Arturo Tay
Arturo Tay, born Arturo Antonio Tay Balderas, October 7, 1982 in Puebla, Mexico, is a filmmaker.
Education
In 2004 he graduated from The New York Film Academy. He attended film schools at San Antonio de los Baños ( EICTV, Cuba), Metropolis C.E. (Madrid) CUEC (Mexico) and TEBA (Buenos Aires). In 2005 he studied stop-motion animation with Mexican animator René Castillo (Hasta los Huesos).
Filmography
While attending the New York Film Academy, he directed his first short film, Bananas: I´ve Gone Ape (2004). His 2006 short film La Vida es Cine y el Cine, Cine Es won the best experimental short film in the 5th Digital Film Festival at Viña del Mar, Chile.
As a film producer he is credited with Todos Hemos Pecado (2009), from director Alejandro Ramírez and La Noche Del Pirata (2010) from Mexican director Juan Carlos Blanco.
Tay was executive producer for La Neta Rally, a project for La Neta Films. It consisted in six short films all shot in Puebla, Mexico: El Sastre, Igualdad, Dar y Recibir, Invocación, El Parto, and Matinée.