Biografia
Director and writer Salvador Carrasco, born in Mexico City, now lives in Los Angeles. He earned a Film and Television degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1991, receiving the Founders Day Honors Award. While at NYU, he wrote and directed three acclaimed short films: Alone with His Void, Marblood, and To Fall in Exile. In 1992, Carrasco partnered with producer Alvaro Domingo to establish Carrasco & Domingo Films, a production company based in Mexico City and Los Angeles. They also launched Litoral, a Spanish-language cultural magazine featuring diverse international writers and artists.
The Other Conquest (1998), distributed in Mexico by 20th Century Fox, became the highest-grossing Mexican film at its release. Its Los Angeles run brought significant box-office success and critical praise, earning a spot among The Los Angeles Times’ Top 10 Films of 2000. LA Times critic Kevin Thomas described it as "Dazzling, Stupendous, Daring! In his bravura feature debut, Carrasco has created nothing less than a superb cinematic vision." Variety praised The Other Conquest as "the first 3 million dollar movie that looks like 30!" Oscar-Watch’s Sasha Stone predicted, "Carrasco ought to emerge as one of the world's best directors, taking his place alongside such uncompromising giants as Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa."
Currently, Carrasco is developing Hollywood studio projects, including directing The Holy Road, the sequel to Dances with Wolves. He has directed episodic television, notably Nickelodeon's comedy series Brothers Garcia. As a writer, his essays and poems in English and Spanish have appeared in books, magazines, and newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times' Calendar section and Book Review. His song cycle Solamente Sola, co-written with composer Samuel Zyman, has been recorded twice (Island Records and Urtext), performed widely by renowned sopranos like Ainhoa Arteta, and described by Fanfare magazine as having "a Spanish intensity reminiscent of [Spanish poet] García Lorca."
In 2002, Carrasco received the Moseley Fellowship in Creative Writing at Pomona College. Committed to education, he has taught film at the University of Southern California and Santa Monica College and currently serves as the lead directing instructor at The Los Angeles Film School. He is married to English violinist and music supervisor Andrea Sanderson. They live in Santa Monica, California, with their three children: Juan-Salvador, Sebastian, and Cassandra.
