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Inspired by true events, writer-director David Torres makes his feature film debut with this fantastical thriller underscoring the grave dangers of investigative journalism in Mexico. EL HOMBRE BÚFALO follows Eric (Raúl Briones), a driven young journalist in Mexico City who focuses on inequality, abuse of authority and other issues that seem to place him directly in the crosshairs of some very dangerous people. Though he’s about to uncover a criminal open-pit mining venture, after receiving multiple death threats, he reconsiders his line of work. However, after becoming obsessed with the urban legend of “the Buffalo Man” a mythical being who takes care of abandoned children, he decides to write again, even if it costs him his life.