In this episode, Gregory Hernandez interviewed two Bronx native filmmakers, Alvaro Franco & Zanin Lindsay.

Álvaro Franco

🇪🇨🇪🇸 Writer/director, published author, sometimes actor 🎬🎥 Aspiring Renaissance man. Below-the-line soldier with an above-the-line attitude

Alvaro is an independent, New York-based filmmaker and visual artist. HeI has years of on-set and editorial experience, and he is capable of delivering projects on a fast turnaround time.

After directing mostly documentaries during his years in CUNY, he is returning to narrative filmmaking with the intent to establish more racial and gender diversity in contemporary cinema.

Zanin Lindsay is a Black/Latino Cinematographer from the Bronx based in NYC. While passionate about creating visually-driven stories that better represent the nuances of BIPOC identity, he also focuses on streamlining the image-making process into a collaborative, engaging, and communicative atmosphere to ensure the intangible vision of the film can turn into a tangible reality that better connects with the audience.

Zanin earned his Media and Digital Film Production Associates at Bronx Community College in 2018. In his senior year, Zanin was awarded the first-ever Sol Negrin Memorial Award, sponsored by the IATSE Local 600 International Cinematographers Guild, for being a leader among his peers and a representative for the program. His thesis film, Antithesis, won First Place at the 25th Annual Bronx Community College Film and Video Festival and was awarded the Chairsperson's and Peter J. Rondinone Memorial awards. After graduating from the program, Zanin was accepted into City College’s Film and Video BFA program in 2019, where only 25 students are selected each year.

Zanin is available for freelance, part-time, and contract work and is part of Local 600: International Cinematographers Guild. When not working, Zanin enjoys teaching and leading filmmaking workshops while volunteering for nonprofits that aim to make film and filmmaking more accessible to underrepresented persons in and outside the Bronx.