Gaspar González is an award-winning documentary producer and director. His credits include the ESPN films Summer of ’83 and The All-American Cuban Comet; the Grantland short doc Gay Talese’s Address Book; A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Desegregation; and Havana House, winner of the Audience Award at the 2017 Miami Film Festival. His first film, the national PBS release Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami, was deemed “a surprisingly fresh take on an early chapter of the Ali saga” by Sports Illustrated. Since then, his work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, the Telly Awards, and AFI Docs.
Prior to his career as a filmmaker, he was a staff writer at Miami New Times, where he shared in the prestigious John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism for the series “We’re Number One!,” on poverty in Miami, and was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists for his feature, “The Last Pony Show,” on the demise of horse racing at famed Hialeah Park. His writing also has appeared in The Miami Herald, The Texas Observer, Newsday, and numerous other publications.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Florida, he earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and was a 2018 Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale.
He is the founder of Hammer and Nail, a documentary production company based in Miami.