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José García Moreno (aka, José Ángel García Moreno) was born in Mexico City (1961). He have been recognized as one of the most innovative producers of radio broadcasting in the 80’s, starting, designing, and programming three of the most successful radio stations in Mexico City: Rock 101, Radio Mexiquense, and Opus 94. At 21 years of age, José was selected as a member of a year-long first international leadership training program, the World Showcase Fellowship Program (WSFP), hosted, sponsored, and designed by the Walt Disney Company.

Later, he studied at the renowned film school in Prague, FAMU (Filmová a Televizní Fakulta Akademie Múzickych Umení v Praze) and worked as an apprentice at the prestigious Animation Studios, Bratri V Triku, where he had the opportunity to direct my first professional film, Open on Sundays (1989), under the historical Czech brand Brothers in Trick, founded by Jiří Trnka – father of European Animation. Continued my education with a Fulbright Scholarship and received a Masters in Fine Arts from the Animation Workshop in the School of Film and TV, at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA.

His work has been exhibited and awarded in film festivals around the world: Annecy, Anima Mundi, Sao Paulo, Clairmont-Ferrand, Guadalajara, among others. He has also prizes in Cuba, Toronto, San Francisco, Mexico, Montreal, Japan, among others.

José twice received the Best Short Film Script Award of the Mexican National Film Institute (IMCINE). He has been nominated to the Ariel by the Mexican Film Academy (1990) and received the prestigious award of the Catherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation (2000) with which he produced Catrina, Posada, and the Big Stone (2001), in partnership with Virgin Television, Channel 22 TV, Cabeza Films, the Latin American Institute of Educational Television, and the Mexican National Endowment Council for the Arts (Conaculta).

His animated work is part of the collections of the Colombian National Library, Luis Arango, and of the Federal German Film Catalogue (Katalog Der Filmsammlung). Also, his body of work has an entry in the influential book "Animation, A World History" by the Italian historian, Giannalberto Bendazzi. In 2013, the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) published Animando al Dibujo, which included his observations on narrative techniques and visual storytelling.

Just before joining academia in the United States and tenure at Loyola Marymount University, he served as Vice President of Broadcasting Channels at PCTV (Productora y Comercializadora de Televisión) which is the largest distribution and production company of cable television in Mexico, which included then more than 600 cable systems. There, I oversaw PCTV proprietary channels, including a news network, live broadcasting, programming, marketing, and broadcast design, plus acquisitions and distribution.

He moved to Los Angeles in 2003 to join academia to "take steps to contribute toward the greater good." At Loyola Marymount University (LMU), he served as Chair of the Animation Department in the School of Film and Television. Under his leadership, the LMU Animation Department moved to a newly remodeled third floor which propelled an expansion of the program, laid the ground for future fundraising, and fanned interest in the United States, which ultimately lifted the program into the top ranks. In 2010, he was honored to be named as one of the "Academic Leaders of the World” by the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores, Monterrey (ITESM) and had the opportunity to co-produce four short films on the theme of slavery and human trafficking, with the support of CAST (Coalition for the Abolition of Slavery and Human Trafficking), an organization based in the United States. The ITESM is ranked as the top university in Mexico. Moreover, both the ITESM and the also prestigious UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) has continuously employed me as a consultant to develop their Animation and Film programs.

In 2012, he was appointed by then-new President of Loyola Marymount University, David Burcham, as part of his Strategic Planning Committee and also served as chair of the Strategic Committee for Internationalization. In 2021, José was appointed again as a member of the Steering Strategic Planning Committee by the upcoming new president, Timothy Snyder, and also served in it as the leader for the Campus Team on Innovative and Inclusive Pedagogy and Curriculum.

In 2018, I collaborated in animating for the Emmy-award-winning series of children’s books, Story Online, for SAG-AFTRA Foundation (Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists). The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams imaginatively produced videos featuring celebrated actors.

In collaboration with David Garden, they received, in 2018, a Meritorious Animation Award for a Theater Play from the Kennedy Center Theater Festival for a stop-motion animation project using laser-cut miniature sets, employed in the “Emperor of the Moon,” a theater play directed by Neno Pervan, premiered at the Barnelle Theater in Los Angeles.

In 2019, he was promoted to the rank of tenured Full Professor of Animation. Also in 2019, José was appointed as Director of ACTI, the Academy of Thought and Imagination, where he has promoted interdisciplinarity, interreligious dialogue, and innovative academic research through funded fellowships for LMU faculty.

In 2021, José received the Collegium Visionary Award, an association, and colloquy of 64 universities and colleges in the United States, for my leadership at ACTI, “his embrace of sacramental imagination, his attentiveness, and his ability to draw connections…and his desire to foster conversations that link spirituality, science, and the arts.”