Ricardo de Montreuil

Ricardo de Montreuil is a Feature Film Director based in Los Angeles, California. De Montreuil recently directed the feature film LOWRIDERS for Universal Pictures, produced by Bryan Grazer and Jason Blum, starring academy award nominee Demian Bichir. LOWRIDERS made close to three million dollars in its opening in the US, with barely 300 screens, having the highest average per theater in the US that weekend. His debut feature film, LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO enjoyed both the largest release and opening weekend box-office for a Spanish language film in the USA at the time. His second film MANCORA was selected for competition in the World Drama category at the Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered in 2008. De Montreuil is developing a feature version of his short film THE RAVEN for Universal Pictures with Mark Wahlberg producing. He is also working with Samantha Vincent and One Race Film on THE OMEGA, an original sci-fi horror script written by de Montreuil, and Elizabeth Avellan on the sci-fi thriller SAVE ME, based on his original idea. De Montreuil is a former VP Creative Director at NBC Universal's mun2. Since his involvement the channel had massive rating growth, becoming the number one Hispanic cable channel in the US. Prior to this, De Montreuil was Senior Creative at MTV Networks Latin America, where he oversaw the overall promotional design for the MTV channels throughout the Latin American region. De Montreuil was also Senior Creative for ATTIK agency in San Francisco.