FIAT LUX 5000

Daniel Eduvijes Carrera is an accomplished voice in US Latino filmmaking. His work has screened at the Cannes, Tribeca, Guadalajara, Morelia and Palm Springs Film Festivals, at numerous art museums and at notable cultural institutions including the American Library in Paris and the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City. He’s the winner of the Imagen Foundation Award, Top Prize winner in Ovation TV’s “Search for the Next Revolutionary Filmmaker” and was recognized as Best Latino Film Director by the Directors Guild of America Student Film Awards. Most recently, Daniel was awarded Best Short Film at the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival.

Daniel is a recipient of the National Hispanic Foundation for Arts and National Association of Latino Arts and Culture film grants, won the Djerassi Artist Residency Award for screenwriting, is a fellow of the Produire au Sud Program in France and a fellow of Film Independent’s Project: Involve. He also received the California Arts Council Fellowship as a Los Angeles Established Artist. Daniel belongs to the elite group of Fulbright Scholars in Film (Mexico/USA) and was honored with the Rockefeller Foundation/Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowship.

Daniel’s two latest films, THE FIRES OF SOLEDAD and EL PAISA were granted the Latino Public Broadcasting Media Content Fund. THE FIRES OF SOLEDAD premiered at the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival where it garnered the award for Best Foreign Language Short Film before airing on PBS channels. EL PAISA has screened at over 50 international festivals, has won numerous awards and is also airing nationwide on PBS. Daniel’s latest film, FIAT LUX 5000 received the Netflix/Latino Film Institute Inclusion Fellowship and was recognized with Best Director and Best Actor nods by the Mexican American Cultural Education Foundation.

On top of his directing work, Daniel was Creative Producer and Casting Director on the multiple award-winning documentary WILDNESS (Outfest, SXSW), which explores the Latine Transgender community of Los Angeles. He also serves as Screenplay Analyst for clients including ABC/ Disney, Starz, NBC/Universal and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship for whom he has read and evaluated over 3,000 feature length scripts with an emphasis on Latine, Queer and Horror genre films. Daniel has taught film courses at Columbia University, led filmmaking workshops for the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization and also mentored new generations of minority filmmakers as a Teaching Artist in Residence through the Tribeca Film Institute.

Driven by stories that reflect his Queer and Mexican immigrant heritage, Daniel achieved highest honors in Film Studies and English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, studied Cinema and Mexican Culture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and was awarded a Dean’s Fellowship for an MFA in Filmmaking from Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts.