Chava Cartas

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1971-09-15 (53 years old)

Place of Birth Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Also Known As Salvador Cartas Martínez

Chava Cartas

Biography

Director, photographer and screenwriter. He spent his childhood in Durango, where his mother was the state's production coordinator. During this period, photographer Alex Phillips Jr., a friend of his parents, gave him a VHS camera, with which he made his first recordings in the company of other children. After finishing high school, he tries four times, unsuccessfully, to enter the CCC and once the CUEC. He moved to Guadalajara where he worked as a photographer for video commercials and studied photography, specializing in Erotic Still Photography, at the Hospicio Cabañas (1992-1993). Later he participates in a film workshop at the San Antonio de los Baños Film School, Cuba (1998). "Chava" Cartas began in the television industry as director of photography in the soap operas "Nada Personal"/1996 and "Demasiado Corazón"/1997, for Argos. He entered the film industry with the short film Lucero/1996, which he directed and photographed. His work as a photographer and director is linked to filmmaker Fernando Sariñana, who produced and directed many of the works in which he participated as a photographer.

Known For

Director

Contraataque

as Director

2023
2023
El Gallo de Oro

as Director

2022
MexZombies

as Director

2019
2018
Solos en casa

as Director

2018
Tenants

as Director

2016
Rosario Tijeras

as Director

2015
Una Vez Más

as Director

2015
The Dandy

as Director

2011
El equipo

as Director

2010
Rock Marí

as Director

2008
Killer Women

as Director

2006
Amor Xtremo

as Director

Crew

2007
Charm School

as Cinematography

2002
Love Hurts

as Cinematography

Camera

2023
Paréntesis

as Director of Photography

2001
Never Too Young to Dream

as Director of Photography

Creator

2015
2015
The Dandy

as Creator

Writer

2010
Rock Marí

as Screenplay