Biographie
Leo Garcia is a filmmaker, writer, and producer captivated by stories exploring desire, danger, identity, and power. His work spans narrative cinema, experimental film, and psychological horror, crafting films where personal lives intersect with history, violence, and uncontrollable forces.
Garcia wrote and produced Earth or The Monster of Tierra Amarilla, a magical-realist psychological film set in northern New Mexico in 1911. Directed by Patrick Kennelly, the film merges body horror, Hispano history, and bioethical concerns, telling a story about bodily autonomy, corrupted medicine, and the violence exerted over body and land under the guise of science.
He wrote, produced, and directed his debut film, A Rainy Day, which was distributed by Universal Television and screened internationally. He later produced Excess Flesh, a psychological body-horror feature that premiered at SXSW and received both theatrical and digital distribution.
His shorter films include the experimental documentary ten minutes is two hours and Hammurabi, works distinguished by surreal imagery, political tension, and an exploration of bodies, memory, and unstable realities.
Garcia is also the co-founder of Film Maudit 2.0, a Los Angeles festival dedicated to cinema that is strange, dangerous, confrontational, and defies easy categorization. Drawing from his background in performance, theater, and visual art, his work blends emotional intensity, dark humor, historical unease, and an affinity for the forbidden.
