures’ UPN. He has also directed the Latin Grammy 2006 campaign for WALMART. He recently directed a campaign for 7UP and Dr Pepper. Gustavo has also directed soundtrack tie-in projects for feature films such as “Crazy, Beautiful” with Kirsten Dunst for Disney, “Zapata”, "Dance With Me", "Drive Me Crazy" and for Fox’s animated film “Anastasia”.

Gustavo’s strong visual style incorporates lyrical elements in his work, always following a surreal and poetic sense of narrative storytelling. The director explains: “My goal is always to come in contact with those mysterious forces operating behind the visible world thus provoking an active participation in the viewer.”

He was born in Argentina and has been living in the U.S since 1982 (a U.S.citizen since 1994). He obtained a B.F.A. in Film at the film-conservatory of SUNY College at Purchase and later he received a fellowship to study at the prestigious UCLA M.F.A. Program in Animation, where he studied for 2 years. While in New York, he had a One Person Show the Personal Cinema Series at the Millenium Film Workshop.

He also wrote the screenplay adaptation of PALOMAR, A LOVE AND ROCKETS STORY, from the famed graphic novel by comic-book pioneer Gilbert Hernandez. Called the graphic equivalent to the fabulism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez,“ by the Times of London, this dark, surreal comedy tells the story of Luba, a rebellious femme-fatale who escapes from her drug lord husband and settles in the strange town of Palomar in search of a peaceful new life soon to be shattered by rising sexual tensions, jealousy and the arrival of a serial killer whose mission is to wipe the town from the face of the Earth.

The writer/director has recently adapted the screenplay EXPEDIENTE No.6353 (FILE No. 6353), a screen adaptation of the Mexican award-winning novel "Nadie Me Verá Llorar" (NO ONE WILL SEE ME CRY) from writer Cristina Rivera Garza. Set during the 1920’s, this engrossing drama tells the story of Joaquin, a self-exiled photographer inside Mexico City’s Mental Hospital who tries to rescue the mysterious Matilda, a patient and former revolutionary from the asylum’s hardships and her own mental illness. Novelist CARLOS FUENTES calls the book, “one of the most beautiful and perturbing novels ever written in Mexico.”

Gustavo has also written specs for the AMC series “BREAKING BAD” and HBO’S “IN TREATMENT”.
Specialties: Directed in US., Canada, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Panama & Brazil.