
Federico Muchnik has been making films for thirty years. He studied film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and worked as a producer for PBS. He has also produced content for Disneyland, ABC Television, and HBO. He played the lead role in “The Golden Boat”, directed by Raul Ruiz. The film was shown at Sundance, New York, Toronto, and was distributed by Strand Releasing. He co-wrote and co-edited “Secret Courage”, a documentary about the Jewish resistance movement during World War II.
He has made many fiction-based long form series for the educational markets and filmed numerous projects throughout North America, Europe and Latin America. He has taught filmmaking at Boston University, Emerson College, and in New York and Los Angeles. Most recently, he produced and directed the feature length “This Killing Business” distributed by Filmbox Arthouse in Europe and shown at numerous festivals in the US. He is also the author of The Strategic Producer: On the Art and Craft of Making Your First Feature.
Director Statement
Completed in 1353 Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron was an influential piece of literature inspiring Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. We wanted to do a modern re-telling of one of those stories.