Screenplay Writer and Film Director. Creative Director. Professor.

Alexis C.

Besides being an artist with more than ten short films and a multi awarded feature length film, I have been a teacher for more than twenty five years, half of them in The United States, and I have received the San Francisco Art Institute's George Kuchar Memorial Award in 2015, and a Fulbright Scholarship from the Department of State in 2001.

As a filmmaker, I have mainly made narrative films, but I have produced three television shows, and made two documentaries: I Returned to Maracaibo, about the Venezuelan socio-political situation, and PRISMa, which is both, a feature length “modular” documentary and a web serial on my family experience as immigrants. At this moment, I am working on a documentary about my band, Vanguardia, in the Rock in Your Language movement, back in the nineties.

As a teacher, I have lead Screenplay Writing Classes, Directing classes, Audiovisual Arts History classes, and seven Feature Length Film Laboratories, where students of different origins and credos, produced four feature length films and won seven national awards. As a Native Spanish Speaker, I have also taught English at University of Zulia, in Venezuela, and Spanish at Ohio University in The United States.

I have also been the Creative Director in charge of many Advertising Campaigns that included traditional media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards, and new media: e-mail, web, social media, etc. Helping clients to succeed in their marketing efforts: from launching films with the help of social media, to using e-mail in Crowd Funding Campaigns, and YouTube videos to promote art and education institutions, I have been communicating the vision, the ideas, and the emotions of all these organizations and causes.