AWARDS & PRESS

Focus Features Fellow Grant Recipient 2025
Sundance Directors Lab 2025
Sundance Screenwriters Lab 2025
Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2022 (representing Mexico)
Cannes Young Directors Award 2021 (Short Film, Nominee)
Ciclope Festival 2021 (New Talent in Direction, Finalist)
1.4 Awards 2021, Winner (Silver)
Young Guns 18 , Winner

Filmmaker Magazine - Sundance Directing Lab 2025: Leo Aguirre
Shots Magazine - Playlist: Leo Aguirre
Rolling Stone - Becky G “Como Diablos” Music Video
Latina Magazine - The Culture of Cumbia: Exploring New York’s Sonideros Through Film
NOWNESS - Barrio Sonidero
Musicbed Podcast - Episode 10: On Selling Out vs Buying Time
Little Black Book - Uprising: Bicultural Beauty and True Representation in Filmmaking
NOWNESS - No Somos De Aquí, Ni Somos De Allá