Biography
His career in cinema started with the co-production of the short film Victoria para Chino (Dir. Cary Fukunaga), which won the Student Academy Award in 2004. His first feature film, Cumbres, premiered at the SXSW in 2014. He is the co-writer of Los Herederos (Dir. Jorge Hernández), whose script was selected for the Atelier at Cannes and won the National Scriptwriting Contest organized by Sogem. He co-founded Bengala, where he has produced and executive produced films such as Territorio (Dir. Andrés Clariond), Vaquero del Mediodía (Dir. Diego Enrique Osorno), Ya no Estoy Aquí (Dir. Fernando Frías) and El Norte Sobre el Vacío (Dir. Alejandra Márquez Abella), co-written by him and premiered at the Berlinale in 2022. From 2017 to 2019 he was part of the writing team for the TV series La Casa de las Flores (Season 1-3), produced by Netflix. He co-directed, Camino a Roma, a documentary about the creative process of the film Roma (Dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2018), distributed by Netflix and The Criterion Collection. In 2020, alongside Diego Enrique Osorno, he co-founded the documentary production company Detective. El Comediante, a feature film he co-wrote, starred in, and codirected with Rodrigo Guardiola, won the Mezcal Award for the Best Mexican Film of the FICG in 2021. It premiered on Netflix in 2022. He is the showrunner of the TV series Sierra Madre, which he co-wrote and co-created with Diego Enrique Osorno. It is produced by HBO Original.
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2022 |
Northern Skies Over Empty Space |
2021 |
The House of Flowers: The Movie |
This is Not a Comedy |
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2015 |
The Heirs |
2013 |
Cumbres |
Series | |
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2024 |
Sierra Madre: No Trespassing |
2022 |
Once Upon a Time... Happily Never After |
If You Don't Come Back (E01) |
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2019 |
The House of Flowers |
GERANIUM, (Symb. counsel) (S02E07) |
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LOTUS, (Symb. mystery) (S02E03) |
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2018 |
The House of Flowers |
SISYMBRIUM (symb. adversity) (S01E12) |
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TULIP (symb. hope) (S01E09) |
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CHRYSANTHEMUM (symb. pain) (S01E02) |
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2010 |
Soy tu fan |
Short | |
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2017 |
Mamartuile |
Producer
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2022 |
Northern Skies Over Empty Space |
2019 |
Close Quarters |
Death to Summer |
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2015 |
Psychotropic Sunrise |
2014 |
I’d Never Had a Hilda |
2013 |
Cumbres |
Documentaries | |
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2020 |
Road to Roma |
2019 |
Midday Cowboy |
The Valiant Never Taste of Death but Once |
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2017 |
La muñeca tetona |
2015 |
The Power of the Chair |
Short | |
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2004 |
Victoria para chino |
Director
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2021 |
This is Not a Comedy |
2013 |
Cumbres |
Series | |
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2024 |
Sierra Madre: No Trespassing |
Documentaries | |
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2020 |
Road to Roma |
Actor
Movies | |
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2022 |
Northern Skies Over Empty Space |
2021 |
This is Not a Comedy |
2019 |
Un papá Pirata |
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2021 |
Luis Miguel - The Series |
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Qué nivel de mujer (S02E01) |
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2019 |
The House of Flowers |
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ALMOND, (Symb. awaken) (S02E04) |
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2018 |
Luis Miguel - The Series |
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Marcela (S01E11) |
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Decídete (S01E10) |
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La incondicional (S01E07) |
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more episodes (5) | ||
The House of Flowers |
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SISYMBRIUM (symb. adversity) (S01E12) |