Nicolás Pereda

(2007), Summer of Goliath (2010), Tales of Two Who Dreamt (2016), Fauna (2020), Lázaro at Night (2024), and Copper (2025).

• Name — Nicolás Pereda • Born — 1982 • Occupation — Film director and writer • Years Active — 2000s–present • Spouse — Andrea Bussmann

Pereda was born in Mexico City in 1982; he holds dual Mexican and Canadian citizenship. He studied filmmaking at York University. He received his Bachelor degree of Fine Arts in Films in 2005 and his Master in 2007.

Pereda's award-winning films include Where Are Their Stories? (2007), Summer of Goliath (2010), Tales of Two Who Dreamt (2016), Fauna (2020), Lázaro at Night (2024), and Copper (2025). His films have been described as "meticulous, minimalist, deadpan." His films regularly blend aspects and techniques of both narrative fiction and documentary filmmaking. Pereda's films, which have been financed by both Mexican and Canadian arts grants and funding bodies, have been predominantly shot in Mexico and are "resolutely Mexican in their intimate attention to class, culture, social structure, and family relations in Mexican society." His films have been exhibited in festivals around the world, including at the Venice Film Festival, Berlinale, Rotterdam, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Pereda's work has also been presented at several archives, retrospectives, and cinematheques, including the Anthology Film Archives, the Pacific Film Archive, and the Harvard Film Archive, the latter of which wrote of his work: "Pereda’s films are resolutely Mexican in focus and almost exclusively deal with stories drawn directly from the everyday lives and worlds of their working-class characters."

Pereda formerly served as the director of the Filmmaking Program, a new BFA program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Pereda is married to film director Andrea Bussmann, with whom he codirected the 2016 film Tales of Two Who Dreamt.

• Where Are Their Stories? (¿Dónde están sus historias?), 2007 • Interview with the Earth (Entrevista con la tierra), 2008 • Together (Juntos), 2009 • Perpetuum Mobile, 2009 • All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence (Todo, en fin, el silencio lo ocupaba), 2010 • Summer of Goliath (Verano de Goliat), 2010 • The Greatest Hits (Los mejores temas), 2012 • Killing Strangers (Matar extraños), 2013 • The Palace (El palacio), 2013 • The Absent (Los ausentes), 2014 • The Empty Classroom (El aula vacía), 2015 • Minotaur (Minotauro), 2015 • Tales of Two Who Dreamt (Historias de dos que soñaron), 2016 • My Skin, Luminous (Mi piel, luminosa), 2019 • Fauna, 2020 • Dear Chantal (Querida Chantal), 2021 • Lázaro at Night (Lázaro de noche), 2024 • Copper (Cobre), 2025 • Everything Else Is Noise (Lo demás es ruido), 2026

Nicolás Pereda is recorded with the occupation cinematographer. Recorded as film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and film producer.