Cesare Wright is an American documentary filmmaker. Wright completed his MFA in Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. In 2002, Wright received the Louis Sudler Award in Humanities at Rice University for his ethnographic documentary film ''Back to the Primitive'', which explores issues of including human suspension, body modification, S&M performance, and Satanic and Luciferian stage rituals. Wright also worked as a news editor for Fox 26 News in Houston, TX. While filming ''Border Wars'', a documentary about paramilitary civilian activity along the U.S./Mexico border, Wright recorded one of the first documented incursions of Mexican soldiers across the U.S. border. In 2007, Wright directed ''Goals'', a film exploring issues of immigration and assimilation vicariously through sports, which premiered on The Documentary Channel and

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. Material from his films has aired on numerous national and international broadcasts, including

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, and

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. The industry premiere of ''Border Wars'' was held at the

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. Working with the

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, founders of

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, Wright directed the ''Gracie Women Empowered'' series, which released in June 2011.

Research

In 2004, Wright co-founded the

Kino-Eye Center Cesare Wright is an American documentary filmmaker. Wright completed his MFA in Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. In 2002, Wright received the Louis Sudler Award in Humanities at Rice University for his ethnographic documen ...

for Visual Innovation, which conducts visual cultural research and supports applied media production. As a Provost's Fellow, his PhD research at the Univ. of Rochester includes Film & media production and theory, representational "truth", documentary film theory and production, visual anthropology, theorizing the Sublime, transnational and diasporic representation, violence and social trauma, "ecstatic truth" and the cinema of Werner Herzog, rhetoric of the frame, ethnographic film, horror genre and theory in cinema. For his work in film production and visual cultural research, Wright was featured as a Distinguished Alumnus by the Rice University Dept. of Visual Arts.

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