Dano García

Dano García is a multi-award-winning documentary filmmaker. They studied at the NFTS in London and the ENAC (formally CUEC) Film School at the UNAM in Mexico City. In 2016 they directed Unsilenced, an NY Times Op-Doc about a Mexican activist who was murdered on-air while hosting a radio show for displaced residents. Their first feature documentary, Kings of Nowhere (2015), won the SX:Global Audience Award at SXSW, the Grand Jury Award at Full Frame Documentary Festival, the Golden Eye for Best International Documentary Film at the Zurich Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Morelia International Film Festival, the International Jury Prize at This Human World and the Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma-Ambulante Grant. The film screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest and MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, as well as being nominated for Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film at the 2016 Cinema Eye Honors and winning Best Director of a Documentary Film at the 2016 Cinema Tropical Awards. In 2015 it was included in Sight & Sound Magazine’s list of Best Films of the Year. Their short film Porcelana (2013) won the Best Short Film at the Guanajuato International Film Festival (2013) and the Best Film Award at the AluCine Latin Film + Media Arts in Toronto, Canada (2015). Their short film La chica con dos cabezas won the Orona Award for Best Short Film in San Sebastian Film Fest (2018) and the Best Short Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, as well as screening as part of La semaine de la critique at the Cannes Film Festival.