Rafael Alvarado Martin is a Peruvian director, MFA in Cinema Arts by Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College-CUNY. 

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Within the MFA program at Feirstein, Rafael has directed and produced 4 short films. In 2020, his second year film First They Came For My Mother, got official selections at 8 festivals around the US and Europe: Tide Film Festival, Official Latino Films and Arts Festival, Montreal Independent Film Festival, Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat International Film Festival, Indie Short Fest, New Faces New Voices, First-Time Filmmaker Sessions. He is currently in pre-production for his Thesis Short Film.

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He graduated from PUCP University in Peru as a Communication Sciences Bachelor in 2004. There, he focused on courses on Theater and Audio-Visual Communications. Since then he´s been working in documentaries, corporate videos and advertising in Peru for about 15 years.

 

In 2003, as part of a school project he co-directed a Music Video for the Peruvian rock band 6 Voltios, which made it into the regular programming at MTV Latin America. In 2011 he directed a Documentary called “Stoked” which followed the adventures of Peruvian free surfer Jonathan Gubbins. That same year, he founded his own production Company called Katapulta, where he directed many advertising pieces and content for both digital and Tv, targeted to the Peruvian market. In 2017 he moved to Barcelona, Spain where he worked as 2nd AD in many advertising productions and in the same position in the Netflix Film production called “4 Latas”, shoot on location in Morocco, and the Canary Islands.

 

In 2018 he moved to Brooklyn to start the MFA directing program at Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College-CUNY. He currently lives in NYC.