El Alien y Yo
Audience Award, Festival Colima de Cine 2016
From 13 years
Premiere in Quebec
Rita, Lauro and Agus have a punk band that’s not very successful, so they decide to bring a keyboard player to “refresh” their sound, and that’s when they meet Pepe, a talented player with Down syndrome. They accept him in the band and call him “The Alien”. Thanks to Pepe’s “touch”, Mr. Gramophone, a legendary music manager, decides to represent the band and takes them to the top of the music scene with a new genre. However, Lauro gets jealous of The Alien because he steals attention from him with his huge talent, and it seems he’s going to steal the love of Rita, his ex-girlfriend, as well. A comedy about social inclusion for everybody!
View the trailerJesús Magaña Vázquez
He studied Social Communication career at the University UAM – Xochimilco, in wich he graduated in 1998 with the documentary thesis Los Triquis de la calle López, that was at the Cultural Center Villege in Paris from May to December 2002.
In 1999 with his short Video Express he won the jury award at the Festival Vidarte. He obtains the Young Artists Fellowship for the 2000-2001 period with the short film Todas se llaman María and he starts the shooting os his debut movie, Sobreviviente. The film was completed in 2003 and premiered at the Festival of Havana that year in Official Selection. In Mexico was first exhibited at the 2004 Festival of Guadalajara in Mexico’s Official Selection. Sobreviviente attended more than 40 festivals, on 4 continents , garnering 10 awards . Also with this film was founded Sobrevieientes Films. In 2006, through Sobrevieientes Films and EFICINE (Art 226 ) produces and directs his second film Eros una vez María, concluded that year and premiered at the 2007 Festival of Guadalajara.
He is a FOPROCINE associate producer with La Sangre iluminada of Ivan Avila also in 2007.
That same year he founded the film distributor MV Films , a company that in addition to distributing the aforementioned titles , brought to Mexico XXY and Control, both chosen before winning their respective sections at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. In 2009 he wrote and directed Abolición de la propiedad, based on a novel by Jose Agustin . For which she received the Best Screenplay Mayahuel at the 26th International Film Festival in Guadalajara (2011 and released commercially in 2013 with great reception by critics . In 2011 he produced the feature film El cielo en tu mirada , romantic comedy blockbuster , and Un mundo secreto, directed by Gabriel Mariño and selected at the Berlin International Film Festival . In 2013 he directed his fourth film , which is titled Alice in Marialand , film starring Barbara Mori, Stephanie Sigman and Claudio Lafarga , selected at festivals such as Warsaw , Goa , Dallas and Guadalajara and won the Award for Best International Film Raindance Festival in London 2015 . He is also producer of Visitantes , horror film starring Kate del Castillo, with great reception at the box office , winning the 2015 Ariel for best visual effects.
In September 2016 it was released his fifth film as director, Me and the Alien.