Juan Meyer(II)
- Writer
Juan Meyer has a Bachelor in Arts Degree by the Universidad
Iberoamericana. He studied Playwriting with Hugo Arguelles, Mexico's
foremost dramatist. Arguelles was the author of such acclaimed plays as
Los Cuervos estan de luto and El Tejedor de Milagros, which were turned
into very successful movies. Meyer wrote an essay about the complete
body of work of Hugo Arguelles, titled "La Travesia Magica de Hugo
Arguelles", which was published in 1998, and was named by Reforma
newspaper, as one of the best books on Theatre of that year. Juan Meyer
also has a successful career in the Marketing field, where he has
worked over the years for several companies including
Burson-Marsteller, Levi's and MTV. For his work in Marketing, he has
received important awards, and was named in 2003 one of "The 30
Promises in their 30's", by Expansion, Mexico's leading business
magazine. Meyer has been writing plays, short stories and scripts since
the early 90s, and "Paradas Continuas" is his first produced
screenplay. Based on a short story of his called "Rapiditos
Motorizados", about two kids who set up a motel type business in a van,
he thought the tale had the best shot at becoming a viable commercial
project and he wrote a full length screenplay based on the tale in
December of 2003. In a dinner in 2004, the subject of the "Rapiditos
Motorizados"screenplay came up in a dinner with famous Mexican TV host,
Gloria Calzada. Gloria Calzada immediately got excited about the
project, and brought her brother on board to produce, Luis Calzada, the
owner of Quality Films, along with Federico Gonzalez Compean and Monica
Lozano, of Altavista Films. Major partners FIDECINE, Cinepolis and
Videocine also joined as co producers. "Paradas Continuas" opens
October 16th in Mexico. Meyer is working in other screenplays.