Crocodiles

Crocodiles (2026)

Cocodrilos

A young photojournalist in the city of Veracruz, Mexico, will risk his life to dig up a shocking truth after picking up the investigation that his journalist friend and mentor left unfinished when getting killed by the organized crime.

Date of release
2026-09-24
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
J. Xavier Velasco

Casting

Interesting facts

Crocodiles is a 2025 crime drama thriller film written, co-produced, edited and directed by J. Xavier Velasco. It is a joint production by Mexico and the United States. It had its U.S. and world premiere on April 6, 2025, at the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, and its Mexican premiere at the 40th Guadalajara International Film Festival in June 2025.

Production

The background to the narrative is based on real-life circumstances in Veracruz, where many journalists have been murdered by figures in organised crime. A 2024 Amnesty International report reported that least 141 journalists and other media workers had been killed in Mexico since 2000.

He called it "an homage to the journalists, these folks that risk their lives, who dedicate themselves to a job that can truly lead them to death". Velasco said in an interview that the same issue occurs in other parts of the world: in the Israel-Gaza war, at least 173 journalists and media workers were killed between October 2023 and April 2025, and in the United States, there are also attempts to silence nonprofit news outlets which try to repo…

The film is a joint Mexican-U.S. production, written, directed, edited, and co-produced by J. Xavier Velasco, in his debut feature film. It is co-produced by Jessica Villegas Lattuada and Ernesto Martinez Arévalo. Cinematography was by Felipe Pérez Burchard, and the score was composed by Mike Sayre. Velasco started to write the script in 2019, co-creating the plot with his novelist sister, Magali Velasco.

Its genre is crime drama and thriller. It was filmed in Vercruz.

As of 2025 Velasco is resident in New York City. Since 2011 he has made a number of short films, some of which have won or been nominated for awards.

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