Rafael Flores(V)

Rafael Flores is a writer, director and producer of Chicano and indigenous Tarascan ancestry. Flores is the CEO of Green Eyed Media, and founder of the Hidden GEM Creative Studios, film organizations with offices in Seattle, Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Flores is a Phi Beta Kappa Scholar who holds a Masters of Fine Arts specializing in Directing Actors, Social Justice Film Production and Third Cinema. He also holds a BA in Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies from the University Washington and the focus of much of his personal research and cinema centers on issues concerning hybridity, border theory, and the post-modernism. His work has been praised by various institutions that include: the Cannes International Film Festival, the Writer's Guild Theater of America, the California Arts Council, the California Endowment, the San Francisco Foundation, the London Guardian, the Grammy Foundation and the TED-X lecture series. In 2022, Flores received the legacy award from the California Arts Council for his career making films in communities of color for over 15 years, and he is currently a professor of narrative film production and Latino cinema at San Francisco State University.