Not everyone wants to leave home

What happens when a Mexican president engages in a full-on war against the drug cartels? This is the story of just one of the thousands of families who were forced to flee their homes in the once-booming Mexican border city of Juarez due to widespread violence during the Mexican Drug War.

  • Alfonso Duarte
    Director
    Hay de Rojo, The Long Road to Forgiveness, Balada
  • Alfonso Duarte
    Writer
    Hay de Rojo, The Long Road to Forgiveness
  • Alfonso Duarte
    Producer
  • Emiliano Lofish
    Original Score
    Hay de Rojo
  • Victor Amparan
    Visual Art
    Hay de Rojo
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 9, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Fotogenia
    Mexico City
    Mexico
    November 22, 2023
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Contemporary Art Festival Videopark
    Uzice
    Serbia
    July 28, 2023
    Official Selection
  • Iconic Images Film Festival

    Lithuania
    April 29, 2023
    Official Selection
  • Anatolia International Film Festival
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    April 12, 2023
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Cool Racoon
    Rights: All Rights
  • Alfonso Duarte Garcia
    Sales Agent
    Country: United States
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Alfonso Duarte

Alfonso Duarte Garcia was born in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He attended the University of Texas at El Paso, majoring in Media Advertising and Film Studies. In 2012, he moved to Mexico City to pursue a career in film.
As a filmmaker, Alfonso participated in the 2015 Feratum Film Fest with the short film The Long Road to Forgiveness. In 2018, he directed the VR short film Balada, premiering at the 2018 Guanajuato International Film Festival. Most recently, he co-directed Hay de Rojo, a horror short film featured in the 2022 Oculto Horror Film Fest and in the 2022 Mórbido Horror Film Fest.
In 2017, Alfonso worked as the production coordinator in the set of Amalia, a film by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez that premiered at the 2018 L'Étrange Festival in Paris and at the 2019 FICUNAM in Mexico City.
In 2019, he co-produced Ermitaños, a transmedia documentary directed by Daniela Uribe. The film premiered at the 2019 Monterrey International Film Festival, and showcased at the 2020 Providence Latin American Film Festival
(PLAFF). Ermitaños was the recipient of the Best Web Doc Award at the 2021 International Festival of New Nonfiction Narratives in Rosario, Argentina.
During 2019, he worked as an instructor at Procine in Mexico City, where he taught a course on Film History and tutored aspiring filmmakers on how to write, shoot and edit their own films.
In an attempt to foster, promote and preserve the Juarez-El Paso border identity, Alfonso and other seven filmmakers created Cinema Burrito, a compilation of ten short films shot in the region. Cinema Burrito has been exhibited in various venues throughout Mexico City, Estado de Mexico, El Paso, Texas and Bogota, Colombia.
Alfonso Duarte lives in Mexico City where he performs as a video journalist, editor, producer and filmmaker.

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