Mauro Mueller
Mauro Mueller is an independent Swiss-Mexican narrative filmmaker. He won in the Student Academy Awards in 2013 and is member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He is best known for directing the short films "Ge.hen'nah" in 2010, "A World for Raúl" () in 2012, "Fingerspiel" in 2013, "Dear Chickens" starring Philip Baker Hall and Kerris Dorsey in 2018 and producing the feature film "Copenhagen", the omnibus feature film "A Quintet", and the Mexican feature "In Times of Rain". He was the 2nd unit director on "Awake" and co-directed the 4th season of the  Swiss mystery thriller . Life and career. Mauro Mueller was born and raised in Switzerland. In 2008, he moved to New York City to study film directing and writing at Columbia University. Mueller graduated from the film program when he received his master's degree with honors in 2013. While attending Columbia, he directed six award-winning short films: "In for a surprise" (2009), "Ge.hen'nah" (2010), "Lee" (2010), "Santiago del otro lado" (2011), A World for Raúl (2012) and "Fingerspiel". The films won a number of film festival awards including the Student Academy Awards and the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award  twice, a directing award that marked the early careers of Steven Spielberg, Mike Nichols, Robert Zemeckis and Ken Burns. Mauro was also part of the Masterclass Atelier Paris-Ludwigsburg at La Femis in 2011, a post-graduate program which is tailored around European co-production/distribution. In 2012 Mauro was selected as at the Talent Campus of Berlin Film Festival with his feature-length script "Fingerplay", which was among 10 projects chosen to participate in the Script Station. In 2013, Mauro was chosen as part of the Guadalajara Talent Campus in Guadalajara Mexico. The feature film "Copenhagen" won the Audience  Award at Slamdance 2014 and the Grand Jury Prize at Florida Film Festival and Gasparilla International Film Festival in Tampa, Florida. It is a 2015 indie Netflix hit and sold to more than 90 countries. Mauro attended the 2016 Rotterdam Producer's Lab and received the prestigious Young Creators grant from the National Fund for Culture and Arts in Mexico. He further was part of Trans Atlantic Partners, Cannes Producer's Network and IFP Marcie Bloom Fellowship. In 2018, Mauro was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Awards. In 2012, Mauro has been nominated as  one of ten finalists in the New Asian Force category at the Hong Kong Independent Film & Video Awards for his short film "Ge.hen'nah". "A World for Raúl" () (2012), Mauro's thesis short film at Columbia University graduate film program, starring Alexandré Barceló, Adrián Alonso, Gerardo Taracena, Roberto Luis Meza, and Adriana Paz received numerous awards, including in the narrative category of the Student Academy Awards 2013, Best Student Short at Aspen Shortsfest, Best drama at New York Shortsfest, Upcoming Talent Awards at Solothurn Film Festival, among others. The film received a review by Hammer to Nail, a film review site  focused on Truly Independent Film. Fidelio Films. Mauro Mueller is co-owner of the production company Fidelio Films, a New York City-based independent film production company founded by producers David Figueroa García, Mark Raso, Mauro Mueller and Mauricio Leiva-Cock in 2010. All four of them met while studying at the MFA program in directing and screenwriting at Columbia University. The company has produced a number of acclaimed short films, winning twice in a row in the Student Academy Awards with "Under" in 2012 and "Un mundo para Raúl" in 2013. In 2014, for the third time in a  row, they had a short "Perfidia" in the regional final of the Student Academy Awards. Their first feature film "Copenhagen", featuring Gethin Anthony, Bodil Awards winner Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian Armesto, Mille Dinesen, Baard Owe, and Tamzin Merchant was theatrically released in North America in 2014. The company has offices in Los Angeles, Bogota, Mexico City and Zurich.