Nicolás Pereda (born 1982) is a Mexican-Canadian film director.

[1] Pereda was born in Mexico City in 1982; he holds dual Mexican and Canadian citizenship[citation needed] and is a resident of Toronto, where he studied filmmaking at York University.

[2] He received his Bachelor degree of Fine Arts in Films in 2005 and his Master in 2007.

Pereda's work has also been presented at several retrospectives in various festivals, cinemateques and archives around the world, including the Anthology Film Archives,[6] the Pacific Film Archive, and the Harvard Film Archive, which wrote of his work: "Pereda’s films are resolutely Mexican in focus and almost exclusively deal with stories drawn directly from the everyday lives and worlds of their working-class characters.

"[5][10] He formerly served as the Director of the Filmmaking Program, a new BFA program at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey.