About Victor Gomez
Victor is and award winning Colombian/Canadian screenwriter, director, actor, creative producer, and host, with more than 30 years of experience in the film and TV industry in North and Latin America. He has an MFA in Theater Directing and Acting, from York University, an HBA in Journalism and Media Communications, and postgraduate studies in Film from Ryerson University, and Creative Writing, from Humber College.In North American television he has carried out and developed main characters for series such us Ransom 3 (CBS/Corus/eOne); Always a Witch (Netflix); Pure 2 (Superchannel/WGN/Hulu), Best TV Series at Screen Nova Scotia Awards; the multiaward winner Orphan Black (BBC America); the two awards winner and seven times nominated of Canadian Screen Awards, Mary Kills People (Global/ Corus); the seven times nominated to the Gemeni, Across the River to Motor City (CHUM TV); The Gemini nominee for Best Dramatic Series, Bliss (Showcase / CBC); The life of Donald Trump, Ambition (ABC); Bad Blood 2 (City/Radio-Canada Télé/Rogers), Gigi (The Movie Network and Movie Central);Missing (Lifetime), Good Dog (HBO); Mayday (Discovery and Cineflex); and Covert Affairs (NBC-Universal).In Hollywood and North American Films, to mention a few, he has performed in the Oscar nominee film Lars and The Real Girl, starred by Ryan Gosling; in Paromount's film about the renown rapper 50 Cent, Get Rich or Die Tryin', directed by Irish director (My Left Foot), Jim Sheridan; with Mickey Rourke, in the movie Blunt Force Trauma, by New York director Ken Sanzel; and more recently, in the Romania, Canada, Germany and Sweden Co-production of 'Lemonade', produced by Palm d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu.In theatre, acclaimed by the critics during its North American Tour, his one-man-show Lizardboy, obtained the People's Choice Award at Summerworks Theatre Festival. He has also performed in the California's Rubicon Theatre and MTC's international co-production of The Night of the Iguana, where he shared the stage with Efrem Zimabilst Junior, remembered for his starring role in the 60's series FBI, and his daughter Stephanie Zimbalist, co-star with Pierce Brosnan of the renown series Remington Steel. And amongst many others, with Theatre@York he has performed in The Witch of Edmonton, Oedipus, Bobraushenbergamerica, Raul Julia's Romero, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and has directed the plays At the Beginning, From The Heart and his controverted Shakespeare's, Richard III.He has directed as well more than half dozen films, including his short adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, Ricardo Against Ricardo, Best Canadian Experimental at the Alucine Film Festival. Presently, Victor is developing the documentaries Dahiana, I am, Roses to Freedom, Searching For Oscar, and Digging for Justice, an investigation about the Guatemalan Genocide, with Nobel Peace Price Rigoberta Menchú.Víctor is married to coach and marketing management specialist Carolina Rivillas, and is the happy father of 2 girls and 1 boy. He was born in Medellín, Colombia and is the oldest of the 9 brothers and sisters from his parents' two marriages. He grew up in a yoguis' family, were vegetarianism, astrology, and meditation was practiced, and where philosophy and spiritual development were the conversation every day.His father was one of the first bioenergetics medical doctor in his country, his mother is a healer, his sister is one of the best well known Reiki teachers in Colombia, and his aunt is a ...