Alejandro Zapata

Alejandro Zapata

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Alejandro Zapata

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Present Tense
Producer
Lina is about to trade her dream job in filmmaking for some snooze-ville gig that'll pay enough to please her fiancée. Enter her Uncle, a rascally womanizer set on turning a weekend in the La Calera into an eye-opening fling for his niece. Lina's not interested, of course, but then she meets the lovely David, who challenges her to make the toughest decision of her life.
Psychosexual
Producer
After finding her boyfriend cheating on her, a woman becomes obsessed with a YouTuber to the point that she thinks he's the perfect man for her.
Noise
Casting
A dinner takes place at the home of a prominent businessman. The assistants, 3 couples︎: the businessman and his wife, his best friend and his wife, ︎his partner and his wife. The "rules of the game" are very clear. A closed stage︎: the house. A murder︎: that of the businessman. Five suspects: all with apparent motives to commit the crime, and a detective to make sense of the pieces and find the culprit. Through the interrogations with each of these five murderous candidates, the reconstruction of what happened that night will gradually put on the table the letters of a swing of forbidden relationships, complexes, disagreements, envy, jealousy and shady deals.
Noise
Producer
A dinner takes place at the home of a prominent businessman. The assistants, 3 couples︎: the businessman and his wife, his best friend and his wife, ︎his partner and his wife. The "rules of the game" are very clear. A closed stage︎: the house. A murder︎: that of the businessman. Five suspects: all with apparent motives to commit the crime, and a detective to make sense of the pieces and find the culprit. Through the interrogations with each of these five murderous candidates, the reconstruction of what happened that night will gradually put on the table the letters of a swing of forbidden relationships, complexes, disagreements, envy, jealousy and shady deals.
Blood
Producer
Fidel and Ana María rob a bank out of necessity but are chased by Detective Arboleda. An exploration of what violence means.
Afuera del tiempo
Producer
A man goes back in time to stop his girlfriend from ending the relationship before he can propose to her, but each time he returns, she ends up with a different excuse. He now he has to see how to change to be able to marry her.
What a nice country
Producer
Two friends set out on a trip to a beautiful town in Colombia in order to develop a business project that will allow them to avoid their respective destinations. Juan Felipe does not want to go to work in his father's company and Tomás does not expect to go through the embarrassing process of looking for work. In the middle of their journey, they will learn to know themselves, while they are winding up the details of their condition as millennials who have not yet reached 30. Their life is a contradiction, since they feel like adolescents, although with a much older age advanced, but they are not capable of recognizing themselves as adults willing to assume responsibilities and undertake the process of maturing.
So Far, So Good
Producer
The daily life of a popular neighborhood in Bogota is interrupted by a man who threatens to commit suicide by jumping into the void. Echeverry, an old mariachi and Jacinto, a gambling addict, will bet the money they have on the man's decision.
My Mother's Tits
Producer
A young boy discovers his mom works as an exotic dancer in a local bar, so he decides to find the money to take her to Disney.
Dark Saturday
Producer
Dark Saturday takes us through a wide range of emotions, from anger to quiet reflection, as two people try to understand why if they love each other it's so hard to be together.
Four Steps
Producer
Lorena tries to rebuild her life while her husband, a manipulative Italian-Argentinean, slowly and subtly locks her up in a psychological prison from which she must escape.
Ultraviolence
Producer
A film editor receives a proposal to edit a new film without knowing that he is going to become so obsessed with the project that he will do whatever it takes to save the protagonist from her death in the story.