Director/Producer: Independent filmmaker, Gustavo Vazquez is originally from Tijuana and now lives in San Francisco. Vazquez has directed over thirty productions, including documentaries, video installations, and dramas.

His work award winning films Que Viva la Lucha, Los Guardianes del Maíz, The Great Mojado Invasion, has been shown at film festivals and art exhibitions including the Mill Valley Film Festival, Film Stock, Luton UK, Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia, Mexico, Centre for Contemporary Images, Saint-Gervais, Switzerland, L’immagine, Québec, Leggera, Palermo, Italy, Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival and has been broadcasted nation-wide on PBS and Canal 22, Mexico’s National broadcasting system.

Vazquez has been the recipient of The Rockefeller Media Fellowship and The Fleishhacker Foundation, Eureka Visual Artist Fellowship. He is a co-author of Documentary Filmmaking: A Contemporary Field Guide, 2nd edition published by Oxford University Press in October 2013 and 2017.