Jorge R. Gutiérrez is a director, writer, character designer, voice actor, known for the Annie Award winning and Golden Globe nominated animated feature film, The Book of Life produced by Guillermo Del Toro; his Annie nominated VR short film “Son of Jaguar” for Google; creating (with wife Sandra Equihua) the Annie and Emmy winning series "El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera” for Nickelodeon and his current project, the Netflix limited series “Maya and the Three.” Gutiérrez has also received an Annie award for character design and Annie nominations for writing and directing The Book of Life; an Emmy Award for character design and an Annie Award for best series for “El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera”. Gutierrez is currently developing multiple unannounced projects for Netflix Animation.