Issa López

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Female

Place of Birth Mexico City, Mexico

Issa López

Biography

Issa López is a Mexican director, writer and producer. Twelve Spanish language features have been produced from her scripts, four of them directed by herself. She has won several literary awards, including the National Novel Award granted by Mexico's Institute of Fine Arts and Literature in 2007. In 2017, Tigers Are Not Afraid (Vuelven in Spanish) premiered at Fantastic Fest, in Austin, Texas. Written and directed by López, the film received the Best Horror Director Award, and went on to collect fifty-one awards in film festivals around the world, three Diosas de Plata, including Best Picture and Best Director, and received ten Ariel Awards nominations, of which it won two. The film earned multiple positive reviews by major trades and critics, and a rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Currently, López is developing projects with Guillermo del Toro, Noah Hawley and Jason Blum. She directed and co-wrote all episodes of the fourth installment of HBO's TV series True Detective, which aired in January and February of 2024, as True Detective: Night Country. Description above from the Wikipedia article Issa López, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Writer

Our Lady of Tears

as Screenplay

Lost Souls

as Screenplay

2024
Weeding Night

as Writer

2017
Tigers Are Not Afraid

as Screenplay

2015
A la mala

as Screenplay

2015
600 Miles

as Writer

2014
True Detective

as Writer

2014
True Detective

as Teleplay

2014
2013
Pulling Strings

as Screenplay

2012
Class Trip

as Screenplay

2008
Casi divas

as Writer

2007
Charm School

as Screenplay

2007
Charm School

as Story

2006
2003
Ladies' Night

as Screenplay

2000
1999

Director

Our Lady of Tears

as Director

Lost Souls

as Director

2018
2017
2014
True Detective

as Director

2008
Casi divas

as Director

2006
Personal Effects

as Director

Producer

2018
2017
Tigers Are Not Afraid

as Executive Producer

2014
True Detective

as Executive Producer

Creator

2014
True Detective

as Creator

Actor

2022