Alexis Franco(I)

Alexis Franco was born on November 21, 1975. He lives and works in the United States in his two careers, Cinema and Architecture. He has participated in a selection of projects with worldwide recognition. He was involved in movies like: The Pasage , Low Tide, Stop the Pounding Heart , The Other Side , and What you gonna do when the world is on fire? where he worked with the renowned Film Director Roberto Minervini as his Assistant Director. All the films toured the world with premieres at important festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Argentina, New York, Germany, Spain, etc. He also worked on a documentary in CUBA: EL Quijote del Caribe and eventually was involved as Executive Producer of the films Dirty Feathers, which had its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival and the Japanese film Yasuo (El Amo del Jardin). He studied music at the American Musical Institute where he obtained the titles of Professor of Music. As an Architect in the United States, he became an international member of the American Institute of Architects. In Houston Texas he works at Collaborative Designworks. Alexis designed and participated in many projects that were awarded and recognized state and nationally. Now working on his first two films as a director, Where The Trees Bear Meat and Permeable Prisons, in Argentina, Spain, United States, and Portugal. With almost 10 films on his career is considered one of the new emerging and upcoming filmmakers.