Patricio Ginelsa (Director)

Patricio Ginelsa is originally from Daly City, CA, where he started making video movies with his neighborhood at the age of 13. It was John Singleton's 1992 film "Boyz N The Hood" that inspired Patricio to pursue a serious career in filmmaking at the University of Southern California where he graduated with a BA in cinema production.  

Patricio became the Associate Producer of the award-winning film "THE DEBUT " and assisted in its theatrical self-distribution all over the country by driving his car cross-country and back. Once the movie got bought by Columbia Tri-Star in 2003, Patricio was hired as supervising producer of its DVD special features. He wrote and directed the cult feature-length video movie "LUMPIA" (2003 Hawaii International Film Festival) which received a rave review from Variety magazine and continues to gain a huge cult following on DVD. 

Ginelsa is probably best known for writing/directing 3 music videos featuring the Black Eyed Peas, "THE APL SONG" in 2004 and two versions of "BEBOT" in 2006.  The Generation One version of "BEBOT" was recently lauded with the Presidents Award from the California Preservation Foundation for its focus on Stockton's Little Manila District.  Patricio also created music videos for independent artists such as the PACIFICS, Native Guns, Lauren Hildebrandt, INVID, Kim del Fierro, InnerVoices, and Immij.  Ginelsa just completed production on his first commercial and will be making his stage directing debut with Fe de los Reyes' AMERIKANA THE MUSICAL.

Patricio continues to develop his projects under his production company Kid Heroes Productions and also manages Alica Way Entertainment, which distributes exclusive Filipino American DVD content.

Website: www.kidheroes.net


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