Mr. Aguilar
is a freelance multimedia director, editor and producer of
high-quality, innovative short films. For over 10 years he has created
dynamic literary films, videos and animation programs as well as
produced several innovative literary events for live, broadcast and Internet audiences.
Seven years ago, he started Literary Television (LTV), a
project of the National Poetry Association (NPA),
which presented short, independent film productions called Cin(E)-Poetry™
also known as poetry films and videopoems. Under his direction, LTV
aired shows on PBS and major art houses and international museums in
addition to providing educational tapes to schools across the United
States. Videomaker
magazine has said of my efforts,“If anyone can bring videopoetry to the masses,
it’s George Aguilar.”
At the same time, he served as Executive Director of the NPA, a
nonprofit
literary organization dedicated to promoting poetry and poets by any
means
necessary. He also created the organization’s first website and acted
as
Internet strategist for its award-winning website and Poetry USA. At
the
time, The Los Angeles Times, Java.Sun.com and Excite.com
had praised the site for its design and functionality. Encyclopedia
Britannica called it “one of the best websites”.
His knowledge
and expertise of technology was essential as coordinator of Digital Mission, a multimedia training
collaborative working to end the “digital divide” in San Francisco’s
Mission District.Funded by Mayor
Willie Brown’s Office of Community Development, the Digital Mission
collaborative included a diverse range of nonprofit and educational
providers such as Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), the City College
of San Francisco (CCSF), Arriba Juntos and the Mission Hiring Hall.
His
television/Internet productions experience began after graduating from UC
San Diego in Media Production in 1989. He had produced the Eyestruck
TV series, a 12-week series sponsored by Macromedia and Pixar
Animation. He also helped program an eight-week series for PBS'sLiving Room Festival in collaboration with several independent
media organizations from the Bay Area.
In 2000, Mr.
Aguilar produced the successful CELEBRATION OF THE WORD event
at the Masonic Auditorium featuring Maya Angelou, novelist
Guy Johnson along with San Francisco Poet laureates Janice
Mirikitani and devorah major, and California Poet laureate Quincy Troupe.
At the time, The San Francisco Examiner wrote,“The
association (NPA) has successes to celebrate. Aguilar led a dramatic
turnaround with a new board of directors, sponsorship of more events
(including poetry slams) and a plunge onto the Internet with a
sophisticated Web site (www. nationalpoetry.org) that has given the
organization a national profile”.
Since leaving
the NPA, Mr. Aguilar continues to produce award winning animations and
digital films. His work recently screened at the Bumbershoot Arts
and Music Festival in Seattle, the Georges Pompidou Centre
in Paris, the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Spain, the Digital
Express
Competition in Seoul, Korea, the Streaming Cinema 2.0 at Arts
Electronica
in Austria, Rome University III in Italy and the Zebra Poetry Festival
Award in Berlin.
He has
recently finished converting 500 video titles to DVD for the International Poetry Museum’s poetry film
preservation initiative. He also recently finished a project
for the MUSEUM OF FLIGHT in Seattleas a Cinematic Designer
and currently provides video and editing for SomArts Cultural Centerand
other arts groups.
He continues to create new digital paintings, installations and videos
as well as make presentations at educational institutions and museums
around
the globe.
Click here to see a
DEMO REEL of video samples containing After
Effects, 3D Animated sequences and Photoshop and other Digital Effects
by George Aguilar (All in Windows Media Format .wmv)