Alfonso Duarte García
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
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.