Nicolás Pereda

Nicolás Pereda is a Mexican film director. He is a graduate of the film program at York University in Toronto.
To date he has directed nine features and three short films. His award winning films have been exhibited in festivals around the world like Venice, Berlin, Rotterdam, Toronto, Oberhausen, and San Sebastian. He has had more than twenty retrospectives in various festivals, cinemateques and archives around the world including Anthology Film Archives, Harvard Film Archives, Jeonju International Film Festival, Cartagena International Film Festival, the Pacific Film Archive, and Valdivia International Film Festival. In 2010 his film Summer of Goliath was awarded the Orizzonti award for best film at the Venice Film Festival.
Pereda won the 2012 Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist, awarded by the Toronto Film Critics Association.
He is the Director of the Filmmaking Program, a new BFA program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

• Where Are Their Stories? (2007)
• Together (2009)
• Perpetuum Mobile (2009)
• All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (2010)
• Summer of Goliath (2010)
• The Greatest Hits (2012)
• Killing Strangers (2013)
• Los ausentes (2014)
• El Aula Vacía (2015)
• Minotaur (2015)
• Tales of two who dreamt (2016)