Juan Elías Tovar

Movies

My Tender Matador
Writer
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.
Disobedience
Script Consultant
A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.
The Possibility of Hope
Writer
A look at different matters of the world such as immigration, global warming and capitalism through the eyes of scientists and philosophers.
Year of the Nail
Production Office Coordinator
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Development Manager
It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.