Rafael Larx

Rafael Larx was born by the name of "Rafael Lara Medina" in the city of Miami, Florida. Soon after his birth he moved to Mexico and lived between Mexico City and Guadalajara until 2009, when he stablished himself in Guadalajara for about nine years. Eventually he moved out to Spain in 2018, where he currently studies directing & writing at Instituto del Cine de Madrid. From a very young age he worked as a "trainee" in films like El tamaño sí importa (2016) and television series like Señora Acero (2018). At the age of eighteen, he was called to edit the film Sambo Creek: el regreso de la llorona, a horror film about a famous myth in a local Honduras town, which will be released on October 2021. Soon after that, he recorded a documentary called "The Rising Sun", about a group of friends who travel around Southeast Asia. In 2019 he filmed "El eclipse de Jimena", a social fiction about female oppression in Mexico and the growing amount of femicides in the country itself. At the moment, the film has been in different kinds of festivals around the world, such as Shorts Mexico. A few months afterwards, he directed "The Fall", a surrealistic short about life's coincidences and the process we face to reach consciousness. This project is currently on the distribution process. At the age of nineteen he edited his second feature film "Hijo de Familia". Which is currently in the post-production process. Later on in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, he directed "Fuego y Cenizas", a romantic short film recorded on San Pancho, Sayulita and some other sites of Guadalajara, Jalisco. The film will be released on August 2021. Since then, Rafael has been working on different series as Production Assistant, such as ("Guerra de Vecino" NETFLIX), as an intro editor ("Centauro del Norte" DISNEY), and other productions (commercials, videoclips, etc).