Director/Producer: Fran Guijarro
Producers: Diya Guha, Fran Guijarro, and Juli López
Description:
Moses, a talented songwriter with a promising music career in the 70s, sees his life implode due to addiction, ultimately enduring homelessness in San Francisco for over two decades. He finds solace on a street corner in the financial district, where he shows a unique gift for connecting with passersby, aiming to make himself visible among the invisible. There he meets a Spanish film student who offers him the lead role in a narrative short. The making of this film unexpectedly launches Moses on a journey to reclaim his life, family, and music. Along this path, other storytellers from the past emerge, all of whom had played a vital role in Moses’s quest to regain his humanity.
Biography:
Fran Guijarro earned an MFA in Copywriting at the Academy of Art University with the support of the 'laCaixa Full Scholarship Program', and also studied Screenwriting at the Cuba International School of Film and Television. Fran has worked for advertising agencies in Europe and the U.S., taught at AAU's MFA Advertising program, and directed commercials internationally. His first short documentary, Mexican Cuisine screened at over 50 film festivals, including Cannes SFC and AFI Fest, winning 16 awards. Due to his work on Moses and Stories Behind The Fog, which chronicles the stories of 100 individuals experiencing homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area, Fran has been featured in KQED's 'Behind The Lens' series, selected as a FilmHouse resident at SFFILM, and received invitations to speak at TEDx San Francisco and Creative Mornings. Fran is dabbling in music, crafting songs with acoustic guitar, ukulele, and Native American flutes.
Diya Guha grew up in a family with academic conviction about the intrinsic value of education and the deep sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that can arise through its pursuit. After finishing high school, she decided to move to Mumbai, 1250 miles away from home, to pursue an undergraduate degree in Economics at The Sophia College of Mumbai. Then, she joined the world-renowned advertising and media company, Mindshare. She completed her MFA in Creative Strategy at the Academy of Art University San Francisco. She currently works as a producer at Across The Pond.
Juli López is an award-wining Director of Photography and Producer. He holds an MBA in International Business from the Moore School of Business in Columbia S.C. and an MFA in Cinematography from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His work on Mexican Cuisine, a documentary that honors the flavor of Mexican immigration in the US, was awarded Best Cinematography at the New York Digital Short Film Festival and received sixteen other international awards, including the prestigious Clio Award. He worked for two years as Director of Photography for Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, creator of the famous campaign 'Got Milk?'. He was the cinematographer on the Adobe Cloud piece I am the New Creative, which was awarded with a Silver Cannes Cyber Lion.
Contact Information:
e: franguijarro@me.com
w: https://mosesdoc.com/
