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Amigó at the Sitges Gala in Catalonia, October 10, 2009.
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Born |
César Alfredo Amigó Aguilar August 23, 1981 Mexico City, Federal district, Mexico |
Occupation | Film and television producer, director and screenwriter. |
César Alfredo "Amigó" Aguilar (born August 23, 1981) is a Mexican film producer, screenwriter, director, cinematographer, actor, and founder of Oscuro Deseo Producciones. He is known as the creator of the film series Serial Comic, and as a screenwriter of the shortfilms Sesiones and the critically acclaimed Un aliado en el tiempo (An ally in time). He is also a make-up artist known for his work on Sus satánicas majestades.
Amigó's first job in the movie business was when he was 18 and worked as a PA for producer Cecilia Sagredo's Mœnia music video No dices más. During his sophomore year at college, he teamed with Miguel A. Reina to write a feature film treatment, the treatment was the basis for Sesiones. Amigó's first produced shortfilm, which starred Omar Zurita and Mónica Galván. He followed that up with Mi vida en frenesí, starring Josefina Gómez Maganda, and Reflexiones.
Amigó collaborated with producer Heissel Domínguez on the 2008 film, Un aliado en el tiempo. Next year, he made his first foray into television with Capadocia, which was broadcast on HBO, serving as the show's co-cinematographer (with Alberto Anaya and Martín Boege). Under his production company, Oscuro Deseo Producciones, Amigó wrote and directed Serial Comic No.1: Fijación, prelude to film series Serial Comic. He also served as make-up artist of Sergio García Michel's Sus satánicas majestades and actor in Sergio Tovar Velarde's Infinito. On the other hand, Amigó has photographed various shortfilms for many film directors.