Bio

Gabriel Gutiérrez is a Colombian-American producer from the American Film Institute Conservatory. In his two-year tenure, Gabriel was at the helm of over 13 projects. His Theis film (Dosh) has been a gret success winning both the Slamdance Spirit award and the Audience’s award at the Oscar qualifying Tasveer Film Festival. At the same time Gabriel was also a winner of the McDonald’s Spotlight Dorado grant. A national competition for Latino filmmakers with 3 finalists granted $75,000 to make a short film. This film had distribution from McDonalds where it played online for a world-wide vote between the two other films selected and later the film was accepted into the 2024 SXSW Film Festival.

Gabriel’s goal as a filmmaker is to bring people together to celebrate films about different cultures, familial dynamics, address social issues, and ultimately show us that we have more in common than what divides us. His passion for film led him to create ‘Cine-Más’, Fort Worth, TX’s first-ever Latin American film festival in 2018. A branch of the Lone Star Film Festival that brought the most accredited Latino films of the year and exhibited them for the city of Fort Worth. This line-up of films consisted of films from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, United States, and Uruguay. Several of these films where also submitted by their countries for the Academy Awards that year. He also has been attached to several independent films over the past five years, most prominently A24’s A Ghost Story 2017.

Gabriel lives in Los Angeles currently with his partner Ines Vasquez where he independently produces shorts and feature films.