
Ángel Manuel Soto
Directing
Biography
Ángel Manuel Soto (born January 28, 1983) is a Puerto Rican film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films Charm City Kings (2020) and Blue Beetle (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ángel Manuel Soto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Estranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart.
The Wrecking Crew

Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.
Blue Beetle

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
Charm City Kings

Following his infamous championship as part of a marketing stunt for the film Ready to Rumble, David Arquette is widely known as the most hated man in pro-wrestling worldwide. Nearly 20 years after he "won" the initial title, through ups and downs in his career, with his family, and with his struggles with addiction, David Arquette seeks redemption by returning to the ring...for real this time.
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
Movie adaptation of the hit video game franchise of the same name.
Just Cause

The rise and fall of Menudo, the most iconic Latin American boy band in history. But behind the glitz and glamour was a web of abuse and exploitation at the hands of the band’s manager, Edgardo Diaz. Through revealing interviews with former Menudo members, this docuseries examines how this extravagant facade was disguising serious wrongdoings by Diaz.
Menudo: Forever Young

A brother and sister stumble upon a celestial secret that changes their lives forever and propels them into Reggaetón stardom, but they soon discover that their newfound fame comes at a deep price.
Nuevo Rico

In the 1930s, a Harvard educated Black Puerto Rican faces off with the white Chief of Police on the island over island-wide strikes. What happens next forever alters the future of the colonized island.
They Killed Pedro

A young man, with a lifetime of pent up questions, meets his estranged father for the first time.
Frailty

A promising young boxer, a barren midwife, and a fat kid with a bike: three intersecting stories about the pursuit of happiness and it's unanticipated consequences during the economic collapse of the island of Puerto Rico.
The Farm

On the night of December 31, two police officers with nothing in common are chased by gunmen. They end up in an unusual event.
Sexy Mortal

An unusually common love story about a boy's search for inspiration to write a love letter.
La carta

A VR film about the Betty and Barnet abduction
Dinner Party
El púgil (púgil literally means a punching gladiator) is a close look at boxer Angel “Tito” Acosta from Barrio Obrero in Santurce. Though he didn’t have the cash to finish school, he shares his life passion and where it has taken him, like representing his country at the the Centroamericanos.
El púgil
A naive, teenage girl is swept into court by tragedy when the boy she blindly fell in love with betrays her trust in him.
Ráfaga
A young woman is locked in the bathroom of an abortion clinic after her aborted baby is born alive.
22 Weeks
A violent secret lingers underneath layers of make-up.