Luis Estrada Biography

QUICK FACTS
Activities Director , Screenwriter , Producer more
Nationality Mexico
Birth January 17, 1962 (Mexico City – Mexico)

BIOGRAPHY
Luis Estrada is a Mexican producer, screenwriter and director known for his controversial films that portray the realities of Mexican politics. At the beginning of his career he made several short films such as Memories of Xochimilco (1981) and La divina Lola (1984) before making his first feature film: El motel de la muerte (1990), a television film produced by Televisa. He later directed the fiction films Long Road to Tijuana (1991), Bandidos (1991) and Ámbar (1994). With his following films, all starring Damián Alcázar, his reputation as a critic of the Mexican political system began to form. Thanks to Herod’s Law (1999), Estrada won the Ariel Award for best screenplay, best film and best director, this last award he obtained again with Hell (2010). Four years later he shone again in the film industry for The Perfect Dictatorship (2014), a film that harshly criticized the PRI political system and which was nominated in several Ariel Award categories but did not win any of them.

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