Alonso F. Mayo - 12.30.1978 (Lima, Peru)
I'm a writer & director who navigates between fiction, documentary and web content. I have a special interest in exploring characters in the edges of society and an affinity for tonal extremes, be it the tender or the dark.
I grew up traveling back and forth between Lima, Peru and Lawrence, Kansas. I studied Journalism & Film at the University of Lima, and after a few years of shooting institutionals for mining and gas companies in remote areas of Peru, I made “Silencio”, a short that landed me a spot in the directing program at the American Film Institute.
My AFI thesis film, “Wednesday Afternoon”, screened in over 25 festivals around the world and won the Student Academy Award. I participated in the 2005 Tribeca All Access Program with my original screenplay “El Machito”, and in the 2007 Film Independent Director’s Lab with “The Story of Luke”. In 2008, I directed “Viva La Causa”, a documentary for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance Film Series, which was shortlisted for the Documentary Short Subject Academy Award. My latest screenplay is “Roby”, a dark coming-of-age.
In between my feature writing and documentary projects I’ve directed voiceovers for a handful of video games, shot a series of spec spots with Group101Spots, learned to code enough to set up this site and several others, dabbled in flash-fiction writing, and more recently, become completely obsessed with nonlinear web-based narratives & new filmmaking models, which I blog about on story.teller. I teach documentary at the New York Film Academy, Universal Studios campus.
I'm currently working on "The Tempting", a story for multiple mediums.
I live in Los Angeles with my wife and son.
Check out my directing reel.
Filmography:
- Viva La Causa (Co-Director, Documentary, 40min, 2008)
- Just Like Anyone (Director, Documentary, 45min, 2007)
- Stefan's Green Card (Writer & Director, Fiction, 2min, 2006)
- Keeper of the Past (Writer & Director, Fiction, 18min, 2005)
- Wednesday Afternoon (Writer & Director, Fiction, 24min, 2004)
- Anyone (Writer & Director, Fiction, 8min, 2004)
- Silencio (Writer & Director, Fiction, 30min, 200)
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