Hugo Perez, a white man wearing a suit and glasses, looks directly at the camera.
Hugo Perez
Photo courtesy Hugo Perez
Director & Producer

Hugo Perez (he/him) produced and directed the feature documentary Neither Memory Nor Magic narrated by Academy Award®-nominated Patricia Clarkson, and the ITVS funded documentary Summer Sun Winter Moon. Perez’s short film Betty La Flaca won the 2006 HBO/NYILFF Short Film Award. Perez was Executive Producer of David Sutcliffe’s Adama and Executive Producer and Co-Writer of Rodrigo Reyes Purgatorio. Perez is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation/Tribeca Film Institute Emerging Artist Fellowship and a Chairman’s Award from the NEH.

Huge Perez on the streets of Uganda.
Production still from Once Upon a Time in Uganda
Program cohorts
(Egg)celerator Lab 2017
films by Hugo Perez
Still from Once Upon a Time in Uganda. Four men in front of a greenscreen outside. One is standing, holding a camera. Two men kneel on the ground holding guns and two goats, the words "Cooming soon" are painted in red on the two goats. Another man crouches above a goat with a red logo painted on it.
Once Upon a Time in Uganda
Still from Once Upon a Time in Uganda
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Headshot of Alexandra (Ali) Codina from the neck up with a slightly open mouth smile wearing hoop earrings.
Alexandra Codina
Photo courtesy Alexandra Codina
Jane Greenburg looking directly at the camera. She wears a beanie standing in front of a wooden door.
Jane Greenberg
Photo courtesy Jane Greenberg
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