Gustavo Mercado

Gustavo Mercado is an award-winning independent filmmaker with well over a decade of experience as a writer, director, and cinematographer of narrative films. His first book in the Filmmaker’s Eye series, "The Filmmaker’s Eye: Learning and Breaking the Rules of Cinematic Composition", has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean, and is used by film programs at colleges and universities worldwide. It was followed by "The Language of the Lens: The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image", which uses the same approach to teach filmmaking by combining precise technical instruction with storytelling analysis and cinematic aesthetics considerations. He teaches cinematography, editing, screenwriting, and film production at Hunter College’s Film & Media Studies Department in New York City.