Videographer in New York, New York

Raúl O. Paz Pastrana is a Mexican-Immigrant filmmaker and cinematographer whose cinematic style melds visual anthropology with cinema verité. His films, which focus on indigenous and immigrant rights, have screened in festivals worldwide, including the Sheffield Doc/Fest in the U.K, DOCSDF (DocsMx) in Mexico City and at the Ethnografilm Festival in Paris France. He is a Princess Grace Awards recipient and a Tribeca Film Institute All Access Program recipient. Recently he was a fellow for the Film Society of Lincoln Center Artist Academy at the 2016 NYFF54 in NYC and received the 2017 Art Matters and Jerome Foundation Artist Residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Raúl graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2012 where he received the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for exceptional achievement in social documentary Film. Currently he is working on his first feature film “BORDER SOUTH/FRONTERA SUR,” a gripping story that documents the lives of Central and South American migrants as they cross through Mexico and has received support from the Jerome Foundation and the Undocumented Migration Project.