Director's Statement
Think Mean Girls meets Ted Lasso. Our sports comedy film combines the world's most popular sport with a queer Latinx lead and satire. Mean Goals is inspired by my family’s obsession with soccer. Growing up, our family would spend hours on the soccer pitch. My siblings played the sport, my dad would referee games, and I managed the snack shack at the park. I quit playing soccer as a kid because of the incessant bullying. Sometimes, I can’t help but wonder how different my life would have been without the rampant homophobia in soccer. With Mean Goals" we hope to inspire future generations of LGBTQ athletes, end homophobia in soccer, and create a better world where all athletes can thrive in sports.
Key Crew
Ahuatl Amaro (he, him), Director and Writer
Ahuatl is an award-winning queer, Latinx-Indigenous director and writer born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His short film Warehouse (a workplace comedy about four LGBTQ warehouse workers) received the festival favorite award at the 2024 Cinema Diverse film festival in Palm Springs and Physical Therapy starring Jason Genao (Netflix's On My Block) was awarded the community filmmaker award at the 2024 Los Angeles Shorts International Film Festival. He’s a 2024 Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today fellow, 2022 Point Foundation grant scholar, 2021 NALIP Emerging Content Creators Initiative scholarship recipient, and 2021 MACEF filmmaker scholarship awardee. He graduated with an MFA in Screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory, earned a Certificate in Television Writing at UCLA, and studied English and Theater at Georgetown University.
Director's Statement
Think Mean Girls meets Ted Lasso. Our sports comedy film combines the world's most popular sport with a queer Latinx lead and satire. Mean Goals is inspired by my family’s obsession with soccer. Growing up, our family would spend hours on the soccer pitch. My siblings played the sport, my dad would referee games, and I managed the snack shack at the park. I quit playing soccer as a kid because of the incessant bullying. Sometimes, I can’t help but wonder how different my life would have been without the rampant homophobia in soccer. With Mean Goals" we hope to inspire future generations of LGBTQ athletes, end homophobia in soccer, and create a better world where all athletes can thrive in sports.
Key Crew
Ahuatl Amaro (he, him), Director and Writer
Ahuatl is an award-winning queer, Latinx-Indigenous director and writer born and raised in Los Angeles, California. His short film Warehouse (a workplace comedy about four LGBTQ warehouse workers) received the festival favorite award at the 2024 Cinema Diverse film festival in Palm Springs and Physical Therapy starring Jason Genao (Netflix's On My Block) was awarded the community filmmaker award at the 2024 Los Angeles Shorts International Film Festival. He’s a 2024 Tomorrow’s Filmmakers Today fellow, 2022 Point Foundation grant scholar, 2021 NALIP Emerging Content Creators Initiative scholarship recipient, and 2021 MACEF filmmaker scholarship awardee. He graduated with an MFA in Screenwriting from the AFI Conservatory, earned a Certificate in Television Writing at UCLA, and studied English and Theater at Georgetown University.
