A.P. Gonzalez

• Professor
• Office: 3335 Macgowan
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• Phone: 310-205-6897

Biography

A. P. Gonzalez teaches writing and directing at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He was awarded UCLA’s prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and is the co-chair of the DGA’s Latino Committee. In 2005, he was named among the top 100 influential Latinos in the country by “Hispanic Business Magazine” as well as being recently nominated for the 2007 Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship.

In its initial phases of production, Gonzalez is also currently directing and co-producing a long-form documentary for television about Latinos and Major League Baseball, entitled “El Beisbol.” His own feature screenplay, “Cross My Heart,” is one of 12 feature scripts to be selected by Tribeca’s All Access Connects ’06.

Gonzalez’s film “Hurricane Party” successfully completed the 2006 – 2007 festival circuit. The film is about a group of young people who decide to tempt fate rather than to leave town because of a killer hurricane.

Gonzalez is the recipient of a 1998 Alma Award for “Mangas,” a part of ITV’s series “Foto-Novelas.” The film is about a young Costa Rican boy who magically brings his homeland and culture to his adoptive American family. “Mangas,” broadcast nationally, has also played in over 25 international festivals in the U.S. and abroad.

After receiving the Distinguished Student Award in Film at San Francisco State University, Gonzalez founded his own San Francisco-based production company, In-Camera Film and Video. As the company’s president, he produced and directed numerous films, including the indie feature, “Clay Farmers.” The film has been broadcast, among others, by the BBC, PBS, TV-3 Barcelona, and Canada’s The Knowledge Network, earning recognition at festivals throughout the world, including AFI and “Billboard Magazine’s” Best-Fiction AVC Award.

More recently for TV, Gonzalez has produced and directed a segment on performance artist, El Vez, for a national show entitled, “ColorVision.” For Discovery Channel, he has directed, “The Silent Crisis: Diabetes Among Us,” a one-hour documentary. Also, Gonzalez has directed 22 shows of “Amigos,” a bilingual narrative series, broadcast nationally by PBS. In addition, he has produced, written and directed “Together Against Abuse,” for the State of California.

Gonzalez is also attached to direct two of his other feature screenplays: “The Last Gunslinger,” optioned by the German production company, ena Film GmbH; and “The Right To Remain Silent,” based on Charles Brant’s novel, a psychological thriller about a wisecracking detective who gets ensnarled by the practices of a “modern” police force.

Among his many editing credits, Gonzalez has edited two films for the Names Project: “The Inaugural Display of the Quilt;” and the ACE Award nominee, “We Bring a Quilt.” He has also edited the Golden Apple award-winning documentary, “Not All Parents Are Straight.” Also, in distribution, Gonzalez has edited a television documentary on peace activist, Brian Willson, entitled “Peace Begins Here.”