Helio San Miguel

Helio San Miguel
Writer and Director

Helio San Miguel was born in Madrid, Spain, and lives in New York, where he completed his MFA in Film Direction and Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Helio has worked in a number of short independent productions, and has written the feature-length screenplay Ike’s Place, a political thriller about an unprecedented crisis that takes place on Election Day. He is currently working on a script based on the life of a medieval philosopher.

Helio has also contributed to several film books, published numerous articles, and lectured extensively about cinema. He is the editor of World Film Locations: Mumbai (Intellect Books, 2012), and has collaborated in World Film Locations: Madrid (Intellect Books, 2011), The Cinema of Latin America (Wallflower Press, 2003), and Tierra en Trance (Alianza Editorial, 1999). He also holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and teaches film at The New School in New York.