Federico Carmona is a film producer from Caracas, Venezuela. He is the Producer of the short film Dolores. Over the last 4 years he has worked on over 30 TV commercials, four Award Winning feature films, three Award Winning short films, a documentary, and produced a web series called BLEEP.

 

 

Federico worked as Executive Production Coordinator in two of the most important films in his country: Rock, Paper, Scissors (Piedra Papel o Tijera), the Venezuelan Selection to compete as Best Foreign Film in the Oscars 2013, and My Straight Son (Azul y no tan Rosa), winner of the Goya Award in 2014 as Best Iberoamerican film. In addition, he was Film Festivals Coordinator for Papita, Mani, Tostón, and the highest grossing film in the history of Venezuelan cinema. He was also part of the production team for the film Desde Allá winner of the Golden Lion as Best Feature Film in La Biennale di Venezia 2015, and official selection in San Sebastian Film Festival 2015, and Toronto International Film Festival 2015.

 

His career started in advertising, but he found out that his true passion is in filmmaking.  He was Production Coordinator for advertising and film in Factor RH Producciones, the best production company in Venezuela according to the ranking of the country by the magazine “Producto” and the “Premios Anda” (Venezuela’s National Association of Advertising)

 

He graduated with his Film Production M.F.A as Valedictorian and also granted with the Advanced Achievement Award from Full Sail University (Winter Park, FL), the highest honor of the institution. He was awarded with a merit scholarship by CNAC (Venezuela’s National Film Centre), and three others by Full Sail University. He has a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Mass Communication from Universidad Monteávila (Caracas).