Federico Hidalgo

{{Short description|Canadian filmmaker}}

Federico Hidalgo is a filmmaker, film director and film professor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.T'Cha Dunlevy, "So, what's it really about? Hidalgo's tale of couples starting a mysterious business is offbeat and ambiguous". Montreal Gazette, August 10, 2012. He has directed five feature-length, fiction films to date: A Silent Love (2004), Imitation (2006), The Skeptic (L'Incrédule) (2012), Le Concierge (2014) and The Great Traveller (2019), as well as a feature-length documentary, New Tricks (2009). All five of these films were produced by Atopia (film studio).

A Silent Love, co-written with his wife Paulina Robles, was nominated for a Genie Award for best original screenplay and was accepted to the Sundance Film Festival.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/le-dernier-tunnel-leads-genie-nominations-1.541630 |title='Le dernier tunnel' leads Genie nominations |date=2005-02-08 |work=CBC News |access-date=2009-04-28 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080418071106/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2005/02/08/genies050208.html |archive-date=April 18, 2008 }} It also won the Best Screenplay Award at 2004 Brooklyn International Film Festival.{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/profiles/Film/main/168934/A+Silent+Love.html?dataSet=1&query=%22A+Silent+Love%22|title=A Silent Love - Awards|work=Variety|publisher=Reed Publishing|accessdate=2009-04-28}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}} Variety wrote that the film "offers a diverting spin on the mail-order-bride premise, making a charming feature debut for writer-director Federico Hidalgo and co-writer Paulina Robles (Hidalgo's wife)."{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117923079.html?categoryid=31&cs=1|title=A Silent Love|last=Foundas|first=Scott|date=2004-03-07|work=Variety|publisher=Reed Publishing|accessdate=2009-04-28}}

Hidalgo is both a graduate of and professor at the Concordia University Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema,{{cite news|url=http://ctr.concordia.ca/2004-05/mar_17/in-brief/|title=Cinema professor in Genie contention|date=2005-03-17|work=Concordia's Thursday Report|accessdate=2009-04-28}} as well as a part-time professor in the department of communication studies.