Jose Ho-Guanipa

Jose spent his early career directing high profile artists such as Young Money Records artist Tyga and Def Jam artist YG in the LA hip-hop music video circuit before transitioning to larger scale conceptually driven productions in the music video, commercial and narrative space. His work has been featured by outlets such Shoot Magazine, Creative Review, The Stable, Crypt TV, Videostatic, Promonews, Imvdb, Fire Dog Lake, USGS Magazine, Sleeping on Mars, Ballerstatus.com, and screened at The International Music Video Festival, Imperial Valley Film Festival, Hola Mexico Film Festival, Katra Film Series and many more. Jose wrote and directed the Hands Free or Die PSA which was purchased by Eli Roth & Blumhouse's Crypt TV. It is also a 2016 Promax BDA Awards Finalist and One Club One Screen Finalist. Jose's video for Blue Note Records artist Vintage Trouble's song "Gracefully" was heavily promoted by Honda, who feature the band in one of their major broadcast advertising campaigns airing during the Super Bowl. His short film "The Hands of Time" was also selected as one of the top 200 submissions in Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's renowned and highly competitive Project Greenlight Competition. He was recently selected to participate in the prestigious 2019 Shoot New Directors Showcase. He was a part of the HBO sponsored Hola Mexico Film Festival Tomorrow's Filmmakers Today Showcase and was twice selected as a finalist for the Commercial Directing Diversity Program (CDDP).

Jose also served as creative producer/editor on the "Pottymouth Princesses" viral commercial for organization FCK H8 that garnered major worldwide media coverage from outlets such as Time, Adweek, CNN, The Washington Post, Bill Maher, Upworthy, Mashable, Huffington Post, E! News, Perez Hilton, Elle Magazine and many more. The ad was also the recipient of the prestigious Silver Epica Award. The short Goodbye Celia he edited was shortlisted at the One Club's One Screen Festival.