Todo terreno
Off the RoadOff the Road Productions is a collaborative project by award-winning filmmakers, Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana and Alan Domínguez, that focuses on BIPoC stories from the deserts of the Southwest up to the streams of the Rocky Mountains.
our story
Drawn together by their cinematic and socially-oriented approach to filmmaking, Raúl and Alan work on projects that collaborate with local artists and communities, highlighting BIPoC talent in front of and behind the camera. By going off the road, Alan and Raul challenge traditional representations of BIPoC communities in the Southwest and the Rockies, a place with rich Native American, Latinx, and Black histories that are often untold. Additionally, they highlight stories of the people from the immigrant diaspora that find themselves making a “new home” in the Southwest.
As independent filmmakers, both Raúl and Alan have made their mark on the industry with their internationally recognized films. Together they are working on a number of projects including the feature documentary “Commerce City” (In production), and Season 2 of “In the Making” for American Masters (2023). When they are not filming you can find them hanging out with their families, or eating at the best taco food trucks in Denver, Colorado.
what we do
- Feature Documentary Film Production
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Doc Series
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Short-form documentary
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Story Consulting
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Cinematography and Sound: We can use any camera for your needs, from the Canon C-500 to the Sony FS7 and anything in between and above, your call!
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Editing: We usually edit on Premiere, but collaborate with editors that can use an array of platforms.
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Drone cinematography
who we are
Alan Domínguez
A cultural and national border crosser since birth, Alan is a filmmaker who visually addresses issues such as hate crimes, police corruption, wrongful incarceration, and the immigrant experience. Denver based with Nuevo Mexicano roots, he learned photography from his father and uncle, storytelling from his mother and grandparents, resilience from his wife, and laughter from his daughters. Alan is an educator of film production at North Denver’s CEC Early College of Denver and takes pride in how he learns from his students as much as they learn from him.
Alan’s documentaries and narrative films have been screened and distributed in three different continents and in three different languages. His work has been broadcasted on Hulu, World Channel, Rocky Mountain PBS, Colorado Public Television, Third World Newsreel, and Latino Rebels. Additionally, Alan’s films have been screened at Festival Internacional de Cine en Morelia, New York Latino Film Festival, XicanIndie Film Festival, among others.
Alan’s films have received support from Imagine2020, Arts in Society, National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, World Channel. He is a Latino Media Market Fellow, National Association for Latino Independent Producers Fellow, Latino Leadership Institute Fellow, and Doing your Doc Fellow.
Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana
Raúl is a Mexican immigrant filmmaker, cinematographer, and multimedia creator based in Denver, Colorado. His work intersects experimental non-fiction, participatory filmmaking, and visual ethnography to explore themes of belonging, alienation, and the concept of “home.” His films have screened at museums and festivals worldwide including at the Sheffield Doc/Fest in the U.K., The Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico (CCA), MASS MoCA Museum in Massachusetts, Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in New York City, and at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG) in Mexico among many more.
Raúl’s work has received support from the Spark Fund, the Princess Grace Foundation, the Ford Foundation-Just Films, The LEF Foundation, ITVS, Catapult Film Fund, The Jerome Foundation, New York Council on the Arts, The Colorado Humanities, and the Sundance Institute among others. He is a Camargo Foundation Cassis France Artist Alumni, a BAVC MediaMaker fellow, a Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellow, a Lincoln Center/New York Film Festival Artist Academy alumni, a New America National Fellow, and a Creative Capital Awards Artist Fellow.