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Chava Cartas
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Director, photographer and screenwriter. He spent his childhood in Durango, where his mother was the state's production coordinator. During this period, photographer Alex Phillips…
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Director, photographer and screenwriter. He spent his childhood in Durango, where his mother was the state's production coordinator. During this period, photographer Alex Phillips Jr., a friend of his parents, gave him a VHS camera, with which he made his first recordings in the company of other children. After finishing high school, he tries four times, unsuccessfully, to enter the CCC and once the CUEC. He moved to Guadalajara where he worked as a photographer for video commercials and studied photography, specializing in Erotic Still Photography, at the Hospicio Cabañas (1992-1993). Later he participates in a film workshop at the San Antonio de los Baños Film School, Cuba (1998). "Chava" Cartas began in the television industry as director of photography in the soap operas "Nada Personal"/1996 and "Demasiado Corazón"/1997, for Argos. He entered the film industry with the short film Lucero/1996, which he directed and photographed. His work as a photographer and director is linked to filmmaker Fernando Sariñana, who produced and directed many of the works in which he participated as a photographer.
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2026
Facing El Chapo
Movie Director
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2025
Mirreyes contra Godínez: Un Especial de Navidad
Movie Director
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2025
Borrón y Vida Nueva
Movie Director
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2025
Mirreyes vs Godínez: Las Vegas
Movie Director
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2025
Our Times
Movie Director
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2025
Counterattack
Movie Director
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2023
El Gallo de Oro
TV show Director
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2023
Sobreviviendo mis XV
Movie Director
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2023
Paréntesis
Movie Director of Photography
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2022
MexZombies
Movie Director
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2022
Mirreyes contra Godínez 2: El retiro
Movie Director
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2020
Home Office: Un especial de Mirreyes contra Godínez
Movie Director
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2019
Mirreyes vs Godínez
Movie Director
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2018
Tenants
Movie Director
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2018
Solos en casa
Movie Director
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2016
Rosario Tijeras (Mexico)
TV show Director
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2016
Thirty Something, Single and Fabulous
Movie Director
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2015
The Dandy
TV show Director
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2015
Miss Dynamite
TV show Creator
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2015
Una Vez Más
Movie Director
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2011
El equipo
TV show Director
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2010
Rock Marí
Movie Director
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2008
Killer Women
TV show Director
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2007
Charm School
Movie Cinematography
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2006
Amor Xtremo
Movie Director
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2006
Sex, Love And Other Perversions II
Movie Director
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2002
Love Hurts
Movie Cinematography
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2002
Dark Cities
Movie Director of Photography
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2001
Never Too Young to Dream
Movie Director of Photography
