Noé Santillán-López

Noé Santillán-López, born smack in the heart of Mexico City back in ’84, has been making waves in the film scene for a while now. The guy’s got a knack for storytelling that’s part wild humor, part painfully real. If you’ve ever caught his work, you know he doesn’t tiptoe around the messy bits of life—he charges right through them, camcorder in hand. His earlier projects got people talking, but it was Veinteañera, divorciada y fantástica in 2020 that really cranked the volume up. That film? It’s a sharp, fun, sometimes awkward look at what happens when your twenties don’t go at all like you planned. Santillán-López doesn’t sugarcoat heartbreak or the weirdness of starting over. He wraps it up in this hilarious, totally relatable package that had half of Mexico laughing and cringing at the same time. Then, boom, Infelices para Siempre drops in 2023. This one flips the rom-com formula on its head—think less fairytale endings, more “life is chaos, so let’s roll with it.” You see his style all over it: snappy dialogue, real people making bad decisions, and just enough heart to keep things from getting cynical. Now, with Mesa de Regalos lined up for 2025, fans are buzzing. If his track record’s any clue, it’ll be another wild ride through the tangled mess of human relationships. Santillán-López has this way of making you laugh at the stuff that usually makes you want to hide under your bed. Honestly, that’s his magic—the chaos, the comedy, and the stubborn hope that, somehow, we’ll figure things out.