El Chapo
2017
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Ernesto Contreras is a film and TV director who has won several awards, including the Ariel and the Sundance Audience Award. He has worked on projects such as Blue Eyelids, I Dream in Another Language, El Chapo, and Tengo que morir todas las noches.
- January 1, 1
- Director, Producer, Editor
- Veracruz, Mexico
- Ernesto Contreras
Ernesto Contreras (born 1969 in Veracruz, Veracruz) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Contreras graduated from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM.
Ernesto Contreras (1915–2003) served as a Mexican medical doctor. He operated the Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana for over 30 years, claiming to "treat" cancer patients with amygdalin (also called "laetrile" or, erroneously, "vitamin B 17 ") which has been found completely ineffective.
His film Where the Tracks End was released in 2023 to great acclaim on Netflix. Contreras has directed television series such as El Chapo, Pedal to the Metal and Belascoarán for Netflix, Before I Forget for HBO MAX and Falco for Amazon, which won the 2019 International Emmy Award.
May 2, 2023 · Ernesto Contreras, director of Where the track ends, tells about the inspiration to make this movie and all the mentors that had influenced his craft.
Ernesto Contreras — The Movie Database (TMDB) Biography. Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1969, he is a graduate from the Center for Studies in Communication Sciences and later from the University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
I Dream in Another Language (Spanish: Sueño en otro idioma) is a 2017 Mexican drama film directed by Ernesto Contreras. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. [1]
