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ANDRÉS PÉREZ-DUARTE — WRITER | DIRECTOR | CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Hola! I’m a Mexican storyteller based in Nashville, TN. I began my career in New York City creating original branded content for 20th Century Studios, Sundance Channel, ESPN, and NBC. My work spans film, television, games, and immersive media, centering queer and BIPOC stories told with heart, humor, and a rebellious streak.

I co-wrote and co-created Lili, a screenlife thriller reimagining Lady Macbeth in modern-day Iran, which premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival (Immersive). I also co-created Hero, a multi-sensory VR experience about migration and refugees that won the AIS Lumière and Tribeca Storyscapes Awards. Other projects include the interactive series Fire Escape, a neo-Hitchcock take on Brooklyn gentrification; the BAFTA-nominated video game 1979 Revolution; and my award-winning short film Galeana No. 8.

My work often explores identity, place, and power through intimate, character-driven stories. That thread continues in Mexican Delight, a proof-of-concept short film currently in post-production, which serves as the foundation for my debut feature, The Last Supper. The feature was part of the 2025 Gotham Week and the CannesFilm Writers Residency with StudioCanal. My screenplay Jorge in Paradise was featured on the GLAAD List, and I was the winner of the MACRO x The Black List Screenwriter Incubator powered by Warner Bros. I proudly serve as co-chair of the WGA LGBTQ+ Salon.

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Festivals, Accollades & Awards

2026: Fellow, Film Independent Screenwriting Lab - THE LAST SUPPER
2025: Official Selection (Interactive), Venice Film Festival - LILI
2025: Official Selection (Interactive), Cannes Film Festival - LILI (First video game to premiere at Cannes)
2025: Official Selection, Gotham Week Market - Features in Development - THE LAST SUPPER
2024: Fellow, Antigravity Academy - Screenwriting Camp - THE LAST SUPPER
2023: Imagination Award, Sundance Film Festival - BLOCK PARTY
2022: Winner, MACRO x The Black List - Screenwriting Incubator - JORGE IN PARADISE
2022: Alum, GLAAD List - Best un-produced LGBTQ+ scripts - JORGE IN PARADISE
2022: US Selection, CannesFilm Writing Residency - THE LAST SUPPER
2018: Storyscapes Award, Tribeca Film Festival - HERO LBE Virtual Reality
2016: BAFTA Nominee, BAFTA Games - 1979 REVOLUTION
2016: Best Video Game, IndieCade - 1979 REVOLUTION
2013: Winner, Mexico International Film Festival - GALEANA No. 8
2013: Winner, YoungCuts Film Festival - GALEANA No. 8
2013: Winner, Amsterdam Film Festival - GALEANA No. 8

Press

‘Vestibulum Inceptos Gravida’, Ornare Review,
by Tincidunt Nisl
2024

‘Ullamcorper Faucibus (Congue) Euismod’, by Ligula Parturient, Bibendum Review Porta Libero
2023

Dictumst Tristique, Facilisis Magazine, Edition Two, Porta Libero
2021

Auctor Adipiscing Art Magazine, Porta Libero
2020

Sollicitudin Ornare Magazine,
Porta Libero
2020

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