2023 CRFW Fund grantee. Filmmaker; founder/director of Tomorrow Maker Films. Former RiNo recording-studio operator.
Denver-area filmmaker; 2023 CRFW Fund grantee (nominated by Adreanna Escalante). Before Tomorrow Maker Films, Garibay operated a recording studio in Denver’s RiNo district — the same Denver micro-scene where many of the alphabets/Killd-By-era musicians worked. After closing the studio he took a paraprofessional position at Dupont Elementary in Commerce City (Adams 14 district), where he started an after-school film club for students who shared his interest in comic books and superheroes.
Over nine months he scaled the film club into a production crew of three dozen-plus Dupont students — fifth graders in leading roles, kindergarteners as extras — and wrote, shot, and edited an 87-minute feature called The Tomorrow Makers about a future in which adults have vanished and the kids have to unite tribes to avert apocalypse. The film premiered at Adams City High School. He has since pursued building Tomorrow Maker Films into a nonprofit providing a creative after-school environment in Adams County, with additional short and animated film work coming through that umbrella.
The RiNo-studio history is the through-line that makes the 2023 CRFW grant coherent: he is a peer of Colin’s scene who pivoted from music production to filmmaking-with-kids. The CRFW grant supported the pivot.
Sources
- Westword — “The Tomorrow Makers: A Colorado After-School Project Becomes an Epic Adventure”
- Tomorrow Maker Films blog
- Cafe Crash w/ Marcos Garibay (Facebook video — Daniel Crosier)
- Tomorrow Maker Films — YouTube