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William D. Caballero is a Los Angeles-based creative leader capable of all aspects of digital multimedia production, including directing, producing, video editing, writing, sound design, and film scoring. His work features 3D printed protagonists, and his latest short film, Victor & Isolina, debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. He is also a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. EXPERIENCE Caballero has created, directed, and edited over 500 digital videos and original series for a variety of networks. PBS/LATINO PUBLIC BROADCASTING, 2017-2018 Produced, wrote, and edited a web-series aimed at empowering diverse young people to tell their stories through creative arts and media. Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. HBO, 2015-2017 Produced, wrote, and edited an original series called “Gran’Pa Knows Best.” Over thirty episodes are viewable on HBO GO/NOW. UNIVISION, 2016-2017 Created a mini-series featuring 3D scanned/printed miniatures of Latino individuals from the Dreamers movement, set to their authentic stories. WORLD CHANNEL, 2013-2014 Created a mini-series films featuring 3D scanned/printed miniatures of individuals-of-color, set to their authentic stories of how they overcame the high school dropout crisis. Funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. BET DIGITAL, 2012-2015 PREDITOR (producer/shooter/editor); Created over 300 videos and specials for BET’s website, including behind-the-scenes edits, fashion segments, celebrity interviews, and tribute videos. HBO DOCUMENTARY, 2009-2012 Assistant Producer, aided HBO in the logistics and production of a documentary series based on obesity. EDUCATION (Recipient of the Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship) New York University, NY. MA in The Arts & Humanities in Education 2008, cum laude Pratt Institute, NY. BFA in Digital Art, Minor in Art History 2006; magna cum laude SOFTWARE EXPERTISE Adobe Creative Suite CC (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, InDesign) Final Cut Pro; Logic Pro; Microsoft Office Suite; Sibelius; Final Draft AWARDS/HONORS/LABS 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, Sundance New Voices Lab 2017, Latino Public Broadcasting grantee 2015/2017, NALAC grant 2014, Aljira Emerge artist 2013, NALAC Arts Grant 2012, 2010 Apollo Theater Salon Series, HBO-NALIP doc grant 2010 REFERENCES Sylvia Bugg, Vice President, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (202) 879-9654, [email protected] Luis Ortiz, Latino Public Broadcasting, Managing Director; 818.847.9656; [email protected] Elaine Del Valle, Casting Director & Producer; 516.729.8200; [email protected] [email protected] www.wilcab.com 323.630.0423 BIO William D. Caballero is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, composer, violinist, and multimedia storyteller, and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Born in Coney Island, New York and raised in North Carolina, Caballero obtained the Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship in 2001, and returned to New York City where he graduated from Pratt Institute (BFA Digital Art, 2006, Minor in Art History ) and New York University (MA The Arts and Humanities in Education, 2008), graduating Magna Cum Laude and Cum Laude, respectively. Caballero's directorial debut came in the form of a feature length autobiographical documentary entitled AMERICAN DREAMS DEFERRED, which focused on the diverse health, financial, and social difficulties facing his Puerto Rican-American family. This cinema-verité film was selected for the NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers) Latino Producers Academy, eventually receiving the first annual HBO-NALIP Documentary grant. Five years after its conception, it went on to have a national television premiere on PBS on December, 2012. Post-premiere, he has screened the documentary at over 40 American universities. In 2010, the Apollo Theater commissioned Caballero to create SPEAK! SO THE WORLD WILL LISTEN! UGANDA, a multimedia advocacy concert for 20 musicians. Shot on location in Uganda, the project features the audio testimony of war orphans and gay rights activists, blending music, visuals, and documentary, which later premiered at the Apollo. In 2012, he completed SEED STORY, a macro short film featuring a cast of hundreds of one-inch tall plastic hand-painted figures, which debuted the following year at the Slamdance Film Festival, and later became a Vimeo Staff Pick. In 2013, Caballero was selected for the Aljira Emerge program (in partnership with Creative Capital), a strategic career management and exhibition platform for emerging artists. Later that year, he gave two keynote speeches at the annual Bill Gates Leadership Conferences in Washington, DC and San Jose, CA as an ‘alumni guest-of- honor.' From 2012-2015, he produced over 200 digital videos (celebrity interviews, show promos, ad sales junkets, behind-the-scenes vignettes, etc.) for the network BET. Working in the field of 3D printed short films, his recent achievements include GRAN'PA KNOWS BEST, an interstitial series based on his short film, HOW YOU DOIN', BOY?, which was licensed by HBO LATINO in 2015. Two seasons of the show are currently viewable on HBO GO, HBO NOW, and HBO ON DEMAND. In September, 2016, Univision debuted his latest web-series, DREAMER GENERATION, which features the stories of members of the Dreamers' Movement, shot using 3D scanned/printed miniatures. In 2017, Caballero's latest short film, VICTOR AND ISOLINA, debuted at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art (Documentary Fortnight). Caballero's latest digital web-series STORYBORED USA, a web-series aimed at empowering diverse young people to tell their stories through creative arts and media, launched in January 2017. The show features 3D printed miniatures of Caballero as the show's host, and was funded by Latino Public Broadcasting. Recently, in November 2017 Caballero was one of ten filmmakers selected for the SUNDANCE NEW VOICES LAB, held in Los Angeles, California. William received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in April, 2018 for film/video. It was his first time applying for this prestigious grant. [email protected] www.wilcab.com 323.630.0423.