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franciscoaliwalas

Francisco Aliwalas is a Manhattan based producer and award-winning filmmaker.  Recently, he is the Field Producer and Director of Photography for A&E’s latest unscripted investigative drama, THE RUNAWAY SQUAD.  For The Travel Channel series, 5 TAKES, he was the Director, Videographer, and Series Producer for four seasons.  He was also the host/producer of YOUR TRAVEL GUIDE for that same network.

In the realm of music videos, he directed, shot, and edited a dozen which have rotated on various MTV channels around the world.  Francisco has made web content for Nike, Coke, Verizon, R.J. R. Reynolds, New York Post, Current TV, Google Travel, Ford Models, General Electric, Hartz, Leblon Cachca, SAP, and Alcatel Lucent.

Two of his latest documentaries, as the Director of Photography, have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and Hot Docs in Toronto. Recently, the feature doc, WINGS OF DEFEAT, which he shot, won Best Documentary/Above and Beyond Award, Best Documentary voted by the Women Film Critics Circle.  The same film won Best Overlooked Film 2008, Progie Awards, James Egee Cinema Circle.  He also won Best Picture, Director, and Editor at MTV World's 72 Hour Short Film Shoot-Out and his series for Conde Naste’s Concierge.com titled 24 Hours in…won Best Online Video Series as voted by Magazine Publishers of America.  His reel can be viewed at www.FranFilm.com.