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Since childhood, Carlos Alperin developed a passion for arts, films and international travel. In the 70’s he studied Fine Arts at Jerusalem’s Bezalel Art School followed by Film Studies at Tel Aviv’s Beit Tzvi. After a long career in scriptwriting, editing and production of animation, documentaries and feature films in Argentina, Israel, United States, China and Japan, Carlos moved to Australia with his family where he studied for a MA in Film & TV at Griffith University, Brisbane.

In the 1990’s Carlos wrote, directed and produced in China and in Australia episodes of the animated TV series “Cosmo Kids” (recipient of the Australian Writers’ Guild, Monte Miller Award), "The Pup Pups” (developed with Scottish TV), and “Bilby Blastoff.”

Since 1994, Carlos has participated at 77 international film and TV markets and festivals (Berlin, Cannes, AFM, MIPTV, MIPCOM, Busan, TIFFCOM, and many others) where he licensed his catalogue to international distributors, and signed alliances and co-production agreements with international production companies, TV broadcasters and film distributors.

In 2002, Carlos founded Galloping Films, an international film sales agency based in Brisbane, Australia.

In 2005, he wrote and produced the multi-award winning documentary "Raul the Terrible" aka "Raul el Terrible". The film was directed by twice Academy Award nominee David Bradbury with a budget of $365,000. The film received the following awards: Best Direction (David Bradbury), Best Editing (Stewart Young) and was Nominated for Best Documentary (Carlos Alperin, producer) by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts. The documentary also received a Special Mention at the 2006 Biarritz International Film Festival, France.

In 2009 Carlos produced the thriller "I.C.U." directed by Aash Aaron with a budget of $500,000.

In 2010 Carlos produced the comedy "The Cost of Living" directed by Veronica Craven (United States) with a budget of $1m.

In 2015 Carlos produced the action/drama "Sargent Matacho" aka "La Sargento Matacho", a coproduction between Galloping Films and Fundacion Enic Producciones. The film was directed by William Gonzalez (Colombia) with a budget of $2.5m, was selected by 31 international film festivals and received 10 international awards. In 2012, 2013 and 2014 Carlos served as a Juror for the prestigious International Emmy Awards given by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

In 2016, Carlos helped establishing the founding stone of a chain of cinemas in The Netherlands by creating a conglomerate of Mexican, Dutch and Australian companies.