Chava Cartas

Director, photographer and screenwriter. He spent his childhood in Durango, where his mother was the state's production coordinator. During this period, photographer Alex Phillips Jr., a friend of his parents, gave him a VHS camera, with which he made his first recordings in the company of other children. After finishing high school, he tries four times, unsuccessfully, to enter the CCC and once the CUEC. He moved to Guadalajara where he worked as a photographer for video commercials and studied photography, specializing in Erotic Still Photography, at the Hospicio Cabañas (1992-1993). Later he participates in a film workshop at the San Antonio de los Baños Film School, Cuba (1998). "Chava" Cartas began in the television industry as director of photography in the soap operas "Nada Personal"/1996 and "Demasiado Corazón"/1997, for Argos. He entered the film industry with the short film Lucero/1996, which he directed and photographed. His work as a photographer and director is linked to filmmaker Fernando Sariñana, who produced and directed many of the works in which he participated as a photographer.

Works

Counterstrike

When a hostage rescue mission creates a new enemy, Capt. Guerrero and his elite soldiers must face an ambush by a ruthless drug cartel.

Release Date:2025-02-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

El Gallo de Oro

The story of a passionate love between La Caponera, a palenque singer, and possessor of a gift that gives luck to the man who accompanies her, and Dionisio, a strange and introverted town crier, as they wander from fair to fair through the center of the country.

Release Date:2023-10-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:122

Sobreviviendo mis XV

Quinceañeras, a magical age... except when your family wants to put you in a bulky dress and make you waltz in front of everyone, which is exactly what happens to Danae shortly after she transfers to a very proper private school. Now Danae has to manage to balance the demands of her family, those of her new friends and organize a cool, but traditional, but modern, but emotional, but aesthetic, but also grandmother-pleasing Quinceañera party... without dying in the process.

Release Date:2023-09-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:90

Paréntesis

Release Date:2023-09-05

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

MexZombies

A group of teenagers must face a zombie apocalypse, and help reestablish order.

Release Date:2022-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:153

Mirreyes contra Godínez 2: El retiro

Release Date:2022-07-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:107

Home Office: Un especial de Mirreyes contra Godínez

The employees of Kuri González Shoe Stores loved the idea of Home-Office--in March. After months of confinement, Mirreyes and Godínez are constantly trying to maintain their sanity.

Release Date:2020-12-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:22

Mirreyes contra Godínez

A group of yuppies fight over a group of office stooges for the control of a shoe factory.

Release Date:2019-01-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:110

Tenants

A couple arrives to an apartment complex where santeria and witchcraft are common practice.

Release Date:2018-11-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:24

Solos en casa

Mexican feature film

Release Date:2018-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

Rosario Tijeras

Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.

Release Date:2016-10-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:60

Vote Count:1589

Thirty Something, Single and Fabulous

A woman in her mid-30s breaks up with her boyfriend of seven years and goes on a journey of self-discovery.

Release Date:2016-10-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:54

The Dandy

Inspired by the 1997 American drama Donnie Brasco, El Dandy tells the story of a law professor who has been hired by the Attorney General, to participate in a program of special operations, where you must infiltrate one of the most notorious drug cartels of Mexico City. Under the false name Daniel "El Dandy" Bracho, begins the task of identifying all the members of this clandestine network. However, he quickly finds that his acute ability to police work is only comparable with the exciting sense of danger that experiences living life to the fullest. Along the way, it avails itself of the help of a criminal's petty, loyal, even corrupt, called El Chueco, who quickly befriends Bracho and comes dangerously close to discover his true identity. Much deeper Bracho is involved in the mafia, more work tells him to get out, and the professor once incorruptible has to choose between returning to a normal life as a respectable citizen or fully embrace his criminal life.

Release Date:2015-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:70

Vote Count:78

Señorita Pólvora

Release Date:2015-03-16

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:87

Una Vez Más

Three women gather for the funeral of a mutual friend.

Release Date:2015-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

El equipo

El Equipo is a Mexican series starring Alfonso Herrera, Zuria Vega, Alberto Estrella and Fabián Robles are the protagonists. Is a series that blends action, drama, love, and shows the work and effort of the Mexican federal police, who every day risk their lives to protect society. The story centers around Santiago, Fermin, Magda and Mateo, who at one time in his life made the decision to become a Federal Police officer. In each chapter, the team will solve a different case where we can see the intelligence process, the operation and the capture of the offender while the characters must face their feelings and solve their own problems of everyday life. A blockbuster inspired by real events, produced by Pedro Torres and directed by Carlos Garcia Agraz and Chava Cartas.

Release Date:2011-05-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:15

Vote Count:1

Rock Marí

An 11 year old girl who has just lost her mother is at the same time fighting to fulfill her greatest dream: to become a great singer and for her music to be heard by millions of people. Throughout this great adventure, Rock Mari is accompanied by her faithful squire Baqueta, as they travel together in search of her destiny.

Release Date:2010-03-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Killer Women

Mujeres Asesinas is a series that shows the dark side of women who have been mistreated or abused and become cruel murderers. The series shows how violence and death can overcome the feminine mind.

Release Date:2008-06-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:40

Vote Count:293

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:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:136

Amor Xtremo

Two brothers travel from Mexico City to Las Vegas for the U.S. Motocross Open.

Release Date:2006-08-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Sex, Love And Other Perversions II

The private, the forbidden and the obscene. Eight short stories to be moved, surprised and have fun. Three different views about relationships, love, sex; three directors will take you from comedy to drama and backford, from the story of an old lady with cancer having a love affair to the love between two teenagers who try to make love for the first time or to the burning desire of a cop who is bewitched by cupid.

Release Date:2006-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Love Hurts

Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.

Release Date:2002-11-08

Department:Crew

Job:Cinematography

Vote Count:319

Never Too Young to Dream

A group of kids have a dream: to play a football championship and to win. Their dream is going to be fulfilled by Don Pepe, an old guy with lots of expectations for his kids.

Release Date:2001-07-27

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:30

Our Times

In 1966, physicists Nora and Héctor time travel to 2025. As Nora thrives, Héctor struggles, leaving her torn between love and a world that empowers women.

Department:Directing

Job:Director