Alejandro Irías Leiva – Director and Producer.
Studies cinematography and communications in México City. With more than 20 years of creative advertising experience all over Latin America, has won national and international awards for renowned brand names. In the middle of the first decade of 2000, he decides to focus his energy in audiovisual production. With over a dozen TV shows to his credit, as well as commercials, documentaries and music videos he founds La Pulpe, a creative boutique which focuses on content production, digital and advertising , as well as Balam Entertainment, exclusively dedicated to fiction within a diversity of all cinematographic formats and electronic media. His short films “Justicia Divina” and “Pulga” have paid off locally and internationally with accolades from festivals in Paris, Madrid, Los Angeles, New York, Barcelona, Rome, Amsterdam, Nice, Berlin, London and Houston among others. These recognitions have turned many eyes toward his cinematographic endeavor and his interest in promoting Honduran Cinema at an international level, and has been invited to present his work in universities from the United States and Canada. Recently, the Central American edition of Forbes Magazine highlighted his work as “The Honduran filmmaker that made history”.