Edmundo Barraza

Edmundo Barraza was born in Mexico. He moved to the USA and became an American Citizen in 1990. He is a Writer and Director based in Los Angeles, Ca. He was seven when he saw his first movie. The exterior wall of a church at the top of a hill was the screen. A Spanish movie about a baby left outside a church by his mother. He never stopped watching movies after that. He began writing short stories in 2009. His love for cinema pushed him to turn his own stories into scripts and then to film. In 2015 he shot his first short film "The Corpse Is Alive" which won thirteen nominations at different film festivals from around the world. "Drugs And Chocolates" and "The Psychic" have also won numerous awards. Some of his favorite film directors include, Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Peckinpah, Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and many others. His favorite music includes The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Temptations, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, and Bob Dylan. His ultimate goal is to make a feature film based on one of his own stories. He's married to Consuelo Barraza. They have a daughter and a son, Michelle Solano and Carlos Barraza.