Biography

A documentary filmmaker and fiction screenwriter, Jesús was born and raised in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez across El Paso Texas. His work has screened at several international film festivals and broadcast in America and Europe.

Jesus' documentaries address complex and controversial topics aiming to lead the audience towards a more nuanced perspective. He co-produced and co-directed the feature documentary "A Philosopher in the Arena" (2018), which achieved the highest cinema box-office in Mexico during 2019 for a feature documentary and was unanimously hailed by critics.

"Guadalupe, The Making of a Nation" to be released in 2024 is his first feature documentary film as solo director. Narrated by Mexican actress Mabel Cadena (Black Panther: Wakanada forever), the film's titles and graphic design was created by Dan Perri (Raging Bull - Suspiria - There Will Be Blood) and makes use of the Nahuatl language with indigenous actors in several of its scenes.

He is set to begin filming "Offsiders" a feature documentary portrait of a children's football club in 'El Segundo Barrio', an emblematic Hispanic immigrant area in El Paso, Texas known as the Ellis Island of the southern United States.
- IMDb mini biography by: Brenda Venegas