TEAM

Luis Palomino, Director

Luis Palomino Benítez graduated with honors as a director from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, México’s leading international film school. His award-winning short film “The Last Veil” (2013) was featured at more than forty international film festivals, including the 53rd Critics’ Week at Cannes Film Festival.  His first feature-length documentary “Mi Sangre Enarbolada” (2016) was also selected in many film festivals, including the prestigious Guadalajara Film Festival. He has directed content for brands such as: Toyota, Estee Lauder, Mac, Sedal, Earthworks Inc. and Clarovideo.  He has also directed content for international NGOs such as Freeland (U.S./Thailand), USAID (U.S.) and Con Mono Maya (México). His latest film “Pablo Lopez: The Infallible Remedy of Music” is a cutting-edge semi fictional musical documentary about extraordinary life of a homeless singer.

Luis Posada, Cinematographer

Luis Posada is an artist and a cinematographer who splits his time between London and Mexico City. He studied photography at Central Saint Martins, and cinematography at the London College of Communications. He has worked on numerous projects, several of which have been shown at festivals and in auditoriums around the world, including the British Film Institute, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in the UK.

Posada is creatively inspired by stories containing emotional and cultural diversity, and primarily engages in projects exploring themes related to the human condition.

José Luis Aguilar, Production Designer

Born in 1960 in Xalapa, Veracruz, José Luis Aguilar holds a degree in architecture, and started his career with a focus on the visual arts. His experience in painting, photography, and theater among other disciplines allowed him to collaborate with great artists such as Emilio Carballido and Alejandro Luna. In 1984 he obtained the National Youth Award, and in 1990 he received his first nomination for the Ariel award with the film “Cabeza de Vaca”. He received four Ariels as an art director/production designer from 1992 to 2008. His work has also been screened at a range of international festivals including Cannes film festival. His most recent work in production design was for the historical series “Hernán”, shown on Amazon and produced by Dopamine along with the History Channel and TV Azteca. He is currently dedicated to set design in diverse areas. His understanding of light and space have never stopped surprising the public.

Roberto Ayala, Choreographer

Roberto Ayala is a stage director and choreographer who has directed and choreographed over twenty musicals in various countries, including the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Guatemala. 

He has worked on a variety of plays, including The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, Cats, Me and My Girl, 42nd Street, Cabaret and Sweet Charity. 

Ayala has also performed and choreographed several TV shows, cabaret acts, circus performances and night club acts. He has taught dance for over forty-five years in some of the most prestigious universities in Mexico and the U.S., and is a master coach at the Chennai Film Institute in India and Wasabi University in Japan.

Arturo Vázquez-Vela, Music Producer

Arturo Vázquez Vela is a music producer and composer with a degree in Contemporary Music Composition from the Academia de Música Fermatta. Before ending his professional studies he started playing the keyboard with several famous Mexican artists, which led him to perform on many stages around the world.

Throughout his career he has continued to learn by taking courses and workshops on conducting, orchestral arrangements, recording, composition, synthesis, piano, and music production. In 2009, he founded - alongside two renowned composers and conductors -  Fonobox, his own studio and music production house: there, Arturo has had the opportunity to compose and arrange music for concerts, films, theater, and advertising.

In 2012 he started playing with his own rock band “Little Jesus”, which grew very quickly in the Mexican independent scene and was chosen as the opening band at the Rolling Stones concert in Mexico City in 2016. By that time, he had worked for four years as a professor at a music college, teaching piano, tonal harmony, music notation, and arrangement. These days Arturo works in his studio producing music and big orchestral shows, and on weekends he tours with his band.

Molly Ferrill and Lisa Murray, Music Composers

Molly Ferrill and Lisa Murray are a mother-daughter duo of music composers from the U.S. They have composed and collaborated on many songs together. Lisa is a classically trained pianist who has been an accompanist for musical cabarets in New York City, a church organist in several churches, a jazz dance band keyboardist, and a composer of original music for piano and voice across a variety of genres. Molly is bilingual and has lived in Mexico for three years. She has studied guitar, flute, and music composition. Having worked for eight years in film and television, she has a keen insight into the integral part that music plays in bringing visual storytelling to life.