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Carlos López Estrada

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Parents
  
Carla Estrada

Role
  
Music Video Director


Name
  
Carlos Estrada

Website
  
lopezestrada.com

Grandparents
  
Maty Huitron

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Born
  
September 12, 1988 (age 35) (
1988-09-12
)

Associated acts
  
Jesse & Joy, Passion Pit, Goo Goo Dolls, Saint Motel, Reptar (band), El Sportivo & The Blooz, MYPET, Maximum Balloon

Movies
  
Kangaroo Court, Identity Theft

Awards
  
Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video

Similar People
  
Ryan Merchant, Sebu Simonian, Cutter Hodierne, Shannon Woodward, Darren Criss

Occupation(s)
  
Music video director

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Carlos Lopez Estrada is a Mexican-American music video and commercial director and a Latin Grammy Award recipient.

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Music videos

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Lopez Estrada has directed videos for a variety of artists, including clipping., Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Hook n Sling, Goo Goo Dolls, Reptar, Passion Pit, El Sportivo & The Blooz, MYPET, Saint Motel, Maximum Balloon, Bowerbirds, Capital Cities, and many more.

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In 2011, Lopez Estrada directed a music video for Mexican pop band Jesse & Joy of their song "Me Voy." The video, which uses stop motion and found the production team trimming 2900 photographs in order to create the sequences included, earned the title of Best Short Form Music Video at the 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2012. Lopez Estrada also directed “Chocolate” from Electricidad for Jesse & Joy.

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In 2013, Lopez Estrada co-directed a music video for Capital Cities’ "Kangaroo Court" which features American actor Darren Criss and American actress Shannon Woodward.

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Lopez Estrada directed five videos for the experimental rap group clipping.’s major label debut titled CLPPNG. Lopez Estrada came in contact with clipping. after befriending Jonathan Snipes, a member of the trio that makes up clipping., while Lopez Estrada was in film school. “Work Work” was the first single from the album. Stereogum detailed Lopez Estrada’s work on the videos as being, “[An] inventive, memorable, and weirdly unsettling experience.” This work led to many collaborations with rapper Daveed Diggs, a member of clipping.

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In 2015, Lopez Estrada directed a video for Thundercat’s “Them Changes,” which featured artists Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington. The song is a part of Thundercat’s The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam, which was his first collection of solo material in two years and placed the artist in collaboration with various others, such as Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington, who each contributed keyboard and saxophone, respectfully.

Theatre

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In October 2015, Lopez Estrada starred in an original multimedia theatre show, titled Ded! based on the Mexican Day of the Dead tradition, which he created and co-directed with Cristina Bercovitz. He and Bercovitz had previously worked together as co-directors on the music video for clipping.’s “GET UP.” The show ran at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles and was composed of an ensemble of musicians, actors and puppeteers. The show also featured a guest performance by Bill Irwin. Living Out Loud, Los Angeles praised Lopez Estrada’s pantomime and comedic performance in the show.

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Lopez Estrada directed a taping of #BARS, a live musical theatre and rap medley workshop in New York City, springing from the culmination of a six-week seminar by Rafael Casal, a poet, writer, rapper, and co-creator of #BARS. The film features performances by a variety of artists, including Rafael Casal, rapper Daveed Diggs, poet Sarah Kay, and nine more performers from New York City.

Film

Lopez Estrada directed a short film titled Identity Theft based on a one-act play written by Andrew Rothschild. It stars stage veterans Bill Irwin and Kate Burton. The film premiered at the 2015 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films.

References

Carlos López Estrada Wikipedia