Antonio Serrano (director)

José Antonio Serrano Argüelles (born 17 May 1955, in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter. He graduated with a degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also attended the Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art in England and the Odin Teater of Denmark. He studied with the following directors: Polish Jerzy Grotowski, French Philippe Gaulier and Italian Carlos Bosso. Back in Mexico he worked in the telenovela (soap opera) industry for Televisa and TV Azteca, directing actors such as Gael García Bernal, Salma Hayek, Chayanne and Angélica Aragón.

He directed ten plays as well including Sexo, pudor y lágrimas, which he also wrote. He made this play into a

Telenovelas (as a director)

• Cara o cruz (2002)
• La vida en el espejo (1999)
• Mirada de mujer (1997)
• Nada personal (1996)
• Mágica juventud (1992)
• Teresa
  (1989)

Theater

• Café americano (1992)
• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1990)
• Doble cara (1988)
• A destiempo (1986)

Films

As a director

• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (Sex, Shame & Tears) (1999)
• La hija del canibal (Lucía, Lucía) (2003)
• Cero y van cuatro (segment "El Torzón") (2004)
• Hidalgo: La historia jamás contada
  (2010)
• Morelos (2012)
• Macho (2016)

As a screenwriter

• La hija del canibal (Lucía, Lucía) (2003, adaptation)
• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (Sex, Shame & Tears) (1999, original; script)

As an actor

• Un mundo maravilloso (2006)
• Un hilito de sangre (1995)
• La dedicatoria (1992)
• The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
• La última luna (1990)
• Romero (1989)
• Tranquille donne di compagna (1980)

External links

• (in Spanish) Profile on the
  ITESM
  .
• (in Spanish) Cero y van cuatro review at the Morelia Film Festival.
• Antonio Serrano at
  IMDb