EDUARDO VILLANUEVA (1970, Guadalajara, Mexico) is an artist and independent -autodidact filmmaker. He is a scriptwriter, director, editor and producer. His first art studies where made in the field of the music and architecture in diferent universities in Guadalajara. His first feature film which was made in Berlin, Germany ̈Reise Nach Tulum/A Trip to Tulum ̈ (2011) took seven years to produce. It was shown at film festivals and in museums of modern art. With the script Tramp (2010) he was granted by the Global Film Initiative award.

Penumbra, his second film was supported by the Hubert Bals Fund was nominated for the Tiger Award 2013 and recibed the Lions film award at Rotterdam IFF. Penumbra has been Presented in more than 30 film festivals around the world like: Edinburgh, Durban, Thessaloniki, Morelia, Brighton, Teplice, Gijón, New Orleans, Kerala, La habana and some others like the Museum Reina Sofía in Madrid. The film recibed the FIPRESCI award at the 28th Mar del Plata IFF and the Best director award at the Mendoza IFF, both in Argentina. Villanueva is habituated to write different scenarios in parallel, and the one titled Phantasos (in pre-production) will be filmed hopefully in 2015.

Major prizes and grants

• Tiger Award Nomine 01/2013 (Rotterdam International Film Festival, Holand)

• Lions Film Award 01/2013 (Rotterdam International Film Festival, Holand)
• Winner prize FIPRESI 08/2013- Fédération Internationale de la Press Cinématographique (Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2013, Argentina)

• Winner prize best director (Mendoza IFF 2014, Argentina)

• Winner Hubert Bals Fund post- production support grant 2012 (Rotterdam International Film Festival)

• Winner of The Global film Initiative grant 2010 - San Francisco California, USA.