Horacio Alcala

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Horacio Gómez Alcalá (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1978) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and filmmaker. Horacio Alcalá is a polyglot, possessing a cosmopolitanism forged in stories of survival, urgent explorations and reflections that probe the experience of being alive. He has lived in Berlin, Strasbourg, Montreal, Antwerp, Belgrade, Edinburgh and currently in Madrid. After this world tour, he packed his bags for 7 years to develop in all European capitals with the legendary Cirque du Soleil.

Biography[change | change source]

Graduated in Film Studies at the Université Marc Bloch Strasbourg II, graduated in Film at the European University Center for Cinema and Human Rights and the École Supérieure D'Art Dramatique in Strasbourg. He began his career at the age of 8 as an actor and at 14 he went on tour with the opera La Bohéme. However, what really interests him is the work behind the scenes.

He worked for 5 years at TELEVISA before moving to Europe. In 2006, he shot his first short film "Le Fil" as a director in France while studying at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Dramatique in Strasbourg. That same year, he joined the production ranks of Cirque du Soleil where he worked on several shows such as "Alegria", "Quidam" and "Corteo" where he worked while filming "Grazing The Sky", a documentary that toured international screens.

In 2013 Horacio settled in Madrid working as a director in different artistic projects, focusing on visual arts and scenic narrative. He has made documentaries such as "A nosotros tu Reino" and "Hasta el Alba" with Joaquín De Luz for the Spanish National Dance Company. In 2021 she premieres "Finlandia", her first fiction film on the theme of the third gender in Oaxaca and cultural appropriation.

He is currently developing documentary projects for the European Union and the United Nations through the Cross Border Cooperation projects, TESIM, INTERREG and Interact, and is developing the documentary Paso de Luz in collaboration with the National Ballet of Cuba. His projects are inspired by the literary and pictorial movement of magic realism, where nature, the culture of different countries and the unusual play an important role. He looks for and creates characters that not only entertain but also bring something to the viewer, be it a lesson or a value. He attaches importance to narrative through aesthetics. In his gaze and his irreverent vision, emotion, exorcisms and redemption appear, of the child he was, the man he wanted to be, of hybridisation, miscegenation and the fusion of gender and genres in a world on the edge of the precipice, which survives itself.

Filmography[change | change source]

Feature films.[change | change source]

  • On the waves (in production)
  • Finland (2021).
  • Until Dawn (2021). [1]
  • To us your kingdom (2019) [2]
  • At Sky Level (2013) [3]
  • User manual for a spacecraft (2007) [4]

Series.[change | change source]

  • The Icarus (In development)
  • Marbella Club (In development)

Short films.[change | change source]

  • Embrace my memories (2011) [5]
  • No news from Bosnia (2007) [6]
  • Le Fil (2006) [7]

For International Television.[change | change source]

  • Aquasonic (France - Germany 2019)
  • Tonspurren (Germany, 2013)
  • Balkans (France - Germany, 2011)
  • The listening (Canada, 2021)

Awards and Festivals.[change | change source]

Horacio Alcalá has participated in the following Film Festivals:

  • Malaga Festival .
  • Madrid Premier Week [8]
  • Cinespaña, Toulouse. [9]
  • Guadalajara International Film Festival. [10]
  • Raindance. [11]
  • Montreal International Film Festival.
  • Torino Film Festival. [12]
  • Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  • Istanbul International Film Festival
  • Palm Springs International Film Festival
  • Morelia Film Festival [13]
  • Sao Paolo International Film Festival [14]
  • Minneapolis Latino Film Festival [15]
  • Los Angeles Film Festival [16]
  • Mardi Gras Sydney Festival [17]
  • American Documentary Film Festival [18]
  • Seattle International Film Festival
  • Lovers Italy. [19]
  • Córdoba Film Week. [20]
  • Connecticut Out Film. [21]
  • Toulouse Des-Images-Aux-mots.
  • Outshine Fort Lauderdade. [22]
  • Frameline Festival San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival. [23]
  • FICG Guadalajara. [24]
  • Taiwan Queer Film Festival. [25]
  • Queer Melbourne. [26]
  • Transition Austria. [27]
  • Rozefilmtage Netherlands. [28]
  • CinéLatino Festival in Cahors France. [29]
  • Australia Greelong Pride Film Festival. [30]
  • Festival cinema du monde de Sherbrooke. [31]
  • Orlando Film Festival. [32]
  • OUTFEST Los Angeles. [33]
  • ImageOut Rochester. [34]
  • Frameline46: The San Francisco. [35]
  • KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. [36]
  • REEL Q: Pittsburgh. [37]
  • Rainbow Reel Tokyo. [38]
  • Queer Florence. [39]
  • Hello Mexico, LA US. [40]
  • Chicago Reeling LGBTQ fest. [41]
  • Tallgrass ff. [42]
  • Queerfest Rostock. [43]
  • Perlen queer Hannover. [44]
  • Everybody is perfect. [45]
  • Tampa bay US. [46]
  • Queerstreifen. [47]
  • TLV LGBT FF. [48]
  • Latin Cinemassi Helsinki. [49]
  • MOBILE CINEMA Festival Chile. [50]
  • Latino ff Warsaw. [51]
  • Oslo Fusion FF. [52]
  • B3 Frankfurt FF. [53]
  • Zefestival à Nice et Seillans. [54]
  • San Luis Film Festival. [55]
  1. ↑ "HASTA EL ALBA - Compañía Nacional de Danza".
  2. ↑ A nosotros tu reino (2019) (in Spanish), retrieved 2022-10-19
  3. ↑ A ras del cielo (2013) (in Spanish), retrieved 2022-10-19
  4. ↑ "Manual de uso para una nave espacial [Videograbación]". www.miteco.gob.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  5. ↑ Alcala, Horacio (2011-05-01), Abraza mis recuerdos, retrieved 2022-10-19
  6. ↑ "No News from Bosnia (Short 2007)".
  7. ↑ Le fil (Corto 2007) - IMDb (in European Spanish), retrieved 2022-10-19
  8. ↑ "Madrid Premiere Week :: HOME". www.madridpremiereweek.com. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  9. ↑ "Festival Cinespaña - Édition 2022". Festival Cinespaña (in French). Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  10. ↑ "FICG | Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara | Inicio". ficg.mx. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  11. ↑ "Home". Raindance. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  12. ↑ "Torino Film Festival". Torino Film Fest (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  13. ↑ "Inicio | Morelia Film Fest". moreliafilmfest.com. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  14. ↑ "Sao Paulo International Film Festival". Festagent. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  15. ↑ "MSP Film Society".
  16. ↑ "LA Film Festivals". LA Film Festivals. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  17. ↑ "Home Page". Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  18. ↑ "HOME | AmDocs Film Festival | Palm Springs, California, United States". Amdocsnew2020. Retrieved 2022-10-20.
  19. ↑ "Lovers Film Festival". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  20. ↑ "Bienvenidos - Semana del Cine de Córdoba" (in Spanish). 2022-07-23. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  21. ↑ "35th Connecticut LGBTQ Film Festival". outfilmct2022.eventive.org. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  22. ↑ "OUTshine Film Festival - FINLANDIA". outshinefilm.com. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  23. ↑ "Finlandia". Frameline. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  24. ↑ "FICG | Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara | Inicio". ficg.mx. Retrieved 2022-12-15. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 53 (help)
  25. ↑ "Taiwan International Queer Film Festival". en.tiqff.com. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  26. ↑ "Gay Melbourne | The Essential LGBT Travel Guide!". 2018-04-13. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  27. ↑ "transition international queer & minorities film festival". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  28. ↑ "Netherlands". Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  29. ↑ "Festival Cinélatino | Cahors". cahorsagglo.fr. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  30. ↑ "Geelong Pride Film Festival". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  31. ↑ "Pour vivre le cinéma autrement!". Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke (in Canadian French). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  32. ↑ "Home". Offvirtual. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  33. ↑ "Outfest Home". Outfest. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  34. ↑ "ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film & Video Festival". www.imageout.org. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  35. ↑ "Frameline46". Frameline. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  36. ↑ "Home". KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  37. ↑ "Home". Reel Q. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  38. ↑ "About". The 29th Rainbow Reel Tokyo –Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival –. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  39. ↑ "Florence Queer Festival – Festival Internazionale di cinema lgbt" (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  40. ↑ "14th Annual Hola Mexico Film Festival 2022! -". Hola Mexico Film Festival. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  41. ↑ "Reeling 2022 — Celebrating LGBTQ+ Stories From Around the World". Reeling 2022 — Celebrating LGBTQ+ Stories From Around the World. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  42. ↑ "Home". Tallgrass Film Association. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  43. ↑ "QueerFilmFest Rostock – Das Queerfilmfest im MAU Club Rostock" (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  44. ↑ "Perlen - Queer Film Festival Hannover | Festivals & Events". www.hannover.de. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  45. ↑ "Accueil 2022". Everybody’s Perfect (in French). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  46. ↑ "TIGLFF". https://tiglff.com/. Retrieved 2022-12-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  47. ↑ "QUEER-Streifen – Das queere Filmfestival Regensburg" (in German). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  48. ↑ "TLVFest | The Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival". Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  49. ↑ "Cinemaissí". Cinemaissí. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  50. ↑ "El Festival". Cine Movilh 2022/ Festival de cine Gay, Lésbico, Bisexual y Transexual / @Movilh (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  51. ↑ Festhome. "Warsaw International Film Festival". Festhome (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  52. ↑ "Hjem - Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival". oslofusion.no. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  53. ↑ Image, B3 Biennial of the Moving. "B3 Biennial of the Moving Image". B3 Biennial of the Moving Image. Retrieved 2022-12-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  54. ↑ "Seillans - Zefestival". lgbt.zefestival.fr. Archived from the original on 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
  55. ↑ "San Luis Film Festival – November 13-16, 2018". Retrieved 2022-12-15.

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