Son of Monarchs

**Alfred P. Sloan Feature 2021 Feature Film Prize Winner, Sundance 2021**

Script doctor for American-Mexican drama debuting at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Edited script for clarity, cultural fit, and timeline congruence. Winner of the 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Prize, awarded every year to a film at the Sundance Film Festival that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.

After the death of his grandmother, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his new hybrid identity, launching him on a personal and spiritual metamorphosis.

Tras la muerte de su abuela, un biólogo mexicano que vive en Nueva York regresa a su ciudad natal en Michoacán, un pueblo rodeado de bosques majestuosos en donde habitan las mariposas monarca. El viaje lo obliga a enfrentarse a traumas pasados y reflexionar sobre su nueva identidad híbrida, lanzándolo a una metamorfosis personal y espiritual.

An Imaginal Disc & Labocine production

Starring Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Alexia Rasmussen, Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez, Noé Hernández, Kaarlo Isaacs, Angel Adrián Flores, Ignacio Guadalupe, Juan Ugarte, Paulina Gaitán, Electra Avellan, Patricia Meneses, Juan Ramon López, Fernanda Rivera, Angelina Peláez, Angelica Aragón, William Mapother