MILK TEETH
2020
An orphanage spirals into mayhem when a boy discovers a shadowy creature who comes to collect more than just the children's teeth…
MILK TEETH TRAILER
REVIEWS
Milk Teeth blew me away with its del Toro-esque… everything. Not only is it a period piece at a boy’s orphanage, there’s a gruesome tooth fairy monster that both gives and takes away. Incredible production and art design, direction, creature effects, and cinematography. Vargas is exceptionally talented and I expect to hear a whole lot more from and about him in the future.
Michelle "Izzy" Galgana
Screen Anarchy
Channeling Guillermo del Toro, this tale about the tooth fairy makes for a memorable & haunting children's story. Some excellent direction by Felipe Vargas here, someone to keep an eye out for.
Nick
Bite Size Review
A macabre blend of WTF and cinematic beauty, via the Del Toro nightmare gallery! I love everything about this short!
Jay Kay
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival
A wonderful blend of a shared nightmare AND shared battle we face growing up. It is also very well crafted -- I cringed HARD!
Macon Wilson
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival
IN ANOTHER PLACE
2019
With no final destination in sight, an adventurous couple takes a leave-it-all-behind road trip north as their relationship falls apart.
GRAPEFRUIT & HEAT DEATH!
2019
An astronomy lesson on the scope of the universe sends a pair of high schoolers on an odyssey into the mind and out to the galaxies.
Click above to watch.
Click above to watch.
THE GUIDE
2018
From a mysterious void, a guardian angel-like figure guides a man through his first romance.
SUMMER'S END
2018
On the final day of summer, a soon-to-be college student struggles to reconcile unraveling relations to his parents, girlfriend, and home.
DISTANT
2017
A couple celebrates their anniversary thousands of miles apart.
VESSEL
2017
After his wife's passing, a South Floridian carpenter carves his grandson a toy boat, as he contemplates life's voyage...
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MIGHTY
2016
An extravagant imagination and an extraordinary incident help a young girl discover the hero within her.
PROCESSING
2016
At the end of their ropes, two strangers find themselves in an unusual waiting room for the dead.
A FIERCE CALM
2015
Longing for some peace during an insanely hectic week, a frenzied teenager rethinks his chaotic lifestyle.
All screenplays available upon request.
Additionally, all of the above films were written by Felipe Vargas, besides Milk Teeth.
SUNBEAMS ON GREEN FELT
2018
Drama, Magical Realism
In a rural Colombian town, a deaf-blind boy is taught to communicate and experience the world by his older brother.
HollyShorts Film Festival 2019 Screenplay Finalist.
Scout Film Festival 2018 Emerging Filmmaker Finalist.
Shortlisted USC Senior Thesis Screenplay.
AFTERIMAGES
2020
Family Drama, Science-Fiction
In a world where our Five most impactful memories are orally printed as polaroids upon death, a teenager uses his estranged grandfather's Five to learn more about his life despite his mom's refusal.
One of four selected screenplays to be created as a University of Southern California Senior Thesis Film.
FOOTSTEPS ON THE CEILING
2019
Horror, Period Piece
Amidst the Black Plague, a young girl faces a supernatural entity on the ceiling of her deceased older brother's room.
ARTIFACTS
2020
Drama, Based on a True Story
Inspired by revolutionary true events, a biochemist discovers the oldest human remains in the Americas ever found - those of a young woman excavated in an underwater Yucatan cave system, evoking the scientist's memories of her own late daughter.
Scout Film Festival 2020 Emerging Filmmaker Semi-Finalist.
LOTERÍA
Series
Fantasy, Adventure, Magical Realism
In Development at Norman Lear's ACT III Productions.
Creators Alberto Belli and Juan Pablo Reyes.
THE GUIDE
Feature
Fantasy, Magical Realism
From a lonely field in the timeless beyond, a melancholic guardian angel guides the clashing inhabitants of a house on a hill towards happiness, invisibly steering their tangled lives with her wagon full of magical items through pyramids of screens.
AMAZONIA
Feature
Horror, Period Piece
Based on Colombia’s terrifying myth of La Patasola, this 16th century horror tale follows a protective mother whose mute daughter goes missing in the Amazon jungle where a shape-shifting creature lurks.
HIGH EXPOSURE
Series
Thriller, Fantasy/Sci-Fi
In a world where our nine most impactful memories print out upon death, a retired detective is seemingly indicted for murder in one of her departed mother's photographs. She must prove her innocence as her ex co-workers close in on her, while retracing her estranged mother's life through the Nine photos she left behind.
Based on Afterimages.
InRoads screenwriting Competition Finalist.
MILK TEETH
Feature
Horror, Fantasy, Period Piece
An orphanage spirals into mayhem when a boy discovers a shadowy creature who comes to collect more than just the children's teeth…
Based on award-winning short film, Milk Teeth.
In collaboration with writer Nick Lopez.
Click above for link.
Click above for link.
BREAKING THEIR SILENCE
WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINE OF THE POACHING CRISIS
Documentary Feature
An orphanage spirals into mayhem when a boy discovers a shadowy creature who comes to collect more than just the children's teeth…
Co-edited with Eric Pritchard.
Directed by Kerry David.
As seen on:
OVER & ABOVE AFRICA
2018 - 2020
Various short-form documentary films for Over & Above Africa, a project-based, anti-poaching non-profit organization.
Including:
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Pangolin Tracking Telemetry Project
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Park Rangers' Bicycle Hand-over Project
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Zululand Conservation Trust Project
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Rhino De-Horning Educational Project
Click above for Official Website.
Award-winning, boldly innovative editing work.
All of the above films were edited by Felipe Vargas, besides Milk Teeth and The Guide.
GRAPEFRUIT & HEAT DEATH!
2019
An astronomy lesson on the scope of the universe sends a pair of high schoolers on an odyssey into the mind and out to the galaxies.
IN ANOTHER PLACE
2019
With no final destination in sight, an adventurous couple takes a leave-it-all-behind road trip north as their relationship falls apart.
SUMMER'S END
2018
On the final day of summer, a soon-to-be college student struggles to reconcile unraveling relations to his parents, girlfriend, and home.
OPEN SECRET
Documentary Feature
A white professor teams up with an outspoken black reverend to tackle racial bias and the unchecked sexual abuse of minors stemming back over 3 decades in a Southern school district .
Directed by Kerry David.
Coming soon...
WELCOME TO WURSTKÜCHE
2019
A four part series of one minute advertisements, promoting the beloved Los Angeles restaurant chain of Würstkuche.
SOCCER REEL WORK
2013 - 2016
A series of videography and editing work highlighting over a dozen soccer player, including professional World Cup player George Acosta.
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