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COYOTE

A SHORT FILM BY LUIS GARCÍA GRECH

The night his visa is denied, a Spanish architect flees across Los Angeles to reach his best friend for help. As paranoia takes over and the city becomes a hostile wilderness, he starts turning into something that can survive it.

Director’s vision

COYOTE is a single-night horror film told almost entirely through the subjective experience of its protagonist. The story unfolds not through events escalating outward, but through perception collapsing inward.

The film draws from my own experience navigating the U.S. immigration system in late 2025, at a moment when it felt increasingly hostile, opaque, and violent—both structurally and psychologically. Instead of a literal retelling, it translates that emotional reality into genre. Los Angeles becomes a living environment: familiar, vast, and indifferent. The city doesn’t change—Mateo’s relationship to it does. As fear takes hold, ordinary spaces and interactions begin to feel alien and threatening, even as the world around him remains largely unchanged. That gap is where the humor lives: a check-in kiosk, a voided sale, a friendly question about family are menacing to Mateo and absurd to us.

I chose horror because it is the genre of being hunted, and of reason giving way to instinct. Mateo’s transformation happens without effects: no fur, no fangs, only performance, sound and camera. He loses his words first, then his posture, then his place among people. By dawn, a hiker looks at him the way he once looked at the coyote—an animal native to this land and treated as an intruder in it. Whether he has truly become one is left to the audience.

— Luis García Grech

The team

Luis G. Grech

Luis G. Grech

Director & Writer

Luis is a Spanish designer and filmmaker with a background in architecture and expertise in 3D design. He merges storytelling and worldbuilding to create immersive live-action and CGI worlds. His architectural background informs COYOTE’s approach to Los Angeles as a designed wilderness, where every space reflects Mateo’s shifting perception.

Laura Álvarez

Laura Álvarez

Producer

Laura is a Los Angeles-based creative producer trained in architecture. After years as an assistant director on commercials and films in Colombia and the United States, she pairs a designer’s eye with a deep understanding of how a set runs, from development to delivery.

Santiago Amezquita

Santiago Amezquita

Music composer

Santiago is a Los Angeles-based composer, producer, and guitarist originally from Bogotá, Colombia. His passion for film music led him to explore the intersection of music and visual arts, where he developed a versatile style that ranges from modern electronic soundscapes to fully orchestrated compositions.

RAWx

Production house and VFX

RAWx is a Los Angeles-based creative studio founded in 2022, specialized in designing, developing, and producing immersive worlds for film, television, commercials, games, and music videos.

In their words

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Alex McDowell
Production designer, Minority Report
[How you worked together]
“His directorial debut was a standout success and marked him as an outstanding future director with vision, purpose and ethical integrity.”
Christian Scheurer
Concept artist, The Matrix, Guardians of the Galaxy
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Liam Young
Architect and filmmaker, creator of Planet City
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Diana Williams
Producer, Rogue One (Lucasfilm); founder, Kinetic Energy Entertainment
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Why now

We’re living through an immigration system that has become increasingly hostile and opaque. The psychological toll is slow, grinding, isolating.

COYOTE taps into a broader anxiety about belonging that feels urgent right now: the sense that stability can be revoked instantly, that the place you call home might not recognize you anymore.

Make it with us

COYOTE is an independent short in development in Los Angeles. Executive producers help bring it to the screen.

$500
Executive ProducerSet visit and private screening
$1,000
Executive Producer, top billingAll of the above, plus first look on the feature
$2,500
Lead Executive ProducerCustom package, negotiable
Get in touch

Luis García Grechlgarciagrech@gmail.com  ·  +1 (213) 776-5107