Oficial Tadeo

Set in Mexico during 2010, a surge in unprecedented criminal activity distorts the worldview of Tadeo, a 6 year old boy who, because of his young age, has come to normalize street violence and the strict safety measures imposed by his mother. When a shootout breaks out near his home and someone tries to break in, Tadeo interprets the situation as just another game of cops and robbers.

  • Antonio Misael Baltazar
    Director
  • Antonio Misael Baltazar
    Writer
  • Ángel Javier Pérez
    Producer
  • Damián Lázaro
    Key Cast
    "Tadeo"
  • Perla Onhmo
    Key Cast
    "Mom "
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Oficial Tadeo
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Social, Suspense, Child, Drama, Student
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 5, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    450 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Facultad de Artes Visuales
Director Biography - Antonio Misael Baltazar

I was born on November 11, 2004, in San Nicolás de los Garza, N.L. From the age of 10 through my teenage years, I became interested in creating audiovisual content through my first YouTube channel called TopsMundi, which achieved several viral videos and began to show me the path I wanted to follow.

In 2018, I won second place in the 7th Environmental Photography State Contest in Coahuila, and the following year I took an online screenwriting course titled Pegamento en la Butaca. After completing it and driven by the desire to tell stories from underexplored perspectives I decided to study Language and Audiovisual Production at the School of Visual Arts at UANL in 2022. Since then, I’ve been practicing the artistic creation of short films while also working on anything I can within the audiovisual field. I’m currently completing a social service by creating content at the UANL Center for Digital Education and plan to graduate in the near future.

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Director Statement

As a Mexican born in the 2000s, I share a common experience with most people of my generation: our childhoods were not normal, though we didn’t realize it until we were old enough to understand.

Due to the surge in violence and insecurity across the country around 2010, many of us experienced situations where whether we were inside or outside our homes our lives and those of our families were at risk, without us as children even noticing. We lived all of this through an innocent lens that was inevitably shattered: because of our young age, we grew up believing it was normal to live through such things, while our parents knew it wasn’t but couldn’t tell us in order to keep us safe.

This childlike perspective on a problem that, even today, still hasn’t ended, is something I believe has not been explored enough. That is precisely what I aim to convey with Oficial Tadeo not only to people my age, but also to the adults who still don’t understand why we didn’t grow up or see the world the same way they did.