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SCREENWRITER SPOTLIGHT #9: Moises Zamora

Moises Zamora was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and grew up in a town older than America, El Limón, Jalisco. When he was eleven years old, Moises’s family immigrated to California. Moises graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in International Relations. A week after getting his degree, he moved to Paris to write a coming-of-age novel in Spanish. Moises’s first literary achievement was the 2005 publication of the novel Susurros bajo el agua, complete with a national book tour and the Binational Literary Prize for Young Novel Border of Words. In 2008 he made a documentary film that followed the lives of young men and women from his childhood home. Young + Mexican premiered at the 2011 Oaxaca FilmFest ...