BIOS
JULIO SOTO
Julio Soto is a film producer and director who works and lives in between Madrid and New York. In 2004, he co-founded The Thinklab | Luna Pictures, an independent production company based in New York and Madrid.
His most recent documentary film, Radiophobia, was presented at the 2007 Full Frame Film Festival and the 2006 Hollywood Awards. It has received many international awards such as the Best Documentary / Diane Seligman Award at the 2006 Brooklyn International Film Festival in New York; Audience Award at the 2007 Punto de Vista Documentary FF in Pamplona, Spain, Best Documentary at the XXIII Bogotá IFF; Best Film, Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at the 2006 ECU European Independent FF in Paris; Audience Award at Documenta Madrid 2006; Film Excellency Award at the GFFS IFF in Seoul, Korea, besides being selected for many festivals around the world.
Julio Soto was recently awarded a fellowship from the prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts to continue his artistic dedication to film. His films have also received international awards at the 2005 Toronto Latin FF, the 2005 Rio de Janeiro VideoArt Festival, the 2002 Brooklyn IFF, the NAP Video Biennial in Pasadena and the 2003 Media Arts Festival Japan. His work has been shown extensively at film festivals such as IDFA, Clermont-Ferrand, New York Underground FF, Viper Basel, Impakt, Oberhausen, Hamburg, Nemo and Kasseler to name a few.
He has also exhibited at the Cervantes Institute in NY, the Queens Museum of Art in NY, the Brooklyn Museum of Art in NY, the Museums of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Río de Janeiro, Bucarest, and the Institute for Contemporary Art in London.
ALEXANDER STIKICH
Alexander
Stikich (cinematographer/filmmaker) grew up traveling between Venezuela
and Yugoslavia to eventually end up in New York. He works professionally
on a wide range of documentary, narrative and experimental projects. Some
examples include a documentary about Chernobyl, a series on life aboard
an aircraft carrier, a piece on immigrant labor rights and a film about
the extreme commercialization of our society. In addition, he is a current
recipient of a Creative Capital grant and his personal work has been screened/exhibited
worldwide in numerous festivals and venues including Sundance, the Worldwide
Video Festival (Amsterdam), VideoBrasil (Sao Paulo) and The Brooklyn Museum
of Art.
For more information about past, present and future projects, email us at:
or call us at: +1 646.361.5990
Luna / 555 Washington Avenue - Brooklyn, 11238 NY - USA
