Name:

william garcia

Films:

The Soldier

Biography:

Mr. Garcia was born and raised in Miami, Florida. A Cuban/American with a rich Hispanic heritage, he started his career in the early 1980’s while attending Miami Dade’s College Film program in Miami, Florida. Mr. Garcia quickly moved behind the camera. In the mid 1980’s, he was covering world news and shooting documentaries in both the film and video format for ABC-TV. He has shot documentaries and special projects on Princess Diana, British Airways Concord, Panama, Russia, and NASA Space Shuttle missions. In the early 1990’s, Mr. Garcia was chosen from a staff of 25 photographers to represent ABC-TV in Tampa, Florida for a journalist exchange program with the former Soviet Union. Working for Glassnoradio Network in the former Soviet Union, he documented the entertainment, lifestyle, and people of Russia. His work on that documentary led to a South East Emmy™ for best documentary, and a national award from The Radio and Television News Director Association. During Mr. Garcia’s career he was a Finalist for Television Photography, from the Atlanta Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists, Green Eye Shade Award, and in 1992 won a South East Emmy for an Entertainment Feature for Hot Shots, a documentary on the fashion industry in Miami. In the mid 1990’s Mr. Garcia moved on to Producer, Director and Director of Photograhy for features, commercials, television programming, industrial, and music video productions. He won two New York Film Festival Awards for Best TV Spots for ABC-TV, and a nomination for a Musical Video spot. Mr. Garcia’s first short feature The Soldier was released in August 2003 at Cinema Paradiso, home of The Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival. Also in 2003, he was selected to attend the first NALIP (National Association Latino Independent Producers) film academy in association with UCLA film program. For the last four years Mr. Garcia’s has held the position of Producer/Director and as completed such films as Frat Party for Anchor Bay Entertainment, Amor & Frijoles for Cinemark International and the sales of foreign distribution rights for Celestine Prophecy for Animus Entertainment, and Project My World for Direct TV just to name a few projects.

Website:

http://www.williamgarcia.com/

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