Alex Méndez Giner Foreign Language Film Festival 2013 Keynote Speaker and Workshop
Presenter Alex Méndez Giner received a B.A in
Mass Communications at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Venezuela, and completed a M.F.A in Film at Syracuse University, N.Y. His film career has been divided between the direction of TV spots and the making of his own film and video projects. He has obtained several awards in his country and abroad, been particularly relevant two places as a finalist in the Festival Iberoamericano de la Publicidad (FIAP) and one in The New York Film Festivals. He has directed four shortfilms: “Transparency” (1999), “Essay” (2000), “Seamstress” (2001) and “It Rains”(2007), two video-‐art pieces: “Seawash” (2001) and “Cervical Song” (2005) and one short documentary called “On the Back of the Whale” (2008).
He was awarded with the Caracas City Hall Shortfilms Award in the Best Film, Best Directing and Best Editing categories for the shortfilm “Rehearsal” and Best Sound for the shortfilm “Seamstress”. He has been official selection in the 13th Videobrasil International Festival in Sao Paulo and in the V Pirelli Festival for Young Artists in Caracas. He has participated as an invited artist in the 1st International Biennial of Video-‐Art of Israel, in the “Ve-‐Corto Ve-‐Largo 2008” Venezuelan film exhibition in Barcelona and in the 1st Latinamerican Film Congress in Mexico. He was founder artist of the Multimedia Center for the Arts in the Contemporary Museum of Caracas and recently his short film "It Rains" (Llueve) has been part of several international film festivals among them the 30th International Short Film Festival of Clermont-‐Ferrand 2008, the 23erd International Film Festival of Guadalajara 2008, the X Film Encounters of Marseille 2008 and the International Short Film Festival of Sapporo 2008 in Japan.
