Bilingual, Cuban-American George Pérez is a 2024 Humanitas New Voices Fellow, a 2024 Film Independent Imaginar TV Incubator for Fearless Latinx Creators Fellow (in association with FX Network), a 2024 TrackingB Finalist, as well as a 2022-2023 Sundance Latine Fellow and 2022 Sundance Episodic Intensive Fellow.

George is a screenwriter and playwright who consulted on a NYC television news station's five-part investigative series on underage sex-trafficking, leading to the rescue of a trafficked teen. Through this experience, George discovered a passion for shining the light of truth on juvenile exploitation and injustice through his writing.

His anti sex-trafficking pilot episode for The Life has been screened at the Harvard School of Public Health as well as at SeriesFest and ITVFest.

Los Cubanos is a gritty Crime Thriller that examines the immigrant struggles of Cubans who fled the Castro regime and sailed to America as part of the 1980 Freedom Floatilla. Los Cubanos earned George both Sundance Fellowships, a 2024 Film Independent Imaginar TV Incubator for Fearless Latinx Creators Fellowship (in association with FX Network) and was a Black List Read Recommendation.

His newest pilot project, El Titán, is a Drama-Thriller about the dangerous lengths Cubans undertake to flee their oppressive homeland for freedom and opportunity in the United States, earning George a 2024 Humanitas New Voices Fellowship.

George is compelled to explore themes of immigrant struggles, the loss of innocence, the turbulent quest for personal freedom and the bravery to be one's true self in the face of intolerance.

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