Biography

Guillermo Gómez Álvarez was born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1973. 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. There 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, a music video director, as well as a musician and photographer. His first full-length documentary was La escena [The Scene] (2005), on Puerto Rico’s punk subculture, presented at selected theaters in Puerto Rico and the United States; this documentary was part of Gómez Álvarez Master’s thesis project. La rosa de María [Mary’s Rose] (2007) is also part of a thesis project at Universtiat Autónoma de Barcelona and aired on Televisió de Catalunya (TVC) in 2007. Aquel rebaño azul [The Blue Flock], Gómez Álvarez first film, won the Accolade Film Award in 2009. The documentary explores a history of police brutality in Puerto Rico. This film was commissioned by the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission, and was presented throughout the island in May 2010, and also at El Museo del Barrio in New York. Una Identidad en Absurdo Vol. 1 is his latest work, released in April 2011. Leaning towards an experimental concept, the documentary explores deconstructing Puerto Rican identity through music.

Homepage: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrGuillermogomez

Birthday: 1973