Eduardo Falcon is a media artist with over 20 years of experience in different areas of the film, TV, audio drama, and video game industries. Always a cinephile, avid consumer of TV series, and born storyteller, Eduardo decided at age 14 to pursue a career in filmmaking. Before coming to the Waterloo Region, Eduardo lived and worked in Toronto, Montreal, the USA and Mexico. Eduardo was a peer reviewer at the 2023 Region of Waterloo Arts Fund.
Director-Producer
- "Y2K Redux" (audio drama, Canada, 75 min.)
- "Another Snow White" (audio drama, Canada, 110 min.)
- "Dad's Ashes" (audio drama, Canada, 13 min.)
- "2 Strangers and a Foosball" (film, Canada, 24 min.)
- "Sleeper Agent" (film, Canada, 3 min.)
- "Dhampira" (film, Mexico, 10 min.)
- "Daniel's Daughter" (film, Mexico, 7 min.)
- "The Page" (film, Mexico, 30 min.)
- "4 Movement: Destruction" (film, USA, 8 min.)
- Short films screened at 30 film festivals around the world, winning 4 awards.
- Short films broadcast on TV, Cinemax and other cable networks in the USA, Canada and Latin America.
Screenwriter
- Author of the screenwriting book Level Up Your Screenplay.
- Feature-length screenplays (13 in English and 4 in Spanish).
- TV pilots, audio dramas and short films.
- Over 100 accolades at screenwriting competitions.
- Variety of genres (Drama, Horror, Historical, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery, Action, Western, War).
- Script Editor & Story Consultant for writers in Canada and the USA.
- Adaptations to/from prose, stage & audio drama.
Videographer
- Over 20 years of experience in own videography businesses in Kitchener, Toronto, Montreal and Mexico.
- Camera Operator for other videographers and photographers.
- Freelance Video Editor for small production companies.
- Past projects include documentaries, artistic and cultural events, behind-the-scenes, corporate videos, instructional videos, ads, music videos, interviews, seminars, social events, etc.
- Photojournalist of cultural events of the Latin community in Toronto.
- Director and Field Producer of three dramatized corporate videos for the Volkswagen Group in Mexico.
- Editor of 80 demo reels for TV and cinema stars in Latin America.
Cinema & TV Experience
- Hollywood big-budget film: Sound Assistant in a feature with Harrison Ford and Willem Dafoe for Paramount Pictures. The sound work was nominated for an Oscar.
- Mexican feature films: Assistant Editor in a highly acclaimed movie nominated for a Golden Globe and Assistant Sound Editor in other movies.
- Third Assistant Director training at AQTIS (Montreal).
- Third Assistant Director in a Canadian film.
- Background Actor in US and Canadian movies, TV series & commercials.
- Editor of two variety and general interest series for Spanish-language cable in Canada.
- Teleprompter Operator for Canadian commercials for clients such as the Government of Ontario.
- Director, Camera Operator and Editor of a 30-minute TV pilot about the fashion industry.
- Script Writer in a writers' room at Argos TV developing 2 drama series projects for the Latin market.
- Producer, Director and Creator of a feature-length animatic previsualization for a competition at Amazon Studios (finishing as a semi-finalist in both the test movie and dialogue track categories).
- Program Manager and Jury Coordinator at the Cancun International Film Festival & smaller events in Mexico.
University Education (Ithaca College, NY, USA)
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Cinema & Photography, Concentration in Film Production, Minor in Writing.
- Faculty Award winner (Valedictorian).
- Film Production Scholarship winner.
- 3.92 GPA (highest in the School of Communications graduating class). The Commencement speaker was Bob Iger, an IC alumnus & CEO of the Walt Disney Company.
- Complemented studies with classes covering relevant aspects of the human experience: Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, Speech Communication & Languages.
