NEW DAY FILMS BY
Paco de Onís:

State of Fear: The Truth About Terrorism

Witness To War

Living Broke in Boom Times: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty

Producer's Web Site:
www.skylightpictures.com

Paco de Onis grew up in several Latin American countries and is tri-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English). His extensive knowledge of Latin America and his television production experience in the United States make him uniquely suited to be the producer of State of Fear, a Skylight Pictures film about Peru's war on terror based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. State of Fear was released in 2005 and broadcast to 154 countries and translated into 45 languages by National Geographic Channel, and is the recipient of the Amnesty International Film Festival Audience Award, the Film Critics' Award of the Chicago International Documentary Film Festival, as well as the Council on Foundations Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Video. State of Fear was selected to be the Opening Night Film of the 2005 Human Rights Watch Film Festival held at Lincoln Center, New York.

Paco is a producer with Skylight Pictures, Inc. and the founder of Minds At Large LLC (www.mindsatlarge.com), a digital media studio based in New York. He has produced television documentaries that aired on PBS ("On Our Own Terms" with Bill Moyers), National Geographic ("Secrets from the Grave"), New York Times Television ("Police Force", "Chaos Theory"), NBC ("TV Nation" with Michael Moore), and MSNBC ("Edgewise" with John Hockenberry). His work on "TV Nation" received an Emmy award in 1995 for Outstanding Informational Series. He was also a news producer for two internet companies, www.feedroom.com, a broadband news delivery site, and www.starmedia.com, a web site focused on Latin American affairs. Previous to producing television documentaries and news reports for internet media sites, he created music festivals in South America & the Caribbean, renovated and operated an arts/performance theater in Miami Beach, (The Cameo Theater) and owned and operated a Spanish-style tapas tavern in a 500-year old colonial house in Cartagena, Colombia.

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