Carlos Garza spent a decade in the film festival world before switching gears to producing. He was a founding member and Programmer of the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico and World Competition Coordinator for the Sundance Film Festival, while also working in journalism and publicity. He earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin and recently completed an M.F.A. in Producing at the American Film Institute Conservatory. His thesis film Ni-Ni premiered at Clermont-Ferrand and has since screened in over twenty international film festivals. In 2014 he produced A Robot Walks Into a Bar directed by Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer) for PBS’s FutureStates series, the web series American KOKO, and two short films by up-and-coming director Yolanda Cruz, whose first feature La Raya, backed by Canana Films, will begin production early next year. He is currently writing and developing a horror comedy series set in Koreatown.