MAURICIO HOYOS

is a bilingual film director, writer, creative producer, and celebrity photographer who has worked on the promos of different TV shows for CBS, Disney, FOX, the CW, NBC, E! Latin America, and VICE, among others. This has given him the opportunity to work with big personalities and celebrities such as Robin Williams, Kevin Bacon, Alicia Keys, Ashton Kutcher, Dennis Quaid, the athletes from the Tokyo 2021 U.S. Olympic Team, and even Astronauts from NASA. He has also been a still photographer for the promos of ABC’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ TV show, working along with Lia Thompson (Back to the Future) and Laila Ali (Muhammad Ali’s daughter).

Recently, Mauricio was part of the VFX camera team for the 1st Facebook 2020 Super Bowl Commercial featuring Sylvester Stallone and Chris Rock.

Mauricio has directed many projects: including a commercial with Sharon Stone for Peace Now, a Miley Cyrus interview, the coverage of Comic-con for the Funimation channel, a COVERGIRL commercial with Becky G, a Lexus commercial with Colombian singer Fonseca, a commercial/short for Dos Perros Mezcal with actor Alejandro Edda, and an Arkitect commercial featuring Victoria’s Secret model Sara Sampaio.

Mauricio has also worked as a still photographer for different advertising campaigns, including Toyota, Disney, Nintendo, Instyle, among others.

Recently his work has been featured in GQ, People magazine, L.A. Times, and Forbes.

Early Life

Mauricio’s love for film literacy and literature, started at the age of 11, when he authored his first graphic novel: Flecha Veloz, the story of a gunslinger who is accidentally sent to the year 2143.

At 12, on the pages of his religion class notebook, he created his second graphic novel, Something from The Movies, where he, his brother, and his closest friends were the main characters; the antagonist was his favorite movie character Freddy Krueger from Nightmare On Elm Street. 

At the age of 14, he had already filmed and directed his first short film The Night When The Thieves Were Caught, with a camera borrowed from a friend. 

In 2004, he moved to Los Angeles and began working at Fotokem film lab, processing feature films like Iron Man, Mission Impossible III, Babel, Into The Wild, Domino, and TV shows like Breaking Bad, Entourage, CSI, and Desperate Housewives.

While studying Cinema and Television Arts at CSUN, he wrote and directed three more short films, one documentary, and three music videos. 

He also interned at New Line Cinema’s development department. For him, it was a good surprise to find out that he was then working at the studios that created the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. 

Mauricio was born and raised in Cartago, Colombia, and spent his teenage life in Pereira.

Mauricio currently lives in Los Angeles. He’s currently writing his 5th feature script Chronicles of a Kidnapping and working on the development of his first feature film as a director: Al Otro Lado Del Río.