Isabel Barajas Writer, Director
Rafael Trejo Producer
Bernardo Grobet Producer
Isabel Barajas Producer
Betania Fonseca Enríquez Key Cast "Elisa "
Carolina Politi Key Cast "Tia / Aunt"
Amaranta Gutiérrez Rios Key Cast "Rebeca"
José Tapia Key Cast "Chico / Boy "
Austin Morgan Key Cast "Papá / Dad"
Itzel Sarmientos Key Cast "Chica secundaria 1/ Middle School Girl 1 "
Lucy Barragán Key Cast "Chica secundaria 2 / Middle School Girl 2"
Fernada Rivera Key Cast "Subway Girl"
Fernando Cuautle Key Cast "Hombre coche / Driver "
Ximena Rios Key Cast "Elisa little girl"
Ian B. Morales Cinematographer
Paloma María López Pérez Art Directors
Ximena Medina Catalán Art Directors
Fabián León López Sound Recordist
Bastián Pascal Sound Recordist
Bernardo Chávez Sound Recordist
Israel Cruz Sound Recordist
Patricia Yáñez Acting Coach
Adrián Aguirre Acting Coach
Romina Serna Production Manager
Rosa Laura Pico Production Coordinator
Laura Miranda First Assistant Director
Xavier Rodríguez Second Assistant Director
Pía Vinageras Third Assistant Director
Xavier Rodríguez Script
Diego Cruz Cilvetti Second Unit Cinematographer
Antonio Ayala Assistant Camera
Estefanía Velázquez Assistant Camera
Silvana Lázaro Assistant Camera
Marco González Assistant Camera
Milton Rodríguez Assistant Camera
Arturo Campos Nieto Assistant Camera
Yazmín Núñez Assistant Camera
Francisco Contreras Assistant Camera
Rodrigo León Assistant Camera
Alejandro Paredes Assistant Camera
Matías López Assistant Camera
Natalia Bermudez Assistant Camera
Andrés Durán Assistant Camera
Alejandro Breck Assistant Camera
Ignacio Sánchez Gaffer
Clemente Piña Staff
Juan José López Staff
José Luis Jiménez Staff
Octavio Alfonso Martínez Staff
Benjamín Salas Location Assistant
René Mercado Production Assistants
Julián Chávez Production Assistants
Andrés Tiro Production Assistants
Eduardo Sánchez Production Assistants
Montserrat Villegas Production Assistants
Ilse Jiménez On Set Dresser
Abel Estrada Art Director Assistants
Atzín Iriberri Art Director Assistants
Diana López Art Director Assistants
Alejandro Paredes Art Director Assistants
Patricio Aguilar Art Director Assistants
María Paola Ramírez Art Director Assistants
Gustavo Granados Driver / Swinger
Isabel Barajas Editors
Ian B. Morales Editors
Macarena Hernández Editors
Clemente Piña. Editor Assistant
Ian B. Morales Colourist and VFX Compositor
Isabel Barajas Sound Designer
Carlos San Juan Foley Artist
Isabel Barajas Foley Artist
Isabel Barajas Sound Mixer
David Muñoz Sound Mixer
Mon de León Music Composer
Sebastián Silva Díaz Music Composer
Alejandro Ortega Music Composer
Santiago Mijares Music Composer
Héctor Vázquez Music Supervisor
A dreamy girl goes through puberty evading the loneliness and pressure of her environment until in just one night, treason and harassment lead her to big disappointments that push her to grow up abruptly.
Director Statement
"Childhood is a knife stabbed in the throat, you knew how to take it away. Now, you got to learn how to swallow saliva." ; that is the way the playwright named Wajdi Mouawad describes the loss of the innocence in his play Fires, and it was the same force of that metaphor that puberty hit me: when I was thirteen I found many alcohol bottles hidden between the clothes of the wardrobe of my aunt, revealing her addiction and my naivety.
That energic and authoritarian woman, the role model, was who conducted me to confront the practicality of the world through an endless list of steps to follow, of expectations to fill and women ideals to accomplish: "Behave, don't go out by yourself, don't dress like that, don't play like that, a lady doesn't act like that."
Day by day I followed the rules carefully until the bottles got out from their hideout, not only to discover that de model was a misleading guise but to prove that I was an unbreakable part of that situation when I saw myself putting the bottles back in their place without saying a thing.
That way it was started to be called Knock At The Door, intending to condense that moment of disappointment and take it to a story that doesn't belong to me anymore, but that has been presented to each one of us, knocking at the door demanding to confront the uncertainty that distinguishes the transition into adolescence.