Israel Lugo

Israel Lugo

Nacimiento : 1973-11-07, Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.

Historia

Israel Lugo (born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 7, 1973) is a prominent Puerto Rican actor and director. He works in theater, cinema and television. He has been a member of the theater company Agua, Sol y Sereno (ASYS) since '95, where he has worked as an actor, stilt walker, plastic artist and director; and with whom he has performed in the United States, Spain, Venezuela, Cuba and Brazil.

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Israel Lugo

Películas

Daniel el Travieso: Una Aventura Familiar
La película sigue los percances de la familia Travieso, quienes deciden tomar un merecido descanso en una isla paradisiaca con todo incluido. Pero, como era de esperar, las cosas no salen según lo planeado, y los Travieso se encuentran en la isla equivocada debido a una serie de eventos desafortunados.
Érase una vez en el Caribe
Balbino
When Junior Walker sees Pura and wants her, he sends his men to kidnap her. What he wasn’t expecting was her husband to be Juan Encarnación; once the most feared foreman and skillful machete fighter. Encarnación will fight all of Junior’s goons to reunite his family, while Pura is being lured by the riches Junior has to offer.
Picando alante
Director
In hopes of solving a financial crisis at home, Marysol, youngest sibling and agronomy student, decides to dabble in the medical cannabis growing industry. When she faces its high costs and government regulations, she must convince her parents of starting a clandestine operation at home while they can meet the legal requirements. The dysfunctional family then embarks on an adventure that promises to bring them closer as a family. But things get complicated when, due to lack of experience, they end up in business with the wrong people. Under the eye of the authorities and without realizing, this family will face their worst enemy: themselves.
Prótesis
Papa
Marcos, a prosthetic creator with a traumatic past, finds a corpse in his laboratory. While deciding what to do with the corpse he will have to juggle his strange family life, a zombie movie, the possibility of new love and creating the perfect prosthesis for a very special client.
El silencio del viento
Rafito
La historia de un hombre que intenta afrontar la muerte de su hermana, pero no puede porque tiene que seguir trabajando con el negocio ilegal de traer indocumentados de la República Dominicana a Puerto Rico.
Antes que cante el gallo
Carmín sueña con algún día irse a vivir a la capital con su madre. Ese sueño se desmorona cuando la madre se muda con su nuevo esposo a los Estados Unidos. En pleno despertar adolescente, Carmín se ve forzada a permanecer en Barranquitas, un pueblito montañoso, junto a su abuela, una mujer dura, conservadora y de escasos recursos para la crianza. Solo la llegada del padre después de años en la cárcel comenzará a atenuar el malestar de Carmín. La relación, sin embargo, traerá sus propias ambigüedades y complejidades. Ahora la joven deberá aprender a vivir entre el abandono y el cuidado; entre el deseo, el amor y experimentar la más cruda ausencia.
La foto de Papá
Dad's Photo is a romantic drama about Margarita, a woman who lives in love with Mateo, her first and only boyfriend. Mateo disappeared when they were both 18 years old. Forty-five years later, he returns to the neighborhood, but not exactly looking for Margarita.
Yahaira
Yahaira is an unwed mom that has to take care of her child during work hours, something that has happened before.
Brainless Juan
Director
Inspirado en la película "Juan sin seso" de Luis A. Maisonet para la DivEdCo producida en el 1959. Brainless Juan es una adaptación del libreto y audio original que hace palpable la vigencia de su mensaje medio siglo después.
¡Sonó, Sonó… Tite Curet!
Director
Homage to Puerto Rican composer Catalino Curet Alonso, or as his friends and fans call him, "Tite", representing how widely influential the composer remains.
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Assistant Director
A moving love story that takes place in the censored and persecuted graffiti art setting. Returning from his job as a tollgate employee, Mor, a young urban artist, is impressed by a graffiti depicting a beautiful woman. He alters the drawing. Thus begins a pictorial dialogue rich in flirting, tenderness, and anticipation.
Sonríe
Henry
Henry is a grouchy, irritable and overall unhappy birthday clown. As he complains about everything, he realizes 8-year-old birthday girl Coral has a frown just as long as his. Annoyed by the fact that she is the only kid he hasn't been able to humor, he takes it upon himself to do whatever it takes to make this girl smile.
Il Viaggio
La primera película puertorriqueña filmada en Italia entrelaza las vivencias de cuatro actores puertorriqueños y un director colombiano a lo largo de un viaje por Italia mientras participan en un Festival de Improvisación Teatral. A través de sus sueños, pesadillas y retrospecciones se verán obligados a reflexionar en torno a su futuro en el arte en medio de la crisis económica mundial, el calentamiento global y la dependencia tecnológica.
Ráfaga
Teacher
A naive, teenage girl is swept into court by tragedy when the boy she blindly fell in love with betrays her trust in him.
Eco
Director
Andrés is a nine year old boy musician who plays the treble. On the way to a recital with his parents and in the midst of endless traffic, he tries to practice the melody he’ll be playing. Frustrated by the traffic, the heat, and that he can’t play the piece correctly, Andrés bursts in anger, throwing his instrument, which stops time as it touches the floor.
Angel
The film follows the actions of a corrupt police captain, the title-character Ángel Lugo. Lugo is responsible for the wrongful imprisonment of Mariano Farías and the murder of his pregnant wife. After 15 years in a federal prison, Farías is still determined to prove his innocence.
El clown
Xavier del Monte
A young clown decides to abandon the small-town circus he works for in order to try and make it in a big city.
El cuerpo del delito
Alegato contra la violencia de género, basada en un caso real ocurrido en Puerto Rico.
Una historia común
The daily life of a couple in a coastal town in Puerto Rico changes upon the arrival of an old friend whom they believed had perished in Vietnam. At the same time, a writer moves into the town and upsets everyone’s routine.
Vampiros
Miguel
When two young friends go out to a nightclub for drinks, they are followed by a very sultry vampire.
Mi día de suerte
An urban comedy about a day in the life of Falopio Piomonte, a humble filing clerk in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After going to the local bank to deposit his paycheck, Falopio gets accidentally involved in a major bank robbery. A series of terrible mishaps follow, which threaten to drive him completely mad.