Theodore Collatos

Theodore began his career as an award-winning street photographer, which grew organically into documentary, experimental and dramatic filmmaking; often with his producer and wife Carolina Monnerat. Most recently, his feature Tormenting the Hen won the Duncan-Williams Scriptwriting Award at the Indie Memphis Film Festival in 2017. The film was featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Filmmaker Magazine, Indiewire and was theatrically released in New York and Chicago. His Massachusetts State Grant-winning film Dipso (2013) premiered in competition at EntreVues Belfort Festival du Film, won Best Film at The Athens Film Festival, and was released theatrically in New Orleans and Massachusetts. Queen of Lapa, a documentary directed together with Monnerat in Rio de Janeiro was a Creative Capital grant finalist in 2018. Past award-winning shorts include Time, Albatross, and Truth with Wine, a Nitehawk Short Film Festival winner. Collatos is also a features programmer at The Bushwick Film Festival, and a commercial director whose clients include Lululemon Athletica, The United Nations, Think Human, Dentons Venture Technology and Fox Rothschild LLP.