Guillermo Gómez Álvarez

Directing

Born January 1, 1973

Guillermo Gómez Álvarez was born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1973 and was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico since he was three years old. Gómez Álvarez is an alumnus from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus where he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Arts (1996), majoring in Latin American Studies, and also a Master's Degree in Arts (2005), majoring in Audiovisual Production. In 2007, he completed a Master's Degree in Creative Documentary at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. He is a fiction and documentary filmmaker, a music video director, as well as a musician and photographer. His first full-length documentary was La escena [The Scene] (2005), on Puerto Rico's punk subculture, which was part of Gómez Álvarez Master's thesis project. La rosa de María [Mary’s Rose] (2007) was also part of a thesis project at Universtiat Autónoma de Barcelona and aired on Televisió de Catalunya (TVC) in 2007. Aquel rebaño azul [The Blue Flock] won the Accolade Film Award in 2009. This film was commissioned by the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission and it explores the history of police brutality in Puerto Rico. Una Identidad en Absurdo Vol. 1 is his latest work, released in April 2011. Leaning towards an experimental concept, this documentary explores deconstructing Puerto Rican identity through music.