Alfonso Serrano Maturino

Mexican filmmaker born in Durango, Mexico. Interested in performing arts since his youth, he played with the local semi-professional theater group "Crisol". Changed his residence to Mexico City to study Journalism at the Carlos Septien Garcia Journalism School in 1972. There he won the First prize of the 25th Anniversary Cinema Contest with the short film "La chispa de la vida" ("The Sparkle of Life", 1974). As a part of his media job at the Ministry of Agrarian Reform he wrote and directed "Los firmantes del Plan de Ayala" (Mexico, 1974), a documentary about the peasants that joined the Revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata in signing in 1911 the Plan called Plan de Ayala to pursue the Agrarian reform through the Mexican Revolution. Even if his professional development stood mainly in journalism, especially in magazines, he produced and directed filmed and TV materials whenever he could, mainly for industry shows and journals; for example, the documentary "La capa de ozono" ("The Ozone Layer", 1989) that boosted Mexican aerosol industry's commitment with Montreal Protocol to stop the emission of CFC gas. In 2002 he finally pursued professional studies of Film Directing and became a member of the first generation to obtain the degree of Film Direction at the Instituto Ruso Mexicano de Cine Sergei Eisenstein. Since then he has produced and directed a vast array of TV commercials, video-clips, opera prima films for the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC), his own shorts "La nopalera" ("The Nopal Plantation", 2005), "Llámame Tony" ("Call me Tony", 2011). He produced the docudrama "Ella(s)" (David Baute, Spain-Mexico-Uruguay, 2010). In 2013 filming and in 2015 post-production of his film "Acapulco, la vida va" were concluded, the film was premiered in commercial circuits in Mexico starting January 21, 2017. Ha has coordinated the edition of two books on the movie industry in Mexico and Durango: "Cine México, 1970-2011" (Gran Numeronce Producciones, 2011) and "Durango, filmes de la tierra del cine 1954-2013" (Gran Numeronce Producciones-Consejo Nacional par la Cultura y las Artes, 2013).