Waldo Facco

Acting

Waldo Facco

Mexican film and television actor, he has had teachers such as Abraham Oceransky, Raul Parrao, Emanuel Marquez, Eduardo Borbolla, and Cecilia Andres. In Theater, he has been in plays such as "Las Pirañas aman en Cuaresma" directed by Abraham Oceransky, "El evangelio según Klark" directed by Richard Vikeira and "Felipe Ángeles" directed by Rodolfo Guerrero, among others. He has participated in several National and International Film Festivals in which we can mention the "Cervantino International Film Festival", "Rio Loko International Film Festival" in France, "International Paleo Film Festival" in Switzerland, among others. His projects include "La 4ta Compañía", directed by Amir Galena Cervera and awarded with the Ariel as Best Film, "Marcelino Pan y Vino" "La Vida Después" directed by David Pablos, "En la Estancia" film that was supported by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, and "Los Minutos Negros" directed by Mario Muñoz; and for HBO in the Tv-Series "El Asesino del Olvido" by Ernesto Contreras. He has recently won the Best Actor's Award for the short film "On time for the Ceremony", at the Short Films Festival: Mexica Film Awards.

Acting credits

Chiles xalapeños poster
3.1

Stories of all kinds - the absurd, the unreal and quotidian - are part of an interrelated collage about social strata, culture and reencounters depicting the life of the capital city of Veracruz: Xalapa, in Mexico. -Edgar Cochran-

Chiles xalapeños

2008

Real Time poster
5.5

A band of robbers steal money from a winery. The passion for a woman, makes them begin to covet another part of the booty that they deserve. First film shot in a single take in the history of cinema. Certified by Guinness World Records

Real Time

2004

Pedro Páramo poster
6.9

A man searches for his father, Pedro Páramo, in a town doomed by violence and the fury of a frustrated love.

Pedro Páramo

2024

Shame poster
9.0

On their way back home from a baseball academy’s tryouts, Pedro and Lucio are taken hostage and turned over to a criminal group. The teenage friends are forced to fight each other to death; Pedro defeats Lucio and manages to escape. Pedro receives help and refuge with Lucio’s family and he witnesses the family’s collapse and pain. Pedro is tormented with guilt and fear, he cannot tell his friend’s family the truth.

Shame

2024

Stormmaker poster
3.9

Romero, a retired fisherman and a forgotten hero by the community, lives isolated in his home, surrounded by ghosts of the life he couldn't have, spirits that materialize before him as his real family. Alcoholic and schizophrenic, surviving on a daily basis. But deep down he feels the time has come to regain what he lost several decades ago, when he brought the oil curse to his own island, the lush Ciudad del Carmen. At the same time at the mysterious Estero Pargo, the goddess Ixchel has been reborn and seeks to mate with humans in order to continue the cycle of life.

Stormmaker

2017

A Fishermen's Tale poster
6.6

A horror story that intertwines four tales on a fishing island in Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, where an evil lake spirit haunts the inhabitants, casting a dark shadow over their lives.

A Fishermen's Tale

2025

Where Darkness Breathes poster
NR

A Latin American horror anthology where filmmakers from conjure shadows rooted in their land, their ghosts, and their history.

Where Darkness Breathes

2026

Lilith poster
NR

Ana escapes through the forest pursued by Lilith, who is looking to steal her last breath.

Lilith

2017

Fausto in the Dark poster
NR

Tormented by pain, grievous memories and old age in a merciless solitude, the cantankerous and sullen Fausto, who goes leaving traces of bitterness behind himself, understands that never changes the final destination: return eventually to the nothingness from which we came.

Fausto in the Dark

2017

The Black Minutes poster
6.0

In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Black Minutes

2021

Disappear Completely poster
6.8

An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.

Disappear Completely

2024

Mateo poster
5.8

Mateo, an ex-employee of a self-service store has turned into a zombie. His conscience and memories remain intact, therefore, his life has become a deep thought about the meaning of life he would like to share; the only problem, Mateo is no longer able to share what he thinks.

Mateo

2020

The Miracle of Marcelino poster
7.8

Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century: one night the monks of the San Francisco Abbey find a baby in front of their gate. They call the boy Marcelino and take care of the little one with devotion...

The Miracle of Marcelino

2010

Life Is poster
6.0

Nora is about to turn 40 and can't stop wondering: what's the point of all this? What was meant to be a celebration turns into a series of unfortunate missteps that push her toward self-discovery. With open wounds, unspoken desires, and a burning past, Nora confronts her family history, death, unemployment, the collapse of her polyamorous relationship, and the urgent need to redefine love, her sexuality, and what she truly wants from life.

Life Is

2026

The 4th Company poster
6.1

Zambrano is a young criminal with the only hope of joining the legendary prison American football team known as The Dogs of Santa Martha. His hopes end up involving him with organized crime since The Dogs, who are also known as The 4th Company, a squadron of inmates at the service of the administration that controls the jail, its vice and its privileges. Corruption and crime have no limits; they ravage the city with car thefts, bank robberies and other crimes under the auspices of the authorities, the story takes place during the López Portillo presidency and his men.

The 4th Company

2017

On Time for the Ceremony poster
NR

A father's commitment to arrive on time for his daughter's fifteenth birthday is hampered by a complicated task at work.

On Time for the Ceremony

2023

The Muleteer poster
8.7

1930s, in the highlands of Jalisco. Emilia, a teenager, silently lives her sexual awakening with her adopted siblings, Caro and Martín. In search of her freedom, she flees into the bush where she poses as a young muleteer to survive among the living and the dying, among guards and deserters, unaware that Martín is stalking her. Emilia's path will lead her back to the ranch to defy her destiny and escape with Caro.

The Muleteer

2025

The Land of Silence poster
4.2

Filmmaker Sebastian makes the reverse journey from Mexico City that almost all of the inhabitants of the deserted, dusty hamlet La Estancia have made. Searching for inspiration (and a better life?), he comes across the two sole remaining residents: the aged Don Jesús Vallejo and his son Juan Diego. Fascinated by their isolated lives and Juan Diego’s absolute loneliness, Sebastian starts to film. The improbable but intense friendship that arises between them is rudely disrupted when Sebastian goes back to the city - but he promises to return.

The Land of Silence

2014

Luna Rosa: La 7ª ascensión de Atabey poster
NR

Set in future Puerto Rico, follows Zur'na's quest to rescue her kidnapped brother from US colonial forces, unveiling a system oppressing her people along the way, accompanied by talkative neighbor Vyeñu.

Luna Rosa: La 7ª ascensión de Atabey

2025

More Tomorrow Than Before poster
NR

It is the story of resilience of a mother and her son, each living with a chronic degenerative disease, and how they reconcile with each other when they accept that their disease has united and transformed them forever.

More Tomorrow Than Before

2022