Alonso Alvarez

Born in Mexico City and raised in the town of Tampico, Tamaulipas, Alonso Alvarez-Barreda is an award-winning Mexican director/writer whose critically praised short films have been featured in festivals around the world. Alvarez-Barreda attended the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas to study International Commerce, but dropped out after two years to pursue his dream of filmmaking. Encouraged by his friend and mentor director Alejandro Monteverde, he shot his first project with a $50 budget. Historia de un Letrero went on to win the highly coveted Best Short Film Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. He penned his second short, El Descubrimiento (The Finding), with Julio César Cedillo who also starred in the 16mm film alongside Alejandro Felipe Flores, which follows a father and son who are forced to cope with life after a tragic death. The celebrated short is considered to be one of the best cinematographic expressions against domestic violence. El Descubrimiento was chosen as