FILM AWARDS: George Aguilar-Director/Producer

BEST SHORT: SAN DIEGO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, San Diego 2008

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD- BERKELEY FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, Berkeley, CA Oct. 2007

OFFICIAL SELECTION-TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL, Toronto, May 2007

GRAND FESTIVAL AWARD-BERKELEY FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, Berkeley, 2004

OFFICIAL SELECTION- 7TH ALUTCINE TORONTO MEDIA FESTIVAL, Toronto, 2006

OFFICIAL SELECTION-INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ON VIDEOPOESIA, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2004

OFFICIAL SELECTION-ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL AWARD, Berlin, Germany 2002

WINNER: CYBERARTS-Berkeley Film and Video Festival, Berk. 2001

HONORABLE MENTION-49th Columbus International Film & Video festival, Ohio, 2001,

OFFICIAL SELECTION-PHILADELPHIA FRINGE FESTIVAL, Phil., PA 2003,

OFFICIAL SELECTION-STREAMING CINEMA 2.0 ARTS ELECTRONICA, Austria 2001,

OFFICIAL SELECTION-SENEF INTERNET FILM FESTIVAL, Korea 2000,

OFFICIAL SELECTION-PHILADELPHIA FESTIVALOF WORLD CINEMA, Phil., PA 2000

GEORGE AGUILAR
digital artist
cinematic designer
new media consultant
multimedia arts developer
virtual sim designer and machinima






San Francisco, CA 94122   
Ph: 415.267-4887
email: George@Aguilar.com

EDUCATION: 1984-89 • Media, BA, University of California, San Diego

George Aguilar is a multimedia consultant, writer, director and producer of pioneering and dynamic multimedia works for the educational market, the arts, film festivals, broadcast and the Internet.erging digital genres including online storytelling, video streaming, 3D Virtual Worlds and pod

For over 10 years he has created innovative literary-based films, videos and animation programs and produced several groundbreaking literary events.  He started Literary Television (LTV), a project of the National Poetry Association (NPA), which showcased short, independent film productions to schools nationwide. Under his direction, LTV aired shows on PBS, in major art houses and international museums. He produced the Eyestruck TV series, a 12-week series sponsored by Macromedia and Pixar Animation. He also helped program an eight-week series for PBS's Living Room Festival in collaboration with several independent media organizations from the Bay Area.  In 2005, he produced 22 half-hour shows for Cable Ch. 29 titled ‘SomArtsMedia’, about the local arts cultural center.  National trade publication ‘Videomaker Magazine’ has said of his efforts,  “If anyone can bring videopoetry to the masses, its’ George Aguilar.”
 
Mr. Aguilar is also a self-taught computer motion graphics designer with expertise in a wide range of computer software programs.  From 1988-89, he was coordinator of Digital Mission, a multimedia training collaborative working to end the “digital divide” in San Francisco’s Mission District.   Funded by Mayor Willie Brown’s Office of Community Development, the Digital Mission collaborative included a diverse range of nonprofit and educational providers such as Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and Arriba Juntos.  Mr. Aguilar designed a unique weeklong series of technology workshops and educational open houses, which included Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist

 
From 1997-2000, Mr. Aguilar was Executive Director and chief fundraiser for the National Poetry Association and produced several live and Internet-based programs including the successful CELEBRATION OF THE WORD event at the Masonic Auditorium featuring Maya Angelou. At the time, The San Francisco Examiner wrote,
“The association (NPA) has successes to celebrate. Aguilar led a dramatic turnaround with a new board of directors, sponsorship of more events (including poetry slams) and a plunge onto the Internet with a sophisticated Web site that has given the organization a national profile”.


Mr. Aguilar has presented new media tools to educators and traveled extensively across the U.S. and overseas to instruct teachers and students on new methods of creating original media content using a computer and simple to use software programs.  He has taught workshops, conducted lectures and presented works to educators and students at the
91st Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English in Baltimore (2001), The Center for International Education (CIE), in St. Paul (2004), The Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, and the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain,, (2002) to name just a few.

In addition, Mr. Aguilar’s videos and educational methods are used in academic venues by teachers around the world including the Center for Exceptional Children, Jacksonville, NC, George Mason University, Franklin High School, Franklin WI, Santa Barbara Film Study Dept., Santa Barbara, CA, and Universitat Dortmund, Dortmund, GERMANY. He is also mentioned in several academic essays and books including, Poetry Films and Film Poems, Essay, Prof. William C. Wees 2000, Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities, Essay, Sometti, Mantova 2002, Moving text in avant-garde poetry: Towards a poetics of textual motion, Teemu Ikonen, History of Art on The Web, “Under the Happiest Dawn”, Prof. Jan Arabas, Middlesex Community College.


He currently acts as Director of SomArts Media at the San Francisco SomArts Cultural Center.  He writes, directs and produces short videos for the  non-profit and consults on media-related projects. His cinepoetry is being translated into Hindi for a major new festival in India. Most recently, he has been exploring the creative possibilities within Virtual Worlds as they relate to the arts and education.  In 2008, he designed and built a virtual world simulation for the South of Market Cultural Center, a 25,000 square ft. facility operated for the San Francisco Arts Commission.  This simulation trains artists and curators on how to use virtual worlds for art purposes.

ONLINE PRESS MENTIONS:

Virtually Art, “Artists untangle the Web of a new medium”, Debra Diblasi, 2001
The Cultural Connect:
Profile
VideoMaker Magazine, Profile: "George Aguilar and VideoPoetry"  1994
San Francisco Examiner, "CELEBRATION OF THE WORD” September 2000
Berkeley Daily Planet on Aguilar film
Santa Barbara Independent “The Body Electric Journal and Cin(E)-Poetry


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CURRENT PROJECTS
SomArts
Media
Tribute to
JACK DAVIS
(In Progress)
Metaverse
Build and Training
SomArts'
3D Gallery
Diary of
Niclas Gheiler
SECOND LIFE
Machinima