José Luis Perpuli (b. 2001)
Birthplace:
La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Born:
December 1, 2001
José Luis Perpuli Rodríguez is a mexican filmmaker born in La Paz, Baja California Sur on December 1, 2001. He attended CAAV University of Audiovisual Media in Guadalajara, Jalisco in the fall of 2020 and obteined a degree in Filmmaking with Orientation in Audiovisual Media in the summer of 2023. He wrote and directed his first independent short film in the spring of 2022, a four minute experimental horror titled "No Ink". The short film was made in collaboration with Frida Tlacuilo, a filmmaker from Guadalajara, with whom Perpuli founded Seafilms Productions, an independent production company dedicated to tell out of the box stories. Seafilms got its first taste of success in the summer of 2022 when "No Ink" placed as a quarter-finalist at the third edition of the Serbest International Film Festival. Later that year, Perpuli served as editor of Frida Tlacuilo's autobiographical documentary short titled "Tlacuilo", which premiered at the University of Guadalajara's Cineteca FICG on October 9, 2022. In early 2023, Perpuli wrote a screenplay based on the films of Steven Spielberg, the filmmaker whose movies inspired him in the first place. This became his second independent directorial project, "The Thing That Drifted Ashore", an eighteen minute horror short film that touches upon our strange addiction to spectacle and what we're willing to do for fame. After partnering up with Wondervid, another independent production company from Guadalajara, Perpuli returned to his hometown, La Paz, and shot "The Thing That Drifted Ashore" five days straight in the Pulguero Tepetates Beach. The short film completed post-production in Guadalajara a month later.