Hi there! I'm Pau. I'm a queer independent filmmaker from Mexico. I hold a B.A. (Hons) in Communications with a Cinema and Experimental Art minor, and I am pursuing a Documentary Certificate at Capilano University. I instill a distinct poetic voice to directing, sound post production, and editing for fiction, non-fiction, and experimental film. I have collaborated with the UNHCR as the director of the short documentary A Helping Hand, and co-created a storytelling lab (National Geographic-funded) for young Mexican women in association with Girl Up Mexico and Ambulante. I have a passion for stories about community, collectiveness and the threats to our natural state of togetherness.

I believe in the power of art as a tool for social justice, and that the only hope for survival we have as the human species is empathy. I make it my life's work to create stories that unite, that have compassion sharing space with courage, and that show that all human emotions are messengers of truth whom we need to listen to if we want to grow together rather than apart. This is what I want to show through my work with color grading, editing and sound post production.

To me, editing is poetry. It is writing with time and weaving with movement. There is no other area of filmmaking that has the power of creation intrinsic to the moving image than that of editing. A movie is the edit, and I will defend this thesis with all my passion.

Color in film is like the tone of a voice, or the difference it makes when the same melody is played by a violin instead of a piano. We are swayed by light, hues and textures in the same way we might me influenced by dreams, it is a beautiful dance with our subconscious that if done well can bewitch the heart and entrance the mind.

Finally, sound is the closest thing we have to magic. When you hear a lion's roar in the sound of a thunder, it is a fantasy, but the emotions it illicit are real. Our primal instincts are attuned to sound, and this is why sound is the best tool to direct emotions.
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If this is how you feel about film as well, I'm happy you are here. Let's create something together.