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Alejandro Hernández (director)

Alejandro Hernández
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Born Alejandro Manrique Hernández Reinoso
(1990-11-28) 28 November 1990 (age 26)
Maracaibo, Venezuela
Alma mater University of Zulia
Occupation Film director, writer, humorist, singer-songwriter, film score composer.
Years active 2009–present
Website alejandro-hernandez.net

Alejandro Manrique Hernández Reinoso (born 28 November 1990 in Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan filmmaker. He achieved popularity in Latin America thanks to The Alejandro Hernández Show, a comedy web series which satirizes Venezuelan and Hispanic culture. Most of the content is in Spanish, although some sketches are recorded in English. Since 2009, his videos have reached a total of over 8 million views, which includes only those on his YouTube account. On 2011 Hernández signed a contract with PlanetaUrbe.Tv. Since then, all of his episodes were uploaded to PlanetaUrbe's website instead of YouTube. After the contract ended, he returned to YouTube through elmostacho.com. Hernández is currently at number 148 on the most followed Twitter users in Venezuela, and is the most followed user in the state of Zulia. He won the Celebrity award at the 2011 Twitter Awards held by El Nacional.

Before creating the YouTube channel, Hernández made several short films in both English and Spanish, such as "Conditioned", a comedy-drama about a nerd who criticizes society and stereotypes. After experimenting, he created his YouTube channel.

Hernández is the first successful Venezuelan YouTuber, given that the majority of successful YouTube comedians come from the United States. His first episode, "Cita de salir + el @", which talks about "favorite quotations" on Facebook profiles and the use of the At sign, came to him while he was on Facebook and noticed how they were used the wrong way. Hernández said that the episodic content started with "a few short videos about Facebook and grammatical mistakes", but it later became a more elaborated program. His 18th episode, "Voz orgasmicangelical, profesores necios y la chama que no se calla la jeta", has been his most successful to date, reaching more than 1,000,000 views.

In January 2015 his Sci-Fi short film Alt was released in theaters in Venezuela. Several months after its initial release, it was uploaded to his YouTube channel. The film was subsequently released in other cities such as Argentina and Chile.Alt won Best New Cinema Short at ELCO Film Festival in 2014, was an official selection at the Latin American and Caribbean Film Festival of Margarita.


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