Biography
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 collec...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Weeding Night
2024
Writer
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...
Something in the Dirt
2022
as Isabel
When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fam...
Everything's Gone Wrong!
2018
Producer, Writer, Director
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 apar...
Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
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 wa...
600 Miles
2015
Writer
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 cov...
A la mala
2015
Screenplay
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 faithf...
Pulling Strings
2013
Screenplay
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 ...
Class Trip
2012
Screenplay
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 f...
Speed of Glory
2010
as Tony
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 oppo...
Casi divas
2008
Director, Writer
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 t...
Charm School
2007
Screenplay, Story
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
Personal Effects
2006
Director, Writer
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,...
Ladies' Night
2003
Screenplay
Two girls find love in the most unexpected places in modern-day Mexico City.
Primer amor... tres años después
2001
Adaptation
The Girl with a Thousand Names
N/A
Director, Writer
A child from another world is trapped in our broken reality, without documents, in a detention center for unaccompanied minors and children separated ...
Lost Souls
N/A
Director, Screenplay
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, ...
Our Lady of Tears
N/A
Director, Screenplay
In 2007, a mass hysteria epidemic with supernatural roots spreads through Villa de las Niñas, an all-girls Catholic boarding school on the outskirts o...