Ms. Landini is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fundación de Estudios Internacionales de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. which is the non-profit organization in charge of the Academia Internacional San Miguel de Allende project.

Through the knowledge and observation of nature, Luis (aka VENA2) creates with art, visual symbols and a speech loaded with conscience to inhabit public and private spaces. He has lived and worked in his home town Leon as well as Tijuana, Mexico City, Los Angeles, diversifying his cultural vision and his photography, graphic design and visual arts studies. His work proposes the conceptualization of images taking them to the limit of experimentation and vanguard, always searching for the beauty and harmony with nature. Because of his peculiar vision he usually develops himself in important visual art, music and fashion projects. He has been named the best nacional designer in 2007 by the Magazine Ambientes. In his work and collaborations include those made for brands such as Puma, Nike, Vans, Camel, Sony Ericsson, among others. He has had exhibitions in cities such as: DF, New York, Tokyo and Zaragoza, his work has been published internationally in Japan, Barcelona, New York, Venezuela and Germany, as well as in national magazines such as: Magazine Pic-Nic, Celeste Magazine, Scale Journal, Magazine to! Design, among others.

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He studied communication and direction of film and television at the University of Boston. In 2003, at age 23, he co-founded Lemon Films with his brother Billy, and began a successful career as a producer with the films Matando Cabos and Kilómetro 31, both being major box office success, and the second one getting 3 million spectators and 5 Ariel awards. In 2005 he started the coproduction with Warner Bros of Sultanes del Sur, filmed in Argentina and Mexico. In 2006, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Navidad SA, obtaining more than one and a half million spectators. The following year, he released Dolor y Viceversa and La Profecía de los Justos co-producing with Filmax in Spain. As a writer and director he created chapters of the horror series produced for Televisa: M13DOS; as well as the series of Cineminutos DORITOS M13DOS.

Since 2008, Fernando started a program with the foundation Pronatura, to produce “green” films. That is, neutralizing carbon emissions emitted by the production to zero. This is how the first “green” films have been produced in Latin America. In 2009, he produced the hit comedy Salvando al Soldado Pérez, positioning it as the highest blockbuster Mexican film of the year. Also produced and to be premiered are El Acorazado, winner of the Audience Award at the Festival of Morelia, La Última Muerte, in which he also participated as co-writer, and finally, Carriere, a documentary about the legendary screenwriter Jean Claude Carriere. To be realized in 2011 are two feature films. El Charro Misterioso, by Jose Manuel Cravioto, and La Leyenda de Mascarita, prequel to the hit Matando Cabos. As a director he has also conducted several advertising campaigns with clients such as CFE, Hershey’s, Bimbo, among others, as well as video clips for Elan y Abie Toiber. Fernando is now planning to direct 1985, about the earthquake in Mexico City and Presa, thriller filmed in Hong Kong.

**This an exclusive pre-recorded talk shot at Deepak Homebase in New York city.  It will premiere at TEDxSanMigueldeAllende as part of our program

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Elements recur consistently throughout the work, creating a system-language that is revealed as it develops, just like a story. His exhibition PLAY was touring in the U.S.. Using board games as metaphors, Nacho proposes six principles as the basis for a conscious society that he calls the Collective Experience.

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Mark was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1965. His first big break came as Director of Photography on the musical “Sarafina,” starring Whoopi Goldberg. In 1992, he set his sights on Hollywood and shot his first studio picture for Disney entitled “Fatherhood,” starring Patrick Swayze and Halle Berry. At the age of 26, he became one of the youngest cinematographers to shoot a big budget studio picture. Over the next 10 years, he went on to shoot an additional 14 feature films. At present, Mark is Executive Producer and Writer of the upcoming feature film “Bending Time”, a sci-fi spy thriller and is slated to direct the political drama “Carbon Crimes” in 2011.

Deeply moved by the unprecedented violence, taking place in Mexico, and perhaps because of the very obvious iniquities in his native South Africa – Mark is currently in post production on Incendiar el Corazón , a film about non-violent protest movements who have been deeply affected by the fear of kidnapping, robbery and gang violence. This has taken Mark and his team from the lives of the wealthy… to the slums of Mexico… to the police struggling with violence… to kidnappers serving life terms in prison. All in an effort to understand this struggle from a humanitarian perspective rather the never-ending cycle of blaming others. What is the cause of un-ethical, anti-humanitarian behavior? And what internal changes would we need to make to change our world?

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Before founding his own companies, Michael was a Creative Producer for HNW, a high-net-worth media agency, developing advertising and collateral campaigns for clients such as Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Fidelity Investments. In addition, Michael has served as a media consultant for companies like New York University, DaniloBlack, BMG, Ziff-Davis and American Media.

Michael also sits on the boards of several organizations and non-profits including Behance and several United Nations-based NGOs. He has spoken on panels and at conferences regarding the role of creative and communication value in advertising and the media and has served as a judge for industry awards shows as well as the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy Awards.

Michael lives in New York City with his wife Caroline. They will get a dog one of these days.

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ENAH archaeologist with expertise in social anthropology at CIESAS-Occidente

She has 25 years experience in archaeological field work. She worked on various projects of excavation, registration, recovery, cataloging, etc. in Teotihuacan, Michoacan, Nayarit and Guanajuato. She has been teaching for 15 years at various universities. She has published 43 scientific articles, four books and over 200 articles in newspapers and magazines, has presented at 52 national and international conferences, and has given over 180 lectures. She also is an experienced museum curator, and producer of videos and multimedia.  She is currently  the Director of the Archaeological Project Cañada de la Virgen, where she has been working and researching for 10 years.

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As one of Britain’s most innovative and celebrated composers, Michael Nyman’s work encompasses operas and string quartets, film soundtracks and orchestral concertos.  He is also a performer, conductor, bandleader, pianist, author, musicologist and now a photographer and film-maker. Nyman first made his mark on the musical world in the late 1960s, when he invented the term  ‘minimalism’ and, still in his mid-twenties wrote the libretto for Birtwistle’s 1969 opera Down By The Greenwood Side. In 1976 he formed his own ensemble, the Campiello Band (now the Michael Nyman Band) and over three decades and more, the group has been the laboratory for much of his inventive and experimental compositional work.

His most notable scores number a dozen Peter Greenaway films, including such classics as The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover; Neil Jordan’s The End Of The Affair; several Michael Winterbottom features including Wonderland and A Cock And Bull Story; the Hollywood blockbuster Gattaca – and, of course, his unforgettable music for Jane Campion’s 1993 film, The Piano, the soundtrack album of which has sold more than three million copies. He also co-wrote the score for the 1999 film Ravenous with his friend and sometime protégé, Damon Albarn. Most recently his music was used in the 2009 BAFTA award winning and Oscar nominated film, Man on Wire. His operas include The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat (1986) and Facing Goya (2000) and he has provided ballet music for a number of the world’s most distinguished choreographers.

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Patty Arrieta is a professional dancer, instructor and choreographer from New York City. She began her training as a gymnast and competed for many years. She has been awarded scholarships to several institutions including The Ailey School, and has since danced with modern companies and commercial artists alike. She enjoys traveling the globe as a performer and instructor, this marks her 5th year teaching in Mexico.

Patty is co-founder of TRANSITIONS, a contemporary dance company that performs and teaches workshops internationally. In San Miguel de Allende, she has taught for MexArt, El Sindicato, Gravityworks School, Libelula, Ras Gymnastics, and held her own classes. She is a member of the aerial troop Gravityworks.

For the TEDxSanMiguelDeAllende event, Patty created Nitty-Gritty/ DANCE. The performance “dissemination”, is a celebration of TED and their philosophy of sharing ideas. Choreographed by Patty, in collaboration with the dancers. (arrieta_nyc@yahoo.com)

“Dissemination”
Dancers: Patty Arrieta, Ramon Martinez Campos, Lucia Gomez Mancera, Agustina Monzo