Soco Aguilar
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Soco Aguilar offers a unique perspective earned from 25+ years as a filmmaker and documentary television producer working from San Francisco, Mexico City, and San Miguel de Allende. She is best known for producing the animated feature, La Leyenda de la Nahuala (2007), winner of the Mexican Academy of Film's Ariel Award for Best Animated Production.
Soco has also produced the animated film, Nikté (Universal, 2009), and was an associate producer for the film, Todo Incluido (Universal, 2009).
Soco is from Mexico City, and worked from San Francisco for nine years as a documentary television producer for WGBH Boston, PBS's Frontline, Discovery, and as an award-winning producer for the documentary film, No Turning Back, a harrowing first-person account of the start of the Zapatista movement in the jungles of Chiapas. Her mentors are acclaimed documentary director Lourdes Portillo and Dr. Herbert Zettl, known for his defining desaturation theory and innovative work in applied media aesthetics. In 2020, The New Yorker named "The Devil Never Sleeps," the first film I helped produce, as one of the top documentary films ever made.
She is working on producing her most recent screenplay, Indelible.
Soco studied communications at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast and electronic communications from San Francisco State University where she also did post-graduate studies in visual aesthetics. She is also an adjunct professor at Monterrey Institute of Technology, teaching cinematography, animated production, and screenwriting. She is the mom of Pedro, Pablo, and Amalia, who study film, business, and aerospace engineering, respectively.
Soco has also produced the animated film, Nikté (Universal, 2009), and was an associate producer for the film, Todo Incluido (Universal, 2009).
Soco is from Mexico City, and worked from San Francisco for nine years as a documentary television producer for WGBH Boston, PBS's Frontline, Discovery, and as an award-winning producer for the documentary film, No Turning Back, a harrowing first-person account of the start of the Zapatista movement in the jungles of Chiapas. Her mentors are acclaimed documentary director Lourdes Portillo and Dr. Herbert Zettl, known for his defining desaturation theory and innovative work in applied media aesthetics. In 2020, The New Yorker named "The Devil Never Sleeps," the first film I helped produce, as one of the top documentary films ever made.
She is working on producing her most recent screenplay, Indelible.
Soco studied communications at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast and electronic communications from San Francisco State University where she also did post-graduate studies in visual aesthetics. She is also an adjunct professor at Monterrey Institute of Technology, teaching cinematography, animated production, and screenwriting. She is the mom of Pedro, Pablo, and Amalia, who study film, business, and aerospace engineering, respectively.
