Matías Penachino

Movies

Cassandro
Director of Photography
Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the ‘exotico’ character Cassandro, the ‘Liberace of Lucha Libre.’ In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life.
Time Share
Director of Photography
While staying at a tropical resort, a man becomes convinced the American timeshare company running it has an evil plan to take away his loved ones.
Opus Zero
Director of Photography
Paul, an American composer, arrives in the desert town of Real de Catorce where his father recently died. For the past ten years, Paul has been consumed with the task of composing an ending for the masterpiece of an early twentieth century musician. Being isolated from the world, he sees an opportunity to finish the symphony. However, Paul is caught up in a new mystery, the disappearance thirty years ago of a woman named Marianne.
Mamartuile
Director of Photography
The President of Mexico is in the last period of his term and only counting the days before his retirement. It appears to be a quiet adieu, until an international conflict has him treading murky waters.
Zeus
Cinematography
Sporadically employed and still living with his successful neurosurgeon mother, Joel finds his only joy in falconry in the flatlands outside Mexico City, until an encounter with a down-to-earth secretary forces him to face reality.
Summum Bonum
Screenplay
Two brothers start solving their differences when they have to travel back home.
Summum Bonum
Director
Two brothers start solving their differences when they have to travel back home.
Halley
Cinematography
Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Make-up and perfume can no longer conceal his quickly decomposing body. Dismayed, he decides to withdraw from the world, whilst forming an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard.