Alejandro Springall is a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

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Springall studied filmmaking at the London Film School

London Film School

The London Film School is a private film school in London and is situated in a converted brewery in Covent Garden, London, close to a hub of the UK film industry based in Soho. The LFS was founded in 1956 by Bob Dunbar as The London School of Film Technique...

. He returned to Mexico City in 1991 and started working with Mexican film producer Bertha Navarro, from whom he learned most of his producing skills. Springall started his career as a producer, but in 1996 he directed his first feature film, Santitos. Since 1996 Springall has been collaborating with John Sayles

John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...

, Maggie Renzi and Lemore Syvan. Results of that collaboration have been: Men with Guns

Men with Guns

Men with Guns is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by John Sayles. The executive producers were Lou Gonda and Jody Patton, and the cast included Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado and Mandy Patinkin....

, directed by Sayles, produced by Renzi, where Springall translated the script into Spanish and played a small role next to Federico Luppi; Santitos was executive produced by Sayles, Renzi and Syvan; Casa de los Babys

Casa de los Babys

Casa de los Babys is a 2003 drama film written, directed, and edited by filmmaker John Sayles. It features an ensemble cast, including Marcia Gay Harden, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Daryl Hannah.-Plot:...

, directed by Sayles was produced by Syvan and Springall; Morirse está en hebreo (My Mexican Shivah) was executive produced by Sayles, Renzi and Syvan; and Springall's new project, Air & Fire, was re-written by Sayles.

In 2003, Springall produced and directed the grand concert of Chavela Vargas

Chavela Vargas

Isabel Vargas Lizano is a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer. She is especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras genre - a folkloric musical genre widely popular in Mexico - but she is also recognized for her contribution to other popular Latin American song genres...

 at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

, New York; and in 2004, he directed the grand concert of Chavela Vargas

Chavela Vargas

Isabel Vargas Lizano is a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer. She is especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras genre - a folkloric musical genre widely popular in Mexico - but she is also recognized for her contribution to other popular Latin American song genres...

 at Luna Park Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Director filmography

• Santitos (1998)
• Morirse está en hebreo (My Mexican Shivah) (2006)
• No eres tú, soy yo
  No eres tú, soy yo
  No eres tú, soy yo is a 2010 Mexican romantic comedy directed by Alexander Springall , starring Eugene Derbez, Alejandra Barros and Martina García and based on the Argentinean film No sos vos, soy yo , written by Juan Taratuto...
  
  (It's Not You, It's Me) (2010)
• 200 años de mexican@s en movimiento (2010)

Producer, co-producer and line producer filmography

• Cronos
  Cronos (film)
  Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring veteran Argentine actor Federico Luppi and American actor Ron Perlman, the first of several films on which del Toro, Luppi and Perlman have collaborated...
  
  (La Invención de Cronos) (1993)
• Dollar Mambo (1993)
• Someone Else's America (1994)
• De tripas, corazón (1995)
• Santitos (1999)
• Frida
  Frida
  Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera....
  
  (2001)
• Casa de los Babys
  Casa de los Babys
  Casa de los Babys is a 2003 drama film written, directed, and edited by filmmaker John Sayles. It features an ensemble cast, including Marcia Gay Harden, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Daryl Hannah.-Plot:...
  
  (2003)
• Morirse está en hebreo (My Mexican Shivah) (2006)
• No eres tú, soy yo
  No eres tú, soy yo
  No eres tú, soy yo is a 2010 Mexican romantic comedy directed by Alexander Springall , starring Eugene Derbez, Alejandra Barros and Martina García and based on the Argentinean film No sos vos, soy yo , written by Juan Taratuto...
  
  (It's Not You, It's Me) (2010)
• 200 años de mexican@s en movimiento (2010)

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