Guillermo Gómez Álvarez

Guillermo Gómez Alvarez was born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1973 and was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, since he was three years old. Gómez Álvarez is an alumnus from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, where he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Arts (1996), majoring in Latin American Studies, and also a master ' s Degree in Arts (2005), majoring in Audiovisual Production. In 2007, he completed a master ' s Degree in Creative Documentary at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.

He is a fiction and documentary filmmaker, music video director, as well as a musician and photographer. His first full-length documentary was Die szene [The Scene] (2005): on-Puerto Rico 's punk subculture, which was part of Gómez Álvarez Master' s thesis project. Die rose Mary [Mary ' s Rose] (2007) was also part of a thesis project at Universtiat Autónoma de Barcelona and für diesen anruf on Televisió de Catalunya (TVC) in 2007.

Jener herde blau [The Blue Flock] won the Accolade Film Award in 2009. This film was commissioned by the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission and it explorer the history of police brutality in Puerto Rico.

Eine Identität Absurd, Vol. 1 is his latest work, released in April 2011. Leaning towards an experimental concept, this documentary erkunden deconstructing Puerto Rican identity through music.