Michael Douglas Lardizábal Foglia
is a Honduran-born artist whose work blends absurdism, political satire, and character-driven hubris. A graduate of Loyola University New Orleans’ film production program, his thesis film El Dilema Artístico—an experimental short about artistic sacrifice—won Best Student Short at the Latino Film Market in New York and will screen this September at the Miami Short Film Festival.
He went on to join the UCLA MFA Screenwriting program, where he sharpened his voice as a writer. He developed stories rooted in his lived experience in Honduras and his deep knowledge of Latin American history and politics. His hour-long drama An Algae Solution—a tale of climate solutionism set in the 2030 Honduran Bay Islands—is currently a finalist for the Sloan Foundation.
Now finishing his formal education, Michael is developing his first feature as a writer-director: a no-budget epic about a recently furloughed young lawyer who must return home to a country where killing the homeless has just been legalized.
