Heroic

'Heroic' is a Mexican drama written and directed by David Zonana based on real events of the Mexican military. The movie stars Santiago Sandoval and has gained some success in the Festival circuit, premiering in Sundance and winning the Best Movie Award at the FICG, International Guadalajara Film Festival.

Luis is a Mexican teenager who has just enrolled in the Heroic Militar College (the institution in charge of military training in Mexico), where he will be instructed until he becomes the perfect soldier. But his education is far from being idillic, as he will be subjected to limit situations that will endanger both his physical and mental health and that will put to the test how the military training works in the country's Army.

Even if Luis story is fictional, it is based in the sum of many small anonymous attestations of young men who have been under the hermetic Mexican Military and have declared their experience to the director.

To strengthen 'Heroic' truthfulness, the director is casting some former members of the Heroic Military College. Amongst them is the main character of the film: Santiago Sandoval Carbajal, who portrays Luis, is a former cadet of the Air School now 22 years old and trying to become an actor.