Title
Assistant Professor

Department
Dept of Film and Media


Faculty URL
https://filmmedia.berkeley.edu/people/nico-pereda/

Email
nicopereda@berkeley.edu


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Research Expertise and Interest
film, fiction, documentary

Research Description
Nicolas Pereda is a filmmaker whose work explores the everyday through fractured and elliptical?narratives using fiction and documentary tools. He often collaborates with the theater collective?Lagartijas tiradas al sol and actress Teresita Sánchez. His work has been the subject of more than?30 retrospectives worldwide in venues such as Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film? Archive,?Jeonju International Film Festival and TIFF Cinematheque. He has also presented his films in?most major international film festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, and Toronto,as well as in galleries and museums like the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the National Museum of?Modern Art in Paris, the Guggenheim and MoMA in New York. In 2010 he was awarded the?Premio Orizzonti at the Venice Film Festival.