Juan Carlos Oseguera
Writer-Producer-Editor-Director
Juan Carlos Oseguera is a Mexican-born artist with a degree in Cinema from San Francisco State University. While an undergraduate student, he worked on the school's cinema website and became a published film critic for a Latino newspaper. He also wrote a screenplay that garnered him a scholarship to attend a screenwriting conference that was sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Script Magazine. There he received a special luncheon and writing guidance from Greg Beal, director of the Nicholl Fellowship, and Richard Price, the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of The Color of Money, Ransom and Shaft.
After San Francisco State, he took part in an arts program, at California State University's Summer Arts, where he worked alongside industry professionals in award-winning projects. Some of the industry mentors he worked with while at the program were with film director Brad Silberling (Casper, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events), cinematographer Jeffrey C. Mygatt (TV's 24, Agents of SHIELD and Touch) and award-winning lead animator Andrew Gordon (of the Pixar films).
One of his animation projects, produced while at the arts program, also became a finalist at the 2002 CSU Media Arts Festival.
In 2004, he established Filmunition Studios, a post production editing studio, from where he edited various short films and video projects.
In 2009, he started work on his first feature length documentary film, The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker Struggle, which he wrote, produced, edited and directed. The film brings light to an agricultural community that has struggled over the years to get access to water and the impacts it has on all of us.
The film had major premieres in 2012 and, since then, it has had continuous play at film festivals and other screenings throughout California, the nation and other parts of the world, garnering awards and wide media attention along the way.
Read the Director's Statement.
After San Francisco State, he took part in an arts program, at California State University's Summer Arts, where he worked alongside industry professionals in award-winning projects. Some of the industry mentors he worked with while at the program were with film director Brad Silberling (Casper, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events), cinematographer Jeffrey C. Mygatt (TV's 24, Agents of SHIELD and Touch) and award-winning lead animator Andrew Gordon (of the Pixar films).
One of his animation projects, produced while at the arts program, also became a finalist at the 2002 CSU Media Arts Festival.
In 2004, he established Filmunition Studios, a post production editing studio, from where he edited various short films and video projects.
In 2009, he started work on his first feature length documentary film, The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker Struggle, which he wrote, produced, edited and directed. The film brings light to an agricultural community that has struggled over the years to get access to water and the impacts it has on all of us.
The film had major premieres in 2012 and, since then, it has had continuous play at film festivals and other screenings throughout California, the nation and other parts of the world, garnering awards and wide media attention along the way.
Read the Director's Statement.
