Miguel Alvarez(III)

Miguel Alvarez is a Chicano filmmaker from Texas whose work typically focuses on themes associated with memory, loss, identity, and family. His work spans fiction and documentary, earning honors from the Directors Guild of America, Panavision, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. He is also a Sundance/Cinefestival Latino Screenwriting Project Fellow for his sci-fi screenplay La Perdida. Over the last decade, his documentaries The Giant Still Sleeps and Voto 2020 tackled Latino voting issues while Mnemosyne Rising, his poetic space-set short film, has amassed nearly 300,000 YouTube viewers. In the last twenty years his films have screened internationally, from Tribeca to Russia. Whereas his early films were grounded in everyday realism, his upcoming narrative work focuses on telling uniquely Chicano stories through a science fiction/genre lens. He is an Assistant Professor of Film Production at the University of Texas at Austin.