Blood Suckers is a fun, electric period drama with a dark comedic spine about two Mexican Vampires, Rafa, a pacifist who refuses to kill people and wants the quiet life, and Maria, his overbearing mother with a penchant for blood-thirst. Over the centuries, Rafa and Maria’s lives have been uprooted and jeopardized every time a new book, story, or gossip is printed or spread about vampires, painting them as monsters and forcing them to flee from mobs looking to kill them. A movie that can reach the masses would expose them to everyone and ruin their lives forever. This forces them to risk their lives to sabotage the 1930 Hollywood production of Dracula and Spanish Dracula. In this journey, Rafa and Maria will clash against the family power dynamics of their relationship, the glamour and greed of Hollywood they want to control, and their “maker,” an indigenous Mexican who has tried for centuries to track them down.

Blood Suckers is about the lengths a minority population will go to shape their own stories in a world that refuses to understand them. It is also an exhilarating and humorous drama of a dysfunctional mother and son who can’t rely on each other to achieve their shared dream.

Luis is a writer/director based in Los Angeles. He writes character-driven thrillers and propulsive dramas with comedic undertones, usually with a mystery at their core. His screenplays have been finalists in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition and the Final Draft Big Break Contest. He writes features and pilots and is finishing his debut novel.

In addition, Luis has edited documentaries that aired on HBO and screened at Locarno and SXSW; he’s directed short films and documentaries that embedded him with Thai exiles in Cambodian safe houses and also cybercriminals in Romania; and was a member of the Television Academy for his work as an on-set VFX supervisor. He grew up between Mexico City and a small town in Connecticut and this vast contrast in cultures inspired his desire to write and make films to understand the world better.