Luis Barreto

Born in Bogota, Colombia

Lives & works in the U.S.A.

 

Luis has been creating media for most of his life. He was a news broadcast director and shooter before field producing several seasons of MTV’s hit series “Road Rules”.

He segued to camera directing on ABC’s “Making The Band” and quickly jumped to co executive producer on “The Mole-2: The Next Betrayal” and continued as Co-EP on both “Mole: Celebrity Edition”.

In 2004 Barreto was honored with an Emmy nomination for his producing work on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition". Luis has produced or directed for PBS, NBC, ABC, mun2, TLC, Discovery and History, just to name a few.

You can call Luis a true Road Warrior who’s logged over 50,000 production miles, producing or directing in places like: Cape Town, Chennai, Mexico City, Shanghai, Havana, Kamchatka Peninsula, Lima, Ho Chi Min City and Rome. 38 countries and 127 cities so far.

Luis is an AVID certified editor who’s posted everything from award wining promos and sizzle reels to full episodes, webbies and docs.

On the production front, he’s also worked as field producer, challenge and S & P producer, giving him a unique and well rounded perspective on competition driven content as well as docu-series.

Barreto is fully bilingual (Reads, writes and speaks Spanish) and currently lives and works as a freelance producer, director, writer, in the U.S.A.

 

DEMO REEL LINK:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/8gj8q4iciqk1bgy/LEB%20DEMO%20FULL-rev%20-%20Wi-Fi.m4v?dl=0