Francisco Lorite Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Francisco Lorite is an actor, writer-director from Spain. Francisco Lorite grew up loving Sergio Leone movies and wanting to be Jean-Paul Belmondo. The only filmmaking school he ever attended was in his childhood living-room where he kept playing the same movies on the family VCR, sometimes watching them without sound to learn about camera placement or frame by frame to understand editing. He wrote, produced and acted in his first film at 14. Several shorts on video and some awards later, he decided to leave Europe and take his chances in the USA. Not knowing the language, he taught... MORE

Francisco Lorite is an actor, writer-director from Spain. Francisco Lorite grew up loving Sergio Leone movies and wanting to be Jean-Paul Belmondo. The only filmmaking school he ever attended was in his childhood living-room where he kept playing the same movies on the family VCR, sometimes watching them without sound to learn about camera placement or frame by frame to understand editing. He wrote, produced and acted in his first film at 14. Several shorts on video and some awards later, he decided to leave Europe and take his chances in the USA. Not knowing the language, he taught himself English by reading voraciously and watching sitcoms on TV. While in NYC, he eventually appeared in several Off-Broadway plays (for which the New York Times dubbed him “quite an act” and El Diario/La Prensa “an undeniable presence”), some indie films and lots and lots of car commercials. He also became a member of the Shakespeare Lab at the celebrated Joseph Papp Public Theatre. In 2005, Lorite wrote and made his directing debut with the ten-minute, off-kilter black comedy Cuco Gomez-Gomez Is Dead! The no-budget but highly stylized piece ended up screening over 150 times in the US alone and LESS