Alex Mendez Giner
director • scriptwriter • cinematographer
Alex Mendez Giner is a filmmaker whose works defy the boundaries of storytelling, exploring complex characters at the intersection of subjective experience, reality and the marvelous real. His meticulously designed images, redolent of an allegorical atmosphere, create a visual experience capable to subsume other senses.
He has screened in major international film festivals including Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin International Short Film Festival, Milan International Film Festival, Viña del Mar International Film Festival, Sapporo International Film Festival, Guadalajara International Film Festival, Bilbao International Film Festival, and Durban International Film Festival. He is recipient of the Audience Choice Award from the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Grand Prize from the Snowtown Film Festival, the Best Film and Best Directing Awards from the Caracas City Hall Film Awards, the Best Story Award from the Buffalo-Niagara Film Festival, and a production grant from the New York State Council of the Arts.
He is founder artist of the Multimedia Center for the Arts at the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas and has been guest speaker at Santa Maria Della Scala Museum in Siena, University of the Andes in Colombia, State University of New York at Oswego, the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg and the National University of Laos, among others. His professional practice combines constant film production with film teaching at Syracuse University.
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Filmography
The Book of Judith
USA 2015
Narrative Short Film
Writer, Director, Producer and Cinematographer
Digital Cinema/ 21:45min
Funded by
New York State Council on the Arts
Syracuse University
Whiskey Films Mexico
39 and a half
USA 2014-Ongoing
Feature Film by Kara Herold
Cinematographer and Script Consultant
Digital Cinema /In Production
Centripetal
Venezuela 2011
Narrative Short Film.
Writer and Director
35mm/7min
Funded by
Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía (CNAC)
The Format Films
Premiered at the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival
Winner Audience Choice Award at the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival
Winner Best Narrative Short Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
It Rains
Venezuela 2007
Narrative Short Film
Writer and Director
35mm/14min
Funded by
Centro Nacional Autónomo de Cinematografía (CNAC)
Kó Films
Premiered at the 30th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
Winner Best Cinematography 2nd CHORTS Caracas International Short Film Festival
On the Back of the Whale
Venezuela 2007
Documental
Writer, Director and Producer
Mini DV/ 2min
Winner Best Documentary Caracas Filmminuto 2008
Cervical Song
Venezuela 2005
Video Art
Director
Mini DV/ 2min
Premiered at the Caracas National Cinematheque
Official Selection European Traveling Exhibition of Latinamerican Film and Video “En-Transe”
Seawash
USA 2001
Video Art
Director
Mini DV/ 6min
Premiered at the 13th International Festival of Electronic Art Videobrasil
V Pirelli Exhibition of Young Artists at the Caracas Contemporary Museum of Modern Art
Guest Artist at the 1st Israel International Video-Art Biennial
Seamstress
USA 2001
Narrative Short Film
Writer, Director, Producer and Cinematographer
16mm/ 9min
Winner Best Sound. Caracas City Hall Short Film Awards 2001
Rehearsal
USA 2000
Narrative Short Film.
Writer, Director, Producer and Cinematographer
16mm/ 12min
Winner Best Directing and Best Editing. Caracas City Hall Short Film Awards 2001
Advertising
Over 100 commercials for national and international brands for every country on the South American region as well as Central America and the Caribbean:
Medical
Pfizer(Sinutab, Mylanta, Benylin, Atamel)
Boehringer Ingelheim (Pharmaton)
Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) (Corega)
Locatel
Farmahorro
Food
Kellogg’s (Special K, Corn Flakes,
Frosty Flakes, Choco Flakes, Bars, etc )
Kraft Foods (Oreo)
Coca Cola
Mondelēz International (Tang)
Cadbury Adams (Bubbaloo)
Mead Johnson Nutrition (Enfagrow)
Olympia (Tea)
Inproceca (Avelina)
Telecommunications and Technology
Motorolla
Samsung
CANTV
Courier Services
DHL
Restaurants
Subway
Café Atlantique
Institutional
The New York Film Festivals (ANDA)
Venezuelan Cancer Society
Fundación Daniela Chappard
Kyrios
Centro de Terapia Integral de Venezuela
Toys
Mattel Toys (Fisher Price, Hot Wheels, Barbie, Scrabble, Little Mommy, Polly Pocket, Max Steel)
Newspapers and News Outlets
El Mundo Newspaper
Globovisión (TV Station)
Últimas Noticias Newspaper
El Deportivo Newspaper
2001 Newspaper
Banks & Insurance Companies
Banco Occidental de Descuento B.O.D
Banco Confederado
Banco Canarias
Banco del Caribe
Seguros Constitución
Seguros La Vitalicia
Car & Automotive
Venoco Oil
Mitsubishi
Paints
Protecto
Retail Stores and Entertainment
5to Piso (Fondo de Valores Inmobiliarios C.A.)
Macuto
Personal Care
Consentido Diapers
Scott Products
Procter and Gamble