Jomí García Ascot
Directing
March 24, 1927
Died August 14, 1986 (59 years old)
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Biography
Jomí García Ascot (24 March 1927 – 14 August 1986) was a poet, essayist, filmmaker, director and educator. Born in Tunisia, he was a Spanish exile who lived in Mexico. José Miguel García Ascot was born on 24 March 1927 in Tunis, Tunisia. The son of a Spanish diplomat, he spent his childhood traveling from Portugal to France to Belgium and Morocco. Fleeing the Spanish Civil War with his parents, he arrived in Mexico in 1939 as an exile. García studied philosophy at the National Autonomous Unive...
