Ernesto Quintero

Ernesto Quintero

Most recently Ernesto produced A Sacred Journey, a feature documentary of his brother’s fight with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). He has been presently nominated for an Imagen Award for this documentary and is doing the film festival circuit hoping to find the right distributor. In addition to pointing the camera on his brother, Ernesto most recently traveled the world working with Jennifer Lopez (JL) on Dance Again a documentary featuring JL on her first-ever world tour. As a second unit director, Ernesto got to see the world through his lens, traveling to 40 countries in 4 months. On this same tour, Ernesto directed JL’s ten dancers and came back to produce six episodes of A Step Away, a docu-series for NUVO TV. His awards include the Imagen Award for Outstanding Stage Production for Veteranos: A legacy of Valor (2000), a nomination for Outstanding Made-for-TV Documentary Producer for an Alma Award for Warrior of the Court (2007), Imagen Award for the PBS national television series Voces (2007), Cine Golden Eagle Award for Lalo Guerrero: The Original Chicano (2007) and a NAMIC award for the mun2 Hookup (2008).