José Luis García Agraz

José Luis García Agraz born 16 November 1952 is a Mexican film director He was born in Mexico City in 1952 He studied at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos or CUEC at UNAM His script Los supersabios was turned into an animated feature in 1975 He was assistant director to José Estrada in Maten al león 1975 and Los indolentes to Julián Pastor in El esperado amor desesperado 1975 and La casta divina 1976 to Gonzalo Martínez in Del otro lado del puente 1977 and to Arturo Ripstein in La viuda negra 1977 and Cadena perpetua 1978 His first short film Háblame de Rita 1979 which he also wrote was shown at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Bilbao His second short Patricio 1982 received an Ariel award It was also selected for the Festival Internacional de Nuevo Cine in Havana and once again the Bilbao short film festival His other shorts include Saxofón 1987 Solamente una vez 1988 Ladrón de sábado 1990 and El último tren 1996 Along with Fernando Cámara Toño Betancourt Nerio Barbieris and Marcelo Llacarino Agraz founded the film cooperative Kinam to realize his debut feature Nocaut which he also wrote Nocaut won the Ariel for best debut film It also won the Heraldo and the Diosa de Plata awards The film was shown at film festivals in Amiens Madrid and New York City among others Agraz followed up with a number of features notable among which are Sueños de oro Dreams of gold a coproduction between México and the USA 1984 La paloma azul a JapaneseMexican coproduction 1989 and Desiertos mares 1993 which won him the best director prize at the Ariel awards in 1994 He repeated the feat in 2004 with El Misterio del Trinidad