Pedro Cristiani

Pedro Cristiani is a director and screenwriter for film and television. He broke into the industry as author of the hard sci-fi feature MOEBIUS: Winner, Best Screenplay at the Huelva Film Festival [Spain] and the Miami Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award at the Viennale - Vienna Film Festival. He collects an intense body of work that ranges from Story Editor, Showrunner and Director for Prime-Time TV, to Advertising Executive Producer and Screenwriter/Consultant for international feature and television studios [filmax, 20th Century Fox,...]. Pedro's independent short story Man in a Bag was distinguished with 5 International Film Awards, and DEUS IRAE - his work-in-progress feature film - took over the Festival arena winning over 20 International Awards, including Best Potential [Fantastic Fest, USA], Best Director [Santiago, Chile], Audience Award [Toronto], Honorary Mention: Best Short Film [Los Angeles], Best Professional Short Film [Godella, Spain], as well as being Official Selection at Sitges, Montreal, San Sebastián, Athens, Sao Pablo, Puchon, HBO's NYC International Latin Film Festival,... Lately, Pedro has directed a front internet campaign for L'Oréal Paris, and completed Politics+advertising: a documentary that exposes the covert relationship between mass media and political power throughout the Argentine Dictatorship and Democratic Governments. He has recently been appointed as Showrunner for Pilgrims - a miniseries event that chronicles the aboriginal American myths, and how they have managed to remain alive as present-day urban rituals. From 2003 to 2008 Pedro was a Professor at New York University: the Gallatin School, with his Arts Workshop Guerrilla Screenwriting. On 2011 and 2014 he was part of the NYU Visiting Faculty Program, with special screenings of his works and open Q+A sessions with faculty and students that covered from the inception to the global online repercussion of independent film productions. He is also a Film Professor at Universidad de Palermo [Argentina], and Lecturer at NYU: Buenos Aires.