Festival in LA
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Film critic |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | José Alberto Hermosillo is a respected journalist and filmmaker based in LA, known for covering the city's film festivals. He graduated as an elementary and middle school teacher and spent eight years teaching in his hometown. He earned an Associate of Arts and a Bachelor's degree in Cinema Production, both from Los Angeles City College. In 1999, he directed the award-winning short film "My Brother/Mi hermano." He directed the shorts "El Artista" & "The Strange Death of Menfisto Niño." He earned his first IMDb credit as script consultant on "Tattooed Love," which premiered in Hollywood. He worked as a journalist for Al Borde and Kiosko News in Spanish. In 2014, he founded a website in English, www.festivalinLA.com, which has received over 2 million views. His YouTube channel, @FestivalinLA1, has 1,100 subscribers and 600,000 views. He served as a juror at the Voce Spettacolo Film Festival & Celebrity Film Awards in Matera, Italy. A juror at Feratun Fest 2022 in Michoacán, Mexico and in 2025 at the prestigious "ShortsMexico" in CDMX. Mr. Hermosillo plans to direct an original screenplay he wrote, "The Lady's Corsage/El ramo de la novia," a story about angels in Los Angeles. |
| Interests | Movies, shorts, foreign and independent films, documentaries, news, social media, influencers, film directors, art, painting, graphics, and special events.. |
| Favorite movies | Citizen Kane, Memories of a Marriage, Landscape in the Mist, The Traveling Players, The Exterminating Angel, Nazarín, Three Colors: Blue, White, Red, The Double Life of Verónique, Cronos, Parasite, Drive, Dancer in the Dark, The Joy Luck Club, Transit, Mr. Nobody, Anomalisa, Roma, The Shape of Water, The Painted Bird, Transit, Synonyms, Birdman, Léolo, Happy as Lazzaro, Sirāt, The Stranger, The President's Cake. |
| Favorite music | Soundtracks, Classic, Instrumental, Latin, Pop, Mariachi, Vocal. |
| Favorite books | - Never Coming to a Theater Near You: A Celebration of a Certain Kind of Movie by Kenneth Turan.- Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez. - Noticias del Imperio de Fernando del Paso, Del amor y otros demonios, Gabriel García Márquez.- La Princesa Del Palacio De Hierro by Gustavo Sainz- The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers by Christopher Vogler. |