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Issa Laura López Lozano is a Mexican producer, writer and film director. Eleven Spanish language features have been produced from her scripts, four of them directed by herself. She has won several literary awards, including the National Novel Award granted by Mexico's Institute of Fine Arts and Literature in 2007.[1]

Issa López
Born
Issa Laura López Lozano

Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • writer
  • producer
Years active1994–present

In 2017, Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven in Spanish) premiered at Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas. Written and directed by López, the film received the Best Horror Director Award, and went on to collect fifty-one awards in film festivals around the world, three Diosas de Plata, including Best Picture and Best Director, and received ten Ariel Awards nominations, of which it won two. The film earned multiple positive reviews by major trades and critics, and a "Certified Fresh" rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Currently, López is developing projects with Guillermo del Toro, Noah Hawley and Jason Blum.


Early life


Issa Laura López Lozano was born in Mexico City,[2][3] where she was raised by her father after her mother died when she was eight years old. Her father was a semiotics academic and a college professor. During her childhood her family faced economic hardships, since academia is not a high-paying job in Latin America. This was a defining aspect of her life, inspiring much of her later work, since her dad would try to keep her and her sister entertained in spite of their economic situation. Lopez explained in one of her interviews that she, her sister and her dad would “go every weekend on some road trip through Mexico, from small town to small town, sitting to watch kung fu and horror movies in traveling cinemas, eating street food, visiting archeological sites, jungles, deserts and the most haunted little towns in the country". Those memories were the inspiration for many of her stories.


Life and career


Issa López studied Archeology for about two years, until "the pull of cinema was too strong to resist". She abandoned Archeology and enrolled in Mexico's National University Filmschool, where she obtained a BA in Film Directing and Screenwriting. After her BA, she completed a two-year graduate program for dramatic writing. López began co-writing telenovelas and TV shows at Televisa. In 2003, she wrote the film Ladies’ Night which was a box-office success, becoming the 5th biggest grossing Mexican film of 2003 and 2004.

López has won several literary awards, including the National Novel Award granted by Mexico's Institute of Fine Arts and Literature.[1] In addition to her literary work, she penned multiple TV shows, some of them reaching the highest audience ratings in Mexican prime-time TV, and wrote the scripts for several film features, three of them produced in Mexico by the Major Hollywood Studios, and two of those directed by herself; Efectos Secundarios (Warner Bros., 2006) and Casi Divas (Sony Pictures, 2008). In 2015, López shot her third feature as a director, and tenth as a writer, Tigers Are Not Afraid. In March 2018, Todo Mal, her fourth feature film as a director, 11th as a writer, opened in Mexico.

In 2005, López was selected as one of the 50 Latino Impact Players in Entertainment, by Variety.

In Mexico, López’ movies have ranked among the highest grossing local productions: Ladies' Night (Disney, 2003) ranked fifth, Niñas Mal (Sony Pictures, 2007) seventh, and Efectos Secundarios fifteenth. Casi Divas opened in first place in the box office and went on to a limited theatrical run in the U.S.

Casi Divas received enthusiastic reviews from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and the L.A. Times, among others. The film is the only Mexican movie to be scored by acclaimed Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer, who only charged $1 for his extensive work on the film.[4]

In 2015, 600 Millas, a film with a script co-written by López, was nominated for the Mexican Film Academy Ariel Award for Best Script.[5]

In September 2017, Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven in Spanish) Premiered at Fantastic Fest, in Austin Texas, and received the Best Horror Director Award. Issa López directed, wrote, and was Executive Producer of the film, a dark fable about the children surviving the Mexican drug war, and the ghosts that haunt them.

Tigers Are Not Afraid collected a total of fifty-one awards in Film Festivals around the world, three Diosas de Plata (the Mexican equivalent of the Golden Globes), including Best Picture and Best Director, and has received 10 nominations for the Ariel, (the Mexican Film Academy Award), of which it won two, has earned a large amount of positive reviews by major trades and critics, and a "Certified Fresh" rating of 97% in Rotten Tomatoes. It also got a Best Latin American Director Award in 2019 from NALIP (National Association of Latino Producers) and Fangoria Magazine, specialized in Horror Cinema, awarded it Best Foreign Language Movie in 2020. Stephen King,[6] Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro manifested their enthusiasm for the movie via social media and interviews.[7]

Currently, López is working with Guillermo del Toro, who announced that he'd produce Lopez' next film,[8] a haunted western about the werewolf mythology,[9] Searchlight Pictures signed her to write and direct The Book of Souls,[10] to be produced by Noah Hawley, and Blumhouse is developing Our Lady of Tears,[11] written and directed by López. She will also write, produce and direct the fourth season of cult HBO series True Detective. [12]


Selected filmography


Year Project Type Cast Details
1994Tan callandoShort filmGerardina Martínez, Carmina MartínezWriter, Director
2000Primer amor... a mil por horaTelenovelaKuno Becker, AnahíWriter
2003Ladies' NightFilmAna Claudia Talancón, Ana de la Reguera, Luis Roberto GuzmánWriter
2006Efectos secundarios (Side Effects)FilmMarina de Tavira, Alejandra Gollás, Arturo BarbaWriter, Director, Associate Producer
2007Niñas mal (Charm School)FilmMartha Higareda, Camila Sodi, Blanca GuerraWriter
2008Casi DivasFilmPatricia Llaca, Julio Bracho, Maya ZapataWriter, Director
2010Sucedió en un día (Segment "Siete")Short filmGustavo Sánchez Parra, Luis Gerardo MéndezWriter, Director
2012Viaje de GeneraciónFilmDanny Perea, Esmeralda PimentelWriter
2013 Pulling Stings Film Jaime Camil, Laura Ramsey, Stockard Channing, Tom Arnold Writer
2015 A la Mala Film Aislinn Derbez, Mauricio Ochmann Writer
2015 600 Millas Film Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer Writer
2017 Tigers Are Not Afraid Film Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Tenoch Huerta, Ianis Guerrero Writer, Director, Executive Producer
2018 La Boda de Valentina (Valentina's Wedding) Film Omar Chaparro, Marimar Vega, Ryan Carnes. Writer, Executive Producer
2018 Todo Mal Film Osvaldo Benavides, Martín Altomaro, Alfonso Dosal, Marcela Guirado Writer, Director, Producer

Awards


Fiction Writer awards

Movie awards


References


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  1. "Premio Bellas Artes de Novela José Rubén Romero". literatura.inba.gob.mx. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  2. "La influencia mexicana en el séptimo arte es innegable". El Regio. 18 September 2017.
  3. "Los mexicanos más creativos de 2018". Forbes.com. 11 January 2019.
  4. de la Fuente, Anna Marie (2008-01-19). "Hans Zimmer opens heart for 'Divas'". Variety. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  5. http://www.premioariel.com.mx/images/Franjas/NominadosPorPelicula.pdf [dead link]
  6. Twitter (in Spanish) https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/917924578772611072. Retrieved 2021-05-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. Twitter https://twitter.com/realgdt/status/925936863508029440. Retrieved 2021-05-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. de la Fuente, Anna Marie (2018-03-13). "Guillermo del Toro to Produce Issa Lopez, Karla Castaneda's Next Films (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  9. Topel, Fred (2019-03-29). "Guillermo del Toro Teases Upcoming Horror Projects With Jennifer Kent and Issa Lopez". Bloody Disgusting!. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  10. Fleming, Mike Jr. (2020-01-22). "Issa López To Write/Direct Searchlight Adaptation Of Matthew Baker Short 'Lost Souls;' Noah Hawley Producing". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  11. D'Alessandro, Anthony (2020-05-20). "Blumhouse Developing 'Our Lady Of Tears' With Issa López Adapting & Directing". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  12. Haskoor, Michael (2022-03-20). "'True Detective' Season 4 In Development At HBO With Barry Jenkins". Decider. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  13. "" Best Screenplay Award for Ladies' Night, CYIIF, 2006, Accessed Nov 5 2013
  14. ""Past Winners | Latino International Film Institute & festival, LALIFF |". Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-05-29." Casi Divas Best Screenplay Award at Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, 2008, Accessed Nov 7 2013
  15. ""Issa López National novel award, Accessed 5 Nov 2013
  16. "" Music Hans Zimmer for Casi Divas, Variety, Accessed Nov 5 2013
  17. "" Arieled Members of Mexican Motion Picture Academy, 1994, Accessed Nov 7 2013.
  18. "" Rotten Tomatoes rating and info, Rotten Tomatoes, 2013, Accessed Nov 7 2013
  19. " Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine" Ladies Night, Miravista Films, 2003, Accessed Nov 5 2013
  20. "" Casi Divas review by Variety, 2009, Accessed Nov 5 2013
  21. " Casi Divas Review by Los Angeles Times, 2009, Accessed Nov 5 2013
  22. "" Efectos Secundarios, Warner Bros., 2006, Accessed Nov 5 2013
  23. "" Charm School, Sony Pictures, 2007, Accessed Nov 5 2013
  24. ""Past Winners | Latino International Film Institute & festival, LALIFF |". Archived from the original on 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2012-05-29." Best Screenplay Award, Los Angeles Latino Film Festival, 2008, Accessed Nov 5 2013
  25. "" Efectos Secundarios, Awards on IMDb, Accessed Nov 5 2013




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