In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal
surname is González and the second or maternal family name is Nicolini.
Gregorio González Nicolini
Born
Gregorio González Nicolini
(1974-05-22) May 22, 1974 (age 50)
Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation(s)
Film production, financial engineering
Gregorio González Nicolini (born May 22, 1974), known as Gregorio González, is a
Chilean film producer and financial engineer, founder and currently CEO of
LVA Indices (2005)[1] and founder of film production company
Forastero (2009),[2] 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 [3] and one of the owners of Santiago Motion Graphics (SMOG).
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[6] led to the launching of the company LVA Indices.[7] 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,[8] 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[9] shortly after
McGraw Hill Financial acquired Dow Jones Indexes.[10]
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 series Los 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[11] 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.[12] 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.
Attitude Test (2016), starring
Denise Rosenthal, directed by Fabrizio Copano.[13]
Solo Pienso en Mi (2017), Netflix Comedy Special featuring Fabrizio Copano,[14] directed by Rodrigo Toro and Francisco Schultz.
And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye (2017), directed by Francisca Alegría, winner of the
Sundance Film Festival's Short Film Jury Award for International Fiction.[15]
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.[21]