Issa López

Issa López is a Mexican director, writer and producer. Twelve Spanish language features have been produced from her scripts, four of them directed by herself. She has won several literary awards, including the National Novel Award granted by Mexico's Institute of Fine Arts and Literature in 2007. In 2017, Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven in Spanish) premiered at Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas. Written and directed by López, the film received the Best Horror Director Award, and went on to collect fifty-one awards in film festivals around the world, three Diosas de Plata, including Best Picture and Best Director, and received ten Ariel Awards nominations, of which it won two. The film earned multiple positive reviews by major trades and critics, and a rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Currently, López is developing projects with Guillermo del Toro, Noah Hawley and Jason Blum. She directed and co-wrote all episodes of the fourth installment of HBO's TV series True Detective, which aired in January and February of 2024, as True Detective: Night Country. Description above from the Wikipedia article Issa López, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Noche de Bodas

Lucía and Nico, the couple of the century, are about to say yes... although not with each other. It turns out that they both decided to get married on the same day and in the same place, but with other people.

Release Date: 2024-03-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 84

Something in the Dirt

When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.

Release Date: 2022-11-03

Character: Isabel

Vote Count: 108

Everything's Gone Wrong!

When a young diplomat manages to get the Austrian government to return the Plume of Moctezuma to Mexico for an exhibition, his life quickly falls apart.

Release Date: 2018-03-16

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 50

Tigers Are Not Afraid

A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.

Release Date: 2017-11-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 241

600 Miles

Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigated by agent Harris. When agent Harris blows his covers, he and Arnulfo end up in a journey where he will be the hostage of this young criminal.

Release Date: 2015-12-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 99

A la mala

Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.

Release Date: 2015-02-27

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 207

True Detective

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

Release Date: 2014-01-12

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 3639

Pulling Strings

Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out on the street. Saved by Alejandro, a handsome Mariachi singer and single father, Rachel wakes up in his apartment with no recollection of how she got there. Nor does she remember that she rejected his visa the day before, which he desperately needs for his daughter. Romance unexpectedly blossoms between the two, but either sparks or fists will fly after she finds out his secret.

Release Date: 2013-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 104

Class Trip

Sometimes you can live your whole life in a few days... A high school graduation trip in which love, friendship, desire, illusion, innocence and the forbidden are all part of the adventure. Charm and disillusionment shine through teenage friendships as the characters try to understand what is happening to them and what they should do with their future.

Release Date: 2012-10-05

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 13

Speed of Glory

Roger Ramirez is an experienced stock car racer in Mexico. The team that leads the current season offers him to join their ranks and with it, the opportunity to race abroad. His decision means abandoning the team and the people who have supported him to get where he is.

Release Date: 2010-11-05

Character: Tony

Vote Count: 4

Casi divas

Four ambitious and beautiful young women. From four very different corners of Mexico. Just like hundreds of others, they are caught up in the frenzy that sweeps the nation when Alejandro Mateos, one of the country's most powerful producers, dreams up a nationwide talent search to cast the lead in his next big movie. But all this is news to Alejandro's on-again, off-again lover, Eva Gallardo, a diva of epic proportions, who expected to get the part. While Eva schemes to nail down the role, our four leads begin their own journey on the road to fame.

Release Date: 2008-08-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 74

Charm School

Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.

Release Date: 2007-03-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 137

Personal Effects

At 18, fresh from high school, Marina, Ignacio, Adam and Mimi, school mates bonded by fate, shared a dream about adult life, a dream of fame, success, perfect skin and that one endless, true love that, surely, was waiting just around the corner for each one of them. But 30's arrived, and none of the sweet promises of youth was fulfilled. Alone, failed and frustrated, all four are forced to stop and look around to try to understand where it all went wrong, and find an emergency fix for their lives, before it's too late, and happiness escapes through their fingers forever. Secondary Effects is the bitter coming of age comedy that follows their steps in the search for lost dreams, lost hair and good sex, at least, if true love turns out to be a mirage.

Release Date: 2006-09-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 14

The Girl with a Thousand Names

A child from another world is trapped in our broken reality, without documents, in a detention center for unaccompanied minors and children separated from their families at the U.S. Border.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Ladies' Night

Two girls find love in the most unexpected places in modern-day Mexico City.

Release Date: 2003-12-10

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 48

Primer amor... tres años después

Release Date: 2001-03-10

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Vote Count: 2

Lost Souls

The film is set in a world in which some babies are born without souls. A young expectant mother is sent to an unusual wellness center in the desert, with the hopes that it will improve her chances of delivering a healthy baby.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Our Lady of Tears

In 2007, a mass hysteria epidemic with supernatural roots spreads through Villa de las Niñas, an all-girls Catholic boarding school on the outskirts of Mexico City.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Primer Amor, a 1000 x Hora

Primer Amor, A 1000 X Hora was a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2000 and in Brazil in 2003. It is a remake of another Televisa telenovela titled Quinceañera. The 2 main characters were played by teen heart throb Kuno Becker and young Anahí. Both are also known for their musical talents. This teen-oriented soap was one of the highest-rated in its time-slot.

Release Date: 2000-10-09

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Episode Count: 100

Vote Count: 73

Labyrinth of Passion

Laberintos de pasión is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1999. Starring Leticia Calderon, Francisco Gattorno, César Évora, in addition to the participation of Manuel Ojeda, Monika Sanchez and Azela Robinson.

Release Date: 1999-10-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 80

Vote Count: 30