Filmmaker, visual artist, writer and curator. After participating in a directing workshop at the New York Film Academy, he graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Diploma in Media Arts) and the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg (MFA in Film), where he studied with German film directors Pepe Danquart and Wim Wenders. Hetzenauer also studied Gestalt therapy and humanistic psychology in Ecuador and Argentina. His award-winning films have been released theatrically and shown on TV, at film festivals and exhibitions in 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. His Mexican short documentaries La sombra de un dios – A God's Shadow, El lunar en su espalda – The Birthmark, and Those Next to Us were selected at more than 100 festivals, such as Telluride, Sheffield, Viennale, Max Ophüls Preis, Málaga, Message to Man, Cartagena, Morelia, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, FICUNAM, St. Louis IFF, Garden State, San Diego Latino Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Nijmegen, at Boston College, Harvard, Yale, CUNY New York, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Künstlerhaus Vienna, 21er Haus Vienna, among many others. Hetzenauer lives and works between Mexico City, Berlin, and Vienna.
