Writer, Director and Producer Bernardo Ruiz founded Quiet Pictures in 2007 in order to create aesthetically innovative and socially conscious documentaries for distribution on all media platforms. Before starting the company, Bernardo worked as a producer-for-hire, creating programming for PBS, the Discovery Networks, MTV, TLC and the National Geographic Channel, among others. He co-produced the “The Sixth Section,” an award-winning PBS documentary examining the transnational organizing efforts of a community of undocumented Mexican immigrants in New York. The film was supported by grants from the MacArthur Foundation and the Rockefeller Fund. Previously, He was commissioned by P.O.V. to produce "Migrations," one of PBS's first forays into new-media storytelling.

He has been awarded grants from ITVS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, Latino Public Broadcasting, as well as a New York Foundation on the Arts fellowship in film. As a writer, he has held residencies at Yaddo, Foundation La Napoule (France), Rockefeller’s Bellagio Center (Italy), at Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain) and at Ledig House in New York. He serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Latino Independent
Producers and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, as well as the Writer’s Guild of America, East.