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SERGE GARCIA 

FILMMAKER

b. 1985, Los Angeles, CA, USA



SELECTED SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITS:


El Neceser Rojo / Narrative short, 15 min, 2024

            Shortlisted for the 97th Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short
            International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), 2024
            Doxa Documentary Film Festival, Vacouver, 2024

            Guanajuato International Film Festival, 2024 (WINNER: Best Mexican Short Documentary film)

            Doclisboa, Lisbon, 2024

            Black Canvas/Transmutacion Festival de Cine Contemporaneo CDMX, 2024



A General Disappointment / Narrative short, 25 min, 2022 

            Rencontres Internationales, Paris, 2023
            Official Selection FID Marseille Flash Competition, 2022
            Official Selection BIEFF, 2022


Antenna / Doc Short, 9 min, 2022

            FID Marseille, Other Gems, 2022 

Grand Central Hotel / Short Doc, 23 min, 2021

            Official Selection FID Marseille Flash Competition, 2021
            Official Selection Visionär Film Festival Berlin, 2021
            I GOT UP Group Exhibition GB Agency Paris, 2021
            Actoral International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Marseille 2021
            YPAM (Yokohama International
Performing Arts Meeting)Japan, 2021           
            Hošek Contemporary, Berlin 2022
            Whole Music Festival, Ferropolis, 2022
            On The Poverty Of Lived Experience, de Appel Amsterdam, 2022
            Reina Sofia, 2024


						

Cyle One  / Narrative Short, 10 min, 2021

            Official Selection FID Marseille Flash Competition, 2021
            Official Selection CUFF, 2021
      Cinema Queer International Film Festival Stockholm, 2022
     Outfest Fusion Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2022
            Official Selection New Fest NYC, 2022
            On The Poverty Of Lived Experience, de Appel Amsterdam, 2022 

						

Noncompliant / Short Doc, 13 min, 2021

            Die Dresdner Schalfilmtage, 2023 
            Hošek Contemporary, Berlin 2022
            Whole Music Festival, Ferropolis, 2022

Jackie House / Short Doc, 7 min, 2018 
           Die Dresdner Schalfilmtage, 2023

           Reina Sofia, 2024

PERSONAL INFO:

Serge Garcia is a writer, filmmaker, audio producer, and photographer of Mexican and Guatemalan 
descent. In 2024 he was awarded the Joaquim Jordá residency in Madrid by the Museo Reina Sofia, 
FID Marseille, and DocLisboa. Founded in 2017, Trouble Pictures is the studio and home for his
hand-crafted productions. It is an evolving experiment with a focus on fiction and
documentary filmmaking.

EDUCATION:

Political Science, San Francisco City College, 2005 - 2006 Political Science, San Francisco State University, 2006 - 2007 School of Cinema, San Francisco State University, 2009 - 201

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