Mateo Márquez is an award-winning American-Colombian director and writer from Queens, New York City. His body of work includes narrative fiction, branded content, and music videos that have garnered recognition throughout the U.S. and abroad. He holds a Master’s in Directing from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Film from Hunter College. He was a 2015 BAFTA Scholarship recipient and a 2019 School of Visual Arts Alumni Scholarship Award winner. His short films have screened at over 30 festivals worldwide including the BFI London Film Festival, Fantasia, HBO NY Latino Film Festival, and Nantes Utopiales Festival International de Science Fiction. They have also been featured on the online horror channel ALTER as well as other prominent online platforms such as Film Shortage, Beyond the Short, and Retrospective of Jupiter. Mateo infuses his love of genre films and traditional dramas to create an intimate visceral storytelling experience.