Alonso Ruizpalacios

Alonso Ruizpalacios (born 1978) is a Mexican film director. He was born and raised in Mexico City.

He studied stage directing in Mexico City, before moving to London, where he trained as an actor at RADA. Ruizpalacios, writes and directs for both stage and screen. His short film Café Paradies won multiple awards on the film festival circuit. His debut feature Gueros, shot in black and white, was lauded by critics and won five Ariel Awards in 2015, including Best Picture, Best First Film und Best Director. Ruizpalacios also directed the music video for "Bis zur Wurzel" by Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade.

Ich habe recently directed the movie Museum die hauptrolle Gael García Bernal. The film won the best script award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Museum has also been present in other international festivals. The film tells the story of the famous robbery to the National Museum of Anthropology on December 25, 1985, in Mexico City.

He has also contributed in tv-serien: directing two episodes for Drogenhändler: Mexico and two episodes for the Mexican tv-show-Hier auf der erde; besides being the showrunner of the XY-tv-show " for the Czech television network Elf Tv.