Gregorio González Nicolini, known as Gregorio González, is a Chilean film producer and financial engineer, founder and currently CEO of LVA Indices and founder of film production company Forastero, producing Sundance winner La Nana, among other films. He is nephew to Chilean TV celebrity Roberto Nicolini, great grandson of Italian architect Arnaldo Barison, who designed many of the landmark buildings of Valparaíso such as Palacio Baburizza, and great great grandson of Italian painter Giuseppe Barison. His brother Pablo González is an internationally recognised designer and one of the owners of Santiago Motion Graphics.
Gregorio González started his career in finance in 1999 as an analyst at financial boutique Vision Advisors, providing quantitative analysis for Chilean pension funds as part of their institutional fund distribution service. In 2003, Gregorio González was Head of Research at Vision Advisors, where he started the project that led to the creation of the LVA Chilean fixed income indices, a joint venture between Vision Advisors and investment bank Larrain Vial to calculate and provide indexes for the Chilean local fixed income market. The launching of the indices in 2005 led to the launching of the company LVA Indices. He was appointed CEO upon its creation and later made partner for his contribution to the firm. Under his leadership, LVA Indices diversified its business beyond its initial offering of indexes, eventually including evaluated prices for local fixed income instruments, fact sheet generation for local mutual funds, risk measurement tools and others. He also negotiated a joint marketing agreement with Dow Jones Indexes and Proveedor Integral de Precios to create the LATixx indexes, launched in 2009 to cover local Latinamerican fixed income markets, which covered Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru and Chile. The LATixx alliance ended and the indices were discontinued shortly after McGraw Hill Financial acquired Dow Jones Indexes.
Film
In 2000, Gregorio González began moonlighting as a writer for Roos Film, at the time the most important production company in Chile. His most relevant role during that time was as part of the writers team for documentary TV seriesLos Patiperros, which earned him a nomination to the 2002 Altazor Award. During this time he also directed two short films: Examen, made with a cast and crew consisting mostly of students and professors from his engineering school, and 2, starring professional actors Marcelo Alonso and Alessandra Guerzoni. "Examen" screened in the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival 2003 and "2" competed in the first edition of the Festival de Cine Pobre de Cuba. Gregorio González created Forastero in 2009 when he produced Golden Globe nominated and Sundance Grand Jury Award winner La Nana. In 2014 he invited Florencia Larrea, former manager of post house Kiné-Imágenes and producer at Shoot The Bastard Films, to join Forastero as partner. The production company's filmography includes:
La Nana, winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Award and nominated for a Golden Globe
Wastelands / Tierra Yerma, directed by Miriam Heard, premiered at the .
Attitude Test, directed by Fabrizio Copano.
Solo Pienso en mi, Netflix Comedy Special featuring Fabrizio Copano, directed by Rodrigo Toro and Francisco Schultz.
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye , directed by Francisca Alegría, winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Short Film Jury Award for International Fiction.
Upcoming projects include:
Dry Martina , directed by Che Sandoval, currently in post-production.
The Monster Within, in pre-production.
My Tender Matador, in pre-production, based upon work by Pedro Lemebel.
Trivia
Gregorio González is one of the few people that have an Erdős–Bacon number. His Erdős–Bacon number is 7, through his publication with Eric Goles, who has an Erdős number of 2, giving him an Ërdos number of 3, and through his small appearance in Che Sandoval's film 'Soy Mucho Mejor que Vos', where Antonella Costa's participation gives him a Bacon number of 4 due to her Bacon number of 3.
