Luis Miguel Garcia Rizo
Acting
Biography
Luis Rizo is a Mexican-born actor who grew up in Mexico City, Sao Paolo, and finally, New Jersey, where he still resides. From a very young age, he developed an ardent passion for films. While going to musical theatre school in the evenings, a lucky call to the school seeking a bilingual child actor resulted in his first gig on the radio. Luis went on to continue voiceover work in radio commercials and his theatre school plays through his adolescent years. He took a break from acting while attending Boston University. Through connections made there, he rediscovered his love for acting and starred in his first feature film, Dilettantes.
Known For
When a once famous actor can no longer decipher the past from the present, two devoted caretakers discover that imagination and performance may be the only way to help him reconnect with the world that's left him behind.
Watching Mr. Pearson
A child prodigy, a talented pianist, who fears the gift he was born with. A father persecuted and tormented by the infernal memory of the colonial war and a luminous mother afflicted by an incurable disease. A grandfather and grandmother in exile on a small village and an anti-Salazarist, an unrepentant traveller who settles in Buenos Aires. A music teacher who teaches his students that being a musician is not a fate of guaranteed happiness and that there is a lot of pain in the human heart. The story of a Portuguese family that lived through dictatorship, colonial war and democratic revolution - the improbable and surprising threads with which individual destinies weave the collective destiny.