Hugo Genes holds a Masters in Integrated Media Arts & Nonfiction Filmmaking from City University of New York Hunter College and a Bachelor's in Economics from Cornell University. Hugo is a Fulbright Scholar, working with the Xavante Indians of Mato Grosso Brazil, to utilize their first audiovisual archive. He is the writer and director of Collegetown, a feature film illuminating the social and financial pressures that determine choices made by debt-ridden U.S. college students.