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Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, María Eugenia, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. Oscar was raised in Miami, Florida. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking Underdogs. He graduated from the Juilliard School in 2005.
Isaac's first major film role was Joseph in the film The Nativity Story (2006). He also had a small role in All About the Benjamins (2002) and the Ché Guevara biopic Guerrilla (2011). In addition to movie appearances, he made an appearance in the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). He also had a part in the movies The Life Before Her Eyes (2007); Body of Lies (2008), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe; Agora (2009), alongside Rachel Weisz; and the Australian film Balibo (2009), where he played José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor, set amid the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975; Isaac won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role.
In 2013, Oscar starred in the Coen Brothers' folk music-themed comedy-drama, Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He subsequently starred in the crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014) and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina (2014), and appeared in the Star Wars films Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017), as X-wing pilot Poe Dameron, and the ninth X-Men film, X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), as the mutant supervillain Apocalypse. He has also headlined the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero (2015), as politician Nick Wasicsko in 2015, which earned him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Miniseries or Television Film.
He has two sons with his wife, Danish director Elvira Lind. He is also long-time friends with Triple Frontier (2019) co-star Pedro Pascal.- Actor
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Christian Barillas is an actor based in Los Angeles with credits in theater, film and television.
On TV, Christian is perhaps most recognizable as Ronaldo on Modern Family (2009), where he appears opposite Tony winner and Emmy nominee Nathan Lane. In 2013, he was cast as a series regular on CBS's Jim Gaffigan pilot, a career turning point working under comedy star Gaffigan and co-creator Peter Tolan, a multiple Emmy winner. The pilot also starred Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and was shot on location in New York City. Other television highlights include The Handmaid's Tale (2017) (Emmy for Best Drama), Grace and Frankie (2015), Chuck Lorre's The Kominsky Method (2018) (with Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin) and a recurring role as a transgender informant on fx's The Bridge (2013), which won a Peabody Award in 2014. Christian also appeared alongside Tony winner Sutton Foster in the pilot episode of Bunheads (2012), a series created by Amy Sherman-Palladino.
His professional career began with Center Theater Group's "A Very Old Man With Enourmous Wings," a short story by Gabriel García Márquez adapted for the stage by Nilo Cruz, who had just won a Pulitzer Prize. Christian then appeared in several productions in and around Los Angeles including Cornerstone Theater Company's "As You Like It" (Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Bill Rauch), "Sonia Flew" (Laguna Playhouse) and "A Christmas Carol" (South Coast Repertory), where he performed as Young Scrooge for several years.
Christian helped develop Octavio Solis' "Lydia" under the direction of frequent collaborator Juliette Carrillo. He was a member of the original cast at Denver Center and its subsequent production at Yale Repertory Theater. The critically-acclaimed productions garnered multiple awards along the way for its writer, the director and the actors.
Christian then spent a couple of years as a member of classical acting companies at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Utah Shakespeare Festival. In Oregon, he appeared as Bingley in "Pride & Prejudice" and Sebastian in "Twelfth Night" (directed by Tony winner Darko Tresnjak). A year later, during Utah's 50th Anniversary Season, he played Romeo in "Romeo & Juliet," a career highlight.
For the West Coast Premiere of "The Motherf**ker with the Hat," Christian played Cousin Julio at South Coast Repertory for which he received an LA Drama Critics Circle nomination. Other theater credits in Los Angeles include "Macbeth" (with Antaeus Theatre Company), Tennessee Williams' "Vieux Carré" (playing the Writer), as well as "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Othello" (Theatricum Botanicum). Internationally, he participated in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with "The Contest."
Along the way, Christian has also appeared in several independent films. Most notably, he worked with Oscar winning writer-director Martin McDonagh in Seven Psychopaths (2012) (BAFTA nomination Best British Film). He also appears in Blumhouse Production's Best Night Ever (2013) as well as Bosco's Guitar (2011), a memorable short film depicting a real-life story of heroism in central Africa.
Christian studied Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and earned an MFA in Acting from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, where he was the recipient of the George Burns Fellowship in Comedy.
He was born in Guatemala City.- Writer
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Born in Guatemala. He studied Film Directing in Paris at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais, and continued his studies in screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In 2009 he returned to Guatemala and founded La Casa de Produccion. He produced four short films and his debut feature, Ixcanul, which won him the Silver Bear at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival and more than 60 awards in international festivals. In 2018 he produced and directed his second film, Tremors, which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival and received several international awards. In September 2019 he premiered his third film, La Llorona, in Venice, winning the Best Director award in the Giornate degli Autori. Jayro is currently developing a number of films and series, as well as producing for other Guatemalan and foreign directors. He has been juror at Berlinale 2016, Brussels Film Festival 2018, Biarritz Festival 2018, Platino Awards and Fenix Awards, and Los Cabos Film Festival. He was President of the Jury for Horizontes Latinos in the San Sebastiaan 2020 Festival, and President of the Jury at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia, 2021. His film La Llorona was nominated as Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes and Best Ibero-American Film at the Goya Awards, both in 2021; it was nominated in eleven categories at the 2021 Platino Awards, and won five.- Erick was born and raised in Guatemala. As early as 5 years old Erick knew he wanted to be an actor. While growing up in a small village with his grandparents he would reenact scenes from the Soap Operas he had watched with his grandmother the previous night. As a teenager he moved to the United States and got the opportunity to go to college to study business administration. Once in college he enrolled in an intro to acting class and that's where his childhood dream of being an actor was reawakened. After that intro to acting class and with much excitement and fear Erick changed his major to acting. A few years later Erick received his Bachelor's in Fine Arts degree in theater performance from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Before pursuing acting for the camera Erick had the opportunity to perform for the stage. Some of his favorite roles include Valentin in The Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Marmeladov in an original production of Crime & Punishment. Some notable television credits include Eastbound & Down, The Bridge, Back in The Game and Southland.
That combination of excitement and fear Erick felt when switching majors in college would become a recurring theme in his life as an actor. - Eugenia Wright was born on 7 January 1952 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She was an actress, known for Magnum, P.I. (1980), Macbeth (1981) and Hart to Hart (1979). She was married to J.D. Hall. She died on 31 March 2011 in Burbank, California, USA.
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Bilingual actor, voice talent, writer, comedian, and interactive media connoisseur (i.e. video game nerd) Emilio Rossal was born in Guatemala but raised on the mean streets of the San Fernando Valley, California, which translates to him looking "ethnically ambiguous" and speaking Spanish with a "neutral accent," at least according to every audition he gets called in for.
He has appeared in dozens of national commercials in English and Spanish, as well as several award-winning indie feature films and shorts, including The Mix; Danger, Dames, and Dangerous Games, and El Regalo, which got accepted into the Cannes Film Festival.
He is a graduate of the Upright Citizens Brigade core curriculum, he took the improv world by storm with his indie team Master Sword (under the tutelage of improv guru Miles Stroth), and he won third place in Uncle Clyde's Comedy Contest at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, for which he was awarded a basket of assorted French fries (100% true).
Most recently you can hear his voice as Mags in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Ray Santos in State of Decay 2, and as multitude of New York denizens in Marvel's Spider-Man 2.- Actor
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Luis Oliva was born on 8 November 1977 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is an actor and director, known for Tag, Richelieu (2023) and The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream (2008).- Sound Department
- Editor
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César Fión Góngora is an award winning editor and sound mixer. His work has been showcased in countries such as Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, Mexico and his native Guatemala.
Having started his own production company, "Calavera Film", in his home country he relocated to Los Angeles for his studies in screenwriting, while working on his second passions as an editor and a sound mixer.
He is always looking for the next story to tell. He loves to experiment with various genres and believes that movies can change the way people see- Bea Ranero was born on 2 March 1985 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She is an actress, known for El Señor de los Cielos (2013), 12 Segundos (2013) and El Placer De Dar Placer (2023).
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Shot himself on a train between Cairo and Palestine. Haggard was overworked and felt that the Second World War had destroyed his acting career. He was on the edge of a nervous breakdown when after some months a married Egyptian woman with whom he had a romantic relationship decided to end it.- Editor
- Director
- Writer
Cesar Diaz was born on 20 September 1978 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is an editor and director, known for Our Mothers (2019), Cadejo Blanco (2021) and Amores Perros (2000).- Producer
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Julio Ponce Palmieri is a multiple award-winning writer and filmmaker. His sci-fi web series titled 2012 was awarded a Webby Honoree under the extremely competitive Drama category at the 16th edition of the Webby Awards. Julio was named Filmmaker On The Rise and won Best Screenplay in New York City and his films have received numerous accolades and nominations in various film festivals all over the world. He was honoured with showcases of his innovative work in prestigious film festivals in Italy, Guatemala and New York City.
Julio is the founder and creative director of Quetzal Productions and since 2005 he has produced, written and directed three feature films, two web series and over half a dozen short films. The short films gained world-wide distribution with Ouat Media and were broadcast regularly on television channels in Canada, USA and Guatemala. Julio's feature film Rabid Rage enjoyed theatrical release in Guatemala where it had a successful run in numerous cinemas. It also secured worldwide distribution and played in Canada, USA, Guatemala, South Korea, Germany and Russia.
Julio specializes in adaptations and has successfully brought Machiavelli's The Prince, Plato's Myth Of The Cave and The Hubris Of Sisyphus to the screen. He is developing a few TV series, among them a crime drama titled Undercover and the epic mythological-historical tale of Gilgamesh. Julio is also proficient in writing for documentaries and served as the screenwriter and associate producer for a project in Venezuela titled Simon Bolivar Path To Glory.
Julio's film festival experience involved jury duties in Mexico's largest short film festival Cine A Las Calles, which included its first edition in Guatemala. He contributed as an Advisory Board member for QIFF where he represented both Canada and Guatemala and was responsible for bringing movies from those countries forward to the festival director. Julio has represented Guatemala with his films at the 17th Latin American Film Festival in Ottawa, Canada and the XXIV Festival Del Cinema Latino Americano in Trieste, Italy.- Actor
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- Script and Continuity Department
Carlos Villatoro was born on 14 January 1903 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Carnaval en el trópico (1942), Two Monks (1934) and Santo vs. the Zombies (1962). He was married to Ana Mantecón García. He died on 14 March 1963 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Actor
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- Camera and Electrical Department
Philip Nathanael Johnson was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala in a small apartment complex. He grew up moving to and from the States, living in Guatemala and Ecuador. At age 17, he was planning to join the Air Force, but decided to pursue an acting career instead and joined the "Covenant Players", a traveling theater company based out of Oxnard, California, and toured with them for two years. Before moving to Los Angeles, Philip lived in Peru for almost three years before returning to the States in 2007 to work in film and television. Since then, he has had success both in front and behind the camera, also working on set as a director and camera operator.- Director
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- Cinematographer
Melanie Aitkenhead was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She is known for Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (2016), Actors Anonymous (2017) and Revenge Ride (2020).- Sergio Andrade was born on 17 October 1977 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is an actor, known for Lifehouse: Hanging by a Moment (2000), Lifehouse: Hanging by a Moment (Version 2) (2000) and Lifehouse: Sick Cycle Carousel (2001).
- Álvaro Sagone was born on 13 February 1979 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is an actor, known for Sr. Ávila (2013), Te doy la vida (2020) and Rosario Tijeras (2016).
- Arabella Arbenz was born in 1940 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She was an actress, known for Un alma pura (1965) and Tajimara (1965). She died on 5 October 1965 in Bogota, Colombia.
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- Composer
- Sound Department
Pieter Schlosser was born on 17 August 1980 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is a composer, known for Transformers (2007), The Island (2005) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011).- Actor
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- Additional Crew
Antonio Munoz was born and raised in Guatemala City. He started racing motor-cross when he was only eleven years old. During the third year of racing, he suffered a major accident, leaving him with major facial fractures and the loss of taste and smell.
Never resigned to be the victim of any circumstance, he continued racing after the accident,which he did professionally for twenty years and held the National Champion title not once but three times.
He has since been driven to appreciate the tastes and textures in all aspects of life and the human condition. After another unfortunate accident, he was forced to put his love for motor cross racing on the back burner, while he moved onto go-kart racing (125 shifters) where he excelled, achieving the "rookie-of-the-year" title during his first year. Antonio was very fortunate to experience and travel around the world and meet people from all walks of life.
In July 2000, he arrived in the US and soon started living the American Dream on the receiving end of a very lucrative BMW sales position, achieving a top sales' record in the company soon after he arrived. A strong believer in living and relentlessly following one's passion, Antonio walked away from the American financial dream to pursuit his real passion for acting, despite of the strong resistance and skepticism manifested by colleagues and people who insisted he had to be crazy to chase after something he had no chances at succeeding.
As a testament to his tenacity and self-belief, Antonio had his first break only six months after he started his acting pursuits. Desmond Gumbs, a director on Straight Out (2003) (his first movie) took a great risk on Antonio's raw talent and cast him in a major plot-driver role. His desire for intense competition and speed quickly translated into an unstoppable and unconditional commitment to his work as an actor and to collaborating with other artists.
Soon after he signed with the biggest talent agency in San Francisco Stars and again, always challenging his comfort zones, Antonio moved to Los Angeles in search of greater and more diverse work opportunities.
Since then he has worked on the top-rated shows, as well as in the feature films London (2005), Straight Out (2003), Rundown, The (2003) and Spanglish (2004) (with Adam Sandler.
Additionally, he has been seen in television and editorial commercials (Bank Of America, Ernest & Julio Gallo Wines and 21st Century Insurance) as well as industrials for The Discovery Channel.
He has trained with Ron Burrus at his studio in LA; with James Cutts at the SFAA and Beau Bonneau in San Francisco; and continues training his craft in Los Angeles. In addition to his bilingual skills, Antonio is multi-ethnic, which allows him to portray a wide array of ethnic types and he enjoys the subtle but very vivid differences in dialects and accents.
Always a well-traveled individual, Antonio has had a multi-cultural exposure during his formative international motor-cross platform, which has nurtured in him the ability to observe and internalize idiosyncrasies, behavior, accents and dialects and to invest these into bringing his characters to life with enormous conviction.- Visual Effects
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Regina Calix Jo was born on 23 October 1997 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Regina Calix is known for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), The Last of Us (2023) and Gen V (2023).- Ted Hendricks was born on 1 November 1947 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is an actor, known for The Fall Guy (1981), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and The NFL on CBS (1956).
- Lorena Goubaud was born in 1944 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She was an actress, known for El vestido de novia (1959), Las coronelas (1959) and El Cristo negro (1955). She was married to Jorge Mario Prado. She died on 4 November 1989 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
- Carmen Conde was born on 14 May 1916 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She is an actress, known for Good-Bye Nicanor (1937), La vuelta del Charro Negro (1941) and Dreams of Love (1935).
- Miguel Ángel Asturias was born on 19 October 1899 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He was a writer, known for Tres historias fantásticas (1964), Soluna (1969) and El señor presidente (1970). He was married to Blanca Mora y Araujo and Clemencia Amado. He died on 9 June 1974 in Madrid, Spain.
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Born in Guatemala, 1991. Drummer, graphic designer, writer and composer for cinema, videogames and media with studies in jazz and a film scoring in Barcelona. Sophie was driven to become a musician under the influence of contemporary and classical orchestral composers as well as jazz and asian oriented media such as japanese animation, films and videogames. Sophie also had her directorial debut with short film "Escritor" in 2019.- Writer
- Actor
Eric Vonn was born on 9 June 1958 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is a writer and actor, known for Un día cualquiera (2016), La chacala (1997) and Por siempre mi amor (2013).- Writer
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- Additional Crew
Michael Wm. Kaluta was born on 25 August 1947 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is a writer, known for The Shadow (1994), Osmosis Jones (2001) and Human Target (1992).- Estuardo, born Edgar Estuardo Alvizures, came from Guatemala, a little country located in Central America. Ever since a little child, he was always wanting to be the center of attention. He auditioned for the Emmy award winning TV show "Zoom" at the age of 12 and was asked to be on the show. He is currently auditioning for various roles in TV, film, theater, and commercials.
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jose Oliva Gaytán was born on 20 April 1986 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is a producer and director, known for Hunting Party (2015), Gabrielle (2018) and Primero-Verdadero-Último (2017).- Producer
- Actor
- Cinematographer
Roberto Peralta was born on 11 November 1985 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is a producer and actor, known for Guatemala (2004), La Bruja (2009) and Sacopã 299 (2005).- Martita Roca was born on 10 April 1981 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She is an actress, known for Love for Rent (2005), Primer impacto (1994) and ¡Despierta América! (1997).
- Editorial Department
- Sound Department
- Editor
Allan Giron was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala and came to the United States at the early age of 3 years old. Growing up, he always had an interest in music, being shaped by the culture of the late 80s and early 90s. In school, he immersed himself in art and great works of literature. Out of school, he made a job out of being a DJ, going from party to party spreading his good taste in music. He also began to create, edit and remix his own productions. It was not until college that he noticed the power of cinema. He then made it his goal to become a filmmaker and with hard work he graduated CSUN with a BA in Cinema and Television Arts with Emphasis in Sound. He acquired a new love for the film aesthetic and the storytelling power it had. This collided in a positive manner with his passion for music and he noticed how a film could not be told without sound and music. He is eclectic in thought and in style, believing that film is the future for communication, and his new found dream is to use sound and music to communicate a message that accompanies a particular story in the visual form.- Rina Lazo was born on 23 October 1923 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She was married to Arturo García Bustos. She died on 1 November 2019 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Carlos Aldana was born on 18 October 1987 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is a producer, known for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Nexus (2017) and Bionique: Prologue (2013).- Justo Chang was born in 1946 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He was a writer, known for El silencio de Neto (1994). He was married to Simar, Veronique. He died on 15 July 2006 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
- Samara de Córdova was born on 25 August 1923 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She was an actress, known for El destino es mi aliado (1965), Cómplices (2008) and Los miserables (1973). She died on 8 June 2015 in Bogotá, Colombia.
- Jean Bernard-Luc was born on 8 February 1909 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Jean was a writer, known for El supersabio (1948), Tainted (1946) and Michel Strogoff (1936). Jean was married to N. Jean died on 18 May 1985 in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France.
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- Cinematographer
Daniel Arriola was born on 2 January 1997 in Guatemala City. He is a writer and cinematographer, known for Picture Day (2018), Loading Dock (2020) and Matched.- Alexandra Wever was born on 23 July 1991 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. She is an actress, known for Poised (2011).
- Juan Gerardi was born on 27 December 1922 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He died on 26 April 1988 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
- Gabriel Garzaro was born on 2 October 1996 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is an actor, known for Jinn (2018), Logan Paul Summer Saga (2017) and Valhalla (2016).
- Jimmy Morales was born on 18 March 1969 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is an actor, known for Looking for Palladin (2008) and Fe (2011).
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- Cinematographer
Rodrigo Garcías Chapetón was born at Guatemala City in 1991. He studied in Rafael Landívar University and Sevilla University. He began with many documentaries of the music and created his little producer company: Macarena Boys. Depends of the project he can work in the different area like edition, cinematography, script writer, producer o director.- Actress
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Zulema Nall has, from the time she was a little girl, worked as VoiceOver talent following in her father's footsteps who was the National Voice in T.G.W. Guatemala Radio. She has supplied voiceover talent for TV and Radio commercials, and in Film. Expanding her horizons, she has also produced several short films, "Rebirth" and "Encore" by Paul Spite and "Cops and Robber" by Mark Baird. She is currently (2012) producing another short film, "The Elevator" and a feature, "The Jacket" both by Norman Ray Fitts. Beyond that, she also participated in the feature films "Coyote Requiem" and "Conspiracy High" soon to have theatrical releases.- Joaquín Orellana was born on 5 November 1937 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He is a composer, known for Distance (2012) and ¡Volveremos a las montañas! (2012).
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- Editor
- Actor
Carlos Illescas was born on 9 May 1918 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He was a writer and editor, known for Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973), Deseos (1977) and Ángeles y querubines (1972). He died in 1998 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.- Herbert Meneses was born on 17 July 1939 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. He was an actor, known for Solo de noche vienes (1966), El ogro (1971) and Invisible Evidence (2003). He was married to Miriam Susana Argüello. He died on 6 March 2021 in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
- Elizabeth Cole is a Guatemalan- born director with a passion for storytelling. From a young age she has been a creative force, always dreaming in cinematic frames. Her journey truly took flight during her college years. There, she honed her talents as a director, crafting a unique style that's captivating audiences worldwide. Her college years weren't just about learning; they were about defining her artistic path. Today, as a creative director, Elizabeth's work continues to inspire and push boundaries, captivating audiences with her unique vision and creative brilliance. Her work serves as a wellspring of inspiration and innovation, enriching businesses, fueling the creative endeavors of artists, and enhancing storytelling in films.
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Luis Eduardo Juarez is an Award-Winning filmmaker, who has demonstrated his natural abilities from a young age as a musician, actor, painter and designer. In 1994 he founded LEJW Productions, which produced and recorded several Guatemalan rock bands. In 2001 he moved to Los Angeles, CA to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker and subsequently studied his craft religiously and freelanced in the industry whenever he had a chance. During that same period he founded his business Media-7, a Multimedia Design Studio that allowed him to expand his talents as a Web & Multimedia Designer, Creative Director and Video Producer. In 2008 he graduated from the New York Film Academy with great reviews on his thesis "Finding A Place" which he wrote, produced, shot, directed and edited by himself, winning an "Award of Merit for best Student Production" in the Accolade International Film Festival for his outstanding production. In 2009 he founded "Indiefone Film Fest" a cutting-edge video contest that invites filmmakers to use their creativity to the fullest by shooting a video project entirely on iPhones. In 2016 he wrote, produced and directed "Scratch The Fate" a full-length movie shot, edited, and scored entirely with an iPhone 6s; the first ever of its kind. To this day Luis Juarez also has produced and directed many award-winning music videos that have reach millions of views on YouTube.