Horacio Alcalá is a Mexican screenwriter and director. He began his career at age 8 as an actor and at 14 toured with the opera La Bohème. After five years at Televisa, he moved to Europe, earning a degree in Film Studies from the Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg and diplomas in cinema and dramatic art. For seven years he worked in production with Cirque du Soleil on shows including Alegría, Quidam and Corteo. Horacio has lived in Berlin, Strasbourg, Montreal, Antwerp, Belgrade and Edinburgh, and has been based in Madrid since 2013. His work includes the documentary feature Grazing the Sky (A ras del cielo) (2013), as well as the fiction features Finlandia (2021), which he directed and co-wrote with Jesús Caballero, and Fragmentos (2025). He is keen on Latin American magical realism.

Natural Phenomena (Fenómenos naturales) [co-written with Joaquín Meneses] — A man who abandoned two families comes home to die and ends up, unknowingly, in the care of the son he never claimed.