Bio

Born in a small village indigenous in Colombia, Alejandro’s work in the film industry includes over 30 feature films and more than 200 hours of scripted TV. As an Assistant Director, he has had the opportunity to work with acclaimed directors and a few world-renowned actors such as Laura Dern, Kristen Stuart, Nick Nolte, Carry-Anne Moss, Molly Parker, Tim Roth, Giovanni Ribisi and Dennis Quaid more recently.

Alternating between the production machinery and creative endeavours, Alejandro cut his theatre-teeth as a playwright with Camila’s Bones, a dystopian play based on the future policies of immigration and procreation under the state’s oppressive administration. Camila’s bones was funded with the support of the Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Alameda Theatre, Aluna Theatre, The Banff Centre and Summerworks Festival. Also developed at the Baff Center in collaboration with Diana Syrse, Slogans was produced as an operatic hybrid piece. This play was sponsored by the National Fund for Culture & The Arts in Mexico and The Canada Council for the Arts.

Alejandro’s short film was also supported by the National Film Board of Canada, B.C. Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, Media Net, LIFT, and The Hansen Film Institute. His work screened at numerous festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, London, Basel, Sapporo, Vancouver, ImagiNative and the Smithsonian Museum. 

After working as a 1st AD on Narcos for two seasons, Alejandro wanted to give back to his community. He founded Shain Wuunu Experimental Arts Centre in Palomino, Colombia, a centre dedicated to the arts, free education, technology and cultural values for needy children in La Guajira. Territ(Aur)ial Imprints was the first residence the centre launched in collaboration with the Canada Arts Council, ImagiNative Film Festival and the local community to foster the bonds between world indigenous communities –Mapuche, Xotxil, Arawak, Dene and Mohawk. Currently, Shain Wuunu supports the artistic endeavours of 30 children in an area that has been profoundly transformed by decades of extreme violence dictated by paramilitary groups and fueled by the drug trade.

Alejandro’s most recent Associated producing credits are: On the Line, a 7 Million US feature for Endeavor Content, and A Translator, which world premiered at Sundance in 2019 and has gone onto collecting several accolades, including official Cuban entry to the Oscars 2020.

But Alejandro’s true’s passion is writing, and as such he decided to quit ADing two years ago and focused on My Fellow Americans, a TV Series for which he was invited to Cannaseries last year, MFA made the top 20 out of 400 projects and attended the E20 in Toronto last fall. A deal with RT Features (AD Astra, The Lighthouse, Call Me By Your Name) was finally inked this year. Alejandro is currently focusing on his first feature, Seeds, a film based on operation Peter Pan. A CIA plan to undermine the Cuban regime by kidnapping 14.000 children.