Ami

Gonzalo San Vicente is an independent film producer and director born in Uruguay in 1981. He studied Communications in Uruguay and worked as used to work as a freelancer (films, short films, television, commercials, in almost every field (directing, editing, photographer, cameraman). Afterwards, he grounded a small film production named “Chido Films” and developed many projects together with NGOs, artists, schools in many different projects. Some years after he moved to Berlin in 2008, he created a startup called floruit films GmbH. Again, he worked together with artists and on a commercial basis. On 2013, he finally could start making his true dreams true: Create animated films that focus on empathy and resilience. So was born AMI, his opera prima. At the same time, he directed some works for different NGO’s: Amnesty International, The International day against Racism, Corporación Crearte (Chile), Fundación Ecuménica del Barrio Borro (in Uruguay; work in progress). Right now he is on the pre-production stage of “Horneritos: Un hogar que canta”, his second short film.