As a fateful meeting at a Liquor store leaves Damian longing for Izan, the relationship between the two blossoms out of innocence and fantasy

Writer & Director
Short, 21 mins

Director’s Statement

    Inspired by my own queer experience in my parents hometown of Mexico--Enamorado was created out of my need to explore queerness and lovelessness and how they often intersect.



Enamorado is my version of queer love. My mission through this film is to invite other Latines to dissect their earliest forms of queer intimacy–what were the moments that uprooted you completely?

There's a buried world of sensitivity that branches out to every queer individual and connects us. Even in the most pressured circumstances do we convey seeds of details to one another–following eyes, body language, and a stifled longing for closeness. There’s a flourishing culture in queer encounters around simply noticing each other...

After a year-long hiatus from Enamorado, I poked my head out of my hermit-shell existence and watched it anew only to discover how extremely… personal this was. I’ve come to realize how shockingly vulnerable this film was to my early youth and how it grew into this strange (albeit cathartic) public confession to the world. I sought so deeply to find a resolution.

To find my voice in a new world that tested the limits of my intense sensitivity. To stand against the noise and hollow rituals that withered away at my soul and kept me quiet. I think every artist has that one story they need to tell. To say ‘this is who I am, this is my identity, and this is how I can move forward with my life.’ I think Enamorado was just one story born out of necessity, a bridge between my heart and my community I released in order to let go.