Michael Lardizábal
Showcase Scripts
I Came Back to Vote (Comedy Feature) — Every four years, the dead come back to vote in Honduras. During the lapse of Election Day we get to see the complicated relationship the Sandoval family has with the dead.
Model Diplomacy (Comedy Pilot) — A high school debate team navigates the exploits of a Model UN conference while trying to deescalate a looming political incident back home.
Biography
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, he wrote and directed El Dilema Artístico, an experimental thesis short about artistic sacrifice that won Best Student Short at the Latino Film Market in New York and will screen this September at the Miami Short Film Festival.
Michael went on to join the UCLA MFA Screenwriting program, where he sharpened his unique voice as a writer. He developed stories rooted in his lived experience growing up in Honduras and his deep knowledge of Latin American history and politics. His hour-long drama An Algae Solution—a tale of extremism in climate solutions, set in the 2030 Honduran Bay Islands—is currently a finalist for The Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Grant.
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 travel home in a country where killing the homeless has just been legalized.