José Luis García Agraz

José Luis García Agraz (born 16 November 1952) is an Ariel Award-winning Mexican film director, screenwriter, editor and producer known for his Desiertos Mares, Nocaut (Knockout) and El misterio del Trinidad. He is also an educator of cinema studies at Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (or CCC) in Coyoacán, and for a period of years beginning in 2007 was the managing director of Estudios Churubusco, one of Mexico's most important film production facilities.

His first feature-length film, Nocaut (1984) won the Ariel Award for Best Debut Feature Film and was nominated for Best Picture. It also won Best Film at the El Heraldo de México Awards and the Diosas de Plata. In addition, the film was selected to screen at FIFAM in Amiens (France), and other festivals in Madrid and New York City.

After its Hollywood screening at the 3rd annual American Cinematheque festival hosted by Grauman's Egyptian Theater , the Los Angeles Times described El Misterio del Trinidad as, "an original and satisfying family drama, an unraveling of a string of family secrets that enables Garcia Agraz to consider how much we actually know about our relatives, “El Misterio” has plenty of emotion, lots of revelations and even adventure but never lapses into soap opera. It is as distinctive and impressive as Garcia Agraz’s heady, intoxicating “Salon Mexico,” about a mid-’30s crime of passion told from conflicting points of view, “Rashomon”-style."