Director & Screenwriter

Iz Gutierrez is a Mexican-American director and screenwriter raised in La Puente and Pomona, California. In 2022, he won Best Film Screenplay at the Mexican American Film Festival and Best Drama at the Official Latino Film Festival for his proof-of-concept They Call Us Sediciosos, which also garnered other honors. Gutierrez was also selected to the Read LatinX Writers Initiative in the same year for his original television pilot, which the short film was based on.

Mentored by Oscar-winning screenwriter David S. Ward and former DGA president and director Martha Coolidge at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film, he is also the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant for his short proof-of-concept Sin Frontera (Without Boundary), which screened at SAG Foundation, Academy Accredited Festivals, and won numerous awards, including an invitational screening at WME (William Morris Endeavor). His work has also been licensed by ShortsTV Channel.

While developing his creative projects, Iz has worked as an editor at NBCUniversal (E! Entertainment International, Telemundo), as well as teaching at a local college, and university.

Iz Gutierrez continues to expand his directing and screenwriting work by developing feature films and episodic projects. He resides in Pomona, California.