Leopoldo Laborde


Leopoldo Laborde is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, photographer, editor and self-made producer.
He entered the movie business in 1984 as a production assistant in Mexico City. In the years throughout 1988 to 1995, starting with El gato, he shot four feature films on home-video and developed his skills as a storyteller as well as his cinematic visual aesthetics, namely with Utopía 7. In 1997, he began his professional career in 35-millimeter film format with Angeluz, a horror film, released at the 1998 Guadalajara International Film Festival. Despite the criticisms, upon return to Mexico City, he wrote and shot Sin destino and Un secreto de Esperanza, throughout 1999 to 2002. The starring actors are, respectively, Roberto Cobo and Katy Jurado, these two films being the last acting performances they gave. Sin destino is known as “a key piece in raw realism”, and Un secreto de Esperanza won twelve awards in film festivals around the world. Laborde also alternated among other works in digital video format, such as Cuerpo prestado, La repetición and Los tréboles no pueden soñar, throughout 2000 to 2004. During 2005, he wrote, edited and directed Enemigo, this time with debutant performers, and in 2007, Un hombre y su morada interior.
Laborde is known for his particular vision and great versatility in movie styles.

Filmography


  • Roberto Trujillo : head of Utopía 7 Films, the production company for several of Laborde's films
  • *for technical credit only:,, Enemigo,
  • *for performance credit only:,,,,
  • *for both: and
  • *also producer of films without Laborde, such as, and
  • Marilú Carrillo: producer, agent, set hand or cast member of five Laborde films
  • *for technical credit only:, and Nathael
  • *for performance credit or more: and
  • *also party to films without Laborde, such as casting for
  • Nelly Godoy: agent or cast member of four Laborde films:
  • *for technical credit only: and
  • *for performance credit or more:, Perseguido and Nathael
  • Gloria Ruíz: producer, manager or agent of four Laborde films:
  • *, Angeluz, and
  • *also party to films without Laborde, such as writing and producing
Laborde and Trujillo have had something of a troupe, throughout their careers, the actors being:
  • Francisco Rey, in, and, credited as Francisco Ruíz in the latter two
  • Sheilla Lissette, in, and
  • David Valdez, in, and
  • Alain Rangel, in and
  • Rogelio Castillo, in Utopía 7† and Juego de niños
  • José Luis Badillo, in,, and ; also in a film without Laborde, namely


★ lead performance and protagonist played

† performance as member of a team of protagonists

In addition to starring in Sin destino, as Sebastian; Roberto Cobo had a minor part in Un secreto de Esperanza, as Melquíades, the groundskeeper for Esperanza's home. And one Mariana Gajá, a character actress but star of Sin ton ni Sonia, played the blonde object of sexual or romantic fixation of the protagonist, both in Sin destino and Un secreto de Esperanza, respectively as Angelica and Madonnita. She and Sheilla Lissette bear some resemblance.