Nelson Carvajal

Nelson Carvajal is an independent digital filmmaker, writer and content creator. He has been a considerable presence in the emerging new media independent moviemaking arena, pushing for his peers to come together to form a new industry--one where self-distribution, digital filmmaking and peer-to-peer online content curation become pillars for a self-sustaining future.

Carvajal’s filmography is mainly made up of experimental, niche digital shorts. Recently, Carvajal’s video art piece “Makeshift Correct” played at the 2011 London Underground Film Festival. His radical video essay “Euphony” was an official selection of the 6th Annual MoFest and was exhibited as a video installation in the “Half-Truths” Gallery at the 2011 Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival. His short subject web doc “Skate Park” was an official selection of the 2011 South Loop Film Festival. The surreal “Ad Hominem” was an official selection of the 2009 Fractured Lens Video Festival. The underground “Cobraface” made its world premiere on the Cine Wall Project before going to play as part of the film program at the 2011 Bucktown Arts Festival. His appropriated mixed media video work for Kodacrome’s single “Modern Man” was presented as part of the 2011 Seen and Heard Music Video Showcase. Carvajal’s unorthodox visual style is comprised of handheld camera work, organic jump cuts in editing and a gritty, video-based palette. In fact, Carvajal was one of the featured filmmakers in an article regarding the new age handheld camera technique in Jim Emerson’s Scanners Blog (Emerson is the editor of RogerEbert.com).

Nelson Carvajal received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He was also a contributing writer for the 44th Chicago International Film Festival and served as a writing intern for The A.V. Club (Onion Newspaper). Carvajal keeps an open, running dialogue on the state of independent film at his blog FREE CINEMA NOW.