BERNARDO RUIZ is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico. In 2007, he founded QUIET PICTURES in order to create aesthetically innovative, socially urgent documentaries for all platforms.
His debut film through Quiet was a commission: American Experience: Roberto Clemente (PBS, 2008), a look at the life and career of the outspoken athlete and humanitarian. The film was awarded the NCLR ALMA Award for Outstanding Made for Television Documentary. Reportero, his second film as director, centers on a veteran reporter and his colleagues at an embattled news weekly as they challenge drug cartels and political corruption during a wave of violence against journalists in Mexico.
Previously, he was the co-producer of The Sixth Section/La Sexta Sección, an innovative depiction of the transnational organizing efforts of a community of Mexican immigrants in New York. The film won the top short documentary prize at the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico, and aired on the public television series P.O.V. in 2003. Before working in documentary production he served as Associate Editor of the North American Congress on Latin America’s (NACLA) Report on the Americas. He currently serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) and on the council of the Writer’s Guild of America, East.
