Paco de Onís

Producer

Paco de Onís, Producer ...grew up in several Latin American countries and is multi-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, French). He recently produced a film about the International Criminal Court titled "The Reckoning" (world premiere at Sundance 09), accompanied by a an audience engagement project promoting global rule of law, IJCentral. Prior to the ICC project, he produced "State of Fear", a Skylight Pictures film about Peru's 20-year "war on terror" based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Now he is producing Granito, a documentary puzzle about historical memory.

Paco has produced documentaries for PBS ("On Our Own Terms" with Bill Moyers), National Geographic ("Secrets from the Grave"), New York Times Television ("Police Force", "Paramedics"), and MSNBC ("Edgewise" with John Hockenberry). He was also a news producer for two internet companies, the Feedroom, a broadband news delivery site, and StarMedia, a web site focused on Latin American affairs. Previous to producing television documentaries and news reports for internet media sites, he created music festivals in South America & the Caribbean, renovated and operated an arts/performance theater in Miami Beach, (The Cameo Theater) and owned and operated a Spanish-style tapas tavern in a 500-year old colonial house in Cartagena, Colombia.

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