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Lorenzo Vigas - Director, Screewriter and Producer
Lorenzo Vigas
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Director, screewriter and producer, Vigas was born in Venezuela and lives in Mexico City.
He studied Molecular Biology, but, as he said: «science will never allowed me to express myself and I had this hurge to express. I knew its was something visual». He studied Cinema in the University of New York. Directed the short Los Elefantes Nunca Olvidem (2004), and his first film, Desde Allá (2015), has won the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, where he has premiered, em 2021, La Caja, that ends the “the father trilogy”, and was in competition at LEFFEST’21, where we won two awards: The Jury Special Prize and Best Screenplay.
He studied Molecular Biology, but, as he said: «science will never allowed me to express myself and I had this hurge to express. I knew its was something visual». He studied Cinema in the University of New York. Directed the short Los Elefantes Nunca Olvidem (2004), and his first film, Desde Allá (2015), has won the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, where he has premiered, em 2021, La Caja, that ends the “the father trilogy”, and was in competition at LEFFEST’21, where we won two awards: The Jury Special Prize and Best Screenplay.
