Ronald Baez is a Caribbean-American screenwriter, director, and award-winning immersive media artist from Miami, FL. His current and previous short film projects continue to screen at film festivals worldwide including HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival, the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, the Miami Film Festival, the Borscht Film Festival, and The Norton Museum of Art. Several of Baez’s short film projects would ultimately be distributed for national television broadcast by PBS as well as on Apple TV & Roku by Seed&Spark SVOD. Baez's award-winning immersive media projects have been exhibited at the 2020 MIT Reality Hack XR Hackathon, the Florida Museum of National History, and the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB Show). Baez was awarded the NAB Futures Innovator's Award in 2019 for his ongoing VR projects in collaboration with the University of Florida MET Lab. Baez continues to work with organizations and institutions like National Geographic, the University of Florida, the New World Symphony, the Sea Turtle Conservancy, and the Knight Foundation on a variety of immersive media projects. In addition to his work as a filmmaker and immersive media artist, Baez is a founding member of the White Elephant Group, a Miami-based filmmaking collective, and also serves as the Artistic Director of the After School Film Institute, a nonprofit organization mentoring at risk, inner-city students in South Florida.
Ronald Baez is a Caribbean-American screenwriter, director, and award-winning immersive media artist from Miami, FL. His current and previous short film projects continue to screen at film festivals worldwide including HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival, the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, the Miami Film Festival, the Borscht Film Festival, and The Norton Museum of Art. Several of Baez’s short film projects would ultimately be distributed for national television broadcast by PBS as well as on Apple TV & Roku by Seed&Spark SVOD. Baez's award-winning immersive media projects have been exhibited at the 2020 MIT Reality Hack XR Hackathon, the Florida Museum of National History, and the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB Show). Baez was awarded the NAB Futures Innovator's Award in 2019 for his ongoing VR projects in collaboration with the University of Florida MET Lab. Baez continues to work with organizations and institutions like National Geographic, the University of Florida, the New World Symphony, the Sea Turtle Conservancy, and the Knight Foundation on a variety of immersive media projects. In addition to his work as a filmmaker and immersive media artist, Baez is a founding member of the White Elephant Group, a Miami-based filmmaking collective, and also serves as the Artistic Director of the After School Film Institute, a nonprofit organization mentoring at risk, inner-city students in South Florida.
Ronald Baez is a Caribbean-American screenwriter, director, and award-winning immersive media artist from Miami, FL. His current and previous short film projects continue to screen at film festivals worldwide including HBO’s New York Latino Film Festival, the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, the Miami Film Festival, the Borscht Film Festival, and The Norton Museum of Art. Several of Baez’s short film projects would ultimately be distributed for national television broadcast by PBS as well as on Apple TV & Roku by Seed&Spark SVOD. Baez's award-winning immersive media projects have been exhibited at the 2020 MIT Reality Hack XR Hackathon, the Florida Museum of National History, and the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB Show). Baez was awarded the NAB Futures Innovator's Award in 2019 for his ongoing VR projects in collaboration with the University of Florida MET Lab. Baez continues to work with organizations and institutions like National Geographic, the University of Florida, the New World Symphony, the Sea Turtle Conservancy, and the Knight Foundation on a variety of immersive media projects. In addition to his work as a filmmaker and immersive media artist, Baez is a founding member of the White Elephant Group, a Miami-based filmmaking collective, and also serves as the Artistic Director of the After School Film Institute, a nonprofit organization mentoring at risk, inner-city students in South Florida.
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