Daniel Eduvijes Carrera is an accomplished voice in American Latiné filmmaking. His films have screened at major international festivals including Cannes, Tribeca, Guadalajara, Morelia, and Palm Springs, as well as at prominent cultural institutions such as the American Library in Paris and the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City.

His work has received numerous honors, including the Imagen Foundation Award, Top Prize in Ovation TV’s “Search for the Next Revolutionary Filmmaker,” and recognition as Best Latino Film Director by the Directors Guild of America Student Film Awards. Most recently, he received the Best Short Film Award at the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival.

Carrera is a Fulbright Scholar in Film (Mexico/USA), a distinction that informs his cross-border creative practice and sustained engagement with transnational storytelling. He is also a recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), and was named a California Arts Council Established Artist in Los Angeles. Additional honors include the Djerassi Artist Residency Award in screenwriting, a fellowship with Produire au Sud in France, participation in Film Independent’s Project: Involve as well as recognition by the Rockefeller Foundation/Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowship.

His recent short films include THE FIRES OF SOLEDAD and EL PAISA, both supported by the Latino Public Broadcasting Media Content Fund. THE FIRES OF SOLEDAD premiered at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, where it won Best Foreign Language Short Film before airing on PBS. EL PAISA premiered at Outfest Los Angeles, received numerous awards, toured nationally throughout Mexico, and is also broadcast nationally on PBS. His most recent film, FIAT LUX 5000, supported by the Netflix/Latino Film Institute Inclusion Fellowship, has been recognized for Best Director and Best Actor by the Mexican American Cultural Education Foundation Awards and is currently touring the festival circuit.

Beyond directing, Carrera served as Creative Producer and Casting Director on the award-winning documentary WILDNESS (SXSW, Outfest), which explores the Latiné transgender community of Los Angeles. He has worked extensively as a screenplay analyst for ABC/Disney, Starz, NBC/Universal, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship, having evaluated over 3,000 feature-length screenplays with a focus on Latiné, queer, and genre filmmaking.

As an educator and mentor, he has taught film at Columbia University, led filmmaking workshops for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, and served as a Teaching Artist in Residence with the Tribeca Film Institute, supporting emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities.

Carrera holds highest honors in Film Studies and English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, studied Cinema and Mexican Culture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and received a Dean’s Fellowship for his MFA in Film from Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts.

Rooted in his queer and Mexican immigrant heritage, his practice spans narrative and experimental forms that engage questions of memory, identity, and cultural inheritance within contemporary cinema.