About

Alfredo Alcántara is a Mexico City-raised, New York-based, documentary producer and cinematographer.

He’s a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and his work has screened at Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Mountainfilm in Telluride and SXSW.

In 2021, Alfredo was awarded an Emmy for ‘No Olvidado’ a story he produced/shot on the US-Mexico border.

His camerawork is featured in the documentary 'American Promise,' winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize and most recently in ‘Stateless’ which premiered at Tribeca in 2020. He's currently producing and co-directing 'The Age of Water,' a feature documentary about Mexico’s water crisis . The film is supported by Latino Public Broadcasting, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Firelight Media and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture.

Alfredo has produced, shot and directed content for The New York Times, A+E Networks, Vox Media, Condé Nast and The Nature Conservancy.

For the past twelve years he’s lived the freelance life (with a short three-year interlude working as producer at CNN in New York.)