Mónica Vargas Celis

Mónica Vargas Celis is a Mexican film and television producer. She has produced more than ten feature films, including American Curious, Como novio de pueblo, How to Break Up with Your Douchebag, and Amor a Primera Visa. She is also a producer of Club de Cuervos, the first Netflix original series in Spanish. Vargas is currently general director of production at Traziende Films, a company she founded with Leonardo Zimbrón in 2000.[1]

Mónica Vargas Celis
NationalityMexican
Alma materUniversidad Anáhuac México
Occupation(s)Film and television producer
Notable workClub de Cuervos

Career

Mónica Vargas is a graduate of the Universidad Anáhuac México.[2] She has worked with companies such as Netflix, Warner Bros., Televisa, and 20th Century Fox, and with actors such as Marina de Tavira, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Laura Ramsey, Mariana Treviño, Osvaldo Benavides, Jaime Camil, Jesús Zavala, Irán Castillo, Stockard Channing, Demián Bichir, Sandra Echeverría, and Diego Luna.

She has produced several feature films, including Efectos secundarios (2005), Amor a primera vista (2013),[3] Un caballo llamado elefante (2013), Cómplices (2016), American Curious (2017), Todo mal (2017), Más sabe el diablo por viejo (2017) – a co-production with 20th Century Fox – and How to Break Up with Your Douchebag (2017). The latter became the 12th highest grossing film in the history of Mexico and was distributed in the United States, Peru, and Bolivia.[4] Como novio de pueblo and Mentada de Padre were both released in 2019.[5]

Television and streaming

In partnership with Alazraki Entertainment, Vargas launched the first Netflix original series in Spanish, Club de Cuervos. Its fourth season premiered on January 25, 2019.[6] She also produced the Blim original series Dogma in 2017.[7]

In television, she produced the Televisa program Netas divinas, which is aired weekly by Unicable.[8]

Awards and nominations
  • Dogma, nominated for Best Series at the Premios TVyNovelas, 2018[8]
  • Netas divinas, nominated for Best Pay-TV Program at the Premios TVyNovelas, 2019[9]

Filmography

Series
Title Role Year Director Network
Netas divinas Producer 2006–present Various Televisa
Club de Cuervos Executive producer 2015–2018 Gary Alazraki Netflix
Dogma Executive producer 2017 Carlos Barrera Blim

Films
Title Role Year Director
Efectos secundarios Executive producer 2006 Issa López
Amor a Primera Visa Producer 2013 Pedro Pablo Ibarra
Todo mal Producer 2017 Issa López
Cómplices Producer 2017 Luis Eduardo Reyes
American Curious Producer 2017 Gabylú Lara
How to Break Up with Your Douchebag Producer 2017 Gabriela Tagliavini
Todo mal Producer 2017 Issa López
Un caballo llamado elefante Co-producer 2017 Andrés Waissbluth
Más Sabe el Diablo por Viejo Producer 2018 José Bojórquez
Como novio de pueblo Producer 2019 Joe Rendón

References
  1. González May, Maricruz (January 15, 2019). "Productora Traziende Films buscará convertirse en estudio: Mónica Vargas" [Producer Traziende Films Will Seek to Become a Studio: Mónica Vargas]. Capital Coahuila (in Spanish). Notimex. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  2. "FICU Lanterna, 10 años de contar historias detrás de la cámara" [FICU Lanterna, 10 Years of Telling Stories Behind the Camera] (in Spanish). Universidad Anáhuac México. April 8, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  3. "Traziende Films festeja 17 años" [Traziende Films Celebrates 17 Years]. Newsline Report (in Spanish). January 12, 2017.
  4. Apanco, Edgar (October 17, 2017). "Taquilla México: Cómo cortar a tu patán y llevarte la taquilla" [Box Office Mexico: How to Break Up With Your Douchebag and Take the Box Office]. Cine Premiere (in Spanish). Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  5. Coronado, Osvaldo (March 19, 2019). "Como Novio de Pueblo: ¡Nadie como los primos!" [Como Novio de Pueblo: No One Like Cousins!]. El Horizonte (in Spanish). Monterrey. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  6. Martínez de León, Nidia (January 17, 2019). "La última alfombra roja de 'Club de Cuervos'" [The Latest Red Carpet for 'Club de Cuervos']. Periódico Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  7. Obregón, Amelia (October 24, 2017). "Liz Gallardo se mete en el 'thriller'" [Liz Gallardo Gets Into the 'Thriller']. El Imparcial (in Spanish). Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  8. Molina, Alfredo (January 17, 2018). "Nominados a los Premios TvyNovelas 2018" [Nominees for the 2018 Premios TVyNovelas]. BI Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved August 5, 2019.
  9. "Premios TVyNovelas 2019: todos los ganadores de la gala" [2019 Premios TVyNovelas: All of the Winners From the Gala]. El Comercio (in Spanish). March 12, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
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