Álvaro Guzmán Bastida
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Álvaro Guzmán Bastida is Spanish-born, Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker whose work is centered around issues of migration, social inequality, labor, memory, and identity.
His first narrative short film, "Recoba" (2022) received multiple awards at international film festivals, including the Kiez Berlin Film Festival, the New York International Film Awards, the Busan New Wave Short Film Festival, and the Luleå International Film Festival, in Sweden. The film was also selected for the Academy Award-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival and the Coney Island Film Festival. His second short, "The Distance to Nebraska" (2023) is currently in distribution. It tells the story of a "hurricane-chasing" migrant day laborer who specializes in rebuilding after natural disasters and struggles to stay afloat in a hostile environment while trying to keep a connection with his son, thousands of miles away.
He has also written two feature-length screenplays and a television pilot.
Before becoming a narrative filmmaker, he worked as a journalist, non-fiction writer and documentary film producer and director. As a producer, he has worked at Al Jazeera English and was an Associate Producer in the Netflix Documentary series "Unnatural Selection" (2019) and "Immigration Nation" (2020). He has also written for newspapers in magazines in Spain, Argentina, the UK, and the Netherlands. He is the author of the book "Trump as a Symptom" (2019) and is currently pursuing an MFA in Screenwriting/ Directing at Columbia University, on a fellowship from the La Caixa Foundation.