Miguel Picker
Director/Director of Photography/Editor/Composer
Miguel Picker, a New York-based Chilean American filmmaker, is an award-winning director, editor, and music composer. He produced and directed Latinos Beyond Reel: Challenging a Media Stereotype (2012), which was featured on NPR, NBC Latino, won the Audience Award at the Reel Rasquache Art and Film Festival in 2013, and has been shown at the Museum of Moving Images in New York City. The film has been on the bestseller list of the Media Education Foundation since its release. He also edited and composed music for Borinqueneers (2007), broadcast nationally on PBS in 2007 and the winner of the Audience Award at the Orlando Hispanic Film Festival, 2009, and Insight Award of Excellence by the National Association of Film and Digital Media Artists, 2008. Picker has also independently produced many other films, including The Price of Pleasure (2008), Beyond Good and Evil (2003), and Mickey Mouse Monopoly (2001). Before moving to New York in 2004, Picker worked as an editor at WGBH-TV in Boston for 15 years, and the programs he edited and produced won numerous national and international awards, including four Golden Eagle Awards and three Emmy Awards. Picker co-directed Ulises’ Odyssey and Siqueiros: Walls of Passion with Lorena Manríquez, and both programs have been awarded numerous grants and honors.