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Christian Mejía is a writer and director raised by Mexican-immigrant parents in Chicago. He tells intimate working-class stories about chasing the American dream as if it was a scrappy dog that keeps slipping through the fence. Perpetually a step behind, his protagonists slog through the muddy bogs of class mobility in their journeys to reach the ivory tower, only to discover they lost the keys along the way.
Raised in the heartland, Christian has lived in nearly every corner of the US, braving icy glares in rural Maine, swampy dance floors in Miami, and smoldering housing prices in sunny L.A. He spent childhood summers trying not to get trampled by horses in the highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, where his people hail from.
A former teenage lawn mower salesman, machinist, coffee roaster, and commercial gaffer, he inherits his hustle from his grandpa, who was simultaneously the town cop and resident tequila smuggler.