Juan Castillo (filmmaker)

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Filmmaker from the Dominican Republic who grew up in New York City. Became the first Dominican admitted to the New York University masters film program, where he was Spike Lee's teaching assistant and his thesis film won the Spike Lee Fellowship. He apprenticed as personal assistant to Spike Lee on films including She Hate Me and Inside Man.

His films include El Delivery, which won several awards including the Audience Award in NYU's showcase of Best Films of NYU at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. That film was licensed by HBO, airing on its networks 134 times, becoming the first film by a Dominican filmmaker to be licensed by a major network. It was also licensed by PBS/Thirteen, where it leads all other films by hundreds of votes in the REEL NY film series.

His NYU thesis film, Secuestro, received the first Global Foundation short film prize, presented by the president of the Dominican Republic and was licensed by the Showtime network, while his first feature-length script, Sanjas (The Great Adventure) won a Disney development deal and his second feature script, Batey Felicidad, won a development grant from PBS' Latino Public Broadcasting program.

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[1] CBS

[2] Global Foundation for Democracy and Development

[3] Internet Movie Database

[4] New York University

[5] PBS

[6] WNET Thirteen