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BIOGRAPHY
Alexandro Pacheco was born in Chicago, IL, and began writing short stories and treatments for telenovelas conceived in his head as early as the age of nine. He was inspired by his experiences growing up an only child from a single-parent home which resided in Pilsen, a predominantly-hispanic artist’s community on Chicago's southwest side; and in Lakewood, OH, where the family moved in 1989.
In 2000, Alexandro moved to New York City and began working for the internationally renowned Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) the following year. In the 12 years he worked at MMDG full-time, he produced over 40 special projects for the company (including the first-ever, online archive of a living choreographer’s works with complete performance history); he edited promotional videos for the company, including the 10-min documentary, The Hard Nut: A Look Back, and the 2-part series, Mark Morris Dance Group (A Dance Center in Brooklyn and Evening-Length Works) for Brooklyn Independent Television; he wrote and curated the website’s special content pages for three years; plus managed and negotiated ballet commission contracts for the choreographer. Invited back as a freelancer in 2016, he was instrumental in the curation and loan of over 200 artifacts for a year-long exhibition on Mark Morris at the National Museum of Dance in honor of the choreographer's induction into the Whitney Vanderbilt Dance Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, NY.
In 2017, Pacheco made the decision to return to school in pursuit of a career in film, a life-long passion. By May 2018, he was a Phi Theta Kappa Honors graduate of Borough of Manhattan Community College and had been accepted into the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. An active member of the Tisch community, he produced and/or directed 10 productions in just two years, including his award-winning documentary, The Unicorn, which screened in Hamburg, Germany. He received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship in 2019 and spent a semester in the Czech Republic studying 35mm filmmaking at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. He edited his senior thesis film, Ideologies & The Promise, during the COVID-19 isolation period and, in May 2020, he finally earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts, graduating Summa Cum Laude from New York University. In 2021, he produced five, public livestreams as a test to his film's marketability despite the lack of access to audiences. The monthly “livestreams” played on the Eventive platform to private audiences invited to partake in an exploration of the themes in the film. The livestreams featured members of the creative team and were also his experiment in conversation. The 26-minute film went on to screen at 10 festivals in three countries and has won six awards to date including Best Original Score (Toronto Film Magazine), Best Cinematography (Las Vegas Shorts & 4th Dimension Film Fest in Bali), Best New Director (Venice Shorts & New York International Film Awards) and Best Editing of a Short (Los Angeles Theatrical Release Competition).
Pacheco is currently in development of his own original projects while working as a Script Supervisor in the film industry.
THE NARRATIVE SHORTS
The Documentaries
THE GILMAN SERIES
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Above is a short introduction, created in After Effects which played to guests attending one of the four Livestreams in the series described below...