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Portrait of Francisco Menendez artistic director of 51Թܿƴ's film department

The (Remote) Interview: Francisco Menendez

After being terrified — and mesmerized — by the movie "Jaws" at age 13, this film professor's career path was set.

Francisco Menendez brings a wide variety of experience — from covering a civil war to documenting the plight of orphans at the Mexico-California border to running a casting operation at a major movie studio — to his job as artistic director of 51Թܿƴ''s film department. (Photo courtesy of David Pinto/Relativo Films)

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