Bio

Gabriel Gutiérrez is a Colombian-American producer currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. Gabriel’s career spans several award winning feature and short films. Most recently, Gabriel was the winner of the national McDonald’s Spotlight Dorado grant in 2023. A competition for Latino filmmakers with 3 finalists granted $75,000 to make a short film. This film had distribution from McDonalds where it played online for a world-wide and later the film was accepted into SXSW Film Festival in 2024. He also has been attached to several independent films over the past five years, most prominently A24’s A Ghost Story (2017).

Gabriel’s goal as a filmmaker is to bring people together to celebrate films about different cultures, familial dynamics, address social issues, and ultimately show us that we have more in common than what divides us. His passion for film led him to create ‘Cine-Más’, Fort Worth, TX’s first-ever Latin American film festival in 2018. A branch of the Lone Star Film Festival that brought the most accredited Latino films of the year and exhibited them for the city of Fort Worth. This line-up of films consisted of films from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, United States, and Uruguay. Several of these films where also submitted by their countries for the Academy Awards that year.

In 2023 Gabriel graduated from the prestigious American Film Institute Conservatory with an MFA in Producing. In his two-year tenure, Gabriel was at the helm of over 13 projects. His Thesis film (Dosh) has been a great success winning both the Slamdance Spirit award and the Audience’s award at the Oscar qualifying Tasveer Film Festival.