Writer/Director/Producer, Gustavo
Camelot, hails from the “Switzerland of the Americas,”
Uruguay, and has also lived in Barcelona, Paris, Munich, Berlin,
London, New York, and most recently Los Angeles. As a result of
his international upbringing, Gustavo speaks four languages, Spanish,
English, German, and French, and has a rich understanding of diverse
cultural idiosyncrasies and aesthetics.
Educated in Montevideo and at Oxford, Gustavo’s critical eye
for composition was first cultivated when he received advanced degrees
in the discipline of architecture, which served as an appropriate
foundation for understanding the spatial relationships inherent
in film composition. He later segued into theater arts after attending
conservatory post-graduate programs at Escola de Teatre Musical
Memory in Barcelona, and Mountview Conservatoire of the Performing
Arts in London. His performances at London’s West End theatre
district and in Barcelona garnered critical acclaim, and lead to
his sojourn into film acting and directing, and a recent move to
Los Angeles to pursue his filmmaking ambitions.
Gustavo has appeared in numerous international films, television
pilots, short films and commercials, and has finished an intensive
film development program at Los Angeles Film School.
Vidrio Roto (Broken Glass) is Gustavo’s first feature. Adapted
from his novel, Memories of an Ideal in Coma, and
based on his multi-award-winning short The Seventh Bottle, about the story of VAL and Val, Broken Glass'
cinematic twists and turns reflects Gustavo’s diverse background
by application of his multi-cultural heritage and penchant for languages
into the body of work.
Gustavo was also a "Project: Involve Honoree",
a mentorship program of FIND (Film Independent - Los Angeles), sponsored
by Eastman Kodak, Sony Pictures and HBO, and is now in full pre-production for his next
project, The Tree
of Red Stars ("Las Cinco Puntas del Lucero"), based on the novel by Tessa
Bridal and already declared of National Interest by the Uruguayan Government. The Tree of Red Stars is a coming of age, love story set in Uruguay in
the 60’s and 70’s. The story starts off in the peaceful,
beautiful tree lined streets of Montevideo, a safe playground for
all children, and ends up, in the USA-supported torture chambers
during the fascist Military dictatorship, a period in
which, thousands of Uruguayans were tortured and murdered for their political
convictions, their dreams of social equality, the five pointed red star...
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