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Paco de Onis
New York
Producer
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Title/Occupation:  Producer 
Gender: Male
Citizenship: USA
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian

Brief Message to Members: I'm an independent documentary producer, only producing projects for our company Skylight Pictures.
Biography: Paco de Onis grew up in several Latin American countries and is multi-lingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, French). He is currently finishing a film and educational media project about the International Criminal Court (ICC) titled “The Reckoning”, which has been selected for the Sundance 09 US Documentary Competition. Prior to the ICC project, he produced “State of Fear”, a Skylight Pictures film about Peru’s 20-year “war on terror” based on the findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Paco has produced documentaries for PBS ("On Our Own Terms” with Bill Moyers), National Geographic ("Secrets from the Grave"), New York Times Television ("Police Force”, “Paramedics"), and MSNBC ("Edgewise" with John Hockenberry). He was also a news producer for two internet companies, http://www.feedroom.com, a broadband news delivery site, and http://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.