He is a founding member of Cine Acción and the 1996 film festival director of Festival Cine Latino. As an artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Exploratorium, Vazquez curated Mexico Videowaves. In 1997 he won two major awards for his achievements in film: the Rockefeller Media Fellowship Award and the Eureka Visual Artist Fellowship from the Fleishacker Foundation.
In recent years, Vazquez has collaborated with Guillermo Gómez-Peña on a variety of projects including The First Great Mojado Invasion (1999).
Titles by Gustavo Vazquez:
A Declaration of Poetic Disobediance
El Zócalo 
The Great Mojado Invasion, Part 2 (The Second U.S. - Mexico War)
No homeland/no fear
Work by Gustavo Vazquez also appears on:
Anthology: Border Art Clásicos (1990-2005): Guillermo Gómez-Peña
