dpgarcia

An award winning Director of Photography, started his career in the early 1980s in the news industry while attending Miami-Dade College. His news credits include shooting and directing documentaries, news, sports, and special projects regarding Princess Diana, British Airways’ Concord, Panama, the mass exodus from Cuba, and NASA shuttle missions for ABC News in Miami. In the early 90′s William was chosen from a staff of twenty-five photographers to represent ABC-TV in Tampa, Florida for a journalist exchange program with the former Soviet Union. Working for Glassnoradio Network, he documented entertainment, lifestyle and the people of Russia. His work in the former Soviet Union earned him a South East Emmy for best documentary and a national award from The Radio and Television News Director Association. During William’s career he was a finalist
for Television Photography from The Atlanta Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalist, Green Eye Shade Award, was nominated for a South East Emmy for Best Camera Work for a Documentary “Land of The Lost Guatemala”, and in 1992 he won a South East Emmy for Entertainment Feature for “Hot Shots”,
a documentary on the fashion industry in Miami. William also won two New York Film Festival Awards for Best TV Spots for ABC-TV and a nomination for “Ten Taxi” an ABC-TV, Miami production.

In the mid 90′s William earned the title Producer, Director and Director of Photography for features, commercials, television programming, reality, and music video productions. William has worked on noted projects for: Lenny Kravitz, Paul McCartney, Missy Elliott, Michael Jackson, Ricky Martin, Shakira, Christina Aguilera, and Juanes
just to name a few artist. Other projects include “Get Out” for HD NET, ” Unsolved Mysteries” for the Sundance Channel, “Real World, Miami”, for MTV Network, “Crossing Country“ for The Out Door Channel, “MTV Making The Video” for MTV Network, “Project My World” for DIRECT-TVand Dick Wolf ‘s television series, “Arrest and Trial ” for USA Networks.

In the feature film industry, his productions include the award-winning Red Bird directed by Emilia Huerta, the critically-acclaimed Loren Cass directed by Chris Fuller and distributed by Kino International,” Frat Party” for Supermassive Films distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment and Showtime, “Amor y Frijoles” and “Quien Paga La Cuenta?” distributed by Cinemark International for the Latin Central American market.

William is a member of two union guilds, NABET and IATSE Local 600
Cinematographers Guild, and is fluent in both English and Spanish.