Chico Pereira is a Spanish filmmaker and researcher working as an Assistant Professor in Documentary Film at Aalto University, Finland. Chico's debut feature-length documentary, Pablo’s Winter (2012), won awards at DOK-Leipzig, IDFA, and Full Frame, and it opened the 2013 MoMA Documentary Fortnight in NYC. Donkeyote (2017) premiered at 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) and won several awards including Best Feature Documentary Film at 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival, and the 2017 International Documentary Association (IDA) Creative Recognition for Best Writing. His latest feature documentary, 11 Underground, (2025) mixes documentary reenactment, experimental ethnography and art as social practice in a former mining town and won the Best National Feature ad DocPoint Helsinki, and the Best Practice Research Award (BAFTTS, UK). Pereira holds a PhD in Film, Digital Media, and Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently directs the Master’s Programme in Documentary Film at Aalto University, Finland.