Rubén Guevara III is the award-winning Executive Producer and Co-Creator of KCET-PBS SoCal’s “CON SAFOS,” the 12th season premiere Artbound documentary chronicling the life of his Chicano poet-activist-musician father, Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara. He graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of Film & TV in 2009 with a degree in narrative and documentary film production, and has since worked for Warner Bros., Sony, Buzzfeed Inc., IndieWire, and other digital media organizations.

Shortly before attending NYU, Rubén was awarded Warner Bros. Pictures’ first ever R.E.A.C.H. Film & TV scholarship, which included a four-year internship spearheaded by the studio’s Corporate Affairs and Responsibility division. During his final semester at Tisch, Rubén received the Willard T.C. Johnson Fellowship for Filmmaking, and was granted $20,000 to finish his narrative thesis. Upon graduating, he returned to Los Angeles to pursue a career and lifelong passion in film, television and digital media. 

He has worked on several high profile feature films, including “Interstellar,” “The Hangover: Part II,” “Entourage,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,”“Winter’s Tale,” “Gangster Squad,” and “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” Rubén later developed a passion for writing and journalism, turning his attention to editorial opportunities at Buzzfeed Inc. and IndieWire, respectively, after a five year term at Warner Bros. Studios. In 2016, he returned to digital media production as the presidential election of Donald Trump reinvigorated his urge to produce more community-based arts and culture documentaries for PBS.

Rubén is currently an ITVS and N.E.H. (National Endowment for the Humanities) Documentary Fellow, a 4-Time L.A. Press Club Award Winner and L.A. Area Emmy Award nominee. He resides with his wife in Los Angeles, California. You can message him at rguevara.films@gmail.com and @rubengguevara .