Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos are Mexican filmmakers better known for their award-winning film Home is Somewhere Else (2023), a powerful reminder of how the color of your passport determines your life.

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Carlos Hagerman was born in Mexico City. He received his MFA in Film at NYU as a Fulbright scholar. He worked for eight years as a director in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s production company Zeta Films, before opening his own company. There, he produced and directed award-winning documentaries like Those Who Remain (IDA Humanitas Award 2009), Back to Life, and No Place Like Home. He also co-produced Plaza de la Soledad (Sundance 2013) and Rush Hour (SXSW 2018). He is a founding partner of Brinca Animation Studio.

Jorge Villalobos is a writer, director, and producer of animated and live-action projects. He directed several children’s series for Canal Once, Mexico’s Public TV channel. His animated and fiction short films won over 20 international awards. Since co-founding Brinca Animation Studio in 2012, Jorge and Carlos Hagerman have worked as a team, co-producing and co-directing animation projects for children and communication tools for human rights organizations like UNICEF and the Mexican Human Rights Commission.