Sergio Muñoz

Segio lived his first ten years in the middle of downtown Mexico City. He played football on the sidewalk and the closest park was the "Alameda". He studied in an active school since he was just kid until he reached high school. It all kept him in a bubble that kept him believing in a fantasy of "a happy world". Majored in Anthropology and philosophy, he soon got bored and got to study what he really loved: Cinematography. He left to Italy to the "Centro di Cinema Sperimentale di Roma" but once more, the "economical crisis" just let him enjoy this for a while and had to return. When arriving back to Mexico he enrolled in the ninth generation of "CCC, Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica" (Center for Cinematography Capacitation), where he graduated in 1991 with "Cum Laude". The synods were: Arturo Ripstein, Jorge Fons, Ludwig Margules, Julian Pastor, Jose Luis Garcia Agraz, Luis Estrada y Henner Hoffman with his thesis "The last moo" which obtained an Ariel to the best short, nominations for "Diosa de Plata" and presentations in various international festivals like "New York Latino Film Festival" and the San Francisco Exploratorium in California. Also back in school at CCC, he had made a documentary, "Tatay", nominated to various national and international awards. His debut film was with "Luces de la Noche" (Lights of the night) 1994, it was filmed with the support of IMCINE, FONCA and Bandidos Films, was awarded more than 10 nominations to the Ariel Award and several more for the "Diosa de Plata". He also directed and important documentary: "Paquimé, la ciudad del desierto". Produced by INAH and IMCINE, it was well recognized in 1995 when receiving a grant from FONCA and the "National Endowment for the Arts" to live in San Francisco, Ca. From there he was dedicated to a multimedia job next to the acclaimed American photographer David M. Spear. In 2003 he made the documentary Ludwik Margules, el provocador produced by TV UNAM and CONACULTA for the series "A escena". This documentary was nominated for "the best documentary" in "Pantalla de Cristal". In 2008 he made the documentary Olympic in Mexico (Olimpiada en México), short documentary. Director, writer and editor. Since 2009 Sergio Muñoz works as a director and producer in his own production company, Gravedad cero films, "Zero Gravity Films", in addition to his work as a freelance. In 2010 he made the documentary Manuel Felguérez, short documentary. Director and editor, a chapter of the documentary TV series National award, (Premio Nacional) FONCA. Produced by Arturo Ripstein. In 2011 he made the documentary Dr. Sergio Revah, short documentary. Director and editor. A chapter of the documentary TV series National award, (Premio Nacional) FONCA. Produced by Arturo Ripstein. In 2012 he made the TV Serie Forgotten Masters, surviving crafts, (Maestros Olvidados, oficios que sobreviven), 15 Documentaries in HD. Director and Executive Producer. Produced by Zero Gravity Flims (Gravedad cero films) and SPR, Public Broadcasting System of the Mexican State. In 2013-14 he made the TV Serie Forgotten Masters, trades surviving, (Maestros Olvidados, oficios que sobreviven) Second Season, 14 Documentaries in HD. Director and Executive Producer Produced by Zero Gravity Flims (Gravedad cero films) and SPR, Public Broadcasting System of the Mexican State Throughout this trajectory he has directed for advertising and other audiovisual streams. His work in advertising has been recognized nationally and internationally. He has won two gold awards in the prestigious contest PROMAX/BDA World Gold Awards, in the Eagle Awards, and Pantalla de Cristal, just to mention a couple. Some of the campaigns he has developed are international and have been transmitted in Italy, Spain, USA, Finland, Sweden, UK, Russia, China, Japan and countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia. He was assistant director to some of the best Mexican directors and some foreign ones who he still maintains a relation of friends and mentors. Some of them include Arturo Ripstein, Jorge Fons, Julian Pastor, Benito Rabal and Paolo Mercandini. With all this experience he can evolve with efficiency, creativity and solvency in any genre and medium related to the industry. He's a music lover and this can be appreciated throughout his work with constant fusion to music. Paintings are a constant reference in his visual projection and development. Architecture is the art hidden behind cinematography realization, for that he is always paying attention to the directly proportional relation between space and the scene set. He is attracted to advertising because of the exigency of narrative efficiency and the possibility of visual experimentation. Due to that today, almost fifty years after he was born, he still listens to the promise of that we are almost out of this crisis", he has developed a thick skin for working in this field, and like a Zen Buddhist virtue of infinite patience. Now like he has always done, he rather not sit and wait to find out if this time it's true what they say. He rather by any means to keep on filming his projects.